Halloween/Advent Calendar

Hope everyone is having a good week!  Anyone that gets a SU catalog has seen the Advent Calendar Project in their new catalog.  Evey year I like to put together an advent calendar for the kids.  Last year, I made this one - Christmas Tree Advent Calendar.  I fell in love with this year's calendar.  It is very sturdy and the cute boxes are a nice size - 2" x 2".  I started looking on youtube and found several calendars completed and many ideas on how to decorate and use them.  One blogger gave me a great idea.  She decorated her for Halloween!  And then decorated the other side for Christmas so you can use it for 2 different holidays!!  Since Jennifer's birthday falls on Halloween, I thought this would be perfect to make.  The project contains many die cuts and accents and the numbers for each mini-boxes which are geared toward Christmas.

The die cuts for the mini-boxes are a little less than approximately 2 x 2".  So I decided to cut my Halloween DSP in that size and use my 1" circle to make the half circle punch.  They fit perfectly.

I then decided to place my squares out in a pattern for each mini-box.

From there I proceeded to glue them on the front of the mini-cubes.

The project comes with numbers 1-25 since it is for Christmas.  To make it for Halloween, I needed to start with the number 7-31 as there is only 25 boxes.  I found some cute numbers just the right size on Amazon.  On day 31, I also added a little Happy Birthday tag.  To finish it off, I decorated the boxes with some Halloween goodies.

Now, all I have to do is find some goodies to fill up the mini-cubes.  I put in some mini M&M's I had leftover from the coffin boxes which I'm sure will make Jennifer happy.  After her birthday is over, I will take it back and decorate it for Christmas.  It also comes in a nice storage box as well.  I finished up another Halloween project which I will post later this week.  I have to keep up the progress and try and get everything done so I'm not running behind this year. 

Thanks for stopping by,

Nancy