Card Advent Village..

I saw this  advent calendar design made by Gail Milburn in the December issue of Craft Stamper and decided to make a version of my own. Just for a  change I also decided to keep it for myself instead of giving away!
In the magazine  it is shown on a hearth but my fireplace  is just a tad too short  so I have put it in the bay window where it fits perfectly. (unfortunately it would not fit inside my new light box but I  did place the left over  piece of foam core behind each section as I took the photos and it worked a treat to)

I don't have the Sizziz  Artful Dwellings or the TH Numeric so cut out my own house shape designs from thick card and printed my numbers off in word using different  fonts and coloured card.

The papers used are all from the bumper pack of 72 sheets for  £1 that Di and I bought at the NEC.

The clothes peg has been coloured with a Graph'it pen and then covered in home made Washi tape (left over from  one of last Christmas makes).

The hand sign is a freebie from here. You just move the peg along each day.

I raided my Christmas stash of oddments for all the embellishments. Poinsettia is a Poppy stamp die no 861.

 

Wooden sentiments by Dovercraft another £1 buy from NEC.

Other wooden ornaments are by Hely  Cupleditch

Backs of the houses are all covered with the same papers as the front.

All joined together with red ribbon sandwiched between the cardboard and papers.

 

Entering into the following challenges:

Hiding In My Craft Room #126: Free Style.

Pixie's Crafty Workshop # 101: Use up your snippets.

Diva's By Design: Use some red.

Crafting By Designs: Christmas or winter.

Crimbo Crackers #55: Anything but a card.

Just For Fun: Merry Christmas.

Imagination Crafts #6: Merry Christmas.

Feeling Crafty Challenge #23: Christmas.

A little Bit Crafty #8: Christmas cheer.

Crafty Hazelnut's Extra #11: anything goes Christmassy.

 

Also I have inadvertently met the criteria for 8 of the 11 items challenge by Frosted Designs.

using the following:

Tags  =  on  house No1.

Paper layering = Poinsettias on houses  No's 10 and 15.

Washi Tape =   covering on Peg.

Flags/banners =   houses No's 9 and  16.

Circles =  house No 3 (number is in a circle and dp has circles on it).

Stars =  houses No's 5,11 and 14.

Flowers =  houses No's 2,7,18 and  23 + poinsettias.

buttons = house no 2. (has a button above the hanging mittens.)

I missed out on the arrows, patchwork, stitching.

 

So am also entering:

Frosted Designs: 11 item challenge. (Use at least one of the listed items.)