I made small easels to display these little tear off calendars from Taylored Expressions for friends. After preparing the easel I used patterned paper from Gina K Designs to create a mat for the calendar. I planned to make New Year’s cards to mail with the calendars. I used the Happy New Year sentiment from the Season’s Greetings set by Sunny Studios embossed in gold on black, cut with the matching die. I discovered that the scraps that were left from the mats behind the calendar were just the perfect size for the sentiment. I matted the patterned paper with black. I used the fireworks stamps from Let’s Party, an incentive from Gina K designs stamped tone on tone on the card base. The calendars tucked nicely into the card and went through the mail without additional postage. This is just one of several colors of cards and patterned paper. I’m hoping this project is CAS enough for the Cardz 4 Gals Challenge #190 CAS
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Love my calendar! So fun to see it here with the card.
Thanks Lisa. This was such a fun project.
These are so fun and thoughtful of you. What a happy accident that the sentiment pp just happened to by laying there for you to use.
Thanks Bonnie. It was a happy accident. I wasn’t sure what Io was going to do with those little scraps but I couldn’t toss them.
Awesome card and gift, Judy. Love the colors and that patterned paper, too.
Thanks Gayle.
Great gift idea! Love the card design as well.
Thanks Lisa.
Wonderful gift idea. Love the color.
This is great and I love the colour combo you’ve chosen. It’s a good gift idea and probably very welcome to those who receive it. Doing tone on tone for the card base was a wonderful idea.
Thanks Johanna. It was a fun project. I’m just glad I got them finished before 2023 was over.
These are fabulous! Thank you for creating them for us, too.
A great project – love your colour scheme. Thank you for joining us at Cardz 4 Galz xx Lynda/Loopyloo DT
Great idea and a lovely gift.
Thanks for joining us at Cardz 4 Galz.
Helen x
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