Christmas Countdown Calendar

Every year I make a Christmas Countdown calendar for my son. I thought he had outgrown it but yesterday he told me he still loves doing this. I guess you are never too old for chocolate! Each day he puts a heart sticker on that date and gets his candy :) The heart stickers are removable and will be used again for valentines and the calendar will become a scrapbook page for this year's Christmas. I hate to throw anything away!
Calendar and Holiday Sampler sets by Stampin' Up. The paper is Candy Cane Christmas with Real Red and Whisper White cardstocks. The letters are Heidi Swapp chipboard run through the Xyron and then covered with red glitter.
Create a memory today, they grow up so fast.

Christmas Ideas

Some more Christmas ideas using mostly Stampin' Up supplies.
The first one is a fun way to give a little gift of chocolates. A tp roll covered in woodgrain paper (Autumn Harvest?), the "knot hole" is a large oval punch in Early Espresso. The owl punch was made into a Santa owl with the hat from the retired Cold Play. The band was embellished with Polar White Flower Soft, added a pompom to cap. Added some branches using the Two Step bird punch. Filled plastic bag with Christmas chocolate mints and tied with olive taffeta ribbon.
The second used the little fairy from the Little Bit Of Magic set. I added a sparkly Santa hat by Jolee's and some Dazzling Diamonds to wings. Fo the sentiment I used the same sentiment that I used on the third card shown here. It seemed to go so perfectly with the one on the front of the card. This card is much more sparkly in real life.
The third is a tag fold accordion style card in Pacific Point using the retired mini hostess set Snow Buddies from last season.

Jolliest Foursome

I used the adorable Stampin' Up set Jolliest Time of The Year and the new holiday mini paper Candy Cane Christmas. From one sheet of Real Red cardstock, I cut two 4x4" square cards and with the leftover piece I had enough to make two tags. For the tags I used the Perfect Punches set and the reverse side of the polka dot paper. New glitter brads and red taffeta ribbon. All supplies are Stampin' Up.
Project #5 in my daily goal!