December Calendar

December already !  I've done pages for every month, even if some of them were a bit late.  And I have filled them in most days!

December is in shades of blue and green, with a little yellow watercolour, stamped using Distress Inks and the Craft Stamper Magazine's December free stamp, a snowflake made of holly.  I stamped it in a hurry one evening, so did not do a very good job.  But it is lovely stamp if you get it right.  I did a bit of silver embossing too, to fit the snowflake theme.

Its been great doing an Art Calendar every month, and I loved looking at everyone else's pages.

Here's to next year!

November calendar pages

So here we are - another month.  Although it's getting dark early, and colder, I can't believe another year is nearly over.

I started painting my pages for November a few days ago, because we had a guest coming to stay Tues, Weds and Thursday nights. However, I had today off and so had time to finish stamping and decorating the pages.  Purple, blue and yellow this month, using the Craft Stamper Magazine's free stamp for November - lovely hanging stars, on which I added some gold with a sakura pen.

I forgot to photograph the pages in progress, so here's a picture of the finished thing.

Superb set of stamps from Craft Stamper all this year -well done to them.

September and October pages

Oops, I did take some photos of my September pages but forgot to post them at the beginning of September.  So here are the October pages, ready to go - only just finished them today, Sunday 7 October,  so I am behind in my journalling.  And the September pages before I wrote on them.

August calendar

I failed to take a successful photo of my pages before writing on them, but here they are now.

I painted the background with watercolours in orange, blue and brown, then stippled some butterflies, and stamped with the August Craft Stamper Magazine butterfly stamp.

Sorry for the delay in posting, and, oh dear, its taken me half an hour tonight to get the pictures to upload!

July 2012

Here are my July pages - I took the photos a few days ago but didn't have time to post them on the blog until now.  This is the calendar when it was ready to use, with added pink and blue bunting. I stamped the craft stamper free stamp bunting onto coloured paper, cut it out and stuck it on.

Below is the calendar after I had painted the background in watercolour using pink, blue and yellow.  I drew the day squares on first, then painted around them.  I stamped the bunting flags on the background, so I knew where to stick the coloured bunting.  No stencilling on the backgorund this month, just paint.

June Calendar all ready to use

painting the pages

day boxes and stippling added

all ready to use !

I painted the pages with watercolours in blue, pink and yellow, then drew the boxes for the days doodle-style, stippled swirls using a Creative Expressions mask and Distress Inks.  Then I stamped swirls using the Craft Stamper magazine free stamp for June, which is a lovely round swirl.

May 2012 Calendar

So here is the May calendar.  I painted a light watercolour wash over the pages, then stippled distress inks through masks, drew the daily boxes, painted round them darker, and stamped using the lovely Craft Stamper Magazine free flower stamp for May, and coloured the flowers with darker DIs.  I like this stamp a lot.  The black ink looks very dark in the picture, but good in real life, where you can see the watercolours better.  I also like the effect I get using the masks.  I've kept my colour scheme flowing - April was green, yellow and brown and May is yellow, green and pink.