Well I'm a little earlier this month with my calendar! :D Many of you have asked when I'll have my 2011 calendars available and I seriously hope to accomplish that over the Thanksgiving school break ... so hang in there, please! I'm so glad you all are enjoying them! I'll be sure to announce it here on my blog when they are available. You can find the 2010 calendars on my Download page, HERE.
This month my sweet friend, Melanie Muenchinger, sent me her fabulous new stamp set, A Year of Borders, to play with ... how perfect they will be on my calendars!! Melanie said she had a stamp set that my Copics would love and boy, she wasn't joking!! I stamped her leaf & acorn image (1 of 6 different seasonal borders in the set) into Inchie Arts ivory Inchie Squares and colored them with these Copic markers and Gold Atyou Spica Glitter Pen:
To stamp on the Inchie squares, I just lined up 4 Inchies in a row with repositionable adhesive and then stamped the 5-inch long border across them.
After coloring the border, I disassembled and sponged each square with Memento Desert Sand ink. I used Crop-A-Dile's Corner Chomper to round the bottom corners of the end Inchies -- it cuts through the matteboard like butter! The chipboard letters are Thickers and were already glittered.
On the facing page is a beautiful Karen Lockhart Harvest Window stamp that I thought would coordinate well with Melanie's Autumn border -- love all these rich colors! It was stamped on Copic's X-Press It Blender Card -- I love how easy it is to color and blend, with no bleeding, on this cardstock! (I just noticed that Ellen has it back in stock in the 10 and 25 quantities!)
I cut out the window and popped it up on foam tape, then scattered some leaves punched with Martha Stewart's Maple Leaf punch and highlighted them a little with some coordinating Copic markers.
And it is definitely finally feeling like November here in N. Texas -- it's going to drop into the chilly 30's in the morning (we're not too used to that this early in the Fall around here)! Thanks for checking in!
Stamps: Melanie Muenchinger's A Year of Borders by Gina K Designs, Lockhart Stamp Company-Harvest Window
Paper: Copic X-Press It Blender Card, The Girls' Paperie Toil & Trouble-Writing on the Wall
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black
Copic Markers: See photo above + Gold Atyou Spica Glitter Pen
Accessories: Inchie Arts Neutral Inchie Squares (Ivory), EK Success Acanthus Leaf border punch, Martha Stewart Maple Leaf punch, Crop-A-Dile Corner Chomper, American Crafts-Thickers glitter letter stickers, Mini Glue Dots, foam tape, orange satin ribbon
