New Year New You August Calendar Pages

These are the August calendar pages for the Webster's Pages® "New Year New You" calendar class at The Paper Forest Scrapbook Boutique in Washington, Illinois.

Doilies are a popular theme in this line of papers, so we are going to have fun with doilies this month!

Page Left

We will be using the reverse side of "Mark It On The Calendar" paper as our background for this page.

To make the large yellow doily that is shown, use "Pollen" card stock by Bazzill® and use the "Tatted Doily" Lucky8Punch® by We R Memory Keepers®.  Make sure the outer and inner cut options on the "Tatted Doily" punch are set to "on" to get the combined version, which makes the doily. Line up one corner of your paper in the punch. Push the lever down to punch the design. Then remove the paper and any debris that may be caught in the punch. Rotate the paper clockwise 90 degrees and repeat until you have punched out 4 corners. Remember to empty the punch.  Flip the paper over, and repeat on all 4 sides.  Adhere doily in the center of the background page.

Use the EK Success® small five-petal flower punch and Stampin' Up!® "Real Red" card stock to punch out 12 flowers to place within the inner border of the doily, as shown.  Then punch the small pink flowers from "Pinkini" card stock by Bazzill®, using the "Daisy Chain" punch by EK Success®. Cut the flowers apart from one another and place one in the center of each red flower.

Use a 4-inch round white doily and stamp it with Stampin' Up!® "Strawberry Slush" stamp pad until the doily is saturated with color.  I recommend doing this on a scrap piece of card stock or chipboard to prevent excess ink from being stamped onto your work area. Once the doily is dry, adhere it in the center of the yellow doily, and then attach the August calendar on top of the red doily.

Page Right

We will be using "Passionate" by Bazzill® as the background for this page.

Stamp two doilies onto white card stock using the Stampin' Up!® "Doily" stamp and "Strawberry Slush" ink.  ***Ink the stamp while it is rubber side up and then place your white card stock on top, rubbing over all parts of the rubber. This will help you to get the full image.***. Once you have stamped the two doilies, fussy cut them both out of the card stock,  as close to the stamped image as possible. Adhere one of the stamped doilies in the upper left corner of the "Passionate" card stock. Adhere the other in the lower right corner. Adhere green leaves, a pale yellow flower and a pink Twinkle Goosebump®  by Queen and Co.® to the center of each stamped doily.

Adhere a 4-inch round white doily in the other two corners.  Adhere the saying " Not Afraid To Change" on top of the white doily in the lower left corner of the page.  To the doily in the upper right corner, adhere the saying "The Best Dreams Happen When You Are Awake".

To provide a place for notes about the month, we are going to turn the "Believe You Can And You Will" sign into a pocket. Set the sign in front of you, right side up. Turn it over to the back side, making sure you know where the top of the sign is.  Run 1/4-inch double-sided tape along the very edge of the two long sides and the bottom of the sign.  Pull off the tape liners, and adhere firmly in the middle of your page.  This pocket is the perfect size for an office tag or two so you can write down the special events of August.

I hope August was wonderful!  See you in September!