Taylored Expressions Calendar Challenge - January!

Hi! Today I'm sharing something kind of fun - and this is my first time making something like this! It's a cool new calendar product from Taylored Expressions and I am having such a good time making my pages for it. The Baker's Dozen Design Team will be sharing calendar goodies and ideas with you throughout the entire year, so be sure to check out everyone else's projects too. 

Refer over to Taylor's blog to get all the info to play along with us each month. There will be a linky at the bottom of Taylor's post and it will remain open all year, so you have the option to go back and catch up if you start playing late. For everyone who plays in 10 or more of these monthly calendar challenges in 2012, there will be a random draw for a TE prize pack valued at over $150!!! Click here to go to the TE Calendar Department and see all the goodies.

I chose to make the "Frame Your Imagination" calendar and use Cuppie as my theme! The stand for the calendar comes in raw wood and then you can paint it whatever color you choose. I painted mine kind of an antique white and then speckled some brown onto it to give it some character.

CLICK here for the calendar stand...CLICK here for the page protectors and CLICK here for the page inserts. I like this a lot because the finished pages are 6x6 and that gives a lot of room to stamp!

Here's my page for January:

 

 

Isn't that a neat stand? I like that it's big enough to stand out and be a desk decoration.  

 

Here are all the stamp sets I used! I used Cuppie of course, and then the sentiment from a Moka set, and the snowflake from another set...oh yeah...and then some banners...I like to mix and match my stamp sets so that each project comes out unique.

 

I added a pretty blue scallop border at the bottom of my page. Can you see the light blue snowflakes?  

 

 

 

 

I always use my trusty Copics to color my TE images!

 

 

 

Hope your week has been a great one! Thanks for coming by A Blog Called Wanda today! Take care! 

Now before you get started on your calendar project, you'll want to take a look at the fabulous calendar inspiration from the other Baker's Dozen gals:

• Charmaine Ikach
• Jodi Collins
• Melissa Sauls
• Sankari Wegman
• Taylor VanBruggen
   

Comments

[Lisa Kind]

This is so cute! I've been using TE calendars for a while, so I'm glad for these challenges! Love the images you used!

[Kimberly Gajewski]

This is so adorable Wanda! You've colored up that cute Cuppie perfectly! Can't wait to see what you come up with for the upcoming months! :D

[Tracy]

A beautiful Calendar page xx

[Maylee]

Love this project! Nice to see your photo on the sidebar too : )

[Tracey McNeely]

You make the sweetest calendars Wanda. :)

[Kathy Martin]

Darling calendar page! Your Copic work is awesome!

[Audrey Pettit]

Oh, my word, this is adorable, Wanda! What a great calendar system. And how ca-ute your January page is! Love the color combo and love the sweet cupcake. I think you chose the perfect sentiment, and I really like the stamped snowflakes throughout. This is such a great idea. Looking forward to seeing your pages each month. :)

[Holly Saveur]

Super cute Wanda....!

[Cindy (aka Scrapcollectr)]

Soooo cute and it looks like an easy gift to make! *smile*

[Charmaine Ikach]

What an absolutely adorable calendar page, Wanda! I love it!

[Mary Davis]

This is so cute--great project.

[Janice Rosenthal Rock]

Uh Oh! I see next year's Christmas gifts!!!!!!

[Natalie H]

Super cute! This will definitely be fun and a challenge this year! So glad I have such fabbie inspiration!!

[Jami]

Oh my goodness this turned out so cute! Love how you added the banners. It's going to be fun to see your pages each month!

[Jodi]

LOVE this Wanda! You know I just ♥ Cuppie and I LOVE the banner accents!!