Elizabeth's March is Green :)

This is Elizabeth's March. She has started off by painting her background in shades of green, then layered over the top with an olive green paper patterned in white which she has scrunched up and then used the Tim Holtz baking paper technique.
Once the paper was in place, she has stamped random butterflies using Darkroom Door stamps and Black Stazon over it. Then she has drawn the scrolls using a watercolour crayon. The dates squares were made from green Cardstock also altered using the Tim Holtz technique. White pen was used to go around the scrolls, the green stamped arrows, gold gel pen to write the dates and green gel pen around the squares

It's Autumn now

Well it's now well into autumn officially, but someone forgot to tell the weatherman! West Australia for instance is still baking, and other places are not very autumnal as well.
My effort has Basic Grey papers for the background. The leaves were a pack of chipboard ones I bought, but as they were too thick, I soaked them in some warm water and gently split them, that way I got enough for the whole month out of 1 packet of 10. Very economical.
"Autumn Leaves" were from a Daisy D's cardstock sticker sheet I've had for ages, the butterflies are a Bohemia Rubon, that I've had for ages too. Likewise April is made from an old Basic Grey Alpha stickers, but 2011 is Prima and much more recent!
Would love to see what you all do!

Linda's Green March

This is Linda's take on the March theme. I love the mix of green squares for each day.
This is what Linda has to say about her pages:
The background is just dye ink, glimmermist and water. For the green theme I have not only used the colour green, but all my calendar squares, words and numbers were cut from old magzines. I found one particular magazine that was full of "green" words which I though would be perfect. There not a lot of decoration but the images for the date squares make it pretty busy.

Linda's lovely February

This is just so lovely Linda. The colours are great

Justine's Recycled March

Here is Justine's lovely March, I just love the soft and I also love old print (books etc)
This is Justine's description of her calendar.
I have used the March page from a calendar we got free from a
local bottle shop. The border is stamped swirls with Distress Ink over
the top. I've also used pages from an old book and stamped over the
top. The purple butterflies are made from hand-made paper that my
sister made years ago (I've stamped over the top to make the patterns).
I love the rough texture of hand-made paper. It's the ultimate recycled
product, using newspapers, letters and flower petals to create a
beautiful and useful paper
Well done Justine!

March is almost here!

Firstly apologies for leaving this upload till the last day of February, I had intended posting about 4 days before, but February is my month for the "Summer Blerghs", not that we've had an awful summer really.
Now, March is the month most people associate with St. Patrick and Green. St Patrick's Day is 17th March. Green is also associated with recycling! It is also a colour in it's own right.
So this month our topic is green and you can interpret it using any of those ideas, or come up with your own spin!
My page combines recycling and the colour green. The calendar itself, plus the month name and the small pictures are recycled from a calendar I bought for 20c at an op shop, because it featured the colours I like.
A selection of flowers from my stash, some bling in some of the centres and Kindyglitz (stickles) on some of the petals, punched butterflies with Kindyglitz highlights to cover holidays and moon phases on the original calendar. And that was it.... can't wait to see what you all come up with!

Elizabeth's Lovebirds :)

Here is Elizabeth's February, featuring a couple. There are all sorts of interesting things on these pages. There's interesting print in the top left hand corner, lovely little red hearts, and swirls. I have to apologise too.... I've had this for several days, and kept forgetting to post it.