New Calendar Pages!

I am finished with the 12"x12" Graphic 45 Place in Time easel calendar...finally!  Not bad really considering I didn't start working on it till the end of January and I am done by the end of August!    I just finished the November and December pages last Friday at a crop and I told Terri I felt like all the calendars were starting to look alike even though I was trying to make each one unique and different.  I was going to show just the two that I finished but I think I am going to share the whole year...starting with the last finished and going backwards!!






December...
December is all about snow, Santa and Holiday fun!  I love the plum pudding picture and all the holly!   December was always a time of family gatherings and sharing.  I miss not having my oh so large family around anymore. 

November...
The incorporation of the Thanksgiving holiday and pilgrims into harvest time with the Graphic 45 papers makes me smile.  A traditional American holiday!

 October...
Ghosts, goblins and all sorts of scary things happen in October...I love the crisp air and the ability to have windows open to allow the fresh air into the house!  

September...
The start of fall and back to school time!  Leaves are turning and nights are cooler...I love all the color changes that are happening!

August...
Last days of summer, crops are coming in in the garden and it is a time for fun and play!

July...
Summer holiday and play days!  The 4th of July fireworks and picnics flooded my memories while working on this page!  My birthday is in this month and a day at the seashore would be my choice for sure!  July can be a gruesomely hot time in Oklahoma!

June....
school is out and the whole summer looms before us...  Lots of weddings and the flowers are in full bloom!  Soft sounds of summer!

May...
awesome time of year with all the flowers blooms,  graduations and celebrations of life.  I enjoy all the family get together to celebrate life, death, graduations and hopes for the future.  Being Oklahoma there is always hopes of thunderstorms and "events" to anticipate!

April...
April showers bring May flowers!    Lots of fun things to do outside cause the weather is getting warmer and children look forward to the coming summer holidays!















March...
everything is greening up...still a little cool but so many fun things are happening around us.  I love gardening so this month is the first month I can finally get outside and do some gardening! 

February...
Valentines day is such a fun time of year...I heard that there are whole farms dedicated to raising all the flowers and roses that are sold at this time of year...Not to mention that candy sales are higher now then any time of year!









January...
All the holiday hoopla is over and I consider January a time of rest although I don't understand why!  Both my children were born in January!






So that is my calendar for the year.  I made it a perpetual calendar with mats so I could remove the old months calendar and put the new one on each year.  I figured if I put this much work into it it had to be for more then just one use! 

October Calendar

Another page bites the dust!...Doesn't this look like a fun calendar page!

Should I tell you I screwed up on this page?  Sure why not I will even show you the screwed up picture I took!  I got the page finished and asked a friend if she could see anything wrong with the page...did it look too linear, was it off angled somehow and even Kim couldn't see what I had done wrong...the page looks great by itself but it isn't a calendar!  Yes!  I had forgotten the calendar and it was while I was photographing the page I came to that realization.   How could you forget the calendar on a calendar page?  Leave it to me!  Then the light came on and I realized...

 OMG!  glue was dry and I had messed up big time, what to do, what to do!!!  So I tore up as much as I could without totally destroying the page and voila the new page!

 

What do you think?  Not too bad and I like it better!  Two more months to go!

September Calendar

I finished the September page of the Graphic 45 Place in Time calendar...
I am going to be really sad when I get all the way through December and don't have any more calendar pages to do because I have had a tremendous fun making these pages and seeing how each one turns out.  Even though they have begun to look and awful lot a like to me in someways each one has taken on their own personality!  Doesn't the little girl swinging look like she is going to take advantage of summer as long as she can and that little red school house brings back memories!

 I didn't add anything new or special to this page and everything on it was from the layout, cut apart pages, and the chipboard embellishment sheet.  Graphic 45 did an awesome job, in my humble opinion, with the design of these papers.

Now on to the garden...Yesterday when I woke up Chuck had already been outside hard at work harvesting what was available to harvest in the garden...WOW!  I think a bountiful harvest too considering the size of the 'corn field'...4 rows about 5 feet long and there is still a few left to be harvested.  The tomatoes are just starting to come in and I am really looking forward to it cause they are so yummy!

Okay off to the craft room to see what I can get up to today.  I have a young friend that just had a baby boy and doesn't have anything to document it in so I think I might whip up a chipboard book and run over to her house and do a foot print for her with my ink pad...ink is not toxic is it?

Place in Time Calendar Class

I will be teaching a couple classes this week. The July "Place in TIme" calendar class is this next Thursday July 18th from 1-4 pm at ScrapThat Norman 526 W. Main St. Call 405-310-3400 to reserve your seats. Terri just got in another lot of the Place in Time paper collection in including the chipboard and sticker sheets for the class. This is a new start for the calendar and will run 6 months starting with July and August and we will finish up in December with January and February. This is a perpetual calendar or you can use it as a scrapbook page if you want to or change out the calendars each year.

 

It was a fun and crafty weekend!

Yes, yes it was.  I am actually glad to be at home and not out and about running around cause I am really a home body at heart and this has been a busy week running Heather to her surgery and follow up on Tuesday and Wednesday and then doing something that was craft related for hours and hours each day the rest of the week.








It started on Thursday for me when I taught a tag making class making Easter tags with a group of women at Scrap That in Norman!  I taught 3 tags using Tim Holtz style techniques, stamps, and threw in a few 'extras' that made sure we had some fun.  Everyone seemed happy with their tags and said that they would book again next month for the 'group therapy!'

I think this purplish pink tag is a favorite!  I love the colored Easter egg popped up and given a 3d effect!

You can see the 3rd tag in this post...it was the furry one that my friend dubbed as creepy and since she took the class I had to cut her a paper rabbit out of a Starbucks corrugated cup cozy!






Friday was the painting class with Heather and the rest of the class mates at Scrap That!  I posted on that class in a previous post but I am so proud of my painting I am reposting it here!

Don't you love those yellow flowers!

Saturday was an all day crop at Scrap That! where 28 women got together to visit and share fun time doing what they like to do best...craft and gossip!   We all had projects going that were different so when you needed to exercise a bit we would wander around and check out what the next tables were doing. 

Heather was checking her text messages here but spent the day painting some canvases for her painting classes next month.  If you are interested contact Scrap That! at 310-3400 to sign up. 

I was busy trying to get some stuff done for classes next month too.  I was having brain issues though and seemed to throw more stuff in the trash then I got accomplished!  I hate it when I do that so I spent a bit more time wandering around trying to get motivated to create then I did actually making anything.   I did manage to finish another month in the Graphic 45 calendar pages! 

Anyway it was a good weekend but I am glad it is Sunday evening and a day of rest!

WOYWW #197 and the Altered Pages Challenge

I am really feeling like warmed over crud right now!  I seem to have caught this cold/flu that everyone else was complaining about getting last month.  Cough, sore throat, runny nose, headache, body aches and pains...what a mess makes concentrating difficult!  I have had it since last Friday so I hope it goes away soon cause I am really tired of dealing with it!

Here's a picture of my desk...not that much has been going on since Friday!  I finally made it back in there today to work on my Graphic 45 monthly calendar pages.  What you see on my desk is May's page in the works.  I love this paper pack it is so colorful and so much fun to work with.
To see January, February, and March's pages just click on the month it will take you to the page.

You really don't need much more then the Place in Time paper pack in order to make up these pages but feel free to embellish as much as you like.  I made mats for my calendars she when I am done with the year I can either use it again next year or turn it into a photo page!

I finished April's page last week and I really didn't like the style or color combo for that month but did the best I could with it!  I used some Glossy Accents on the papers butterflies then made some butterflies up on my own.  Looks okay I think!

I just finished May's page and thought I would include it in today's post also.  I liked this one a little better!  The colors and graphics were nicer I thought!

After posting this for WOYWW I read about Altered Pages Challenges challenging the artist to use the color lavendar and thought...hmmm...this does work so I am entering this into the contest! 

Okay that's it for me!  I am going to go find a cup of tea and head over to Stamping Ground and link up for the blog hop.  I am a nosey snoop and hop around the world looking at others desks and works each week.  Want to join me?  Go check it out and Julia will tell you how! 

Graphic 45 Calendar for March

 I think March's calendar page turned out very nice!  It must have cause even DH made the remark he really liked it!  Didn't do anything super special just did a  hodgepodge placement of the various bits from the 12 x 12" page.   The  green and purple go so well together you don't have to do much.                       

 Some one asked with February's calendar what papers etc I am using in the calendar.  Easy peasy list of items so far...  All pages are made using the following

Graphic 45 Place in Time paper

Graphic 45 Place in Time Chipboard's 1 and 2

Graphic 45 Place in Time Stickers

 Graphic 45 12 x 12 easel

Petaloo Flowers

Hope that cleared some things up.  I am also using card stock, odd bits and pieces for each theme from my stash...ie roses, heart doilies, etc for February.  March has punched clovers and a gold coin.

WOYWW #192 and Memories!

"Another day, another dollar" my Mom used to say when she came in from work bone tired and weary from work!  Being raised the offspring of a military family had a lot of pluses and a few minuses.  Pluses being we learned to be self sufficient and thrifty with what we had.  Not much was wasted and things were always being recycled and re-purposed.   Clothes were handed down from one family to another and what couldn't be worn any longer were torn apart and made into something else or used as dish clothes or dust rags.  We learned to make a lot of things that the fortunate went and bought as a matter of course.  I have a lot to thank my Mother for and I like to think I am more then a little like my Mom...  I learned all about making do and most of my crafty instincts come from her!  Mom passed away 24 years ago this week and I still miss her...especially at this time of year!

This is Wednesday and another day of sharing what is on our desks with others around the world.  Julia started WOYWW about 192 posts ago and who would have thought it would be as hot a potato as what it has become.  Last week I fully planned on visiting all the posters but eventually gave up after a measly 40 or so blogs.  I was impressed that 168 blogs linked to WOYWW last week and it seems to be growing every week.  Does anyone know what the highest number of blogs have linked in any given week is?  WTG Julia!  I think you may be single handily fostering goodwill and peace in the world...one blog at a time.  Come join in the fun!  Stamping Ground is the place where you can find out what you need to do to join!  I doubt I will make it to all blogs again this week but I promise to try and do my best! 

My desk this week!  I was working on the March calendar for the Graphic 45 Place in Time calendar.   The post after this one has the February one featured if you would like to see it! 

Busy, busy, busy!  I can understand what everyone was telling me now about offering up to do those classes each week.  Oh well, live and learn and I think I will have to crank it up a notch to get going faster. 

Thought I would share the recipes for the recipe card class on the 16 Feb.  It has turned out to be an event of sorts with my recipe card class coinciding with the book signing by Caryn Ross, a local girl, and winner of Paula Deen and Kraft Foods Real Women of Philadelphia talent contest and served as a food host for the site for 2 years. Since her win she has exploded in the cooking world appearing recently on Home Made in America with Sunny Anderson She has also appeared on the Rachael Ray Show and cooked live in Rockefeller Center, for Real Simple Magazine. Ross also is a fixture on News9 in Oklahoma City working as their feature food contributor.  She also is the lead food contributor to Slice Magazine and works closely with Braum’s as an ambassador.

Lots of good recipes in Caryn's book and I have made up a recipe card this month using one of her recipes.  The one I used is called Cake Dots and is easy peasy to make!

I used the new Cook Collection of papers from the Australian company called Ruby Rock It.  I love the feel and visual texture of the card stock and the vintage style makes my heart sing....wow too much pain med tonight!  

Some closeups of the recipe cards. 

 Braided Reuben Sandwich

 Chocolate Cake Dots

No Bake Raspberry Cheesecake

Cowboy Soup!

 Okay I am off to visit the other blogs.  Have a great day!