Florals and calendars

I did the Taylored Expressions 2025 card class recently and they had some cards that turned into calendars that also had a small post-it style note card on it. I decided to try doing some of them for the Portland Fountain Pen show. These are a couple that I made this week, featuring paper from last month's Simon Says Stamp card kit and Taylored Expression calendars. The minis will fit on a 3 x 3 inch base, which I used champagne gold card stock for. The adhesive notepad was an extra from an old Cocoa Daisy box, and the flowers are from Taylored Expressions. 

On this one, the front of the card is the back of the calendar. The images are from the Simon Says Stamp April kit. I was experimenting with watercolor and varying the color of the embossing to try to figure out which one looks best on which images. This one is embossing powder from Tim Holtz in pumice stone.

This next card I especially like because you have two places for a message; the first one inside and a hidden one under the front easel, which also sets up the florals in a very organic way. 

This last on is from the same florals as above, but I used a pre-embossed front from an old card base from JoAnns to ink blend and then used the 'bloom' as the grounding of the bouquet.