Calendar - September

I finally finished September's page and filled in all the dates that I had saved on a post it note.  The background was watercolor and pigment inks.  The daily squares were painted with watercolor.  The borders are thin strips of text pages in Italian and Latin.  Overall I'm sort of happy with it.  I wanted the background to be red, but my watercolors were not cooperating this time.

Step-By-Step: June Calendar Page

I finished June's calendar page a few days after June started...I always seem to do that.  Anyway, I am so into the green in my yard and all around me this time of year I thought the page should be as green as possible.  This background is splattered watercolor and watered down acrylic paint through a stencil of abstract squares.  

The day squares are made from lime green watercolor paint applied to cardstock.  There's a bit of brush marks on the squares that the camera didn't really pick up.

The finished page has June written in water based Sharpie paint marker.  I also stamped a few images around the edges in black StazOn ink.  I was really happy with how the individual day squares turned out, I just loosely brushed watercolor around each square and then added the day number in black gel pen.

I hope you have a ton of wonderful things to remember in June!  Happy green days!

Step By Step Calendar Page - May

I finally got started on May's calendar page just a couple days before May started...it came to me pretty quickly...my backyard is starting to green up and I wanted the page to mimic all the gorgeous greens!  Here are the steps I went through to make the page:

First I splattered two pieces of card stock with green and turquoise watercolor.

Next I painted another piece of cardstock with a pale green watercolor and cut out my squares.  The leaves are cut from Latin text pages painted with green and turquoise acrylic paint.

I then outlined the leaves with a water based Sharpie paint marker and spritzed watered down ink on the squares.  

The last step was to outline each day with the Sharpie marker and number them.  I also lettered the large "May" in Sharpie paint marker and colored it in with darker turquoise watercolor and used the same paint to outline the days of the month.

Now it's time to start filling in the days...

Calendar Pages

At the beginning of the year, I saw a lot of people making calendar pages where there was a little space for each day...write an event or something special that happened each day...sounded like a fun project and I jumped right in.  Here are the pages I've made so far this year.  The square for each day measures 1.25 inches...

 January was made with splashed watercolor, Perfect Pearls splashed on, swirls drawn with water based Sharpie paint markers and a snowflake stamp.

February was made with hearts painted with masking fluid and the heart cut outs decorated with medium point gel markers.

March was made with splashed on watercolor (can you tell I love this technique?), watercolor on bubble wrap printed on the splashed background and swirl stamps were highlighted with metallic paint pens.

 

 April started out with a watercolor background, gold paint sponged through punchinella and rabbit stamps around the border with pigment ink.

As usual, I waited until the last minute to start May (where do the days go?) but I hope to finish it tonight and I'll post it tomorrow.  Lots of green is going on to mimic my backyard that is starting to green up so beautifully!