Calendar Girls March Blog Hop

Welcome to the Calendar Girls March Blog Hop!!

Papercrafts Presents 365 Cards magazine is our inspiration for these monthly hops which  became the Calendar Girls. The magazine has Creative Ideas for every day of the year: occasions, holidays, and celebrations including 42 unique celebratory days!!! These unique days are our inspiration. The March days being featured on this hop are:

1. March 2: Read Across America Day -
2. March 4: National Grammar and Punctuation Day
3. March 12: 100 Years of Girl Scouting
4. March 14: PI Day
5. March 17: St. Patricks' Day
6. March 17: National Quilting Day
7. March 20: Spring Begins
8. March 23: Mustache March 

You won't want to miss a single occasion!!!  

The hop starts HERE with Read Across America Day!!!

Read Across America Day just happens to coincide with Dr. Suess' birthday.  Who doesn't love a good Dr. Suess book???  My little girl loves them!  As such, my original plan for this hop was a scrapbook layout featuring my now 4 year old sitting cross legged on the floor "reading" a Dr. Suess book to her stuffed animals.  Unfortunately, I accidentally deleted all the photos on my cell phone, including the aforementioned photo.  Instead I made this plaque which I will give to my daughter's pre-K teacher at the end of the school year.

 I started with an unfinished wood piece purchased at my local AC Moore.  I stained it with Antique Linen Distress Stain.  I used my Cuttin' Up cricut cartridge for the letters at 2 1/2 inches, and A Child's Year for the focal image at 4 inches.  I used Oh My Crafts vinyl for it all.  I wanted to put books on each corner, but have thus far been unhappy with the results of all book images that I have tried so far, so I've left it plain.

"Today you are you, that is truer than true.  There is no one alive who is YOUer than you!."  Dr. Suess


The full line-up for March is:

Darlene: http://twoscrappinlawyers.blogspot.com/   << YOU ARE HERE
Laura: http://lauraleesdream.blogspot.com/
Lynne: http://slasewcraftiness.blogspot.com/
Lisa: http://mycraftyspaces.blogspot.com/
Zenita: http://www.scrappinwithz.blogspot.com/
Michelle: http://slasewcraftiness.blogspot.com/
Kimberly - http://scrappingrookie.blogspot.com/

Stop by and check out these holidays as I am sure you are going to want to remember these holidays and include them in your card making projects!!!!!  Laura is next 

We will have blog candy to the lucky recipient that remarks on each site along the way!

Thanks for stopping by and mark your calendar again next month to see what Holidays to Celebrate on April 14th for the next Calendar Girls Blog Hop!

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A Dose of Tim Holtz Inspiration

Every Tim Holtz fan knows all about his 12 tags of Christmas.  For 2012, he has decided to try something new - the Twelve Tags of 2012.  You can read all about it on Tim's blog here.

This is the tag Tim Holtz created:

This is my take on tag number one (which should be tag number two but isn't, which you know if you followed the link and read Tim's blog post!).

I know I should have cropped the photo, but it's late, and I'm tired and almost forgot to take the picture and post in the first place!!!

As you can see, I didn't use Cupid - mainly because I didn't have a Cupid, or a Cricut cartridge with a Cupid on it.  So I used this delightful image from A Child's Year cartridge instead.  I used Tags, Bags, Boxes and More to make the tag using kraft cardstock.  I grabbed a Cuttlebug embossing folder to dry emboss, then rubbed the raised image with Perfect Medium and added some Forever Red Perfect Pearls.  The "with love" sentiment on the bottom is also a Cuttlebug folder, upon which I used purple Perfect Pearls.  Not having any honeycomb paper, I used my favorite 3D technique to create the heart, added a flower in the center, some ribbon on the top and bottom.  I did ink the edges of the tag, and sand them to give them some character, but the photo doesn't show it.

Hope you like it!

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An a-ha moment!

Did you ever have one of those ideas that you think is positively brilliant, only to find that someone else has already thought of it?  After spending days working on a project, that is exactly what happened!

I decided to post the photo anyway, since after all, my version is a bit different than that which came with this week's issue of the Cricut Chirp!  So, without further ado, here is my Valentine's Day wreath.

I started with heart shaped styrofoam purchased at Joanne's.  Using the Flower Shoppe Cricut cartridge, I cut Fun 1 in a variety of sizes.  The largest red roses are cut at 5", all the small cream colored one are cut at 2".  I inked the edges of the 5" roses with Fired Brick Distress Ink to give them some more dimension.  I rolled them all with my Hybrid Petal Roller from Imaginesce.  Linky  I used my hot glue gun to close them up.  I attached them to the wreath using straight pins.  I used pearl headed pins for the red roses, and ordinary pins for the cream roses.  I cut a piece of ribbon from my stash to create a hanger, and adhered it with straight pins.


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