Calendar Cards
Posted: February 18, 2026 Filed under: border collection, Concord & 9th, cricut, Dies, online class, Patterned papers, Penny Black | Tags: Concord & 9th, cricut, Earth Greetings, online class, Penny Black creative dies 5 Comments
Here are some happy flowers to remind you of spring if you are still surrounded by snow like I am! Also to get you through winter there are details about a sale of my online classes at the bottom of this post.
I received a beautiful Earth Greetings calendar last year from my brother and sister-in-law in Australia. I enjoyed the original artwork all year while also planning to turn the pages into cards once the year was over. I decided to start with the cover which features a beautiful floral design by Jayne Branchflower. The cover has the January artwork on the back so I used bits of each design, both painted by Jayne.
In this post I will feature the blue background panel covered in Australian native flowers such as waratah, bottlebrush and flannel flower. I created two portrait orientation cards shown below. The accents on all the cards are cut from gold cardstock to co-ordinate with the bottlebrush (callistemon) and wattle in the design. The greeting below left was cut on the cricut, below right features a Penny Black border die and a retired C&9 sentiment.
The two cards below I made in landscape orientation and used the PB Border Collection die to add a scalloped edge on the right along with a cricut cut sentiment. On the left I die-cut a PB sentiment, So Many Thanks, and lay it over duralar so it would be easier to see on the busy background. It is also stacked up on navy cardstock to give it a bit more prominence. I created the narrow gold border with WaffleFlower A2 rectangle dies. The cards in this post obviously do not have to be made with calendar pages; your own printed, drawn or painted papers would work, as would scrapbook papers or art papers. I am just having fun with calendar pages right now and hope I have inspired you to recycle and repurpose a few of yours!
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Heather Telford 
What a lovely gift that you could enjoy all year, Heather! Now others can enjoy the beauty as well with these beautiful cards!
What a lovely way to recycle and show your appreciation of someone’s art work.
The clean designs of your card allows thd recipient to truly enjoy the colourful artwork.
Thank you for sharing with us, and hopefully one of those cards is going to your brother and sister-in-law so they can enjoy them too.
Thank you; as you know I’m trying to use what I have on hand. I will definitely be sending some of these to my brother and sister-in-law, probably as a gift set so they can send use them too.
Such a wonderful way to use the calendars. I have saved for years, trying to figure out what to do with mine, but had no idea about sizing, etc. But, this is great what you have shown us.
Thank you so much, Heather.
Tish
These are such pretty cards Heather, and I thought the Wattle flower was there, and you have used the pieces so well to give some great variation to each of the designs..a great way of using that very beautiful artwork from last years gift from your Australian family. x