June Calendar Page

It's June 1st, time to change the calendar.  My friend Sue Small-Krieder and I are halfway through our calendar challenge.  

May and June are graduation months, so I decided to have a graduating bookworm on my June calendar page.  Karen Burniston has a cute little Bookworm die set that I used on my page, along with several of the books from that same set.  The background graduation caps are a Creek Bank Creations stencil.

I must say that I have been having fun with this challenge.  I'm glad Sue asked me to join her.

Bike Safety Month

It's time to turn the calendar to a new month.   My friend Sue Small-Krieder and I are participating in a monthly challenge -- a new calendar page each month.  May is Bike Safety Month.  One of the die cuts in Scrappy Boy Stamps' Cute Girls Cat Lovers was the perfect image.

 

April Calendar Challenge

Time to turn the calendar to April, and I'm continuing with my participation in the calendar challenge with my friend, Sue Small-Kreider.  You'll find her April page here.

I know the saying is "April showers bring May flowers;" but I live in Florida, and we have flowers blooming all year long.  So my calendar page is a wheelbarrow full of flowers.  The wheelbarrow was made with a Honey Bee Stamps die set.  I stamped the flowers with one of the stamps in Honey Bee's Loads of Spring stamp set.  This stamp is actually an add-on to Honey Bee's Big Pick-up Tailgate, but it worked perfectly in the wheelbarrow by cutting the colored image in half and stacking the pieces in the wheelbarrow.  The grass was made with Karen Burniston's Nature's Edges die.

 I'm really having fun with this challenge.  I already have May's page done as well!

Calendar Challenge - March

My stamping friend Sue Small-Kreider recently asked me if I wanted to join in with her new calendar challenge.  It sounded like fun.  She provided us with the monthly calendar pages that she stamped with the Spellbinders BetterPress, and we would decorate them.  She had made her calendar pages for January and February, but I didn't join her group until March.  Here is her calendar page.

My Irish ancestry always shows itself in March.  I love to make St. Patrick's Day cards, so I continued this tradition by making my calendar page in a similar theme.

I didn't have a leprechaun in the right proportion for the page, but I did have a small Riley & Company gnome who I dressed in green.  The pot of gold is part of the Karen Burniston Good Luck Charms die set; the clouds are part of her Tropical Scene die set; and the grass is from her Nature's Edges set.  I have several rainbow dies, and the one that worked the best for this scene is Trinity Stamps' Rainbow Builder.  I stamped the birds with a stamp I have had for many years; and unfortunately, I have no idea who made it.  In honor of St. Patrick's Day, I stamped a very small shamrock on March 17th on the calendar.

I'm looking forward to continuing this challenge for the rest of the year.  I hope you'll come back on the first of every month to see my calendar pages.