Sunday 1 January 2012

Calendar challenge 2012

Hello 2012!
I hope you all had a wonderful New Years eve and I wish you all health, happiness and creative abundance for 2012!

Here is my January calendar page for the calendar challenge over at Kates blog. This is a year long challenge to create a calendar page for each month and fill it in with your daily activities! I managed to complete last years and thought I would play along again this year.

For this page I used Dylusions paints and sprays, a crafters workshop template, a piece of Lego (guesse who got Kates art journalling DVD for xmas!) and old book paper which I doodled circles and flowers on. I drew the girly myself and her wings are stamps that I made last year.
For last years pages I used the Pagan celebrations and the seasons as inspiration for each month so this year to try and make it a bit different I am going to use positive affirmations each month.
I am looking forward to seeing everyones pages again.The post below this one shows all 12 of my pages from last year and I am so proud that I managed to keep up!
TFL
Sami x

41 comments:

Valerie-Jael said...

What beautiful pages, love the colours! I forgot to blog mine today, will put them up later or tomorrow, but I am not happy with them! Happy New Year to you and yours! Valerie

cookcreateread said...

Gorgeous page! And your drawing is amazing! Can't wait to see more throughout the year :)

Anonymous said...

Wow, I love this page, the colours are great and I like the sentiment. Dianne.

Carmen said...

How cool does it feel to say - these are stamps I made? I hope you are going to add them to your inventory this year Sam? I still get this insane grin when I look at mine! Both of them!

Another gorgeous page. I'm not going to try and take part this year because I am learning to know when to not jump into EVERY challenge. BUT I am going to journal.

Happy New Year!

Mandy Makes and Mends said...

Love your colours here and am really loving your drawing it's fab ......looking forward to seeing more throughout the year x

Catherine said...

Lovely background :)

Paige said...

Jan 2012 page is beautiful!!! The positive affirmations idea sounds like a great plan for this years pages. I almost thought about joining you in this project but on a more scrapbooky style although I'm still not sure????? the crochet is calling me ;)

patcrafts said...

Gorgeous colours for January 2012, love your drawing infact love everything about this page. The affirmations each month brill.
Happy New Year

Unknown said...

Great colours Sam and love your drawings, Happy New Year x

Jamie said...

I love, love your calendars, they are always so dreamy and bright.

krisandkreate said...

Fab-U-Lous

krisandkreate said...

Fab-U-Lous

Anonymous said...

I love the colours on your page - the aqua and lilac and how sweet is your fairy girl - gorgeous!

Crafting Queen said...

Wow, what a beautiful set of pages. :)

laurie said...

the colors on this page for january are so bright and sparkly - perfect for the start of a new year. good for you, sticking with your calendar pages all of last year! they are beautiful and provide a fun way to record the daily happenings in life. happy new year!

Unknown said...

Wow thhis is awesome! Love the colour scheme! /Pia

Diane Kelsey said...

I really need to watch the DVD's now. Your pages from last year are amazing. Really like the look of january's page too!

thekathrynwheel said...

Yay! A wonderful start to the new year, a really gorgeous page :-) You really should feel proud of yourself for completing a whole year - it's a wonderful achievement. Here's to another great year!
P.S. Hope you liked the DVDs!

Unknown said...

Oh I do adore your colours - lovely pages!

Gillian .... said...

Gorgeous first calendar page, look forward to seeing more of your artwork in the coming months.

Sherry said...

Oooh I'm so impressed that you're doing it all over again! Love the girly you drew and the colours are fab! Kate's DVDs are great and yes my nephew kindly gave me a piece of his treasured lego to play with too - lol xx

Milla said...

WOW, Sam, WOW!! Gorgeous page! Love it, especially the handdrawn girl!! Can't wait to see your other pages this year, so I became a follower ;)

mzjohansen said...

Ooooo Ahhhhh ! Now you used some forethought and planning! Love what you've done. Thanks for taking a peek at my page - glad to "meet" you.

You live on one of my favorite islands! I live on a rural island too - San Juan Island, Washington, US - we're closer to mainland Canada than to mainland US.

The Dolphin Inn said...

Absolutely gorgeous colours and I love love love your hand-drawn girl, stunning pages, can't wait to see more xxx

Lorraine said...

great calendar happy 2012

lena-dailyscrap said...

Beautiful, beautiful! Love the purple. I have got the dvd's too and I LOVED every minute of them. I can see that you are very much inspired by the one and only herself! Love it!

flutterbycrafter said...

A beautiful page with sumptuous colours

france papillon said...

luuuuurve the design of your page, sheer yumminess. the colors, the drawing... did i mention i love it? ;)

Artyjen said...

Happy New Year! Don't know how long I'll last with the challenge LOL! Love your page :) xoxo Sioux

ally said...

wow your 2011 journal is stunning. and looks like 2012 is starting that way too. look forward to seeing your pages over the year

Alice Regan said...

I love it! I like how you incorporated just drawn in squares. So cute, I love following along I learn so many new things.

jeanie g said...

Love your page and that little girl is so cute. Love that you're using affirmations too, will be looking out for them.

pearshapedcrafting said...

Fab colours, in fact fab everything! I love it!

Sharne Gregory said...

I like the colours you have chosen for January. Love your fairy.

Karenliz Henderson said...

Your calendar is beautiful. I love the color and your angel.

Anonymous said...

Such a lovely page.

Teresa Jaye said...

LOVE the colors of your calendar pages and how your squares are drawn and shaded rather than applied - so pretty!

Janique de Suisse said...

I jost love the colors !! Very beautiful !!

Sonia said...

Lovely pages.. love the colours too, very inspirational.
-Sony

Kimberly Gruber said...

Sam, I have always loved your art, your girly is incredible, and the wings! Wow, I tried making my own stamps, that is hard work, yours are perfect!

sara j said...

Wow!! Your calendars are beautiful; what an inspiration.