The Robin's Nest Shout Out - Mama LoveBug Style - A Perpetual Calendar

Good Day, Crafties.  I love to make practical gifts so I've designed a perpetual calendar - it can be useful and decorative for your kitchen area or desk to keep you "on top" of significant birthdays, anniversaries, or other special dates (all in one place)!  At the end of the year lots of people have to laboriously recopy dates onto a new calendar - why do that when you can have a perpetual day finder of your own?

First here's the inside - as you can guess, each month is numbered with the appropriate days so one can record the special occasions.

 Here is a long shot of the decorated front of the perpetual calendar.

 For better pictures I took a shot of the top portion.

And a shot of the bottom.

Recipe for the perpetual calendar

*Two charming Sherri Baldy digi stamps - round and rectangle

*Frames from two Spellbinder dies

*The Robin's Nest Glittered Sorbet cardstock - I used Kiwi and Aquamarine HERE

*Bottom Border fancy punch

*LoveBug Creations Rumple Ribbon for the weaving around each frame - HERE

*Prisma colored pencils, gamsol, Stickles, and gel pen for coloring and highlighting each image

Hopefully you are inspired to try your hand with these products and create your own perpetual calendar.

Remember, no matter how you piece your paper and rumple your ribbon, have fun with it.........cyberhugs.........Mama LoveBug

Paper Piecings by Nikki DT Offering - Perpetual Calendar and Anniversary Safari

Good Monday, Crafties.  Today Mama LoveBug is sharing two projects - the first is an anniversary card I made using the new PPbN Untamed Love pattern collection.  So many great ways to use this collection!  I do not have a machine to easily cut out the pieces so I have to fussy cut the image.  Then I add gel pens and Stickles to add dimension to the image plus SU Dimensionals.  I had a set of rub-on mustaches to pick through as I thought the male safari bear needed to look "mature" for this card.  The paper I chose had a "wild animal" appeal as well to fit in with the theme of this design.

Here's the Jungle Love pocket card.  Notice that I gold-embossed "Together Forever", a sentiment from Pink By Design and did the same with a few "friends" of the jungle, the parrot and the tiger.  The paper for the base was also part of another collection from PPbN - can you guess what that is?

After I made the card I decided to use some of the characters from a "jungle love" stamps set by Inkadinkado and the safari bear to use for the cover of a perpetual calendar.  You can see there are some new critters there to keep the bear company.  The sentiment is You Color My World (also Pink By Design) as the parrot is the only jungle friend with color.

I hope you have a great day and spread a bit of sunshine with your crafting.  Everyone has a different style or "take" on using the patterns - remember, no matter how you piece your paper, have fun with it...........cyberhugs........Mama LoveBug

Paper Piecings by Nikki DT Offering - Perpetual B-Day Calendar

Good Monday, Crafties.  Mama LoveBug has a project to share with you today - it's a perpetual birthday calendar.

I wanted to make some gifts for several wonderful people in an organization that I belong to so I made each officer a  treat.  I took a blank SU perpetual calendar and designed the fronts of each with the person's special things, using favorite colors and collectible ideas.  One gal loves angels so I dipped into my PPbN pattern collections and used an angel from Always By Your Side Angel Bears collection plus a Marci image from La-La Land.  It's great that PPbN things can be used with other images - paper piecings, stamps, and digis.  The possibilities are endless.  Visit PPbN and check out these unique patterns at http://www.paperpiecingsbynikki.com/

Here's the finished project and a pic of what a blank month looks like - you never have to jot down the dates (can be more than birthdays) at the end or start of a year.  It's all kept in one organizational tool.  Cool!

Hope you are having a great, crafting day - remember, no matter how you piece your paper, have fun with it...........cyberhugs...........Mama LoveBug