My video tutorial is not going to be shared with you guys today as it's on it's way to California for it's BIG screen debut!!!!
WOO HOO!!!!
The folks at the Canon factory are going to be up to their knees in my swirly flower tutorial in about 4 days!
I am pretty sure that we'll be seeing LOADS more crafts on the Canon site come next Monday!
Wondering what in the heck I am talking about???
Well... something bad happened on Saturday after I was done filming (I cut my tutorial time to 14 minutes... down from the hour long diatribe of the first version). I was real proud of myself!!! RonChops and I connected the video camera (the one he got me for Christmas) to his beloved Power Mac desktop... and well ummmm... about 5 seconds into it we smelled something. Not a good something... a chicken fried camera something. Only there was no gravy and no mashed potatoes.
We fried the camera (completely) AND (as an added bonus) both of the fire wire ports on his Mac too (yip-e). We kinda sat there in stunned silence after it happened and spent the rest of the afternoon on the phone with Apple tech support (those guys are amazing!!). Sadly the camera has to go to California to be fixed (with my crafty flower tutorial still inside) and the apple going to be taken to the place where apples go to be fixed (someplace local). Talk about deflating the crafty sails!
So instead of a nice video tutorial + calendar combo... I just have some calendars today. I changed them up a little from last years version in that I did not do the vellum overlay or a cover (you can see the ones from last year HERE).
If you really really liked the vellum overlay thing let me know and I'll post that next week... I used vellum for my own personal craft room calendar and I was getting kinda annoyed that the ends were curling on me! I was thinking I could use brads to nail them down some but I dunno... those of you who printed them last year and used the vellum will have to let me know what you think. The photo corners I used to help tack them down kept falling off on me too!
I also created some really teeny tiny versions that you can use in scrapbook layouts and on cards and such.
Let's get started with the teeny tiny ones first and what you might do with those... and then we'll move on to the big fellas!
I spaced them nicely so you would have room to cut or punch them out.
I really really REALLY love the scrolly border punch from Stampin' Up!
You can get it from this nice gal HERE!
If I could have only one punch in my arsenal it would be this fella.
He's the coolest!!!
I made these little calendars small enough to work with just about any 1.5 inch punch...
So they are pretty easy to work with.
I like to back my punched shapes with a background color and since my favorite punch does not have a one size up shape to go behind it I simply place it on a piece of colored card stock...
...and freehand cut around it.
Easy Cheese!
So for the bigger ones...
I print them all out on 110lb card stock...
Then I cut just inside the dotted border with a paper trimmer...
...and Zuttered them together!
You can read all about the Zutter binding thingy HERE.
If you don't have one that's ok!
You can see how I put these together last year with a simple hole punch at this post HERE!
You can download the teeny tiny calendars below...
...and the whole set of the bigger ones below this (click on the "download and print PDF here" image)...
You guys still with me or are ya sound asleep?
I almost feel like I cheated you today... this is so short and so boring you might actually be getting on your jammies and calling it a day!
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It looks like the video camera (complete with the tape STILL inside) should be back in about 3 weeks (I hope). So it's gonna be a while before I have any video tutorials round these parts. I am pretty bummed about to tell you the truth. I was really looking forward to this today. :(
I'll be back next week with something new and fabric-y!
Hope everyone has a great first week of January (can you believe it's 2010... crazy!!!)!
P.S. RonChops has been giving me a hard time about these calendars all weekend. Evidently they do not meet his cool craft seal of approval. He's rather fond of vellum and has been telling me all day that he thinks I need the vellum overlay thingy... OH and AND he's totally not fond of the font I used either. He really likes the handwriting fonts.
If you guys are with RonChops (basically if you want to gang up on me) that's cool. I'll work up a vellum-y and handwriting font-y version just for you (and RonChops too of course... I cannot have him harassing me about these calendars all year long... it's only January for crying out loud!)... But if you guys think he's crazy (MUHAHAHAHA) that's cool too! Inquiring minds want to know!
P.S.S.T. xoxoxoxox's
