January Calendar

Hi there! Here's a fun little project I created using some of my favorite DeNami Design stamps and a few calendar building supplies from Papertrey Ink! (I've included a complete list of supplies at the end of this post.) 

I used a white uni-ball signo pen to add snow to the Large Winter Tree and I LOVE LOVE LOVE the way it turned out! I drew the snowbank freehand, cut it out, edged it with a Cool Shadow BG10 Copic Sketch Marker, and distressed the edges to add texture. If you follow my blog, then you know that paper piecing is one of my favorite techniques. Plus, my talented blog friend, Paulina, has created a number of super cute cards where she paper pieced these little tweety birds. I just had to try it! Here's a close-up:

I trimmed down the pre-printed calendar square so that I could mat it with some wintery patterned paper. And I intentionally left off the year, so that I could use this January panel again next year by simply changing out the calendar square in the corner.

When I bought the calendar building supplies from PTI I had grand plans to make a bunch of 2011 calendars and give them to friends and family for the holidays. Well...that didn't happen, so plan B is to create a calendar panel each month and share it with all of you here in blogland!

Thanks for stopping by today and thank you for all of your sweet comments! I truly appreciate your feedback!

Hope 2011 is off to a GREAT start for you!

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Supplies:

Stamps: Large Winter Tree P93 (DeNami Design), Falling Snow E94 (DeNami Design), Tweety Bird Border K83 (DeNami Design), Spring Chicks Stamp Set PF38 (DeNami Design), Calendar Basics (Papertrey Ink)

Ink: Rich Cocoa Memento (Tsukineko), Timber Brown StazOn (Tsukineko), Frost White Color Box (Clearsnap), Prussian Blue Color Box Fluid Chalk Inkpad (Clearsnap)

Cardstock: White (DeNami Design), Stampers' Select White (Papertrey Ink), Kraft (Papertrey Ink)

Patterned Paper: "Dasher: Snowbank" (Basic Grey), "Snuggle Bug: Girl Pink Flannel" (Little Yellow Bicycle), "Snuggle Bug: Boy Blue Flannel" (Little Yellow Bicycle), "Fresh Print Clothesline: Sky Blue Check" (Little Yellow Bicycle)

Boutique Button (DeNami Design)

White Floss (Janlynn)

Quickie Glue Pen (Sakura)

Copic Sketch Marker: Cool Shadow BG10

White Uni-Ball Signo Pen

Brown Le Pen (Marvy)

Dies: Double-Ended Banners Die (Papertrey Ink), Calendar Page Die (Papertrey Ink)

2011 Mini Calendar Pages (Papertrey Ink)

Edge Distresser Tool (Heidi Swapp)