2017 Calendars

Hi there, 

and a Happy New Year to you all!

 It's been awhile, I've been relaxing and just doing a little crafting.....

So here's the first project for 2017 some little desk calendars. I make calendars every year and pass out as gifts to family and friends and thought I'd share this years calendars with you all.

A side view so you can see how it stands....and no you don't need glasses the photo is a  tad blurry, but it does show how the calendars stand! Oh my goodness the longer I look at this photo the more it's like looking through someone else's glasses and it's very disconcerting so scroll down quickly! So sorry 😉

 

Just a couple of them to show that I did change up the floral arrangement a little on each one. Suffice to say out of the 20 I made they all looked slightly different.

 I got  two calendars out of one sheet of A4 card stock. I used the Botanical Blooms stamps and framelits from Stampin' Up. The details on the flowers were some lines drawn on each petal with a dark pink marker and the some darker pinky red ink sponged with a dauber in to the middle of each flower. The flower stamens were cut from yellow card stock, that I coloured with the dark pink marker on the straight bits, the ends were left yellow and the centre of each stamen was coloured with a dark brown marker ......I hope that makes sense. I was inspired by this idea for the calendars from this pinterest post  . I had tried a few calendar design ideas but was not feeling the love. So when I saw the floral design on the packaging "bada bing, bada boom" my calendar was born! 

The sentiment is from Kinda Eclectic also from SU as well as  the Gorgeous Grunge stamp set that I   stamped with kraft ink, stamped off first, then stamped onto the  background of the kraft CS.

Well that's all today. I hope your day is truly wonderful.

Cheers Donna 😁

Box Frame Cards

Well, where have I been? Work, life, and everything in between......just like everyone else. I have made lots of things, taken hardly any photos, gasp......I know ridiculous, right?
 The thing is with blogging, you have to be strict and committed to posting on a regular basis, something that to be honest just isn't me, well not at the moment.

Anywhoo, you are here to see these beauties aren't you?

Here is the first masterpiece. I found the instructions along with  a fabulous video tutorial on Caroline from Crafty Hallett's blog just click on Caroline's name to be taken directly to her lovely blog and her post that had me making these frames. Do have a look at the rest of her blog while you are there it's fantastic.
 I have seen heaps of written instructions on how to make these frames on various blogs, but they just never make any sense to me. I was so delighted to come across Caroline's blog  post on how to make these frames and OMG the lovely girl had made a video tutorial. I like to thinks it's for those of us that are slightly written  instruction challenged. I am most definitely a visual learner!

 I whipped this one up first and then seeing as I had a desk full of these beautiful flowers I made another one. It literally took me 5 minutes to make the frame, they are so easy, once you know how, thanks Caroline!

 Why did I have a desk full of these flowers I hear you ask? Well I had just taken delivery of the Botanical Blooms stamps and matching framelits last week and yes you guessed it. I  made lots and lots of these gorgeous flowers with no idea of what I would do with them. I had vaguely thought a card, but wasn't sure of how to arrange the flowers. I trawled through pinterest for inspiration, but nothing. Then today when I sat down for a mid morning cuppa I decided to have a browse through the plethora of blogs I have favourited. AND when I  visited Caroline's I knew exactly how those flowers were going to be arranged.....inside a box frame. Ta da! FYI there are still more flowers on my desk, so maybe some more frames will be whipped up ;)

So there you have it, this is how I spent the morning. What do you think? Where do you find your inspiration?

Cheers Donna :)