Tilda dressed in St. Lucy's in my Advent Calendar...

Hello Dear Stamper Friends:
Today I am bringing to you this advent calendar that I made for myself!
It is an Easel card with a tower of stacked drawer boxes ...

I wanted to posted it yesterday in celebration of  St.Lucy's feast celebrated each Dec 13th!...but I had some computer problems..but here I am.. a day later posting this calendar,...

At my house each member of the family has its own advent calendar...
to view the one that I made for my husband...The Tee Pee shaped card made in an advent calendar...scroll down (3 post down) or click to see the post and  VIDEO HERE

My calendar is an Easel card with a tower of stacked drawer boxes that I made and decorated with Tilda (Magnolia stamps).
The Tilda on the easel card  is dressed in St.Lucy...

The stamps with the numbers for each day are a retired set from Memory Box and each one opens up a little drawer where you can place the treat for that day...
The handles are small pearls...I decorated this front panel with 2 small rosettes with small sentiments....

the next side looks like this...

side # 3

 the back ...decorated with some felt flowers, leaf dies and mini plastic snowflakes in gold...

close ups of each one of the Tilda's...

 some opened drawers below...

This Tilda, as I mentioned  is dressed in the attire of  "Saint Lucy", (catholic saint) , and her holiday is celebrated specially in Scandinavian countries  ...each 13th of December.

I knew of this festival of lights in one of my visits to Sweden and since then I am a huge fan of this celebration...each December 13th...the girls in Sweden make a procession at church, schools or streets all dressed in white gowns carrying candles ...it is spectacular!

Lucy's  feast  is commemorate during advent time and  it is known as well as a festival of lights because of the candles that the girls carry
Now that I live here in the US, I watch on You tube videos the breath taking St. Lucy's processions  held in Sweden on this day...not the same... but I least I get to see them again every 13th of December... thanks to the technology!!!

close ups of the sentiments ..

and some  last views...

Ok my dear friends, sending you warm Christmas thoughts...

Remember WHY we are celebrating this season and take time every day to be with yourselves in peace and surrounded by your loved ones...

Hugs and kisses

Happy Mother's day here in The USA!

Hello Dear Stamper Friends:

HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY

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This post is going to be short, I was caught up with some other shores and I almost did not have time to post...but here I am..

I wish to all the mothers a wonderful day and a blessed one!

I wanted to share this card for today, as I love Tilda's from "Magnolia" stamps and I think they are so cute...there are some people that I know they said they do not like her because she does not have a "face"...anyways

I love her and I decided to make a Tri-Shutter card with her, added some punched butterflies from "Martha Stewart", stamped ferns and some "Stampin'Up!" flowers (retired set) colored with "Copics"...

The last  Tri-Shutter card that I made was for a new mom that you can see HERE just in case you missed it...

And this morning I received  this lovely Tulip arrangement all decorated with chocolates from my 2 girls...(my Siberian Huskies) :)  (you guessed who did it right?)
How adorable, huh!

hope you like the card and have a wonderful day,
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