Welcome to the first Pals Blog Hop of 2015. We hope your new year is off to a great creative start. To celebrate the start of a new Stampin' Up! year, we are showcasing products from our newest catalog this month – the Occasions catalog. You may also see new Sale-a-bration products too. If you don't know how to earn free Sale-a-bration products – contact your Stampin' Up! demonstrator to learn more.
You may just be starting the blog hop or may have come from Beth Beard at My little craft blog. Use the full lineup below to move along from blog to blog so you see all of the new projects.
One of my FAVORITE items in the new Occasions Catalog is the Perpetual Birthday Calendar Project Kit and coordinating stamp set. I love to be organized and while I have birthdays and anniversaries on my electronic calendar I still seem to forget or miss a birthday. I thought creating this calendar that now sits on my craft table will remind me of upcoming events I want to create a card for. So let's get to it…
This shows you the unique header for each of the months. It was so fun to think of how I wanted to embellish each month. This leads me to my cautionary tale…
I was so enthusiastic about creating that I forgot to look at the details of the printed calendar sheet. I created January and then I began jumping around to other months (as ideas popped in my head) without thinking about the days of the month printed on the calendar sheets. When I got to November I realized I was looking at a calendar sheet with only 28 days. Ooops. So I remade February and had to create a new header for November as noted above.
As a perfectionist this is difficult to confess, however I thought I might be able to save someone else from getting swept up in the excitement and doing the same thing.
The kit comes with the Chipboard base and clip to hold each month's calendar. All you have to do is change it out each month. The box that the kit comes in is also perfect for storing the months you are currently not using.
You can see I also added some embellishment to the bottom of the calendar pages as well. This kit was SO fun to do.
I think this would be a great gift, with a close eye on the calendar sheets this time.
I hope you enjoyed a peek my Perpetual Birthday Calendar. Hopefully you are inspired to create one yourself!
The next stop is Sue Becker at RnR Stamping on the Pals Blog Hop! Thanks for visiting and I'll see you next month.
Michelle
The Full Pals Blog Line up:
- Amy Whelan at Amy's Inklings
- Maggie Mata at Maggie Made Cards
- Becky Gifford at The Social Stamper
- Kerry Willard Bray at Peonies and Paper Chains
- Debbie Crowley at expressivelydeb…
- Amy Williams at Stamps and Spice
- Rae Harper at WildWestPaperArts.com
- Sherrie Gross at Stampin' Sunshine
- Wendy Klein at Doggone Delightful Stampin'
- Becky Volpp at InkBlossomwithBecky
- Nancy Gleason at My Stampin Space
- Jane Knudsen at www.seejanestamp.com
- Debbie Mageed at Secret Stamper
- Michelle Quinno at Shell's Life
- Susan Lankford at Stamp and Create With Susan
- Karen Hallam at Karen's Blog
- Kelly DeTommaso at Kelly's Creative Corner
- Mary Fish at Stampin' Pretty
- Laurie Chilton at Stampin' Ink
- Brian King at Stamp with Brian
- Peggy Noe at prettypapercards.com
- Martie Pollard at The Crafty Bandit
- Kim Jolley at Stampin' Artfully
- Beth Beard at My little craft blog
- Michelle Gleeson at StampinMojo
- Sue Becker at RnR Stamping
- Jackie Diediker at Stampin' Jackie
- Natalie Bradley at Natalie Bradley Events
- Lisa Ann Bernard at Queen B Creations
- Candy Ford at Stamp Candy
- Dawn Tidd at Tiddbits From Dawn
- Angie Valle-Peters at Paperluxuries
- Amy Hoptay at Inking of You!
- Lynn Kolcun at Stamping with Avery's Owlery
- Shannon K Jaramillo at Shannon Kay Paperie
- Liz Gautreaux at Kind Deeds Stampin
- Beth McCullough at Stamping Mom
- Nicole Watt at Pixel Maven's Retreat
- Pamela Sadller at Stampin Pink Rose
- Jennifer Michalski at Stamping Serenity
- Shannon Hokanson at Paper Works by Shannon
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You showcased this project perfectly!
I’ve never thought about creating something like this before – but what a fun gift idea! And it’s SO GORGEOUS. I’d definitely get swept up in the project like you, so at least you caught it! 🙂
Michelle, I’d not seen the Perpetual Calendar up close prior to reading your blog – I think you’ve enabled me! Thanks for allowing others to learn from your mistake; I could see me doing the same:)
Thanks for the tip on the calendar. I would’ve done the same thing. Yours is beautifully decorated!
Great job with the Perpetual calendar, Michelle. I only purchased one to make as a gift but will have to order another for my own usage. Keeping the other months in the box is a great idea. I had already decided to use the box as my gift giving box. Now I will have a purpose when I don’t use it as a gift!! This is already pinned so that I can look back to see how you decorated… 🙂
Your calendar is super cute!
Well done! Thank you for the tip on the calendar pages and differing days. I didn’t stamp mine yet and am lucky to have learned this from you 🙂
Wonderful decorating….this is a wonderful kit!
Oh my gosh I just LOVE these!!!!