April's Calendar

Well I was going to say April Showers bring May's Flowers but I don't have anything resembling rain for showers on my April CD Calendar.

I just love this background paper and decided the Doily was the perfect accent for my calendar mat. I didn't even glimmer mist it just glued it onto the mat then onto my calendar base. I added a flower pin and a ribbon bow to the side.

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Click here for the file. The file does include an umbrella for the background if you want to use that instead.

Recipe: DCWV Cardstock - black, white, green and red. Pattern Paper - Unknown (was a leftover scrap), small doily

Ink: Inkadinkado - olive green

Cricut Cartridges: Designer Calendar, George, From My Kitchen

Misc: pop up dots, glue, pin, beads, ribbon

March CD Calendar

I decided I needed some bright spring colors for this month.


The little green flower is made from three shamrock, sprayed with glimmer mist then formed int a flower shape. I used my stickles to make the swirl bling. I copied one of the premade swirl blings and used a transparency to mark my dots, then transferred this to the calendar. At every dot I just used a little bit of stickles to make my bling.

I also added a little bit of bright green pom pom ribbon to the bottom of the calendar.

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Recipe:

Paper: DCWV cardstock - black, white, blue and green; Pattern Paper - Citrus Stack

Cricut Cartridges: Designers Calendar, George, From My Kitchen

Misc: adhesive, stickles

February CD Calendar

February -the month of Valentines. The big heart is from the Wedding cartridge. I cut it out, ran it though my Xyron then used glossy accents on it while it was till on the Xyron Paper. I actually paper clip the Xyron paper to a piece of cardstock to help keep it flat.


I used baby powder on the parts of the heart that are on top of my calendar, as I have pop up dots behind that part of the heart.

A side view of the project with the pop up dots.

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Recipe:

Paper: DCWV Cardstock - black, white, pink, blue, red; Pattern Paper - Unknown

Ink: Stampin' Up - Melon Mambo

Cricut Cartridges: Designer Calendar, George, From My Kitchen, Wedding

Misc: pop up dots, glue, glossy accents, Xyon, baby powder

January CD Calendar

The ladies asked me if I was doing my CD calendars again as they would like a set. So here is the month of January just for them.
I glimmer misted the snowflake and attached it to the calendar base. I did not glue it down all the way because I liked the way the top and bottom curled up a bit - it just gives it a little bit more of dimension. I did have to fussy cut the light blue label as the Cricut cuts it in one piece.

There are pop dots between the mitten layers.

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Recipe:

Glimmer Mist : Jazz Blue

Ink: VersaMagic - Red Magic

Cricut Cartridges: George, From My Kitchen, Designers Calendar

Paper: Cardstock - White, black, blue, red, pink Pattern Paper - Unknown

August CD Calendar

The Popsicles are cut from the DoodleCharms Cricut Cartridge at 2", 1 1/2". and 1". I cut the tag from Fabulous Finds at 1" and stamped August in purple ink. The bright colored yarn is some left over from when the guys were little and making the beaded pony bead animals. I thought it went well with this background paper.

Recipe: Paper: Scraps of pink, off white, tan, white, and background paper Stamp: Perfectly Clear Stamps set Save the Date Ink: purple, Misc: ribbon, safety pin, glue, pop up dots.

July CD Calendar

For the July CD calendar I used the Cricut to cut the two watermelons from the Doodlecharms cartridge. The smaller watermelon has a pop up dot behind it. I added ribbon across the top and one side of the page and the top of the calendar. I cut out the tag from the Fabulous Finds Cartridge and stamped July. I used a punch to take bites out of the watermelon on the bottom of the calendar.

Recipe: Paper: Scraps of red, white, green, black and background Cricut: DoodleCharms watermelon cut at 1 1/2" and 2", Fabulous Finds cut at 1" Calendar is made in Publisher Stamp: Perfectly Clear Stamps - Save The Date Set Punch: Scallop punch from Martha Stewart Misc: glue, ribbon, green ink, safety pin

Junce CD Calendar

The butterfly is from a thank you card. I stamped several of them on to a transparency, cut them apart. When I stamp onto a transparency I stamp several of them and use the heat gun to dry them. I used scraps for the background four squares and flowers left over from other projects.

December CD Calendar

The blue card stock background is cut from The Rock Star pack. I used my Cricut to cut the mitten with the Speaking of Winter cartridge. The number 3 has a nice shape of the mittens on it. The snowflakes were also cut from Speaking of Winter. I used VersaMark ink after cutting them out and then embossed in white for the small snowflakes. The snowmen are cut out of black for the base, white for the actual snowmen and orange for the noses.

Recipe: Cricut Cartridge: Speaking of Winter Ink: White, VersaMark Embossing Powder: White Misc: glue, pop up dots

November

The november CD Calendar is here.

I used the corner punch for the trim on the bottom of the page. Instead of punching the corners only I punched straight across the paper, lining up the side of my punch with what was just punched. The leaves are punched from scrap paper and either embossed with embossing powder or Ultra fine glitter. Instead of using black for the base I used brown as it went better with the color scheme. Using the Jasmine cartridge I welded November onto a rectangle and cut out in brown then the individual letters in green.

Receipe: Paper: Brown Cardstock for the backing, calendar mat and November background, Striped paper is Autumn Sparkle by Karen Foster, orange and green is Sonburn 2 sided paper, scraps for leaves Cricut Cartridge: Jasmine Ink: VersaMark Embossing Powders: came in a set of various colors from Michaels Ultra Fine Glitter: 109 Cavalado Opaque, 199 Torch Lake Transparent, 94 Key Lime Transparent Punches: Corner punch, leaf punch, Misc: glue, pop up dots

Boo!

Don't you just love Halloween!. Here is my October CD Jewel Case calendar for October.

Jen C of the Cricut Message board designed this haunted house, her blog is Brain Things.
At the time I thought I would never use it, but when I was trying to put October together I knew I had to use it. The Haunted house is using the George Cartridge.

As usual I made this from scraps with the exception of the black for the haunted house and the calender is made in Publisher.

Recipe: Stamps: Making Memories Foam Stamps - Halloween 2 Ink: Versamark Clear and White Embossing Powder: Clear and White Cartridges: George, Printing Press Misc: Transparencies, Microsoft Publisher, pop up dots, glue

September

is the start of school for most so I thought that this chalkboard would be perfect for this months CD Calendar. I've had these little chalkboards forever, they were left over for teacher gifts I had made when the guys were in school. I had received samples of UHU Tac and UHU Glue Stick in August and this project is made using the samples with the exception of the temporary adhesive.

The black background is cut 4 3/4" square and the focal paper is cut 4 1/2" inches square. The calendar is made from Microsoft Publisher and mounted on a striped paper from Rock Star and a black mat.

Using Design Studio and the Printing Press cartridge I cut out September. I then used a temporary glue stick and centered "September" and the inside of the letters e, p, and b onto the chalk board and sponged on acrylic paint.



The apples are made from scrap green paper and cut out using the Cricut cartridge Paper Dolls Dress Up. Each apple is shaded with chalk and the stem is colored using a brown pen. Using the UHU Tack behind a large apple along with the glue stick raises it above the calender and the chalkboard, so that it pops out. I did the same to the little apple on the top right corner (see picture below).

After the calendar was placed on the chalkboard, I used a white oil pastel to hand write the A+ on the board, then sprayed with a fixative.

Recipe: Paper: Black, Rock Star paper pack, scraps of green and white for the calendar Cricut: Printing Press, Paper Dolls Dress Up Misc: UHU Glue Stick, UHU Tac, temporary glue stick, chalk, Acrylic paint, chalkboard, brown pen, oil pastels.

August

This is a very simple layout. The letter is cut from George and The Basic Shapes at 1 1/2 inches high. I had a request for a tutorial on how to do this so click on the word tutorial. I use Microsoft Publisher to make my calendars as I need them.

Recipe: Paper: Black, scraps for the main layer, lace cut out and green strip, Misc: glue dots, buttons, Fiskars Punch

July CD Calendar

Here is the July Calendar, I forgot to post it. The eagle was printed onto a transparency. The starts on the blue paper is from Hero arts and embossed with clear embossing powder.

Recipe: Stamps: Hero Arts - Stars and Strips, Close to my Heart - Dooble Alphabet, Ink: VersaMark and Red, Paper: Scraps

June Cd Calendar

I used one of my favorite stamps for this one. This is one of the first stamps I bought and it gets used quite a bit. Once again I am using black paper as the base and Publisher for the calendar.



I stamped in Versa Mark ink onto the fresh Paint paper, used silver embossing powder and heat set it and repeated the process on a transparency sheet and on the fresh Paint paper. I selected one image for the background, and trimmed around it. My stamp doesn't measure the 4" square that I've been using as the background paper so I am adding to it by using cut outs of the same paper.

From the other image, I selected a couple of flowers to cut out. I tried to get ones that had the embossing all around them because I wanted to add Diamond Glaze to make my own accent. Since this is a light weight paper it curled the edges a little. I then cut around a couple of the embosses images on the transparency. I now have a few images to use on cards and/or tags.

Using black ink I stamped June and embossed with clear embossing powder. I rounded the corners and attached behind the embossed page. For the strip behind the calendar I rounded both ends and cut in half and attached it behind. It looks like it goes all the way across the page but it does not.

Recipe: Stamps: Hibiscus Portrait - Hero Arts, June - Hero Arts Clear Designs Paper: fresh Paint, Black Ink: black, Versa Mark Embossing Powder: silver, clear Calender: Publisher Misc: transparency sheet, pop up dots, Diamond Glaze, corner punch

May's CD Calendar

For the May's calendar I stamped the daisy in Versa Mark ink on the white background, then chalked over them. I then cut out daisy in 4 sizes and after cutting and before gluing I pulled the flower petals up. The May is stamped in black on white cardstock and embossed with clear embossing power.

I really hate it when the computer crashes. I had a link to someone who had paper flowers on a project and now can't find it, so if I got the PDF File from you let me know.

Recipe: Paper: Black and White scraps, Yellow Stamps: Close to my Heart - From me to you, Hero Arts - May Ink: Versa mark, Black Chalk: Yellow Calender: Publisher Misc: Clear Embossing power, Pop up glue dots scissors

April

Here is the April Cd Jewel Case calendar page. I've just not had the time to post the pictures of them. I still need to get the scanner working from the computer crashing.

Jewel Case Calendar

I forgot to post this earlier and just now realized I haven't posted the 8x8 calendar page either. I will have to do this one after work tonight. Hopefully I will be home at a reasonable time.

Once again the only thing used in this project that is not a left over from another project is the Black background. The black paper is cut 4 3/4" square, the pink paper is 4" square.

Recipe: Paper: Black, Luxuary Stack - pink, scraps of pink, tan and white cardstock Stamp: Close to My Heart - Doodle Alphabet Ink: pink Cricut: Fabulouts Finds Other: scrap of ribbon

CD Jewel Case Case Calendar

Here is January's CD Calendar. I enjoy doing these as they go quick. I make my calendars in Publisher depending on the size of the page I am doing that way I can have a custom size. I cut the black paper to 4 3/4" square, the blue paper to 4 1/2 square and the snowflake paper to 4" square. The book plate is cut from scraps of red, and the punched flower is from the same scrap. I stamped in blue in the month. The only paper on the CD Jewel Case Calendar's that is not scrap paper is the black paper, and I have used black for all twelve months.

Recipe: Paper: black, blue, red and snowflake paper scrap Ink: blue Cricut: Fabulous Finds Other: flower punch, brads, flower center, glue, pop up dots.