Advent Calendar Window #24

Hi Everyone,

It's Sandy here with the final window in the LLC Advent Calendar.

I hope you've all enjoyed the Advent Calendar; the Design Team members and myself certainly have enjoyed "Spreading the Joy of Christmas"!!! The Design Team is now taking a well deserved break, to spend time with their friends and families, but we'll be back on January 1st with a brand new challenge.

If you get some crafty time during the holidays, why not enter our December challenge?

The theme is "Anything but a Card" and the challenge stays open until midnight at New Year's Eve.

Speaking of open...the LLC store will be open over Christmas and New Year's.

Please note though that due to the UK Bank Holidays, no orders will ship on Dec, 25th and Dec, 26th.

On Dec 27th and Dec 28th it's business as usual, however orders placed after 3 PM on Friday, Dec 28th will not ship until Wednesday, January 2nd.

So, the final and grand prize of the LLC 2012 Advent Calendar is Maja Design's 6x6 Paper Pad "It's Christmas Time". The winner will be drawn on New Year's Eve morning.

I do appreciate it'll be too late to use the papers for this year's Christmas projects, but last time I checked Christmas was scheduled on the same dates next year...  Besides, many of these papers can be used for projects all year around!!!

You might recalll that about a week ago I made a rosette decoration, and whilst I was looking for tutorials, I stumbled upon a rosette tree tutorial, which I thought was pretty cool, so that's what I've done today:

The papers used for this project are of course from Maja Design's "It's Christmas Time" collection, however I've used the following 12x12 papers: Merry (x2) The Perfect Christmas Tree (x2), Joyful, Christmas Market, and Christmas Baubles.

The top star is a wooden button from Prima's buttons set "Romance Novel". I glued the star onto a steel wire, which I wrapped natural jute twine around. The gold threads wrapped around the star pole and hanging down over three are from Maya Road's Shine Gold Twine Cording.

Here's a pic from a bird perspective:

...and here with some cute gnomes: :-)

WINNER WINDOW #22
The randomly drawn winner, who will recieve four different colours of the Melissa Frances Pom Pom Trim is ....Vanja.

Congrats Vanja, please e-mail me, Sandy, your address!

Now nothing more remains for me, than to wish you all...

...and a Crafty New Year!!!

Hugz,
Sandy