Colorful Vintage Christmas Countdown Board

Here is a beautiful colorful vintage Christmas countdown board using items you may already have.

Christmas is like candy; it slowly melts in your mouth sweetening every taste bud, making you wish it could last forever. – Richelle E. Goodrich

Today we are featuring an Instagram friend, Lynn from LynnCorbinblog.

She recently created this colorful vintage Christmas countdown board and agreed to share the project with all of us.

We not only loved the project…….. but we think it’s a great way to reuse old ornaments, old books, scrap paper, and material! Really you can make it your own using a lot of what you already have in your supply stash if you are like most crafters.

COLORFUL VINTAGE COUNTDOWN BOARD SUPPLIES

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20X24 Thick foam board
Linen or neutral fabric
Duck tape
Furniture Tacks
Felt
Scissors
Sheets of music (find at a thrift store)
Cardstock
Tiny Ornaments
Bakers Twine………… like this
Sewing Pins (pretty ones really give this a nice touch)

COUNTDOWN BOARD INFORMATION

Hi all! I’m so delighted to share my little Christmas Countdown Board with you!

You can make this DIy Christmas countdown board while watching Christmas movies. This is a fun craft to do with friends. You can use whatever materials you have on hand to create this fun holiday decor item. Full tutorial on the blog.

Christmas is my very favorite time of year and I pretty much go all out and start decorating in October.

This little countdown is one of my favorite things to pull out each Christmas, and this year I switched it up a little. I like to do my crafting in front of the TV so I can marathon watch Christmas movies, and this project is just perfect for that!

First, I wrapped a thick foam board in linen (my board is 20 x 24 inches but use whatever works for you!) I didn’t even bother to iron it – I just pulled it tightly around the edges and secured everything on the back with lots of duck tape. I’m sure there’s a prettier way to do this, but no one will see the back anyway. I added furniture tacks to the front by just eyeballing them.

The tags are just 2 x 4 inch felt rectangles with the top corners snipped off. I cut holly leaves from cream and white felt and a few sheets of music. There’s no pattern to my tags. I just mixed and matched the various leaves until it looked nice to me. I printed the little number tags on a sheet of cardstock and cut them into little flag shapes, but stickers would work great for this too. The tiny ornaments are tied together with bakers twine and I hung everything with sewing pins.

I really love how darling and easy this is, and I think it would be a great project to do with a few friends too!

We love it too!

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