Winter's Day January Calendar Page

Hi Stampers!

I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas! We had a pretty good one here. My husband bought me a lap top so I am able to take it with me when I go back to working the dreaded night shift at my other job on January 4th! UUUUGGGHHH!! Not looking forward to that! But now I will be able to work in the store and keep up on things better while I have some downtime on the overnights ;)

And ... I finally got some batteries for my camera! YAY! So now I can actually take some pictures of my project for the post today! :)

I decided to combine my inspirational project for this week's Loves Rubberstamps Challenge of New Year's Celebrations along with my Inspirational Design Team Project for The Cutting Cafe since this project is awesome for both!

This is what I made as Christmas gifts for my Mom, Grandma, 2 Sisters and Sister-In-Law and of course I had to make one for myself too :)

This is a Calendar page that fits in a 4x6 inch acrylic photo frame that comes with a magnet on the back for hanging on your fridge! How cool is that? I will make a new page each month and mail it out so that they will be able to change it for the new month :) This is the Christmas gift that will keep giving all year long!

This week at The Cutting Cafe we could pick any file that we wanted to use. I used the 2013 Calendar Printable Stamp Set. I LOVE Regina's Calendar Files because they come with a lot of different sizes so you can find the perfect one for your project. My sentiment that I used on this is also from The Cutting Cafe and is from the Snowflake Huge Circle Printable Stamp Set. The 28th has a pretty sparkly heart on it because that is my Grandma's Birthday :)

This week at Loves Rubberstamps the theme is New Year Celebrations and what better way to celebrate the New Year than with a spiffy new Calendar :) Saturated Canary is our Guest Sponsor this week so you will want to be sure and play along! The image on my Calendar Page is a new release Saturated Canary stamp called Winter's Day. I colored this using my Spectrum Noir Alcohol Ink Markers. You can't really see it very well in this picture but I embossed with  iridescent ice on the snowman, snow area and the snowflakes for a slight shimmer.

Here is a close up of my image:

And here is my Calendar page in the acrylic frame on my fridge ;)

I chose my colors for this from the Saturated Canary Challenge to use this photograph as your inspiration for your project:

Love those pretty blues, white sparkles, and silver! Such a pretty color combo I had to play along :)

I also wanted to share with you a couple of pictures from our blizzard... I only got to take two before my camera died...

This is looking out the side garage door into the yard and this was after my husband made a wee path next to the garage so we could actually open the side door to get out without having to open the big garage door. We got all of this snow in one day, and it was our first snow of the year!

This is the front door to our house and the small deck on the front, the snow is as high as the top stairs and you can see how it drifted in front of the door...we still haven't unburied or made a path to here...we just use the garage side door - LOL! The snow is this deep through the whole yard, there is no shallow spots - it is just a huge, solid pile of snow!

Thanks for stopping by today! Don't forget to check out the Inspiration Blog Post at The Cutting Cafe later today to see what my fellow Design Team members made. I love the Anything Goes week because I always see so many files used that I haven't ran across in the store! It is always fun to see what everyone chooses! While you are there leave a comment on the post and you will have the chance to win 3 of Regina's awesome files...that you get to choose!

Also be sure to play along in the Loves Rubberstamps Challenge this week too... we have some awesome prizes this week :)

Happy Stampin!
Laura

I will be entering this is the following challenges:

Saturated Canary - Challenge 33 Inspirational Photo Challenge
Crafty Sentiments Designs - All That Glitters
Paperminutes - #249 Happy New Year
Vickie's Challenges - #1 Anything Goes
Card Mania - #10 Snowflakes
Fashionista Challenges - #10 Winter
Kaboodle Doodles - #151 Christmas/Holidays/New Year's
Lexi's Creations - #80 Snow
Anything But A Card Challenge - Anything Goes or your fav. project
Glitter 'N Sparkle Challenge Blog - Christmas/New Year or use Digi
Hiding In My Craft Room - #77 Anything but Christmas
Little Claire's - #28 Happy New Year
QKR Stampede - Let It Shine
Aud Sentiments - Use Any Sentiment
Delightful Challenges - Anything Goes
Crafts and Me Challenge - Winter Wonderland
Creative Moments - #7 Emboss It - Anything Goes
Divas by Design - Anything Goes
Inky Impressions Challenge - Sparkle
Paper Pretties Challenge - New Year Inspired