Christmas Stocking Advent Calendar

Christmas Stocking Advent Calendar

HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS BLOG HOP

 

This project has been so fun!  I've wanted to do this for many years, but have never had an excuse to make an advent calendar.  When we were in Germany last November, we spent several days at the Christmas Markets, and they had so many advent calendars to choose from.  There were advent calendars in of any Christmas shape you could think of, hanging in all the stores in so many different ways.  So, this was my inspiration!  Christmas stocking is my shape.

 

I used 24 different Robin's Nest papers or cardstock sheets, so each stocking is a different paper, I will list these at the bottom of this post, I also wanted the stockings to be in red and brown tones.  So as a result, I didn't just use Christmas papers, I used any paper in those colors.  I added Dew drops, Tear drops, and Diamond drops to the stockings for the incredible look they have.  Such a cute project, and quite easy to make.  The most time consuming part of the project was sewing each stocking together, but to save time glueing would work also.  The dew drops are adhered with Helmar glue. which we love for sure.  At the top of each stocking is the number and next to the stocking is holly created with 3 red mini dew drops and 2 green diamond drops.  Each stocking is decorated with dew drops and has its own design.

I love the look of the holly berries and leaves made out of dew drops and diamond drops.

Hanging against the brown wall is so nice.  I hung the stocking with 2 ribbons, a 2" brown and red stripe, and a 1" red sheet ribbon with a gold edge. Then I tied each stocking to the swag with natural twine.  The top of each stocking has a red glitter ribbon loop to tie the twine to.

Up close and pretty, each stocking is decorated differently.

Pointsetta flower is easy to create using 6 tear drops and a yellow mini dew drop for the center.  Green diamond drops for the leaves.  So  cute!

 

Numbers were cut from the cricut, the oval punch shape behind the number is McGill pumch.

Dew drops in swirl shapes are easy to create with the glue bottle, draw with the bottle tip and slide the dew drops on the glue line.

Love the animal prints with the Christmas reds.  So cute.

Finished project sign.  Sign is wood frame from Wood Connections, covered with Glitter Red Paisley, and the mat covered with Brown glitter Leopard cardstock, then just a sign printed from my computer.

Here are scans of the stockings up close.

 Ok, so when I scaned these in I had the numbers backwards!!! So crazy,.  But you get the jest of it.  I so love how the dew drops and diamond drops look, and the different ideas we can used to make them so cute on these stockings.  These ideas would work just as well on a card or a scrapbook page.

Robin's Nest products used in this project.

Papers or Cardstock
Valentine Stripe
Glitter Lips
Glitter Red Paisley
Glitter Valentine
Tropical Voyage
Glitter Mocha Daisy
Italian Arch
Glitter Mocha Trail
Glitter Flame Swirl
Red Snowflake
Red Lion
Glitter Red Stripe
Glitter Red Sorbet
Red Plaid
Classic Glitter Swirl Coffee
Honeycomb Fleur
Cathedral
Gltter Red Rope

Dew Drops, Diamond Drops, and Tear Drops
Forbidden Love
Cherry Chocolate
Regency
Fiesta


Thanks for visiting me on Robin's Creations of Joy.  It has been a pleasure to share with you.  Hope you are able to be HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS!

Your next hop is to Jamie Lindstrom Designs.

Ciao,

Robin

Page inspriation for Saltzburg

Hello Friends!

 

This layout comes from easyscrapbooklayouts.com

 

 

I used this layout as my inspriation for my Saltzburg layout, using the alot of same papers and  elements of the layout. 

Come visit easyscrapbooklayouts.com and see the great page layout kits on this website.

 

 

 

 

I added flowers, fabric, and dew drops to complete the page inspriation. 

 

 

Ciao,

 

Robin

Halloween at the O'Crowley's

Halloween at the OCrowley's

Come into my house my little pretties!

I wanted to share with you our home at halloween. I have always done some extra decorating for the seasons. This October we went to visit Dana's brother Andy for an evening, his wife Stephanie had decorated the entire house so cute, and she inspired me so much! I had decorated this back door and placed a hat on the coffee table and that was it. When I left their house I had a changed attitude and decided to do a little more. So just for fun I am sharing with you some of the vinettes.

Steph had black ravens everywhere, all over her house, just sitting around. I love birds, and that so inspired me to get some, but by the 15th of October there were few to be found. She found 10 at a local craft store which we split, and I came home with 5 birds. Will look for more next year. So excited about this. I love the black and white pumpkins, and I will wear the orange apron with my witches hat on halloween.

Love the Raven for sure!

We found eye balls that glow with a battery inside. I placed the eye ball in a nest of my streaming flowers I had just pulled from the front flower boxes, and a few leaves. These sit on a cake stand, and I also place the glass cake cover over the top of the eye nest.

At my front door you are greeted with my fall wreath, and a glitter bat hanging from it. Fast and easy!

As I wash dishes the window ledge above the sink has my white pumpkins stacked in a clear candle holder. I tied a cheetah bow around the container. Couldn't resist the ribbon at Lowes this year. We grew these mini pumpkins, I have been waiting for fall to place them all over the house!

I created a spell bar, and 3 year old Kadence when she comes in the house stands at the corner of the cupboard and stares. It scares her, she comes close to me and hides behind me. I just laugh, the gums and teeth look real, I added some candy eye balls and a candy ear a few days ago, they were a gift from my visiting teachers. She is really scared now. I hope this hasn't ruined her. The sign has granced our counter top for years, I love the things to beware at halloween.

At last the kitchen bar, with black plates, white pumpkins, spiders, and placemats made from Robin's Nest purple crackle and black glitter dot cardstocks. I cut spiderwebs from the Glitter black spiderweb and placed them on the white plates. Kadence just sits at the bar chairs and plays with the spiders. So cute, she loves anything mini, Just not eyeballs!

Have a Happy Halloween!!

Ciao,

Robin

Saltzburg

Saltzburg

 

Today I finished this layout so I could share it with you. It has been a blast to create this page. We left Ethiopia just 2 days short of a year ago, doing Humanitarian work for our church. We spent 23 months there serving the people of Ethiopia. Sooo, when it was time to head home, we decided we needed a little vacation before we came home to the United States. Our stop was Stuttgart, Germany where Dana's sister and her husband are living. We toured Germany, and a few other countries close to it. Here is one of my pages showing our visit to Saltzburg. My aunt and uncle live just an hour from here. We took a train to Chiemsee to visit them, and one of our days with them, they took us to Saltzburg, Austria. This was our second visit to Saltzburg, but not boring by any means. We love this beautiful country and the great culture they have there.

This Church is the one that Mozart played the organ in for years during his lifetime.

I created this page which I just love and feel like you really could be back in Saltzburg again just by looking through the pages I created of Austria.

I used Glitter Calamity Jane Roses, Baroque, Robin's Egg Cardstock, and brown cardstock, Paris Sticker (old and new), Time Rub on, Brown mini dew drops, mullberry cream flosers.

It is easy to put the dew drops down with Helmar glue. I just draw the line with the glue tip on the bottle, the glue flowing out in the swirl shape as I draw, and then slide the dew drops on the glue. Easy and fast.

Such a fun layout with fun papers, enjoy!

Ciao,

Robin

First Snow 2012

This is for real!!!  Snow in October.  It started snowing yesterday, and as we woke up this morning there was MORE!  It just makes me feel at home again.  I love the snow.  I love the fall.  I love America and home.

So just a little snow is ok, it will melt, and I watch it falling from my windows inside my warm and cozy home.  I made potato cauliflower soup for lunch today.  It is just a soup day for sure.  And as the snow fell yesterday and today, I played Christmas music.  It sounds silly, but years ago, I walked into my friends home to Christmas music playing in October.  "What's this, isn't it a bit early?"  The answer was, we always play Christmas music on the first snow day of the fall.  I remembered this yesterday, and it all felt so good.

 Watching the snow fall, making soup, and listening to Christmas music.  I love it. 

So in honor of the first snow fall, here are pictures of our snow filled yard.  The sun is peaking out now at 5:00 this afternoon, and we are enjoying it too, the snow melting off the roofs, and the leaves.  So much fun all in one day. 

Ciao,

Robin

Halloween Card

Halloween Card

Hello all,

This is such a simple post for me, a cute halloween card, great for my grandkids far away!

It is made with the Black glitter trees, black cardstock, orange cardstock. black and orange checked ribbon 1/4", and a bat brad.

Just cut the Black glitter trees to 4x5 or the size of your standard card, rip the edge so the white shows, then glue on to your black cardstock, tuck in the orange square, that is corner rounded, and the bat brad is attached at the corner. Tie your ribbon, and add your saying, I wrote this by hand.

Finished! So easy, so cute!

Enjoy!

Ciao,

Robin

Back from Arizona

We have just finished our 4th trip to Arizona for our mission call. 

It was a great trip, we accomplished all that we were assigned to do.  Traveled to Mesa the first day and met with 2 stake presidents each day after that.  We are formulating the new projects for next year and getting finaces squared away. 

Each stake is at a different level on the Self-Reliance program, but the results of the projects are awesome.  We are working on Self-Reliance Garden projects on the Navajo, Hopi, Apache, and Pima reservations. 

The ultimate outcome so far is the unity that is being formed inside the branches and wards.  Barriers between families and clans are starting to be broken.  They are working together helping each other prepare, plant, and harvest gardens.  The gardens are an oais in the desert really.  And the activity in the branches and wards are rising.  The excitement of having a garden is contagious between the people and families, they are sharing their produce and touching each others hearts. 

These pictures are from our July trip.

 

We love this work, we love the strengh it is giving them, and the leaders of the branchs.  This is such a beautiful work!

Ciao,

Robin