Studio Calico Advent Calendar │A Complimentary Download

Hello everyone, conduct maintain y'all seen the super cute gratis Advent Calendar download that Studio Calico pose upwards today? If non y'all tin run into it right here. I was sent the files a few days agone to brand upwards i in addition to I wanted to portion a lilliputian chip of my procedure alongside y'all if y'all wanted to brand something similar.

The starting fourth dimension affair I did was accept some fourth dimension to intend well-nigh what I wanted nether each of the windows. Was it going to hold out a photo, some text or a mix of the two? This volition non hold out the exclusively Advent Calendar inward our habitation this flavor thus it didn't demand to embrace all of the bases, but accept a to a greater extent than playful simply for fun approach. As I made the listing I noticed that it was turning into a kind of bucket listing for the season. I added inward all of the events I knew nosotros were going to that had already been scheduled in addition to and thus simply added inward to a greater extent than seasonal fun materials to complete upwards the list.

Here is my list;

Hello Twinkle! She's back! (our Elf on the Shelf)
Watch a Christmas movie
Make a Christmas playlist
Make a Christmas craft
Watch 'The Year without Santa' on TV
Go Christmas Shopping
Go run into the Nutcracker
Make a Gingerbread house
Mail our Christmas Cards
Happy seventh Birthday Simone!
Have a fireside painting present night
Go run into Christmas Lights
Its Birthday Party Day!
Go to the World of Christmas event
Jingle some friends
Pack upwards some quondam toys to donate
Make Teacher Gifts
Wrap presents
Yay! Its the final solar daytime of school!
Have a Starbucks date
Watch 'The Little Drummer Boy' on TV
Make Santa's cookies
Clean my room!
Go to church building alongside the family, its Christmas Eve!
Merry Christmas!

Just a tip, the ABC Family Channel provides their line upwards up Christmas specials online thus I took a await at the listing to brand certain nosotros caught the ones that aren't typically aired on network TV. So if y'all demand that listing y'all tin run into it right here.

I knew I didn't desire to write out my items thus I set it all out using Photoshop Elements. I simply went solar daytime past times solar daytime in addition to entered the text inward the right infinite using the cutting lines equally my guide. I did conduct maintain the primary icon opened upwards thus I knew which box was which. The font I used for my text is Before Breakfast y'all tin detect it here.

Once I had that set out I had to locomote on the top. I ended upwards doing a impress in addition to cutting in addition to added inward an offset on my Cameo thus that it created a chip of the edge. That was for 2 reasons a) to continue the pieces together, I didn't desire the chimney smoke floating off past times itself in addition to b) because when I did the impress in addition to cutting the registration marks would present on the page in addition to I didn't desire them on my finished piece. Here y'all tin run into what my document looked similar inward the Studio program. I did conduct maintain to freehand cutting a few places at the really bottom of the document where it roughshod below the allowed cutting expanse that the Cameo imposes when y'all produce a impress in addition to cutting but that tin easily hold out fixed if y'all simply shrink the slice downward simply a smidgen.

I did the same affair for the nether layer alongside my text because I wanted it to gibe upwards precisely to the locomote past times layer when I placed it downward on my page. In monastic nation to brand certain it was all lined upwards correctly I used the same document above, simply replaced the manus drawn trouble solid icon alongside the i of my text thus that I knew it would line upwards correctly when cut.

I made certain to delete the cutting lines for the windows prior to printing because I didn't demand to them cut. This is what I sent thru to my printer in addition to and thus cutting out. The exclusively affair cutting was the outer offset line.

Here y'all tin run into the finished slice alongside a few windows open, I did cutting a chip also much away nether i of the trees when I freehand cutting those parts the Cameo didn't cutting but its all good. All inward all I was actually happy alongside how everything lined upwards when the 2 layers were matched up.

I applied adhesive to the dorsum of the locomote past times layer in addition to had to brand certain to larn simply about some of the edges really carefully thus they would stick downward good when the windows were opened. I used Glossy Accents around those tight narrow areas in addition to it worked great. The larger areas were glued simply using my adhesive gun.

I mounted both layers on locomote past times of a slice of ruby-red cardstock that I had starting fourth dimension run thru my printer to add together the title. I used the Voluptate gratis font flora here for the give-and-take Christmas. This font doesn't supply majuscule letters thus I simply increased the size of simply the alphabetic quality C to larn inward appear equally if it was capital. The font for the give-and-take countdown is CK Journaling flora here. (note: delight brand certain y'all are careful when downloading fonts. Make certain y'all are aware of what y'all are clicking on in addition to ever conduct maintain a virus protection computer program loaded on your figurer earlier downloading anything. I cannot vouch for all download links, I simply supply what I intend is the best house possible thus y'all tin decided if y'all desire to download it.)

I also added inward a elementary gilded glitter enamel point that came inward a previous Studio Calico kit to point the i, which simply gives it a lilliputian something 3 dimensional.

I idea long in addition to difficult well-nigh coloring inward the slice in addition to I the starting fourth dimension i I made was colored inward alongside colored pencils in addition to it looked super cute. I ultimately decided to larn alongside a actually graphic dark in addition to white experience but also wanted to color inward a few bits in addition to larn inward sparkle at the same time. I used the Gold Glitter Wink of Stella pen in addition to went over a few spots, making certain to highlight a business office of each of the numbers thus they stood out. Its ever difficult to photograph anything alongside glitter but inward the below icon y'all tin run into a chip of how pretty in addition to sparkly it looks inward person.