2013 Calendar.

Recently, I was in a swap with some great "fake" online friends. The talent was amazing!

My swap buddy was in Canada,,,,,,,,and I knew I wanted to make a desk calendar,,,,,,so I had to go digging for a few Canadian holidays.  For instance,,,,,,,,Canada Day is on July 1st and is the equivilent of our 4th of July,,,,,,,,,,,and Thanksgiving is in October.

So without further ado,,,,,,,Amanda's calendar,,,,,,month by month.

I hope Amanda really enjoys it,,,,,,I even put a little poem on the back.

I hope that you've had

a wonderful year.

Now that you're done

don't toss me on my ear

Take a picture you love

for each of the months

and glue over top

of each calendar fun.

So keep me forever

don't throw me away.

A mini book I'll make

of some sweet, precious days.

The hardest part about this little project was keeping the embellishments down so it wasn't too thick to sit nicely on a desk.

Calendar Recipe:

Papers: variety of scraps

Ink: Versafine

Stamps: Justrite (several sets)

dies: Grand Labels 23 for the months, 2010 snowflake pendant, nested hearts, Memory box open loralai leaf, postage stamps, labels one, squares large, picot edge circles, Cottage Cutz filigree leaf, Marianne Designs poinsettia die, ovals large, lacy squares, Labels 3

vintage images: Crafty Secrets

punches: Martha Stewart butterfly punch (large and small)

Binding: Cinch 1 inch binding rings and bound with the Cinch.

Party Time Tuesdays!!!!!

Good Tuesday Morning!!!!!!  It's time for Party Time Tuesdays weekly challenge!!! I know you love it,,,,,,and this is our monthly ANYTHING GOES challenge!!!! So anything your heart desires! Just please remember that during our Anything Goes Challenge, we have SO many entries, it's simply impossible for us to comment! We love to see your entries, but to be fair to all, we simply don't comment during this challenge! But know we are looking!!!!

Since it was Anything Goes, I decided to go a bit differently than normal!  I made these really darling candy bags for my grand children and youngest daughter (who thought they were so cute she had to have one!)

I colored these darling scare crows with copics, and fussy cut them out, inking the edges of the moon for effect.I used a 5.5 x11 inch piece of kraft card stock and simply scored at 4.5 and 6x5 folding up both ends,,,,,,,the food grade polystyrene bags full of candy just slip down inside and I stapled the top together (with the bag in there) to hold the bag in,,,,,,,,,,,,,,Fancy pants paper on the front, and then I cut some more fancy pants paper out of my Grand labels 23 nesties to fold over the top,,,,,,,,,I decorated with nested pumpkins and fancy pants stickers,,,,,,,,,and she's done!

Here's a close up of the side, where you can see the candies,,,,,,

Click on any of the pictures to see a larger version,,,,,,,,

Project Recipe:
Papers: Fancy Pants and Recollections Kraft paper
Stamps: the Stamping Boutique
Dies: Nested Pumpkins and Grand Labels 23
inks: copics and Ranger Archival Black
Stickers: Fancy Pants

Our fabulous sponsors this week are Fancy Pants, the Stamping Boutique, Digital Delights, Crafty Sentiments and Crafty Ribbon.

I hope you enjoyed this easy peasy project and thanks for looking!! I so appreciate your comments! Now run on over to Party Time Tuesdays and load up YOUR anything goes project or card!!!

Sugar Creek Hollow!!!!!!

Good Morning!!!! I am so hoping you will join us this week for the Sugar Creek Hollow challenge, because I am so excited about it,,,,,,

one of my favorite types of cards, that frankly, I do not make often enough!

This week's challenge is,,,,,,,,,,

FANCY FOLDS!!!!!!!!!

Please make a card that is NOT the ordinary one side or top fold card! Come on, fancy it up a bit! You're that talented, and we know it!

Here's mine!

I made this card for a friend whom I love very much, and miss very much back home in Massachusetts. As you can see, it's an easel card, so easy to make, yet so fancy and pretty!

I cut the base of the card with Grand Labels 23 as well as the image out of the DCWV paper,,,,then I added an Inkadinkadoo stamp that said exactly what I wanted to say to my friend!

the larger roses are handmade with  spellbinders dies and the smaller roses are made with MFT rolled mini roses dies. I glued a button behind the roses to stop the front from sliding into the roses.

such an easy card! And I hope my friend likes it!

Thanks for looking,,,,,,,,,now get to it, because we KNOW how talented our friends are! Upload your Fancy Fold card to SCH and you might win a prize!!!!!!

PARTY TIME TUESDAYS!!!!!

Good Morning! Its Tuesday! Time for Party Time Tuesdays challenge 62! And boy do we have some fun for you this week!!!!! Our theme for challenge 62 is FLOWERS!!!!!!! Spring has sprung, so come along and play with us!

Our lovely sponsors this week are Bugaboo Stamps and The Stamping Boutique! AND they've given the DT such adorable images to work with!

Im using this beautiful sunflower image from the Stamping Boutique called "Sunflower Frame". Isnt it beautiful?????

I just love sunflowers! they are so bright and so pretty! And so Ive used various shades of yellow/gold/orange here for mine,,,,,,,,I colored the image with copics, cut it out with scalloped ovals large, and then matted that on Grand Labels 23. Ive cut the leaves out of spellbinders foliage. A base of Kraft with a splash of bright blue, and some pretty sunflowers cut out with  my poinsettia die, and shes done!

I hope you enjoyed the card,,,,,thank you to all our wonderful sponsors for this week, and stick around for the month, because Bugaboo Stamps is our month long sponsor, and you MIGHT win  a prize!

Thanks for looking! I truly appreciate it!

The Shabby Tea Room,,,,

I'm not sure SHABBY is really my forte LOL. But, the Shabby Tea Room is having a color challenge. Additionally, they want to see pennants, banners or flags on cards. Since I came across these papers with the colors (pink, aqua, red) in my Prima papers, I decided to give it a shot. It's a style I love,,,,,,,,and I suppose I just need more practice, LOL, but I never seem to quite get the shabbiness I want.

Anywho, it was fun to play!

Here's my card,,,,,,,,

I hand cut the pennants out of 2 inch wide paper, simply marking the center and cutting out a point. I used my brand new Grand labels 23 nesties to make a shaped card, layering on the Madeline Prima paper. I made the two roses out of spellbinders spiral blooms 1 and nested those in the two largest petals of the Rose Creations dies. I tipped here and there with pink crackle paint on the roses and also the papers and added a red and white checked border to the tops of the banners and red and white checked bows to the corners,,,,,,,a few buttons, some aqua netting and she's done!

I hope you enjoyed the card, as bad as it is LOL. And I hope it gives everyone everywhere who is bad at ANY style some hope!

Practice makes perfect!!!!!!