And even if everyone loves a white Christmas, with a bit of gold, Christmas tree green, and festive red, this year we’re in the mood for a splash of colour. A bit of pep and gourmet or even rural designs, light spirits and gratitude, a bit of MIX&MATCH. In short, we were after an adventurous Advent calendar!

To that end, we brought together the most eyecatching designs from our Accessories: the Envie d’Ailleurs, Trèfle and Lorette collections.

Making your Advent calendar

What you need:

• Sticky-backed plastic
• Masking-tape with a design to match your tastes: glitter, patterned, gold, silver… the choice is yours.
• Scissors
• Printer
• And of course: 24 little treats

Make your Advent calendar in four easy steps:

Allow 90 minutes to make the 24 cartons.

Step 1: Download and print the six pattern templates. Cut out the 24 patterns.
Step 2: Use the sticky-backed plastic to stick the two smallest sides of each template together.
Step 3: Use the masking-tape to assemble the top of the carton (the side closest to the number).Place a little treat inside each carton.
Step 4: Seal the cartons with see-through tape.

Here’s a few ideas of things you can put in your cartons: Jewellery (rings, pins, chains, charms, brooches, etc.) sweets (bonbons, chocolates, candy, fruit sweets, etc.), tea bags, seeds for planting, small Christmas tree and nativity decorations, make-up and beauty miniatures (perfume samples, nail varnish, lipstick, etc.), goodies (keyrings, badges, USB sticks, etc.), beads and threads, small scented candles and other fragrances (incense, essential oils, etc.), toys (small soft toys, figures, toy cars, etc.), stick-on tattoos, pastry cutters, hair accessories (pins, headbands, bobbles, etc.).

Comment if you think of anything else!

If you like, you can stick a piece of thread under the masking tape so you can hang the cartons from a few branches of the Christmas tree painted with spray paint!

Want to be even more creative, choose your favorite designs and add the numbers as you wish?
No problem, just choose “designs only” and it’s completely up to you!