As soon as I saw these black do-it-yourself calendars, I knew what I would do with them as I love to mount my ink shaded cards onto black backgrounds. I decided to make 5 calendars for special crafty friends and one for myself. What I failed to realise initially that this meant that I would need to make 65 inked panels for each month and the covers. Phew that was a bit of a labour of love. However I am really happy with the results.
First of all here is my cover. I wanted to try out the new Concord and 9th alphabet stamps I had treated myself to, enabling me to get a customised calligraphy like font.
Inks: Stampin' Up -Pistachio Pudding. Distress Ink - Cracked Pistachio, Chipped Sapphire. . Versafine - Onyx Black
Stamps - Concord and 9th Upper and Lower case Sophisticated Script, Inkadinkado
Stencil: Tim Holtz Wildflower
Inks are applied with a mix of Clarity Stencil brushes and round Ranger Ink blending tools and a lot of elbow grease! Sentiments were all positioned with the assistance of a MISTI stamp positioning tool.
Here is my panel for January depicting the aurora borealis.
Inks: Distress Ink - Picked Raspberry, Cracked Pistachio, Blueprint Sketch, Wilted Violet, Chipped Sapphire & Black Soot. Versafine - Onyx Black
Stamps - Stampin' Up - Wonderland, Quietfire Sentiment.
wow, Elaine! What a wonderful idea and I love your scene! Stunning!
ReplyDeleteThis is absolutely magical - the light of the aurora borealis is captured beautifully & it bounces against the black background. You can imagine the scene in the Nordic lands too - those pine trees really are tall & you've captured the way they cluster & loom above you against the sky.
ReplyDeleteWhat a lovely idea. Your January calendar page looks fantastic!
ReplyDeleteMy best wishes for a super 2017 - with lots of creativity, good health and joy!
Hugs,
Gaby
Happy New Year Elaine! I'm glad to see your comments working again at your blog, I haven't been able to leave any on other recent posts. Beautiful calendar, I saw this on Facebook, I think it was Lesley E ? Not sure if my memory is working. I hope you are doing well. All is well here, but have had some challenges/worries. We are good and yes catching up would be great. :) Cheers xx
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