Monday, April 18, 2011

Aqua, Bling and Sentiment (OLL #78)

Good morning to you all
Another great challenge is starting today until May 1st over at Ooh La la:
Aqua, Bling and Sentiment.
When we were given the theme a few months ago I immediately thought of making a calendar page; for the last 7 or 8 years, every year, at Christmas, I make a calendar for my mum full of photos of the year just ending - photos we have taken on trips, nice photos, and more recently photos of the kids - a scrapbooking sort of calendar, if you like. And every year I plan to make one calendar/family planner for our kitchen too, altered, decorated, etc. but it all ends up with good intentions and I hardly ever decorate our own calendar; ours hangs on the wall, bare of decorations, but full of notes and Must dos. So with this particular challenge I took the opportunity to decorate at least one page of our calendar and I can now proudly say that the April page on our calendar looks good! :-) I got the inspiration from Lisa Jane, here.

The beautiful aqua papers are from different Ooh La la CDs: Passion for Fashion, Silhouette, Fleur d'Imagination and Watercolour Memories. April is typically a fairly rainy month in the norhtern hemisphere, so I thought the aqua colour was ideal for my calendar page. The sentiment is a musical song - April Showers, which you can listen here.

Here's my calendar page. Thanks for your comments.

Some challenges:
Sarah Hurley - April Showers
Stamp Something - April Showers
Cute Card Thursday - Weather inspired
My Time to Craft - on the Spot
Top Tip Tuesday - Spring has Sprung
Fab'n'Funky - Spotty and Dotty
Daring Cardmakers - Spring

 

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11 comments:

  1. DoreenApril 18, 2011 at 11:12 AM

    This is such a gorgeous calendar Neus.xxx

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  2. FayeApril 18, 2011 at 11:24 AM

    April does indeed look lovely with all the pretty flowers and swirls. That shade of aqua is gorgeous, just like the Indian Ocean - I wish! Have a great week. xxx

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  3. UnknownApril 18, 2011 at 12:24 PM

    Gorgeous and stunning calendar....very neat job

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  4. Lisa JaneApril 18, 2011 at 12:44 PM

    such a beautiful colour and design
    So pretty
    Lisa x

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  5. Lisa JaneApril 18, 2011 at 12:53 PM

    oops forgot to say thanks for joining us at sarah hurley
    Lisa x

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  6. DebApril 18, 2011 at 7:10 PM

    such a pretty calendar page!
    Many thanks for joining in the Cute Card Thursday Challenge!
    Happy Crafting, Debxx

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  7. JenniferApril 19, 2011 at 1:07 AM

    Beautiful work...thanks for playing at FnF xx Jenny xx

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  8. SandieApril 19, 2011 at 3:41 AM

    This is beautiful.
    Truly.
    Thank you so much for playing on my challenge on the Sarah Hurley blog. Great work

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  9. AnonymousApril 20, 2011 at 10:16 AM

    Oooh-la-la... Very nice!! I love the blues darling xx

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  10. missusemApril 20, 2011 at 6:32 PM

    I love the blues you've chosen! Adorable!

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  11. Lorraine AApril 21, 2011 at 8:02 PM

    Fab calendar page :-) I need to make one of these !! :-)

    thanks for joining us on the Stamp Something Challenge :-)
    luv
    Lols x x x

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