May Birthday Calendar Page

Good morning,

Here is our final calendar page. It's done in Cameo Coral and Old Olive. I stamped the image from Bella Blossom four times and cut various parts to layer it (you can see it on the sample), then I dyed Whisper White taffeta ribbon with the coral ink. With a coral mat and a second mat in green I was done.

The most time consuming part, of course, was the cutting. But well worth it, I think! Especially for something you use every year. The months were all stamped with the Full Calendar stamp set.

Hope your day is filled with flowers and fun!

Much love and joy,

Karen

April Birthday Calendar page

Good morning,

Here is the April birthday calendar page. Everything except the stamp is SU. the colors are Real Red, Summer Sun and Really Rust for the little girl. The water and mat are Bordering Blue, a go-to color for me. I stamped the image in StazOn on Watercolor paper and used Stampin' Write markers to color. I bled the color with aquapainters.

The overlay is from a DSP set called Night and Day and I secured it with Bordering or Ballet Blue brads (I can't remember which). I thought it kind of looked like rain. I may have posted the card version of this little gal back in May. The sentiment on the card was "Friends are the umbrellas in the storms of life."

Hope you all have a great day! I need to run some errands and pick up a spoon I forgot somewhere last night! Honestly, I should just go out a buy a few more but alas, I don't NEED them, you know?

Take care,

Much love and joy,

March Birthday Calendar Page

Here we are with the March Birthday Calendar page. The stamp set is from a hostess set called Country Morning. It's on natural cardstock, mounted on Really Rust and then on Crumb Cake. I stamped the sentiment on the Crumb Cake along the Rust mat on the right side. I'm not sure you can see it.

I used Blender Pens and squished Classic ink pads for the coloring. Some Very Vanilla taffeta ribbon and a mini library clip finished it off!

Join me tomorrow for another project!

Much love and joy,

February Birthday Calendar Page

Good morning,

Here is the February birthday calendar page. It uses Real Red, Old Olive and Whisper White cardstock with a touch of basic black to mat the white. The image is stamped with Stampin' Write markers in the same colors and the hearts are punched and the set is a retired Valentines Day set. Gosh, they retired so much stuff this year that nearly everything I own is retired.

Like you, dear reader, I live in a budget and am gradually building up my supplies again, starting with the new colors. Hopefully, by the time I finish showing you this calendar I will have purchased a new stamp set to show off!

Don't miss the cute little black Library clip or the gingham ribbon!

Take care and be good!

Much love and joy,

January Birthday Calendar page

Good morning everyone!

I'm posting another calendar page today, primarily because I haven't had time to stamp at all and those pages are done!

Here is the January Birthday Calendar page.

I used the retired set Flakey Friends, but you could use any snowman set you have along with any color of snowman paper. I used a couple of atypical winter colors, Sage Shadow and Ruby Red. I love Ruby Red, it's such a winter red.

I stamped the image using StazOn ink on watercolor paper and then used my Stampin' Write Markers to color the snowmen. The taffeta ribbon is strung through a hole made by the slot punch. The entire thing is set on Sage and mounted on Ruby Red although the photo makes it look like rust.

That's it for me. I hope to get to some stamping soon! I have a downline meeting on Wednesday and we have a shoebox swap so I'll have to get my beans in a row eventually! Don't forget to sign up to be a follower and my blog will show up on your dashboard!

Take care and have an extra special day!

Much love and joy,

December Birthday Calendar Page

Good morning,

I know it feels strange to look at a December birthday calendar page but there it is. I colored this with Stampin' Write markers, mainly in what used to be the Earth Elements family. Then I sponged the edges with NQN and added some Dazzling Diamonds glitter to get that extra punch.

The set is called Sleigh Ride. I also used the ticket corner punch on the greeting along with some Bravo Burgundy to mat.

Thanks for stopping by, I'm running late for church so had better fly,

Much love and joy,

November Birthday Calendar page

Good morning,

Here's the November page of our birthday calendar. Isn't he cute? Like I've said before, 99.9% of what I use is SU because I LOVE the quality but once in a while, something touches my sense of whimsy or cuteness and I have to have it. I have a special softness for cartoon mice and snowmen!

This little guy was colored with last years In Colors, Bermuda Bay, Crushed Curry and Early Espresso. The red is Real Red. I colored with Stampin' Write markers and bled the color with aquapainters. The scarf is full marker.

Remember to ground your image. I grounded my guy on espresso, even though he should have been on snow. Now that I'm looking I think that a blue would have been better. At least he's not floating in the air.

Have a great Saturday,

Much love and joy,

It's Scrappin' Saturday!

Good morning!

We're back to the birthday calendar this Saturday and I'm posting the October one. I love both of these sets but they are both retired. There are comparable sets in the catty, however, so if you don't have these, the new ones will work.

We have Certainly Celery, Basic Black, Almost Amethyst ( a go-to color for me at Halloween) and Whisper White Cardstock. The moon is punched out of Shimmery White cardstock. The stamp sets are Carved and Candlelit for the jack-o-lanterns and Home is Where the Haunt Is for the house, tree and witch.

I used the Rock and Roll technique on the pumpkins with So Saffron and Pumpkin Pie ink. The stems are Certainly Celery 1/4 inch grosgrain ribbon. The house was stamped with Whisper White ink and heat set. You can emboss it to really set it but I liked the grayed out effect.

I hope your day goes well. We're off to the farmer's market to get sweet corn. We're picking now. Whoo hoo! I love my corn. We visited friends last night out of town so it was past my bedtime when we got back. Today needs to be in slo-mo for me. I love Saturdays for that reason. It's supposed to be sticky and hot this week and the first thing that crossed my minds was ... Stampin' Weather (caps intentional!)

Take care and we'll see you tomorrow.

Much love and joy,

It's Scrappin' Saturday!

Good morning everyone!

We're scrappin' a birthday calendar and today I'm showing you the month of August.

You'll remember I posted this as a card too. So today I'll post September too!

You can use any leaf set. This one is Autumn Fest. The colors here are Really Rust, Sage Shadow and More Mustard (which Ch Chip grosgrain for an accent). I used Very Vanilla to soften the background behind the leaves. If I made this card today I'd use Baja Breeze, Cajun Craze and More Mustard.

I'm on the fly today so ... take care!
Much love and joy,

It's Scrappin' Saturday!

Happy Saturday morning my stampin' pals!
How are you? Well, I hope. Today I continue with the Scrappin' Saturday birthday calendar!

This is the August page. I'll be posting a different month each Scrappin' Saturday for a while. We're on the second of twelve Saturdays for obvious reasons so if you missed last week you can just page back in the archives. I didn't start with January because I thought some of you might want to make cards out of the pages or use them in summer scrapping so most of my calendar pages will be out of order.

I used Chocolate Chip, Really Rust and Summer Sun for the cardstock. I have some retired DSP for the patterned Kraft paper and some Watercolor paper where I stamped the image. These can easily be adapted to Chocolate Chip, Cajun Craze, Daffodil Delight and Kraft paper (Crumb Cake) run through the Big Shot with a texture plate of some design.

The flower was made using the Daisy #2 die and the Flower Burst sizzlet die for the Big Shot. I used a sponge dauber to darken up the petals with Ch Chip. The little sunflower and pot image is from A Flower for All Seasons stamp set. I colored the image with Stampin' Write markers and bled them with aquapainters. I love that look on WC paper! I roughed up the edges of the WC paper as well. The leaves were cut with the Little Leaves sizzlet. I hope SU! gets more leaves of various types in for their dies. I love this one and use it all the time.

Next week I'll post another calendar page for you. Take care and happy stamping!

Much love and joy,