Monday, December 24, 2012

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

46 comments:

  1. Oh my!!! This is stunning ... I LOVE this christmas tree!! Love the vintage papers and all these nice rosettes.

    Merry Christmas to all of you at LLC.

    Hugs Jytte :)

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  2. Wonderful!!!!What an original idea!! thanks for the inspiration as along 2012 year! Merry Christmas at all your team!

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  3. Wow!!! Sandy this is amazing! What a fantastic centre piece...the rosettes look so effective stacked like that. Beautiful work :D xx

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  4. OH - what a beautiful tree. I have to try to make one myself.....
    I've made a tree too, but used a different technique

    Merry Christmas

    :-) Nina
    http://ninashobby.blogspot.no/2012/12/juletre.html

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  5. WOW!!! A stunning tree, a beautiful prize too and A very Merry Christmas to you Sandy and all the DT , have a great one, hugs Teresa xx

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  6. OMW Sandy this is brilliant!! you clever thing xx
    Those papers are lush! I will so be using them next year.
    Happy Christmas lovely <3
    Love,melly. xxx
    PS. yes I've made my mind up for sure now, DI's always!! xxx

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  7. Ooooo Sandy how gorgeous!!
    It's the most beautiful paper tree I have ever seen.
    This must look amazing on a Christmas table!!
    And the Maya Papers looks wonderful .
    Wish you and your team a very joyful Christmas!!
    Lovely regards
    Magda

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  8. OMG Sandy,
    your christmas tree looks so gorgeous and it's a really wonderful decoration.
    Happy christmas for you and your fmily.
    Many greetings
    Angela

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  9. Der "Baum" ist wundervoll. Das war bestimmt eine knifflige Arbeit und das Ergebnis kann sich sehen lassen. Auch dir und deiner Familie wünsche ich besinnliche Feiertage. Auch allen Temmitgliedern, die immer sooo wundervolle Werke hier zeigen, wünsche ich alles Gute über die Feiertage und freue mich schon auf die nächsten Herausforderungen.
    By the way: Da ich im nächsten Jahr ganz bestimmt viel, viel früher mit meinen Weihnachtskarten beginnen werde, könnte das Papier von Maja Design sehr nützlich sein. *gg*
    Big hugs
    Elfi

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  10. Oh wow, Sandy, this is totally stunning! Nothing else I can add really!

    Wishing you and the team a very happy Christmas and best wishes for 2013.

    Chris xx

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  11. WOW.. Stunning... I don´t know where you get all the Great Ideas... Fantastic.. I want to make one like this for Next Christmas.. Fantastic paper used.. Gorgeous put together....
    Merry Christmas to you.. And many Good wishes for the Next year!.. Big Hugs from Norway! :o)

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  12. OMG this is absolutely stunning!!! Nothing more to be said but I Love It! Hugsxx

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  13. Wow - absolutely stunning!

    Merry Christmas!

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  14. This is so gorgeous. A real stunner.

    Merry Christmas and a Very Happy New Year.

    Hugs
    Cathy
    xxxxxx

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  15. Oh!! wow!! stunning tree!! and pretty papers.
    Merry Christmas to you.

    Kathleen x

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  16. WOW!!! This is beautifuld... I LOVE maja design and the tree is absolutely Beautiful work
    Merry Christmas to all of you.
    Hugs Sanne :)

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  17. LOVE the tree!! Merry Christmas to you and yours!!!

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  18. Beautiful rosette Christmas tree Sandy. Love the paper you used. Thanks for the chance to win.
    Merry Christmas,
    Katie

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  19. OMG!!!! I love this! Love love love this!!!! What a fabulous creation. I must look at the Tutorial. Love those papers too! Hey it is never too soon for Christmas! (or too late!) Merry Christmas to you and all your lovely Desigh Team. Thanks for such lovely inspiration this year! Enjoy, Judy x

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  20. That is so gorgeous - I love it! It would look great on the dinner table at Christmas - really beautiful, thank you for sharing Karen x

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  21. This is absolutely stunning!

    hugs
    Vanja

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  22. Sandy your tree is absolutely stunning and those papers all co ordinate beautifully :-)

    Thanks you for the crafting advent calendar, much better than chocolate any day!


    xx Merry Christmas xx

    Sazzle

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  23. Wow!! what a fantastic tree this is Sandy. I love the whole concept of it and it would make a fabulous table decoration. May need to try this out later to take to my Daughters tomorrow. Thank you for a wonderful event of advent. Every creation was wonderful. A very Merry Christmas to you and the Dt. Looking forward to seeing you all again in 2013.
    Hugs
    Suzi x

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  24. Oh my, how amazing looks this rosette tree!! Simply gorgeous, Sandy! Wonderful idea. Wish you and your family a Merry Christmas and thank you so much for opening a window each day whilst advent season. I really enjoyed so much and even was the lucky winner of a prize.
    Hugs, Karina

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  25. Fabulous! Merry Christmas to you!!!

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  26. Wow, you saved the best for last. What an awesome christmastree. Beautyful papers.
    Merry Christmas to you.
    Hugs Aartje

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  27. I love this christmas tree, it´s so beautiful.
    Wish you and the team a merry christmas

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  28. I am amazed again! Fabulous tree!!!

    Hugs, Sande xx

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  29. my gosh that tree is awesome xxx

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  30. Merry Christmas dear Sandy.

    Thank you very much for all the wonderful inspiration since your shop-opening. I wish you joy, health and success. Your tree is absolutely amazing! Gorgeous!

    Hugs
    Sabrina

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  31. what a gorgeous tree, just love your little elves, Merry Christmas
    Hugs Julie P

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  32. Adorable tree, and I just love Maja's papers. Merry Christmas.

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  33. What a pretty tree I love how it's so soft looking
    thanks for all the chances hugs Nikki
    Merry Christmas

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  34. OMG!! What a GORGEUS Christmas tree - so cute! :)

    Hugs
    Evelina

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  35. Wow!! What a stunning creation!! Merry Christmas!!
    Hugs Hazel xx

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  36. LOVE the tree!! Merry Christmas to you and yours!!!
    xxtanja

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  37. Wow, that is an absolute stunning project

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  38. Lovely project and merry christmas.

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  39. oh WOW, fabulous piece!!!
    merry christmas!! =)
    hugs, SannaS

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  40. Hi sandy what a fabulous finish !! I love this tree ! I am definitely making one next year ! I love the simplicity and the star is perfect ! Thanks for this advent it really has been a pleasure to take part and also get oodles of inspiration ;0) x

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  41. LOVE the rosette Christmas tree Sandy! Love the Maja Design papers too. I just can't get enough of them! Hope you've had a fab Christmas. Thanks heaps for sending my last order in time for Christmas. I managed to make a lovely 'new baby' card with a few items from that order, check it out on my blog if you find a spare minute. Thanks for all the lovely stash this year and the inspiration on your blog. I wish you and your business a happy and prosperous 2013. Hugs, Wends xxxx

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  42. Hi Sandra,
    What a lovely christmas tree. I love it. I want to wish you and the DT a Happy New Year and thank you all for the inspiration on the blog.
    Hugs
    Anna-Karin

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  43. What a gorgeous tree! I just love. Thank you for sharing this cute project. Love that paper pad. Plus magazine submissions for Christmas cards and mixed media projects have to submitted by March! Merry Christmas and a very Happy New Year!

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  44. Just been hopping around your team, admiring this month's challenge projects... can't believe I've only just found your site... but very happy that I have. I'm a big admirer of Scandinavian style scrapping, and from your DT and the products in your store, I can see that you are too!! Looking forward to much more inspiration - I'm signing up, so as not to miss anything else...
    Alison x

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  45. oh my gosh sandy this is incredible!!! i can't believe this...what amazing work you have done :) I wish I had this in my house hehe!! xx

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