Groovy July Calendar

July 10, 2010

Groovy July Calendar

Yes, I know it's a little late in the month to just be posting my July calendar, but we left on vacation the last week of June and didn't return until this week! It was driving me crazy not to have it so as soon as I had a little spare time, I got to creating!

This cute new Lockhart Stamp Comapny Web Lawn Chair image arrived just before I went on vacation and I knew I wanted to use it -- it's perfect for summer, isn't it? I stamped it onto an Inchie Arts Ivory Twinchie Square (measures 2-inches) with Memento Rich Cocoa ink and colored it with these Copic markers:

Orange Copic Atyou Spica Glitter Pen accents the Tim Holt Vintage Marketplace Alphabet letters (sorry I didn't get a better photo of those for you) and Silver Spica was used for the metal frame of the chair. I rounded the corners of the Twinchie Square with WRM Crop-a-Dile Corner Chomper (1/4-inch side).

My free blank 3-inch downloadable calendar can be found on the Download page of my blog HERE.

To create the background for my 4-inch chipboard coaster calendar, I got some inspiration from Stamp TV's color challenge this week, to use turquoise, orange and green. These colors, combined with the lawn chair, made for an overall groovy feeling to my project so that's where the title comes from! I also used an old technique I hadn't done in a while -- Emboss Resist. If you aren't familiar with the technique, you can view a tutorial video by Gina K here.

I started by stamping the single daisy image onto Gina K's Pure Luxury White Heavy base weight cardstock with Versamark ink and then heat embossed it with clear embossing powder.

Next, I used Ranger Distress Inks in Broken China, Crushed Olive & Spiced Marmalade and sponged over the embossed images. I used a cotton swab for more precise control with the orange flower centers:

To add more depth and make the white embossed images really pop, I finished my custom patterned paper using Brushed Corduroy Distress Ink around the flower centers and edges of my finished project. After my project was put together, I thought the daisies resembled fireworks just a little -- so that was a bonus!