Calendar Cards

Posted: February 18, 2026 | Author: | Filed under: border collection, Concord & 9th, cricut, Dies, online class, Patterned papers, Penny Black | Tags: , , , , | 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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Pretty Papers

Posted: January 21, 2026 | Author: | Filed under: cricut, My Favorite Things, Patterned papers, Penny Black | Tags: , , | 7 Comments

If you are anything like me you probably have a stash of pretty papers. Maybe they are scrapbooking papers or rice papers, perhaps they are pretty papers you made yourself by watercolouring or printing. I have quite the stash in all the above categories. So in the spirit of using what I have (UWIH), I pulled out some of the pretties and turned them into cards.

All the papers on today’s cards are rice papers featuring bold colours and gold details. They were a lovely gift from a lovely person. Because the papers are so beautiful I really didn’t do much to turn them into cards. (the red one, the bluey-green one, the blue floral one)

All the cards featured today use a panel that fills or almost fills a card front. I simply added sentiments and rounded corners to the red card and the bluey-green cards. For the hello card above I used the cricut to cut the word hello from a cream panel so the pretty paper would be revealed. I added the word ‘Beautiful’ from a Darkroom Door set, ‘You are Everything‘.

The word birthday below is die cut; the other letters are cricut-cut.

I like the finishing touch of rounded corners and have a corner rounder that I really like; it’s the Kadomaru PRO which gives me the choice or large, medium or small corners. What else do you do with pretty papers? I’d love to read your suggestions in the comments.