{"product_id":"free-how-to-project-artful-advent-calendar-project","title":"Artful Advent Project","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis year Vanessa Spencer (Shoppe Manager) set her heart on creating an “out of the ordinary” advent calendar. While browsing Pinterest to get her creativity churning, she found an interesting advent calendar idea from sillyoldsuitcase.blogspot.com which inspired her to recreate her own rendition with added primitive touches.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e First, she borrowed a hanger that was handmade using old wire and pliers from Johanna Love, Director of Photography.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e To create each day of the calendar, Vanessa used a variety of different materials. First she painted some paper mache star boxes and wood buckets with white gesso and set them aside to dry. She also stained some mini wood buckets and pennant ribbon wood tags with walnut crystals and again, let them dry.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Once those items were dry and ready, she gathered the rest of art materials used: grubby tags, white shipping tags, white coin envelopes, wood tags, Melissa Frances mini envelopes, and natural jute bags.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Then, she arranged them accordingly, flat on a table, and used white gesso and brown ink to stamp numbers onto each piece.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"I used a variety of stamp sets including Cavallini \u0026amp; Co., Graphic 45 and a 7gypsies number set. Allow the pieces to dry, especially the numbers stamped with white gesso.\" - Vanessa Spencer\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Next, Vanessa added mini advent gifts into the packages (the buckets can be filled later) and wrote special advent messages on the back of the tags.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e To tie it all together, using either brown bakers twine or walnut stained seam binding ribbon, you can hang each individual piece onto the hanger. And remember, it doesn’t have to be perfect; in fact, the hodge podge look can add to the personal charm!\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Display your artful advent calendar in your home this holiday season to count down the days until you celebrate Christmas with loves ones.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ctable style=\"border: thin dotted #990000; width: 575px;\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"5\" cellpadding=\"5\" align=\"center\"\u003e \u003ctbody\u003e \u003ctr\u003e \u003ctd colspan=\"3\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #98996d; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: xx-small;\"\u003eYou will also \u003cspan style=\"color: #990000; font-size: 18px;\"\u003e?\u003c\/span\u003e this publication: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e \u003c\/tr\u003e \u003ctr\u003e \u003ctd align=\"center\" width=\"100%\"\u003e \u003cdiv align=\"center\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/collections\/Somerset-Holidays-and-Celebrations-2013-Volume-7\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn11.bigcommerce.com\/s-87od2q0wh1\/image\/data\/issueImages\/1SOM-HOL13-Somerset-Holidays-Celebrations-2013-Volume-7.jpg\" alt=\"Somerset Holidays and Celebrations 2013 Volume 7\" height=\"130\" border=\"0\"\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/td\u003e \u003c\/tr\u003e \u003c\/tbody\u003e \u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Free Projects","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45452515639447,"sku":"PROJ-0806","price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0659\/5546\/3319\/files\/PROJ-0806__31553.1558400750.1280.1280.jpg?v=1746792891","url":"https:\/\/stampington.live\/products\/free-how-to-project-artful-advent-calendar-project","provider":"Stampington \u0026 Company","version":"1.0","type":"link"}