Advent Calendar Extravaganza with Taheerah Atchia!

hello! i'm elly and i'm one of the background peeps for Butterfly Reflections, Ink! usually i assist with the database stuff, but today i'm here to show you a thing i did.  :D  

i'm lucky to be involved with this Advent Calendar Extravaganza (am i the only one who hears that in RuPaul's voice?) that Taheerah coordinated.  she is an amazing papercrafter and person!  i am also very lucky to be able to work with Vanessa, proprietor of Butterfly Reflections, Ink and wonderful human!  

Advent Calendar Extravaganza is -the- festive event of the season! This ‘hop with a twist’ was dreamed up by Taheerah Atchia and features surprise destinations each day! Joining in the fun with Taheerah are over 60 special guests - each serving up some fantastic Christmas inspiration! Just like an Advent Calendar, you’ll never know where you’re going to be visiting next until you ‘open the door’!

And that’s not all! With 25 *amazing* sponsors taking part as well, your crafty wish list is bound to get a boost with a chance to win a prize EVERY SINGLE DAY!!

Join in the fun every day at taheerah-atchia.com to see what special surprises wait behind the door!

because i don't do the blog thing often, i don't have a light box set up, so forgive the pix!

i have two favorite holiday collections this year.  the first is the Christmas Wishes collection by Pinkfresh Studio.  Kinnari is such a lovely person and i have loved her amazing collections since they first came out!  the second is Wish Season by Fancy Pants (best company name ever?).  they are both offbeat and funky, and with slightly unusual color palettes.

anyhow, i knew i wanted to use the Hero Arts Winter Scene stamp set, because i'm a bit obsessed with snow globes/jars at the moment!  so i started by stamping the jar onto cardstock with Memento Tuxedo Black ink, which is always what i reach for to do base stamping.  then i added the snow in silver, and the deer in Memento Luxe Toffee Crunch, which is a color i am completely in love with.

then of course i added the tree and star from Fancy Pants' Mixed Shapes Puffy Stickers.

for the card itself, i used Lawn Fawn's Let's Bokeh in the Snow paper, and chose pieces of Pinkfresh Studio's Christmas Wishes 6x6 paper pad as accents.  attached those bits and the jar to the card, added some FA LAs to it from Fancy Pants' Wish Season ABC Black Puffy Letters and a wee star to finish it off.

the best part of this card is that it's very easy to make slight variations, as seen below.

It’s not a party without a prize - and with prizes every day there are several chances to win! Today’s prize is generously supplied by Butterfly Reflections, Ink so you’ll definitely want to get your hands on it! Simply leave a comment on this post to enter - then head back to taheerah-atchia.com and leave a comment there too to double your chances! Don’t forget to grab the other surprise destinations from Taheerah’s blog and head over to them to leave comments there as well to improve your odds even more! You have until 7am EST on Thursday 31st December to leave all your comments! 

Don’t forget the Advent Calendar Extravaganza runs from 1st-25th December inclusive so make sure you visit taheerah-atchia.com every day for fabulous inspiration and amazing prizes every single time! Merry Christmas!