December Calendar Pages New Year New You Webster's Pages

These are the December pages for the Webster's Pages®  "New Year New You" Calendar Class held at The Paper Forest Scrapbook Boutique in Washington, Illinois.

                                          Page Left

Page Left Directions:

Cut out 3 individual flowers from white sheer frayed roses ribbon by May Arts® and then dye one of each with the following inks:

Pink/ Red Flower: Stampin' Up!® "Strawberry Slush"

Blue Flower:  Versa®  Color Ultimate Pigment Ink "Sky Blue" and Versa Magic® "Turquoise Gem"

Green Flower:  Stampin' Up!® "Pear Pizzazz" and Adirondack Earth Tones "Lettuce" by Ranger®

Use Glubers® to attach the flowers to the bottom right corner of "Personal Growth" from the "New Year New You" line by Webster's Pages®.

                                          Page Right

Page Right Directions:

Use red "Berrylicious" card stock by Bazzill® as the background for Page Right.

Attach a 12-inch piece of Maya Road® l pale green lace approximately 1.25 inches from the top of the page. Apply pop dots to the back of  "12 Months of Improvement" sign and position the left edge of the sign at the 6.25 inch across the page and .50 inch from the top of the page.

Use Memento® black ink and the scroll stamp from the "Bliss" stamp set by Stampin' Up!® to stamp 3 scroll images one next to each other starting at the left side of the red card stock.

Once you have stamped your 3 scroll images next to each other, attach a 12 inch long by .50 inch wide strip of cream floral paper at the top of the three scrolls.

Cut a frame from Stampin' Up!® "Pretty in Pink" card stock and attach it slightly overlapping the cream floral strip. Stamp a butterfly from the "Bliss" stamp set by Stampin' Up!® under the upper right corner of the frame, as shown. Use the Stampin' Up!® banner punch to punch out 4 cream floral banners and 3 yellow zigzag banners from scraps.  Attach each banner with a pop dot across the top of the frame.  Use double-sided tape to attach the "New Year New You" cameo in the center of the frame.

Attach the purple "Attempt the Absurd and You Will Achieve the Impossible" banner on top of the pink frame and cream floral card stock strip as shown.  Attach a scrap of leftover arrows approximately 4 inches wide underneath the purple banner.

Using "Pollen" card stock by Bazzill®, cut out a globe with the American Crafts® globe die.  Cut a clock face from "Shining Moment" paper by Webster's Pages® and center it on the globe.  Attach the completed embellishment as shown, setting the globe base on top of the /&/ symbol so that it is no longer visible but all the other words on the banner can be seen.

Mat the December calendar on a piece of "Jetstream" card stock by Bazzill® directly under the "12 Months of Improvement " sign and approximately .50 inches from the bottom of the page.

Ink the edges of the red card stock with white craft ink from Stampin' Up!®



I hope you have enjoyed 12 months of paper crafting with Webster's Pages®  "New Year New You" Collection.  May your 2015 be wonderful and full of blessings from God.  In His Love, Kim.

Day 324: Stampin' Up! Flower Petal Cards

I received a lovely gift of earrings in the mail today from a girlfriend, and was inspired to use these lovely flower petal cards from Stampin' Up. I used some K and Co paper on the inside of the card so that the design showed through the flower openings.  I sponged a little rose distress ink (Ranger) on the top of the card, added a yellow button (SU or my stash, depending on the card) and a green Jolee's pearl in the button center.

Day 302: One Moment in Time Gears Card Part 1

I need some men's cards for upcoming birthdays.  I started out with intentions of making an entirely different card, but when I was looking for an embossing folder to use as a background, I came upon this Tim Holtz gears embossing folder, and changed my mind completely!  I used kraft cardstock by Recollections (Michael's), ran it through my Sizzix Big Shot machine, then used a Ranger silver paint dauber and  Ranger chocolate distress ink to highlight the embossed areas.  I got enough backgrounds done to make 8 embossed card bases, but will need to finish working on these tomorrow.

Day 241: Dress Form: Embellishments Added

I added some paper flowers by Prima to the bodice of the dress form and painted them silver with a paint dauber by Ranger.  Then I sponged some of the silver color off with a crumpled up piece of tissue, revealing some of the pink from the flowers.

I also added some Tim Holtz charms to the skirt by tying them onto some of the ribbons. I used a porcelain rose (made in England) from a clip earring as an embellishment at the waist line.  The Tim Holtz angel wings fit perfectly beneath the rose.

I am really pleased with how this turned out. While it is neither a scrapbook nor a stamp project, I have been using my supplies and tools and creating. Isn't that what it's all about!?

Day 239: Dress Form: Painted

I recently read an article in Somerset Studio about Tim Holtz and some other artists that altered, decorated, and embellished dress forms.  I was really inspired by the article and decided if I found one, I was going to make one too.  As luck would have it, today I was at TJ Maxx and found one on clearance.  The front side was a black and white version of the British flag, but I painted the whole dress form with silver paint by Ranger.  I am letting it dry over night and will work on it more tomorrow.

Day 176: School Days Scrapbook Page

I had a lot of fun incorporating texture into this page for my son.  The aged leather-look background paper is from Paper Adventures. I layered the "sweet, smart, boy" tags by Wild Asparagus on top of a brown fabric tag and  a striped fabric tag (that almost perfectly matches my son's shirt!) by Making Memories.  I even re-purposed another fabric tag in the set to make the blue photo corners!  The blue buttons on the photo corners are from Stampin' Up! The twill I used to make the ribbon for the tag and to wrap around the letter "d" was in my stash.  I used the back side of a patterned library pocket and library card from Marcella by K to journal some information about my son in first grade. I made a ribbon to go on top of the library card, added an epoxy "school days" sticker (Brenda Walton for K and Co.) and accented it with two blue square brads (Colorbok).  I used Ranger distress ink to age the library card and envelope so it would coordinate with the background paper. I used the "Remember" tag and "2010" stickers from "This and That" by Lori Whittock.  The letter "d" is by l'il davis designs, and the other brown letter stickers are by American Crafts.

Day 87: Playing with Paint

I needed to scrap my son's school kindergarten photo, but to coordinate with the next page, I couldn't use the typical primary colors.  I went through my stash of papers and found "Khaki Plaid" by Kelly Panacci for Sandylion.  It is a blue and green plaid, set on the diagonal. One of the shades of blue looked good with the shirt my son was wearing, and the paper coordinated with the grandmother and grandson page I completed a couple of days ago.  But how to make the page look "school-ish"?  I jumped on the internet and typed in scrapbook school page to get some ideas.  One idea I liked was to use a piece of notebook paper behind the feature photo.  I found some ledger style paper in a pack of designer paper from Stampin' Up, and used a punch from EK Success to make it look like torn out spiral notebook paper.  Then I roughed up the edge of the notebook page so it would look ragged, like it does after you tear paper out of a notebook. I wrote the word "Kindergarten" and "2009-2010" with the teacher's name and the name of the school at the top of the ledger page (journaling pen by Creative Memories).  I found the class list and wrote all of the kids' names on the ledger paper. I set the ledger paper at an angle and then placed my son's photo on top. I used some ribbon that looks like a tape measure across the bottom of my son's photo, and attached a "k" stencil over the ribbon.  I also added a soft yellow "k" charm from Around the Block to the stencil.  Beneath the ribbon, I used some white sticker letters that look like a child's handwriting to spell out "Kindergarten 09".  I added a large letter K from Deja Views with star clips from Oriental Trading Company to the upper right hand corner of the page. I liked how the page looked, but thought it needed something else.  So, I got a sponge brush and a bottle of white paint (Plaid) and smeared it on the page randomly, even on my son's photo.  Too much white...so I got out a bottle of lettuce paint (Ranger) and added that.  Then a little more white. I never had so much fun making a scrapbook page and playing with paint!

Day 81: Stamped Flower Pot

My Mom's Book and Bible Study group is going to decorate flower pots for our United Methodist Women's Mother-Daughter Dinner.  I used a sponge paint brush to paint the terra cotta planter white, then used Ranger paint daubers to add blue and green to my butterfly stamp (Stampin' Up!).  It was a little hard to stamp on the pot, sometimes the edges of my wings are missing, but it looks cute.  Perhaps a smaller stamp would have stamped more fully. I added an orange ribbon with blue and green butterflies around the top of the planter (ribbon from Michael's). Once a flower is added, it will make a pretty centerpiece for one of the tables.

Day 74: You Are My Sunshine

This scrapbook page needed to coordinate with the "Bob the Builder" page I designed yesterday, and the spattered background paper (manufacturer unknown) I used on this page works perfectly.  It has browns, grays, yellows, and of course orange.  I cut the sunflowers from another scrapbook paper (TPC Studio) and used pop dots to raise them up. The chipboard letters in tones of green, orange, and yellow pull the whole page together.  (Chipboard letters by 3 Birds and Colorbok; yellow paint,used to color cream letters, by Ranger.)