1) Items you are going to need: 2 packs of 12 piece gum, the kind that come in a tray and you can pop out of the foil I bought mine at Smiths (The dollar store also has it) 2 pieces of patterned paper, 1 piece of solid card stock, ribbon and/or other embellishments, paper cutter, adhesive and a Sharpie.
2) Start by cutting your base patterned paper 4x6 inches. I used a glue stick to glue it to the gum package. Just apply the glue directly to the paper and wrap it around.
3) The second patterned paper I used had strips of words all over. I cut them into individual strips to use the words and phrases. This one says "The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, in hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there." Mount these on the solid card stock.
This is just a picture of the paper being cut into strips.
4) Take the gum trays out of the package and number the pieces of gum 1-24. (That's why you need two packs of gum for one calendar)
5) To embellish I wrapped 2 colors rick rack around the whole thing.
For this one I wrapped rick rack around side and a word strip, from the same patterned paper, on the other side.
Just a reminder there is still room in the advent calendar class. It will be on November 11 between 4 and 9 o'clock. The cost is $7.
1) Supplies needed: 1 piece of paper, 2 colors of rick rack, 1 embellishment (I used a letter B for our last name. Metal letter tiles are 5 cents in the store), 1 plastic picture frame ($1 at Walmart), adhesive.
2 ) Cut your paper to 4x6 and slide into picture frame.
3) Attach rick rack, I glued behind. Glue embellishment on.
4) Stick Post-It's on. I bought the super sticky, they work well! Just peel the back paper off and stick them on. Wrap Velcro around a pen and glue a piece on the frame. 
