Calendar 2019

Hello again,

This will be my second attempt at posting this as blogger decided to be unfriendly the other day and it froze on me, so here goes again....

After making several friends calendars as small gifts one year for Christmas, it has become somewhat of a tradition, last year I made owl calendars in various colours ensuring they fit inside and A5 envelope, I came across a Split Coast Stampers calendar tutorial and saved it to use this year and having already purchased the tiny calendars followed the directions to make them free standing using C7 card blanks. Two are upright tent fold cards and the other two horizontal and as a bonus they will still fit in the regular envelopes for posting...

I have used the same daisy stamp from Stamp-It Australia heat embossing in silver and black, colouring and painting in the colours with Prismacolor watercolour pencils in purples, pinks, yellow and red. When I added the calendar tabs to the two landscape cards both tore the calendar off at December which was a pain quickly rectified by stapling the rest back on. 

Here are the calendars:- Apologies, I couldn't get them to fit in two by two so one pic of each with an extra showing the prop inside the card.

What I used:-

White C7 card blanks (vertical card 12.4x17.4cm) horizontal (12.6x17.8cm)

Pink, mauve, yellow and white card stock (scrap box)

Stamp It Australia Daisy Bunch stamp

Stamp tool

Martha Stewart scoring board 

CCD apron lace die

Memory Box Pippi Butterfly die

MFT Stitched inner and outer oval die

Crafters Choice Pastel basics papers

Wood effect paper

Sugar n spice Pastel papers (some are scraps)

White cardstock for making brace at bottom of calendar

Sequins and tiny black pearls
Black and Silver embossing powder + heat tool

Staples and stapler 

Couture Creations 2019 Calendar tabs

I would like to enter these calendars in:-

613 Avenue Create optional theme use something wood (red daisies)
Crafts Galore Encore challenge Anything goes October (red daisies)
Creative Craft Cottage Pretty in Pink or Halloween (pink daisies)
The Butterfly Challenge G is for Gold, green (yellow daisies) (paper a golden yellow and green on the foliage)
Creatalicious Challenges Anything goes optional use purple (purple daisies)

Thank you for looking in...
Have a wonderful week.... 
Megan

P.S. A Huge Thank you to all my lovely blogging friends and visitors who take the time to leave me a comment, I truly appreciate them all! 

Happy New Year

Hello again,

I hope you have all had a wonderful Christmas and New Year Holiday, got together with friends and family for some of the time... Wishing you all a Happy, safe, healthy and crafty 2018

Well it is high time for me to rejoin the blogging world, although I have not done any crafting this year, yet.... we have been having a hot hot hot summer which puts me off being in my craft space, I also needed to tidy my craft area for a couple of reasons, one being the switch over to the NBN network, rather than using a mobile wifi device (which in my case was always connected by cables to my PC), which has meant running cables from the new modem in the kitchen to my PC, thankfully all looked after by Dad and my Uncle and all under the house! Our home phone and internet bills are now less than half of what we were paying as a big bonus, the tidying also needed because my table had become over run with bits and pieces and needs a thorough clean up.... not to mention the very crafty Christmas I had...

I am sharing today the calendars I made using a template found online, I made 7 owls and so far one more masculine free standing calendar... I didn't remember to photograph all the owls so here are two of them.... all made with scraps (mostly hanging around my desk type scraps)

and here is the more masculine calendar which I made using a 5x7" card blank with an added 'w' folded card scrap to help keep it upright (card fold at the top) 

I like the fold on the above calendar and am already planning on making these come the end of 2018... 

What I used:- Owls

Cardstock in various colours

papers from stash- polka dot paper and doodlebug DP

Calendar blanks

Nesting circle dies

Tiny brads

Template from Papercraft inspirations

Adhesives:- Glue stick, Adhesive sheet, double sided tape and foam dots 

These calendars have been well received, one friend telling me that she has had a snowy white owl visiting her garden, she thinks it is nesting in her neighbours yard as she sees it quite regularly. 

What I used:- Masculine

White 5x7" card blank 

White card scrap to create the prop at the bottom (looks like 'w')

Papers from stash of magazine freebies

Calendar blank

CCD Boat die

Say it in Crystals strips rounded to the circle edge

Wave shape die (not sure of maker)

Scrap papers from stash

Black fine line pen

Nesting circle die

Adhesives:- Double sided tape, adhesive sheet

I would like to enter these calendars in:-

Crafting By Design January Anything goes

Love to Craft Challenge Blog Anything goes

Snippets Playground weeks 315-316 Must use snippets

Emerald City Crafts #7 Anything goes

Bizzy Bec's Store Blog January Anything goes

Thank you for looking in...

Have a wonderful week...

Megan