Calendar Challenge: Double Inspiration by Jomelle Gomez

Hello Everyone! Jomelle here at Doodlebug blog. Today I am sharing with you what I've created for the Calendar challenge. As I've said before, Cream and Sugar is my favorite collection. So I just had to use it again. I love working with pink and turquoise.

For this first project I used the Daily Doodle Calendar pages. I wanted to showcase my daughter's Valentine's Day photos. I wanted to display my favorite pictures/poses. Instead of show casing her cute and pretty pictures, I wanted to use the pictures where she was crying. She didn't look too happy but oh so cute at the same time. I wanted to be reminded of the hard work my husband and I did during her photo shoot. She was a handful. But at the end it was all worth it.

Don't you just love her cute face?

I just love using the sprinkles to my layout. It makes it look more fun!

I also went a little crazy on the doilies but I think they are just too cute. It goes so well with this layout.

My next project is memory keeping in my A5 planner. I wanted to document our Valentine's Day Date. I used 2 pages to make a layout. I worked the night before Valentine's Day. So when I got off work in the morning, I told my husband I wanted to have the pink hot chocolate. We went to this cute little cafe called Creme and Sugar. They have the pink hot chocolate which they call "Unicorn Hot Chocolate" I just had to add the picture of this infamous pink hot chocolate. This picture doesn't even do it justice as when you see it in person.

I used the odds and ends, sprinkles and doilies for this layout.

As you can see here, you can lift up the photo and behind it is a hidden Love letter for my hubby.

I also love layering. Here you can see I used multiple designs of paper and layered them.

Thank you for stopping by. I hope you enjoyed my layouts and my memory keeping in my planner. Have a good day!

Calendar Challenge: Monthly Menu Plan & Recipes by Karen Hanson

Hi everyone! It's Karen from ScrappyCanuck Studios and I am excited to share my take on the Design Team's Calendar Challenge this month! I have a confession to make - I am not a huge fan of cooking. Part of my aversion comes from the dishes that result, but some of it comes from feeling like I have to come up with ideas at then end of a work day when my creative energies are running on empty. So for the calendar challenge, I tried to make the menu planning process a little more fun for myself by playing with Doodlebug product at the same time!
Now I have to admit that I have done a digital version of this in the past, but well, this was WAY more fun, especially since it gave me an excuse to dive into my Cream & Sugar collection again! I started off by adding the month stickers to my Daily Doodles and then penciled in most of our meals for the month, including some traditions like a little visit to the golden arches and dinner at my Mom's on Sunday evenings! While I went over most of them in ink, I did leave a few spots blank to remind myself to try something new. I also left my daughter's birthday "penciled in" as she tends to change her mind at least four times before we hit the jackpot (we've had two different ideas since I took these pictures)!
And then, I had fun! Fun decorating up the header with some mini icon stickers that happen to be the perfect size for the Daily Doodles...and fun adding a little baking list complete with Sprinkle bullets...
...and fun adding some little dimensional tabs to hide some new ideas to try during the month... And just when I thought I was finished, I realized that I had the whole back of the Daily Doodle page that I could work with as well! So I flipped it over and got to work featuring a new recipe I wanted to try this month!
The cute Love You Lot's 12x12 made the perfect place to add my ingredients and instructions...
...which I actually added as a removable tab so I could take them into the kitchen while I was baking.
 
 I couldn't resist using one of Doodlebu's Cream & Sugar cut files called "Yellow Cake" that you can get over at Lori Whiltock's site if you are a Cricut user like I am, or over at the Silhouette Design Store which I created with some textured cardstock and gingham-linen paper. 
 
The Odds and Ends were perfect little embellishments...who knew this Valentine/Coffee themed collection would be such a perfect match for this recipe layout?! I am actually really excited at the prospect of having a year's worth of meal ideas together with some really cute layouts that will capture not only some new recipes, but also layouts that I hope to use to feature special meals that we share or little moments of triumph (an probably disaster) in the kitchen. At the end of the day, I have a nice variety of meal ideas for the month...and while I probably won't stick to it day by day, it sure will take of that mad search for some sort of idea at the end of the long day! So tell me, what "go to" meal ideas should I add to next month's menu?! Thanks for stopping by! Hugs, Karen

Calendar Challenge: Monthly Calendar Page by Anita

Hi there, 

Anita here with you today sharing my February calendar 

I thought I would do something a little different with the daily doodles calendar pages.

I started off by cutting the colored bits of and gluing it to a bit of white cardstock.

Then cut two 1  1/2 inch strips of  5494 love you lots and added a scalloped edge

And add them to the top and bottom of the calendar 

Then using a pink border strip from the 5490 cream & sugar this & that sticker

Tucked just under the scalloped strip of patterned paper 

Then I pull out some cardstock from the 

3444: rainbow textured cardstock

And applying February to the cardstock from the daily doodles sticker sheet 

I fussy cut around it and added to the top of my white cardstock 

I used a mini heart punch and punched out for all the days of the month 

Then for the 14th I used the 3447: lily white trio rubons

Then I numbered the rest using a pen and added 

5487: cream & sugar icons sticker

5705: cream & sugar mini icons sticker

To decorate the calendar 

then to finish it off i added some striped washi tape to the top and bottom

product used

4940 daily doodles rainbow assortment pack

5490: cream & sugar this & that sticker

5494: love you lots double-sided cardstock

3447: lily white trio rubons

3444: rainbow textured cardstock

5487: cream & sugar icons sticker

5705: cream & sugar mini icons sticker
4801: stripe assortment washi tape 
4924 lily white clip art


crafty hugs Anita..xx