It may only be August, but the sooner I get the 2014 calendars finished the better. Since the summer weather hasn't been so great this year I have more time to craft indoors.
I created 49 calendars in total and here are pics of the various styles that I made. I think I would get too bored making all of them the same. And besides.... this way my friends have a choice.
I used the Tim Holtz clock die for this group along with a sentiment from one of Tim's Stamper's Anonymous stamp sets.
In this group of calendars I like the extra pizzazz that the punched border gives. I'll have to remember that for other projects and cards. It is also a great way to use up pieces of scrap paper.
The saying is from a set of Birthday sentiments made by Fiskars.
The paper is from a 6 x 6" Bo Bunnie paper pad. I had a difficult time parting with it... but I don't know why I was hanging on to it anyway. I need to use up more of my stuff!!!
I was using some of my ribbons before I had the idea to use my punches to create an embellished border.
I wanted to make some calendars that did not have a clock or time theme. I used a brass stencil and momento inks to color the cattails on the decorative scrapbook paper. I had a bunch of die cut butterflies in my stash so I used them also. The sentiment is from Sweet Pea Stamps.
I just love this frog; I have used this stamp so much (Sparkle N Sprinkle). I like to stamp it in black and color with Twinkling H2O's. The sentiment is a $1 from Michael's.
I was attempting to use up some of my wide ribbon and found several pieces that worked well with the colors of the paper I was using.
I used my oval spellbinders to cut the frog and the mats that I used with him.
