Advent Calendar Pocket Letter

My big Christmas project this year was an Advent Calendar Pocket letter. We were supposed to put it in a file folder and make it so it hung up like a wall calendar. The outside of the calendar:

I just embellished the tags a bit, I added the snowflake on one, put some bling on another one, added some letters to a different one and then layered on others. I added the vintage trim on the top to cover my seam.
The inside.

I bought a gift bag and cut Santa out of it. I really had such a hard time figuring out the handmade parts for the inside of the pocket letters and the decorating of those I was kinda done when I got to the actual file folder decoration.
Pocket letter:

I used a tree paper and made it so the 3 pocket letters looked like one piece of paper. I found some paper with numbers on it, and just punched them out with a circle punch. The first pocket letter (3 pockets) has a chipboard sticker that says Merry.

The second pocket letter (6 pockets) I decorated with reindeer and added the chipboard sticker of Christmas to the second row.

The third pocket letter (6 pockets), doesn't show until you flip the 2nd one over. I did a lot of layering with ephemera pieces on it.

The fourth pocket letter (9 pockets) I just put some journaling cards down and embellished them a little bit. The last row has a station wagon with a tree on and Santa and his team of unicorns.

The back:

I just embellished the paper and again. I added some wooden trees, some glittery pen, and some gems.

The back:

I didn't do anything but add some vintage trim to the bottom.

One of my big challenges was that we had to make half the things we put in the calendar.

I made a bunch of embellishments, some paper clips and some magnets.
The stuff I didn't make:

I included a few mini ornaments, some brads, some washi samples, gem, sequins, stickers, tea, flair and buttons.

I liked the challenge, it just kinda kicked my butt. I hope my partner likes it.

Lace Christmas tree

I signed up for an ATC tag. 

Just used some scrap paper, added some book paper with butterflies and added some gems
Flipbook:

Used some bright paper as a background. Used some green washi to hold it together. Added a tree ephemera and some stickers to the front:

Used a doily and a sticker on the left page. Made a pocket on the right and put some stickers in it.

Created a couple more tuck spots and used some Dollar Tree stickers to decorate.
Pocket letter:

Used some cute background paper and added some stickers on top.
Back:

Used a calendar page.
 Lace Christmas tree:

The base is from Walmart, it had a fabric tree on it, took that off for another project and realized how cute it would be to layer some of my lace on this. I used a couple of my resin purchases for the tops.

I LOVE how it turned out.

Christmas pocket letter:

I'm trying to push my comfort zone and do more layering with embellishment pieces.

Fall pocket letter

I signed up for a flipbook tag in one of my groups and ended up using a base I had made of project life cards.
Front:

Not a lot of decoration here, I added the blingy E, because the person I was sending to had a first name that started with E.
First pages:

I added a quote on the left side and and the flip out card on the right with the pineapple cut out.
Second pages:

I added the sticky notes to the inside of the flip out. I stamped the girl on the right side.
Third pages:

I added a tuck spot on the left side.
Fourth pages:

I added the circle piece on the right side.
Fifth pages:

This is the middle, I added the You are here piece.
Sixth pages:

I added the Dreams chase and a flip down to the right pages:
Flip down:

I just added some sticky notes.
Seventh pages:

I added the life is better.
I also had to make a fall pocket letter. Pretty simple one, here, just some plaid paper for the background and some cute creatures from another paper:

The goodies:

Paper scraps of the paper I used, stickers, sequins, washi sample and some paperclips.
The back:

Just some leaf paper

Flipbook

I joined a new art group on Facebook, before I could join new swaps, I had to send in something I made, so I made another paperbag flipbook.

Front:

I used some vintage trim to cover the binding, I used some flower die cuts and put a vintage button on top of them.
First pages:

I basically then used some Prima paper I picked up to decorate the book. A lot of the time I just used the paper with not a lot of embellishment on top of them.
Second pages:

Last pages:

There's a little color here with a border strip I added to a pocket.
I ended up leaving the group after they received this, I couldn't understand the swap sign-ups and I feel I have enough going on.
I also made a couple tags that day for a Fall tag swap:

We were supposed to make one in fall colors and one in not traditional fall colors.
I just layered papers and stickers.
 

Vintage canvas

Patriotic ATCs:

 I angeled for someone that got flaked on. I like the one with the houses, I just cut everything out and attached it to the background. The other card is just a bunch of stickers.
Vacation mini pocket letter:

I had the girl die cut I wanted to use, so basically just layered some stuff on a sand background.
Fairy bookmarks:

I just layered and attached things. I thought I had more fairy images. 
Beachy dreams flipbook, front:

I went with a paper bag flip book. I had these floral bags that I used as the base. I covered the pages with water paper and added this photograph paper to the front and back covers. I added the parrot sticker and layered the 'life's a beach' piece.
First pages:

I added some sand paper to the two larger pages with some flip flops and a paradise sticker on this one. The tiny page on the right is actually a pocket, I added the list and palm trees at sunset.
Second pages:

Again following the layout of the last pages, I added the palm trees at sunset for the smaller page and sand paper to the larger page. I added a postcard on the right page and a couple pieces of ephemera. The small page is another pocket.
Back cover:

All the goodies:

I cut down my scraps to fit in the pockets between the pages. I included the rest of the sticker packs I used and some washi samples as well as a sequin mix. I had picked up a Prima paper pad at Hobby Lobby and noticed it was beach themed when I got home, so I cut up the cut aparts and put them in as well. I totally just picked up the paper pad because I've never seen a Prima one on sale. 
Altered canvas:

I signed up to do an altered canvas swap in one of my groups. This is the second attempt, I fell in love with the first one and decided I couldn't part with it. This one is much simpler. I glued the fabric on to the canvas, watercolored the fish and added the vintage button. After taking the photo, I added some red gems to the spots on the fish. I'm hoping it's not too simple for my partner. I really love how it turned out.
Here's the first attempt:

I think it's the vintagey vibe. I had this calendar with these beautiful flower and butterfly pictures on it. The flower wasn't quite big enough to cover the canvas, so I added a book page. I used some foam tape to pop up the butterfly. I added some rub ons to the top, the right top corner and the middle (I wish I'd left the middle one off). I added the floral strip to the bottom and the feather piece. I found the gem strip in a jar of buttons and added that as a finishing piece.
Not sure what I'm going to do with this, but I really like how it turned out.

Productive day

 I was very productive today. Got a few swaps ready to be mailed and I got some stuff made. I'm actually now caught up on making things until next week. I'm very proud of myself. Here's what I made today.
A card with no theme.

My partner likes butterflies, so that's what I did. I just covered a card base, layered some paper, added the butterfly die cut and the word.

Summer ATCs

I did a lot of layering on the 2nd one.

Vintage twinchies

I rather like how these turned out. I started with a paper that looked kinda vintage, I cut it down to 12x2. I added a sticker that ended up not quite being 12" long. I cut them apart at this point. I added a circle sticker and then some rub ons and then the random numbers. At this point, a couple were a bit messed up (the blue showing on one and stickers coming loose on another one), so I covered them with packing tape. I then added the words and some more rub ons. I was going to put the rub ons on some white paper and layer them on the originals, but one fell on one of them and they come off rather easily, so I just place them on random ones and I was done. I was going to put some more dimension on them, but then realized they'd have to be mailed as a parcel, this way they can be mailed flat.

A llama card and matching bookmark:

I had received these die cuts awhile ago and had just been hoarding them. I started with the bookmark, the llama barely fit on it. I chose a different view of the llama for the card. I love that I got to use these and how cute they turned out.