November (Lady) - The image is a painting called "Hiver" by Alphonse Mucha, printed onto Soft Satin Photo Paper, mounted onto blue stardream pearlescent card and edged with silver border peel offs. The corners are made from the same blue card with a Cuttlbug die. The backing paper is the same one I made for a Christmas card . The embellishments are two large snowflakes cut from white stardream pearlescent card using another Cuttlebug die and emboss set with a blue rhinestone added. The little snowflakes are made using white pearlescent paper a small snowflake punch with flatback pearls and clear rhinestones.
December - A Japanese painting I don't know the name of or remember where I got from, but it was printed onto Ilford Gallerie smooth pearl paper, mounted onto silver silk mirri card with silver peel offs in the corners. The backing paper is one I made again from two different pictures. The first picture being one of a night sky that I "stretched" to make the stars look like falling snow, and the other of some frost that I copied and mirrored and then layered the two together and changed the colour to compliment the picture. All done through my ANCIENT Adobe photoshop graphics program. The Oriental sentiments are black peel offs put onto silver silk mirri card that was put through the Cuttlebug using Nestabilites Classic Rectangles. The little "tassels" I made from Anchor silver Lame thread. And lastly some silver corner peels offs. So there you go, my calendar pictures complete. Just got to get round to doing the actual calendar pages and binding it and it'll be ready to go. I hope my friend Gillian will like it as I hope you do too.
Take care and keep smiling
PS. I just had a look at the oriental page and I lied (GASP) it wasn't two differnt pictures used to make the backing paper, but three. The other picture was one with squiggles, that was originally black with fuchsia pink squiggles on it. I love graphics programs, you can turn three different pictures that are all different colours into one. How cool is that!
