Luv 2 Stamp Blog Hop December Theme: New Products Dainty Flower Calendars

 

Welcome to the Luv 2 Stamp Group’s 2022 Blog Hop! We are excited to share projects with you this year and hope to inspire you to create beautiful new projects. Each month we will have a different theme based on the next month’s celebrations using Stampin’ Up! products. 

Once you are done with each post, scroll down to the bottom and you will see a list of Blog Hop participants. You can click on their name to go to their post, or you can click the next button to go to the next post in line. Happy crafting! This month’s theme is New Product.

This month's 3-D project is a calendar. The mini calendars were purchased at Taylored Expressions. This is a sample of the 40 calendars that I made this week. Using the Dainty Flowers DSP from the Sale-A-Bration Catalog, I paired it with the Dainty Delight Bundle from the new January to April catalog. I used several of the sheets of DSP and backed with either Old Olive or Rich Razzleberry cardstock. The sentiment is from SAB Beautifully Happy stamp set. The sentiment labels are cut from the Something Fancy Dies or a retired circle punch.  If one looks closely, you will see that I used the DSP for the  labels. Some are floral, others are from the "B" side of this beautiful paper. 

 Measurements:

Old Olive or Rich Razzleberry  cut 4-1/4" x 11," scored at 5-1/2"

4" x 4" scored at 1/2", 2" and 3-1/2" (To give support for the calendar to stand up. LeeAnn Greff for a video. The 1/2" is a valley fold, 2" a mountain fold, and the 3-1/2" is a valley fold. Attach to the inside with the fold edges at the bottom.

Scraps for the 1/2"  matching strip of cardstock

If you want to take it up a notch, emboss a layer of cardstock 4" x 5-1/4" and trim down the DSP to 3-3/4" x 5".  I die cut the cute flowers from the scraps of DSP left over. I even decorated the flowers with the new Iridescent Pastel Gems and "Winked" them with Wink of Stella for a shimmery shine.

This is a simple project that is made beautiful with gorgeous DSP and new dies. Just this week I gifted several of these to friends. They got excited when they saw the puffy envelope with something more that just a Christmas picture. One friend said that her calendar from last year was just hanging by a thread, just hoping for a replacement. I guess I know what I will be doing every year. It is now a tradition!

 

Thank you so much for checking out our hop today! We know you are going to love all the other projects you will see in the hop today so don’t forget to hop all the way around. You are currently at my blog – Laurie Bradshaw. Check out the list below to make sure you see who is next. Please click on the names below to continue on the hop.

Demonstrators:

Christy Frank-CA

Laurie Bradshaw-CA

Teri West-AK 
Wendy Varron-MD

Kurstan del Rosario-CA 

Jo Anne Hewins-NC 

Taleena Koch-WA