Hoppity Hop Hop HOP!!!

Today is a really special day for our Design Team at Thoughts2Paper, it is our very first Blog Hop!!!  You should have arrived to my blog from the ever inspiring Jan! 

It's back to school time already and you know what that means...  the holidays will be fast upon us!  When we decided to have a Christmas in August event, I knew what I was going to do for my project.  This awesome Kaisercraft Advent Calendar from the Thoughts2Paper store was just the perfect project for me to create for my little boys!

To start, I painted the base coat with Folk Art Christmas Red acrylic paint.  On top of that I added Helmar Crackle Medium 2 step process to give my project an aged effect.  The next step was to assemble the frame, and then start covering and assembling the drawers.  For those steps I used Helmar Craft Glue. 

The center red background paper on here is My Mind's Eye "So Sophie" and the other papers are Bo Bunny's "A Gift of Love", aren't they fun?  I also added some Graphic 45 little postage stamp accents from their "Christmas Past Collection" that I had in my handy arsenal. 

The cute little numbers on the drawers are Maya Road's Bingo Numbers and I just knew the moment I saw those in the store what I wanted to use them for!  Do you like Santa's belt buckle?  That was an old earring that I found while at a garage sale.  I added Helmar Textured Effects to Santa's beard, hair and trim for fun, then sprinkled some floral soft on his beard for a little added dimension and texture. 

Other Ingredients:

Floral Soft, Polar White on Santa's beard (my stash)

Plastic snowflake accents (my stash)

Sentiment blocks are Spellbinder's Labels Four, but Labels 10 or 11 would be smashing too! 

Rub-on star accents and the sentiment are Kaisercraft (my stash)

Pointsettia's and leaf are Prima, sugar coated brads by Doodlebug (my stash)

Tim Holtz hitches for stocking hangers (my stash)

Jenni Bowlin Journaling Card for Santa's List. (my stash)
Ribbon on Santa's list from the Store.

I have to share with you how super excited I am to have this project ready for the holidays!  Last year I could not get my hands on one of these anywhere.  Don't wait if you want to get one, order your calendar now.  It's a super fun project!!!  Oh...  and Thoughts 2 Paper is also have a 40% off sale!  Visit the online store and use this code CHAROOM to receive your 40% now through August 28th!

Now for the good stuff -- PRIZES!...  I'm going to have a little CHA celebration giveaway, if you leave a comment and you are a follower of my blog and the Thoughts2Paper's blog...  I'm going to give out a SIGNED set of Tim Holtz Texture Fade embossing folders.  (oh... and if my blog goes over 75 followers....  I'll do 2 different RAK's!!!)

Are you ready to see what else is going on?  Don't forget to make sure you leave a comment on every blog and then finish up at the Thoughts2Paper Blog for your chance at a yummy $40 gift certificate to the Thoughts2Paper store!!!

Your next stop on the Hop is the super fabulous...  Liz!!! 

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