My Advent Calendar

So, I posted about all the different kinds of advent calendars I found that I thought were pretty and unique.  And as I am stuck at home with no way out to get supplies, I had to find something around the house to make do.  I decided on a card advent calendar, because... well I have a ton of scrapbook paper that isn't going anywhere!

Here's what I did:

Select 12 sheets of fun brightly coloured 12x12 paper.

Fold it in half.  And cut it so you have 2 envelopes from one sheet.

Fold it more than half way.

Again!  Fold over the lip.

Cut out two small triangles from the top.

So far, it looks like this:

I cut the bottom too, so it would be easier to grab the event papers out of the envelope.  I used double sided tape to seal the sides.

There you have it.  24 brightly coloured envelopes.

Now, to embellish.  I got my sister to print these numbers out on her computer (seriously, why don't I have a printer?  I saw one in a flyer tonight for $48!!)  Anyways, I found the perfect sized circle from my mousse bottle to draw my shapes.  You might have a circle punch (Handy!!) 

Cut out the circle numbers with straight scissors, and the I pulled out the cute edged scissors for colourful paper to go around the number.

They look like this in the end.

The little snowflakes I got at the dollar store last year (are mini clothes pins) and hung all my Christmas cards on them.  This year I am using them for my cute advent calendar.

These cards hang on the wall in my front entry.

What did I fill them with?  Well, my family, we like to do things together, so in each day we have a different thing we can all do.  I love doing it this way, and OF COURSE the kids do too!  They love spending time with their awesome parents!!!  *wink, they are still young!

I will share what we do on each day in a later post.

So did you make an advent calendar?  I want to see your ideas!!