In episode 8 of 12 in my Christmas Countdown Series, I have an Advent Calendar using the Design a Treat Box bundle. Being an Advent Calendar it is a much larger project than the norm. For a bit of variety, I designed an Angel, an elf, a Santa and copied the reindeer from the catalogue. You need 24 boxes altogether and having 4 designs made this divisible by 4 quite nicely. So you need to make 6 each of the Angel, Elf, Santa and Reindeer.
The box is just the right size for Lindor shaped chocolates – these come in numerous flavours, so you can still vary the contents of each box, or you could use Hershey kisses.
Angel Cutting Guide
For assembly, please watch the video tutorial.
- Cut 6 box bases in Very Vanilla from the Design a Treat Box dies.
- Brilliant Wings Dies – cut 6 of the largest butterfly with adhesive backed Brushed Gold Metallic paper and 6 in Very Vanilla.
- Stylish Shapes Dies – cut 12 of the smallest stitched circle
- Labels – cut 6 gold adhesive backed labels from the Design a Treat Box Dies
- Simply Elegant Trim – cut 6 lengths of gold trim each 6″ long
Reindeer Cutting Guide
For assembly, please watch the video tutorial.
- Cut 6 box bases in Crumb Cake from the Design a Treat Box dies
- Antlers – Cut 6 with adhesive backed Soft Suede and 6 without from Design a Treat Box dies
- Ears – Cut 6 adhesive backed ears in Crumb Cake and 6 without from Design a Treat Box dies
- On a piece of Petal Pink scrap, trace a die cut ear and fussy cut inside the line.
- Linen thread – cut 6 lengths each 6″ long.
Elf Cutting Guide
For assembly, please watch the video tutorial.
- Cut 6 box bases in Shaded Spruce from Design a Treat Box Dies
- Bat wings – cut 12 pieces in Shaded Spruce from Design a Treat Box dies
- Labels – cut 6 adhesive backed Real Red labels
- Gnome Dies – cut 6 adhesive backed Shaded Spruce hats and 6 without from Gnome dies
- Nose – cut 6 in petal pink from Gnome dies
- Beard – cut 6 in Very Vanilla from Gnome dies
- Belt – cut 6 pieces in Real Red 3/8″ x 5-7/8″ (1 cm x 14.5 cm)
- Bakers Twine – cut 6 lengths of Very Vanilla Bakers Twine measuring 10″
Santa Cutting Guide
For assembly, please watch the video tutorial.
- Cut 6 box bases in Real Red from Design a Treat Box Dies
- Bat wings – cut 12 pieces in Real Red from Design a Treat Box dies
- Labels – cut 6 adhesive backed Brushed Metallic Gold labels
- Gnome Dies – cut 6 adhesive backed Shaded Spruce hats and 6 without from Gnome dies
- Nose – cut 6 in petal pink from Gnome dies
- Beard – cut 6 in Basic White from Gnome dies
- Belt – cut 6 pieces in Basic Black 3/8″ x 5-7/8″ (1 cm x 14.5 cm)
- Bakers Twine – cut 6 lengths of White Bakers Twine measuring 10″
Numerals
To make my life easier I put adhesive sheets to strips of approximately 2″ pieces of card stock in red, black and green and die cut all the numbers from the remnants from die cutting your box bases and Santa’s belts. You’ll get ones surplus to requirements but you can leave it on the non-stick surface from the adhesive sheets and reserve them for another project.
| Numeral | No. required | Colour |
| 0 | 2 | 1 black, 1 green |
| 1 | 13 | 2 black, 4 red, 7 green |
| 2 | 8 | 3 black, 1 red, 4 green |
| 3 | 3 | 2 red, 1 green |
| 4 | 3 | 2 black, 1 green |
| 5 | 2 | 1 red, 1 green |
| 6 | 2 | 1 black, 1 green |
| 7 | 2 | 1 red, 1 green |
| 8 | 2 | 1 black, 1 green |
| 9 | 2 | 1 red, 1 green |
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