Refreshing Calendars with Coffee Loving Cardmakers

Hi friends! I'm so honored to be one of the December Guesties for the Coffee Loving Cardmakers blog! (Happy dance!!!) Y'all know I'm a big fan of the coffee loving cardmaker community and it warms my little coffee loving heart to be able to share these projects with you today.

The projects I'm sharing today are some quick little gift calendars for coffee loving friends. I picked up a pack of 10 little tear-off calendars at the craft store this year for a couple bucks and thought it would be fun to make some calendars to give to friends. You could easily make these as cards to they would stand on a tabletop, but I went for a business card size magnet on the back.  Finished measurements for the calendars are 5.25 x 4.25" for the larger and 3.5" x 5.5" for the narrower, so they could both fit in an A2 envelope.

I started both calendars with the Fill Me Up stamp set from Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps. I love these big cups and the fun word art in this set. I stamped the cup images in jet black amalgam ink and then colored with Copic markers. Each are fussy cut, and I added a bit of stickles to the aqua java jacket then set them aside to dry.

Next I worked on the backgrounds. I used my new favorite color of cardstock in all the land. It's the perfect light neutral. I then stamped the backgrounds using the Sweet 'n Sassy Texture Tiles 1 background set. I stamped tone on tone in stone with the splatter background on the larger calendar and the script on the narrower one. This layer of cardstock is backed with chipboard to give it some durability.

Once I had this done, I pulled out the cut images again and arranged them with the calendars to decide where to add the sentiments. I stamped the rise and shine and refresh sentiments in black and just the steam portion of the mug stamp. Then it was just a matter of shaping the edges of my fussy cut images and adding them with some dimensional foam to create some depth.  I finished off with black mats and rounded corners for a finished look.

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