JustRite Day 4 with Sharon Harnist – November Calendar

If you are a frequent visitor to my blog, you’ll know how much I love making a monthly calendar (the link above is to my previous calendars). This page is 6-inches square and is displayed in a wooden stand on my desk. When I’m feeling industrious, I’ll go ahead and make a matching 6-inch scrap page in about the same format and put a favorite photo from the month on it. Then at the end of the year I already have a brag book all made up for a keepsake of the year! So even if you don’t have a need for a calendar, keep in mind this page could easily be reproduced as a scrapbook page just by omitting the calendar area and replacing it with a photo.

You can imagine how thrilled I was when JustRite came out with a wonderful Calendar Set in a beautiful font this year! Of course it’s perfect for my calendars AND for scrapbook page titles … and how about greeting cards – the monthly titles would work great for those, too!

Here, I stamped “November” right on my computer-generated calendar. The beautiful cardinal image is from JustRite’s Christmas Treasures 3-1/4” round set (who says a “Christmas image" can’t also be used for another time of the year)?!! What is great about JustRite’s products is that you are not limited to a certain shape. You have the ability to use the border, or not, the center image by itself – it’s your choice! Here, I definitely didn’t have the space for a 3-1/4” image on my calendar and it would have overpowered the rest of the design. So I chose to just use the center image.

You are also not limited to using the 3-1/4” round stamper shown above that this cardinal image would normally fit on. If, for example, you’d like to use the image with a stamp positioner, that’s hard to do with a round stamper. But the image fits perfectly onto the Horizontal Wood (Rectangle) Stamper which CAN be used with a stamp positioner! Or if you’d like to add a custom sentiment or monogram there on the Rectangle Stamper along with the cardinal image, you could do that, too. The possibilities and combinations are endless with JustRite’s innovative interchangeable products!

After stamping the image, I colored it with these Copic markers:

After coloring, I die cut the image with Spellbinders Labels One die and airbrushed the background (with BG13) while the image was still in the die – that’s what gives the nice crisp white border around the edge of the die cut.

Some machine stitching around the edge of the page, buttons & ribbon complete my calendar. Can you believe November is just around the corner?!!

I’ll be back tomorrow with my final project of the week … hint: you just might get to see a sneak peek of a new product that will be debuting next week!

Supplies --
Stamps: JustRite Calendar Set & Christmas Treasures
Paper: Stampin’ Up Vanilla, Neenah Natural White, Cosmo Cricket Early Bird Mini Deck
Ink: Stampin’ Up Ruby Red dye ink, Memento Rich Cocoa, Copic markers
Accessories: Spellbinders Labels One die set, downloadable computer-generated calendar, EK Success corner rounder, Martha Stewart Loopy border punch, Papertrey Ink buttons, ribbon & twine, Bow Easy, foam tape, sewing machine

The Journey designed by Keri Lee Sereika

Welcome to Day 2 with Keri . The new larger images in the JustRite Collection are perfect for scrapbooking and today Keri is sharing a page from her scrapbook with us.

Today I thought it would be fun to bring a scrap layout to the blog! It seems I have about 5000 files on my hard drive that are just begging to be printed and scrapped but I only have a little bit of time to focus on that at this point in my life....However there are a few photos that I just totally fell in love with the moment I saw them and HAD TO SCRAP THEM! Here is one...For this page I felt that it did not require an actual "title" because the stamp did that for me! This quote was just right for what I wanted this picture to portray...if only we, as adults could remember how important the journey is sometimes.....

The image I used comes from the Harmony Classic Circle III Stamp Ensemble. I applied the ink one color at a time starting with the butterfly image, then the quote and lastly the border. I did it this was for two reasons, one I started with the inner images first for ease of application, but I also started with my LIGHTEST color of ink first so that I would not ruin my light colored ink pads if I accidentally touched areas I had inked using a darker color. Ahhh the joys of working with Fluid Chalk Cat's Eyes ink pads. :) Enjoy!

Supplies:

JustRite Stamps: Harmony Classic Circle III Stamp Ensemble

Ink: Blush Rose, Dark Moss, Chestnut Roan Fluid Chalk Cat's Eyes Ink Pads - ClearsnapCardstock: Rose Light, Herbal Garden Medium

Prismatics: Natural Smooth (FABULOUS for stamping) - Prism Papers

Patterned Paper, Rubon & Bow Embellishment - Anna Griffin

Accessories:Pink Sparkle Brads - Creative Impressions,Dies: Labels One - Spellbinders

Punch: Scalloped Daisy Embossing Border Punch - Fiskars

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