For a friend's Christmas gift this year, I decided to cover some wooden letters that I had in my stash. I had actually bought these letters for myself a couple of years back and never got around to making them. I don't know about you guys, but I am always making things for other people and never get to keep any of my stuff!!!
Anyhow, I was having a tough time deciding what to do, because I liked the letters but I had originally really wanted to make an advent calendar for these friends. About half way through altering the letters, I remembered that I had some matchboxes that my mom had gifted to me a while back, and I decided to see if they would fit on the back of my letters. And what do you know?! ;)
From the front, the advent just looks like altered letters.
My hand was SO sore after making these. I couldn't think of anything Christmas-y that I had in my stash that would look good, so I decided to use floral rub-ons, instead. I literally used an entire BOOK of rub-ons on this project! It's amazing my hand even works anymore! :P
When you turn the letters over, the advent is revealed.
I covered the matchboxes individually with decorative paper and attached them to the altered letters with hot glue. I attached a star punch and a printed number to each one. The drawers in the matchboxes slide out, so you can slip a little surprise in each one.