May Calendar Page

My calendar page for May. The stamped flowers are from Image Tree and I colored them with Copic markers. The patterned paper is from a very old matstack from Recollections. I really like using it on my calendar pages because it's paper and therefore thin so my page still fits in my calendar holder.

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Calendar Leftovers - Part Four

And the last of my calendar leftovers. This image is from Image Tree. I colored with Copic markers. The sentiment is from Papertrey Ink. I matted the image and patterned paper with a dark gray cardstock. The stamping was done with gray, also.

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Garden Whimsy #1

My posts for the next several days will be using the Stampin' Up! set called "Garden Whimsy." It consists of eight stamps.

For this card, I used the snail. I almost skipped this stamp, but thought I could at least do this much with it:) I stamped the snail with SU!'s Buckaroo Blue ink and matted with matching cardstock. I mounted on Pop Dots. The sentiment was done with an Image Tree alphabet stamp. This would make a fine "hello, how are you doing" card, I think.

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Another Thank You

I have always liked making Thank You cards, and I figured out why a while ago - because they just need to be "simple" cards. This was before the term "Clean and Simple" started. I have another one to share with you today.

I had die cut the olive piece last week when I was playing with some of my Cuttlebug dies. I glued a piece of white cardstock behind it and stamped the letters using an Image Tree alphabet set. I added black gems to the ends and a dark gray one to the image in between the words. I glued a small piece of black to that layer and mounted the whole thing on Dimensionals.

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Happy May! - May Calendar Page

Well, it's May already, even though it doesn't feel like it!  And a new month brings a new calendar page.  If you are interested in printing out your own (blank) calendar pages, I have shared my file with you.  You can click on the link in the header of my blog (just above the newest post) and that will take you to my Excel files for both 2011 and the recently added 2012 file.  There is also a link to cutting instructions, assuming your printer prints them the same as mine!

I am SO glad I was smart enough when I made my calendars last fall to make a list of everything I used to make the pages.  It makes it SO much easier when the First rolls around and I share the materials with you!  For this page, I stamped the image with a stamp from Image Tree's Daisy Delights and colored with Stampin' Up! markers YoYo Yellow and Gable Green.  I punched the bird border with a Martha Stewart Bird on a Wire punch and some older cardstock from Micheal's.

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Earth Day

I had this globe die from Lifestyle Crafts and was going to make a card with it.  I thought of Earth Day and checked it out.  Lo and behold - it's today!  So, I made this card yesterday.

The globe is die #DR0091.  I cut it from textured blue, patterned green and shimmery gold. I glued it to the same patterned green, from Sizzix, and matted with the textured blue.  I stamped the letters (intentionally not lined up!) from Image Tree.  Is anyone doing anything special to commemorate Earth Day?

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Welcome to the Neighborhood

Today’s card is for our new neighbors. The inside says “to the neighborhood!”

I embossed the fence and flowers with a brass stencil and my BIGkick. I colored the flowers and the leaves with Stampin’ Up! chalks in Mellow Moss, Perfect Plum and Pretty in Pink, then mounted the panel on Mellow Moss and Perfect Plum. The border is punched with a Martha Stewart punch, and the lines are done with a Scor-Pal. The letters are stamped with an alphabet set by Image Tree called Antique Alphabet.

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