My Decorated Calendar...

Hello lovelies.

I would like to show you a calendar that I have decorated.

I do this every year as a Christmas gift for my lovely husband. It take's some time to do, but I think the end result is well worth it. I usually choose a different theme each year, but since we got Peggy I think it's just perfect to use her photo's. 

It is a nice way of scrapbooking  her life and is a lovely keep sake too. I think this album also shows just how much the three of us love each other! We have lot's of fun and so much happiness in our house with our golden girl!

The calendar is a Graphic 45 Easel calendar. I have used various papers that I already had in my stash. I wanted to use a theme of button's and die cuts too, so you will see these on each page. Some of the embellishment's are made by East of India. The heart and rose on the October page I made using Ultra Thick Embossing Enamels and Crystals, with my melt pot and moulds.

August is very pink, as that is my birthday month lol. Well pink is my favourite colour after all!

I hope you enjoy looking through the 12 months of a lovely year with Peggy!

Thank you so much for taking the time to visit my blog and see my calendar.

I love seeing Darren's face when he opens his gift and looks through each month. It makes every minute of making this worth while.

Have fun and happy crafting,

lots of love

Nicola

XXX

Graphic 45 - A Place In Time Easel Calendar...

Hello lovelies,

 

I hope you are all keeping well and not getting too worn down with all the Christmas preparations!

 

I have just finished decorating a calendar that I make as a Christmas Gift for my husband every year. I have been doing these for quite a lot of years now and I try to pick a different theme each year. This year I wanted to go with a vintage theme. We have been together nearly 21 years now and I wanted to show how much this means to me through the pictures I have used. I have chosen photos of just us two, apart from one month where I have chosen a photo of the lovely doggy we used to have. May was very much a part of us, we loved her to bits and we called her May as we got married in May!

 

May was a gorgeous, friendly labrador and we miss her very much, it didnt feel right not to include her. Anyhoo, the photos I have changed to Sepia and I have used a Graphic 45 Easel Calendar and the Place In Time Collection, which was just perfect for this.

 

I absolutely adore my husband, he is the love of my life. I think you can see from the photo's how much we love each other...I am truly blessed and also very thankful too! If my hubby reads this he will tell me to stop being so soppy lol.

 

So, without further ado here is the end result...I hope you all like it.........

 

The front cover...

 

 

Celebrations...

 

The month of love...

 

 

Celebrating my lovely hubbies birthday...

 

A photo from a wonderful holiday in Barbados...

 

This photo was on our 10th Wedding Anniversary, we flew by helicopter into the Grand Canyon...and the bottom photo is at the top of the Stratosphere Tower in Las Vegas...

   

 

A lovely holiday in Florida...

 

 

Another holiday photo in Barbados and Florida...

  

 

Our beautiful doggy May, it was her birthday in August...

 

A lovely week-end away this year...

 

 

Another lovely week-end away...

 

 

The top photo was in Florida, and the bottom photo was taken quite a few years ago on Christmas Day in Stratford UpOn Avon...

 

 

Christmas Day and New Year's Eve...

 

I absolutely love the Graphic 45 Collections, simply stunning.

 

I hope you have enjoyed seeing my hubbies Christmas present lol I told him not to look if he saw the link in his timeline!

 

Thank you for looking,

have fun and a very Merry Christmas to you all,

lots of love

NJ XXX



Design Team Project for Crafty Bloggers Network - Christmas Gift

Every year I always make my hubby a calendar. So I thought this was the perfect project to use for my Design Team project this week.

The calendar is by Papermania and it is 12x12.

I have used photos of us both from the last couple of months.

My hubby always looks forward to this every year. Over the years I varied the theme. Some of the themes I made in the past have been Dolphins, our late dog..she was a golden labrador and everything to us...that was a favourite year for his calendar!

Holidays, golf and fishing. The great thing with making a calendar as a Christmas gift, is you can make it really individual to suit the recepient. I also mark in the dates for my hubby too....particularly handy  for when it's my birthday month...he cant forget then can he! LOL

So, without further ado...here it is.......I hope you like it......

The paper pad I used for the calendar is DCWV The Once upon A Time Stack.

The great thing about this is not only is it gorgeous but it is also glittered on some sheets too, which is great for saving time on embellishing. I wanted to keep the theme masculine but with some embellishment so I have used Craftwork Candi.

I hope you like this as much as I enjoyed making it, thanks for looking and if you fancy entering the challenge...here's where it's at....

http://craftybloggersnetwork.blogspot.com/

have fun and happy crafting lots of love NJ XXXX



Scrapbook Page

A lovely good evening to you all! I have finally got round to starting the scrapbook I promised my husband I would make him. It is to follow his year as President of our local Rotary Club, he only took over in July...after some gentle reminder's from him I've finally made a start. Well, one page but it's a start!LOL

I decided to start the first page with some press cuttings from our local newspaper. If you look at the Charter Celebration photo with the men in black tie, my husband is on the front row, four in from the right hand side. I am so proud of him. I hope you enjoy the scrapbook journey I will take you on to follow my lovely hubbies year in Rotary. The club does a wonderful job for a lot of worthy causes.

I want to keep the theme masculine so I am opting for green shades with hints of black and maybe a few browns along the way!

The scrapbook papers I am using are COLORBOK which also includes stickers and punch-outs too.

The album I have decided to use is my favourite one that I have in my collection....yes I have a collection of empty scrapbooks ready for future projects lol, it is by K&Company.

I just love the colours of this album and the vintage feel of it too.

 

Thank you for taking the time to look, I hope you enjoyed reading about my scrapbooking project lol. I'll see you back here some time for the next installment.

Have fun and happy crafting

lots of love NJ XX