After making the calendar from my Mum I realised that I had at least 8 calendar tabs left that would shortly be redundant after today so I thought I would make my friends and family calendars as well. These came mainly in one design with several different variations and were inspired by a new technique I picked up.
This was colouring in on black card with Ranger's Perfect Pearls powder. I'd had these jars of powder for a few months and found that they were quite hard to see on white and it hadn't crossed my mind to try them on black - so I did and I loved the result.
Here is the calendar I made. The stamp was bought from Hobby Arts and it has been heat embossed in white onto the black to give a good solid outline. I then coloured it in with the paints. The design of the butterfly allows it to be coloured differently every time as different patterns can be picked out from it.
Once finished, I cut a piece of mount board and painted it with pearl effect acrylic paint. Two holes were punched at the top and neatened off with eyelets and ribbon threaded through and tied. The calendar tab was mounted onto black card and stuck onto the mount board.
The feedback was that everybody loved them!
There was just one problem - I didn't think my brother would appreciated one of these calendars so I had to think of something else for him. He is very into his music, especially guitars, so I found a cross stitch pattern online and stitched the guitar:
The same approach to making the calendar was used - this time I painted the mount board in a metallic bronze which looked amazing. He loved the calendar too so great gift ideas all round this year.
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