Christmas Countdown Sampler

I love GoodWill. You never know what you'll find or what will jump off the shelf just wanting to be altered.

Take this mini cutting board for example:

  It was just sitting on the shelf at Good Will just begging someone to take it home and give it a new life. And being such the caring soul that I am, I did just that.

First, I painted the entire board, French Blue (acrylic paint) and painted the 'trim' a white. I cut paper, from a book called Artsy Collage that I've had forever, to fit the front of the board.

I applied white liquid applique (sprinkled a little irrdescent ice embossing powder over it) to the tree and then heated it with the heat tool to puff it up. Stickles was added to the snowpeoples hat, coat trim. The "Let it Snow" paper, the snowpeople, tree, holly and mitten all come from the book and are attached to the paper with Helmar's Liquid Scrap Dots.

I dug through my misc supplies and found some counter samples that I had picked up at Lowes/Home Depot. I painted them with White Acrylic paint (both sides), used Spellbinders' Large Classic Inverted Scalloped Square on some of the paper from the snow section of the Artsy Collage book and attached them to the painted counter top samples with Helmar's Craft Glue.

For the numbers, I used DWVC The Christmas Stack, glued a piece onto a fruit snack box as i wanted 'chipboard' like numbers. Using a alphabet cuttlebug die set, I cutout the numbers and attached them using Helmar Premium Craft glue. The numbers are on both sides of the counter samples. Red Stickles was added to the holly berries.

I made a 3-D bow with some Christmas ribbon I had gotten on clearance after this past Christmas at Joanns. The button is one i've had around for a long time. All were attched with Helmar's Premium Craft Glue.

I found some nails and pounded them into the board for the count down numbers to hang on. And now the little brown cutting board that was sitting at Good Will now has a new life as a Christmas Countdown Calendar.

supply list:

Helmar Liquid Scrap Dots Helmar Premium Craft Glue Artsy Collage paper black cardstock

liquid applique stickles Inverted Scalloped Square Nestabilities ribbon button acrylic paint alphabet cuttlebug dies counter top samples

Amber Hillman, Helmar USA Desgin Team Member