Back to February

Here is Justine's mass of summer roses for February.
This is what Justine had to say about her pages:"I too thought "roses!" when I read the theme of love and romance. I love receiving them, smelling them and growing them. So, roses it is.
I wanted to capture a bit of old romance using a vintage style with pages from an old book and old sheet music. The roses come from serviettes. Distress inks have been used to give the overall vintage feel."
Lovely Justine

Tracey's January

Here is Tracey's January.... remind you of hot summer days and cool water at the beach.... then maybe wander along the sands and collect shells?
The photo doesn't really show the lovely sparkly blue and yellow papers Tracey used, nor the Kindyglitz (Stickles) used on the month and year.
Enjoy the swim everybody! Well done Tracey.

Marg's Lovely

Come on girls, you'll have to put your running shoes on to beat Marg! Here is her lovely February. This is what Marg had to say about her work:" I wasn't too artistic with this page - just some scrapbook pages as the background with a beetle stamp and some gel stencil lettering. I cut up my tags again and decorated them a bit with hearts and butterflys."
Well done Marg! I think it's lovely

We're Off and Running for February!!

The topic for the new month is Love/Romance. As everyone knows Valentines Day falls this month, however you don't have to use Valentines for your February Calendar. There are many types of love..... from love of things/food, through the love of a parent for a child to the more Romantic Love, so the interpretation is your choice.
Here is mine (sorry it's not a good photo, I'll try and replace it tomorrow)
My theme was hearts and flowers. I drew a template for the shapes then hand cut them all from scrapbook paper then I edged each shape with a pink Glaze pen. The month was stamped. The background was bazzill and scrapbook paper. The roses round the border were some Anna Griffin die-cuts from ages ago.

Pink and pretty

Here is Linda's very pretty January... with the sun's rays across the pages.This is Linda's description of what she did: " The background is paint and gesso. The squares are just cut from PP. The day name banners are stamped and painted. The sunrays are just gesso. The corner flourishes were first stamped with gesso and then stamped over with green and brown inks. There are some very faint white numbers on the day blocks. Now to catch up with the Journalling."
All the pages have been so different, it's looking really great!

Another Lovely One!

Here is Elizabeth's January. She has stamped the figures and coloured them, then painted a sea scape background. Her diary spots are little fish shapes and the days are the eyes (cute), to all that she has added a pretty stamped January, and a stamped 2011.
I have just edited this post as Elizabeth pointed out some of the things I had written were inaccurate!
Well done Elizabeth!

Margaret's January

Everybody is off and running! Here is Margaret's great effort. This is what she had to say about her work: My background is done with Impress inks. My days are tags (cut down a little) painted with watercolour paints in sun setting colours. I chose a green b'ground as summer is full of lovely greens, stamped some circles, flowers and a butterfly. I have mentioned star signs but they don't show up very well.
Well done Marg!

Great Blog Candy

I am going to share 2 links with you....both are blogs offering great Blog candy!
The first one is :
http://bizzybecsstore.blogspot.com/2010/12/its-blog-candy-time.html
Bizzy Becs in an online store here in Aus. You have till late January for this one.

The second giveaway is at:
http://taylordconcepts.blogspot.com/2010/12/most-wonderful-time-of-year.html
This is a super huge giveaway, but closes in 24 hours
Good luck!

Justine's January

Woohoo! Here is Justine's January pages inspired by the sea which is how Justine likes to spend her summer. This is what she had to say about how she did her pages " I have used acrylic paint as a background and squirted with ‘Starburst’ spray (like glimmermist). Bottle tops and seaside stamps were stamped into the surface. My letters were stamped onto an old book then cut out and outlined in black felt pen."
Well done Justine

January - Summer

I started off with a roughly A4 sized book, which I bought at a "cheapie" shop. I then glued 2 pages together to give a bit more strength to each side.
Next I took pieces of white cardstock the size of the pages, and coloured them using the shaving cream technique (as I couldn't find any of my reinkers, I used a little acrylic paint in orange and yellow - worked ok).
I punched out the flowers and put just a little Kindyglitz (Stickles) on the inner flower of each to give it a bit more zing. I also punched and made the ladybirds. The days were made using a square punch, and I ran a little ribbon down the left hand side.
Word of warning... choose your glue with care. The blue stick glue I thought would be good for this job, is not holding together so well between the cardstock and the paper of the book. I can rectify that easily, however I will use something different for my gluing next month!

Welcome Everybody!

Welcome to 2011 and this is the challenge for the girls of ATCs4U this year, but everyone everywhere is welcome to join in.
If you would like to share what you achieve you can mail me at de dot mamacrystal74 at gmail.com with your artwork and comment about it and I will put it on the blog for you. Keep in mind we are based in the Southern Hemisphere, so those of you north of the Equator will have your seasons opposite
Now for our first month! It's summer here, so I have made January's topic "Summer"
There may be days when you have no diary type comment to make.... use that opportunity to do a mini artwork to fill the gap!