Well in true Brianne fashion I am freaking out because it is November 24th and I haven't even started the calendar I'm making for Sean's mom.
Now last year I went to the Two Scrapbooking Friends' Winter Retreat so I had 3 whole days dedicated to getting the calendar done. This year, however, I did not attend the retreat so I still have a blank canvas to work with.
Here is what I created last year - I was really proud of these pages, it took HOURS and HOURS of work to do, but the praise I received on the phone from Sean's mom (she lives in BC so our gifts were mailed out) was worth the blood, sweat, tears and lack of sleep.
The first page when you opened the calendar - I love this background paper, it's just so festive.
January - Pictures from our trip to Lake Louise, AB. I think this page is my least favourite of the whole calendar. I must have replaced the items fifteen times before giving up and going with this layout.
February - my favourite is the LOVE in the middle of the page.
March - I like how this whole page is centred around Janice and her smile. It was a very simple page, the paper was beautiful so it didn't need much embellishing.
April - this is what Sean and I dressed up as for Hallowe'en. I have this cute stamp set called 'Life's a Jungle' so it fit in perfectly. I have a lot of stamps but I don't use them as much as I should.
May - our niece Cedar is so photogenic that it's hard to decide how to crop the photos. I love how playful and warm this layout turned out, and the 3D elements I used.
June - a tribute to our fun times up at 'the plot of land' sometimes just a simple title and a border of pictures turns out great.
July - Once again Cedar was my focus - what grandma doesn't love pictures of her granddaughter??
August - Sean, Logan and I took a trip up to Tobermorey and Sean took some amazing pictures, so I highlighted them in this layout
September - a nice, simple layout. As I am a proud owner of a Cricut, I like to use the background pieces along with the true cut out forms - I like how neat it looks.
October - a scary witch, a big title, some stickers and great paper!
November - this is by far my favourite layout in the entire Calendar. I found this paper a long time ago, it was shiny and the watch and words were raised a little to give it such an awesome texture. This picture shows Sean's grandpa in his war uniform, and then Sean in the same uniform. It brought tears to Janice's eyes to see them side by side. I always keep my poppies, so I put one in the middle and simple wrote out the first lines to 'In Flanders Fields'.
December - instead of the usual Christmas pictures I went with my brother and sister-in-law's wedding photos. They were married in Mexico in December.
Who isn't dreaming of saying Mele Kalikimaka on a bright Hawaiian Christmas day??
And now it's time to really start on my 2011 Calendar project - the count is 0 layouts done, 12 to go!
I LOVE IT!!! I didn't get to see the finished product! No wonder it brought tears to her eye - its absolutely beautiful! Now, how do you top that this year ?!
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