April Page Left
We will be using the back side of March's "Mark it on the calendar page" as the background for the April calendar page.
From your trims pack, get out the fuchsia velvet ribbon. You may need to remove some of the remainder of the cut outs from the design. Once you have removed all the remainder pieces, cut the ribbon at 12 inches long. Adhere .05 inch wide double-sided tape to the back of the ribbon on the solid portion of the ribbon. Position the ribbon, with the SCALLOPED SIDE UP, approximately .05 inches below the top of the page.
Find the title block that says "No Time To Waste This Is The Moment To Do Things Right". Adhere a piece of .05 inch wide double-sided tape across the top back side of the title block. Use double-sided foam tape or pop dots across the bottom of the title to elevate the bottom of the title block. Remove the backings from the tape and foam/pop dots. Being sure to leave the scalloped edge and floral design showing, carefully and precisely center the title block on top of the solid portion of the ribbon. (The adhesive will pull the velvet off from your ribbon, so you must be careful and precise while doing this.)
Using double-sided adhesive, attach the red-rimmed floral cameo directly under "This Is The Moment". This forms the bottom of a visual triangle that will draw the eye down into the page.
From your calendar page, cut out the April calendar. If you wish, fussy cut around the flowers at the top of the calendar. Mat the calendar on a piece of the yellow zig zag print that remains from your "A New Year A New You" paper.
Next we are going to make ribbon photo corners. From the remainder of your fuchsia velvet ribbon, cut two pieces of ribbon that are each 2.25 inches long. Position ribbon in front of you with right side of the ribbon face down on the table and scalloped side of ribbon facing up. Fold bottom left side of ribbon up to just underneath the scallop design. Then fold the bottom right side of the ribbon up to just underneath the scallop design, making sure the two edges of the ribbon butt up to each other. Use a small piece of double sided tape across the width of the seam to adhere the ribbon together in the back.
On the back side of the matted calendar, place a pot dot on the upper left corner and the lower right corner. Remove backing from upper right pop dot and slide into velvet floral corner. BE SURE THAT THE CALENDAR DATES ARE VISIBLE BEFORE SECURING THE POP DOT AND PHOTO CORNER TOGETHER. Then push the back side of the photo corner into the pop dot to adhere them together. Repeat in lower left corner.
Carefully lift the front of the photo corner and put just a small amount of adhesive on the front of the calendar. Push the top of the photo corner into the adhesive to make it lay a little more flat.
Apply adhesive to the back side of the calendar and remove the double-sided tape liner from the backs of the photo corners. Center and adhere approximately 1.5 inches below the bottom of the cameo.
April Page Right
Use "Passionate" (dark pink) card stock by Bazzill© as page background.
Cut a 1 inch wide strip From Bazzill© "Pollen" (yellow) card stock. Make a border using Sizzix© Hello Kitty© "Scallops"Die. Remove any remainder. Cut the strip between the 8th and 9th scallop. Emboss both pieces with Cuttlebug© "Dots" embossing folder. Butt each end up to the edge of the page, scalloped size up, approximately 0.75 inch from top of page. There will be a small gap in the center of the page. Place the "Today" sign in the center of the page to cover the gap. Place a green pearl over the three little dots on either side of "Today".
Make a tag to fit inside the mint green and floral mini paper bag.
Start with a white tag 4&1/4 inches long by 2&1/8 inches wide
Emboss the tag with the Darice© butterfly embossing folder.
Cut apart the "Be Youtiful" tag as follows: fussy cut the butterfly and the word "you" from the tag, being careful to preserve the letter blocks "be", "ti", and "ful". Mount each of the three letter blocks on scrap of Bazzill© "Frosted Teal" card stock and attach to tag as shown. (I chose to cut apart the pennant that said "faith" using the red /t/ and /i/ to add more color to the tag.) Ink edge of tag with the brush end of Stampin' Up!© "Strawberry Slush" marker.
Make a tag to fit inside kelly green and floral mini paper bag.
Start with a white tag 4&1/4 inches long by 2&1/8 inches wide
Emboss the tag with the Darice© butterfly embossing folder.
Edge with Stampin' Up! © "Garden Green" marker.
Cut apart the "Shine & Sparkle" pennant.
Attach as shown.
From a kelly green doily, punch out a butterfly.
Attach as shown,
Use Smooch© "Illuminate" Pearlized Top Coat to trace letters and ampersand. Also paint butterfly's wing with it.
Attach a lacy pink doily to the center of the yellow and passion pink brocade mini paper bag with a pop dot. Put a green pearl in the center of the doily. Put blank tags in the bag. Use them to write down important things from the month of April. I chose to use the "A Revelation" pennant across the blank space, but if you choose to write the month or something else meaningful to you, that is fine.
Attach the bags and tags as shown.
