Advent Calendar Extravaganza with Taheerah Atchia

Hellooooo!

I am so excited to be participating in Taheerah's Advent Calendar Extravaganza this year! What a fun and exciting way to get into the holiday spirit!!!

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 ONE HUNDRED 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 guests 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 at taheerah-atchia.com to see what special surprises await behind the door!

Now for MY creation. CreationS!!! Can you believe it? I (yes, MEEEE) made something. I won't lie, I started these last year. LOL I was playing around with My Favorite Things Four-Way Chevron die with some glitter paper and then it got left on my desk. With my business picking up this year, I didn't find much time to get crafty. That's why when Taheerah asked me to be a part of her event, I told her that I might actually make the card myself instead of asking my DT to do so. I literally had only had the background on this made though so the rest happened while sitting at my desk yesterday afternoon. HA! For the first card, I added a deer head which might be an older trend, but I'm still obsessed. I dressed him up with a bow tie and added a cute rubber piece by Pinkfresh Studio. I hope your holidays Sparkle and Shine!!!

For the second card, I decided to do a personal shout out and thank you to Taheerah. I had seen and fell in love with these feather dies last year, but they were only available in the UK. I am also still very much in love with chevron and Taheerah so sweetly RAK'ed me the dies. *swoon* I also die cut them out of glitter paper and added the word 'joy' with some gold letters from the Maggie Holmes' Shine collection. I felt like it needed a little something extra so I added clear stickers that say love & peace as well. <3 Wishing you JOY!

Here we are back to the deer head again! hehe I decided go go silver instead of gold with this one and used white woodgrain paper for the background. I gave him a Rudolph nose and used some chevron enamel shapes from Create a Smile. These particular colors are from the Snow Dance set. He needed to be dressed up a bit so I also added a bow. He's awful merry, no?! We wish you a MERRY Christmas!!!

While we're here and on the deer thing... Did I mention I'm #OBSESSED?! haha Santa pulled through and is bringing me the deer leggings I've been searching for so I'm a happy girl. I hope Santa brings you everything you want this Christmas!!!

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 MEEE so you’ll definitely want to win! We're giving away a $25 gift certificate to the shop. Simply leave a comment on this post - then head back to taheerah-atchia.com and leave a comment there too! You must leave a comment on Taheerah’s blog as well as mine in order to be eligible to win! 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 23:59 EST on 31st December 2016 to enter.

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

Thank you for joining me today and I hope you've enjoyed Taheerah's event!!! 

xoxo Vanessa