Happy New Year!
This past summer my sister got married. Besides her professional pictures she had over 500 candids! It seemed like everyone friends and family involved in the wedding had a digital camera on them and used them!! My other sister being the "organized one" had her laptop with her she gathered everyones cameras and down loaded the pics onto her computer and then burned them to a disk for the bride. Because our family is very spread out Washington, Michigan, South Dakota, Montana, and Iowa My sister the bride uploaded the pictures on
X-drive. She was able to email everyone the links at once and we could then down load all the pictures in full resolution.
When the holidays came around I started on Christmas gifts. My parents and my husbands mother have come to expect calendars of my kids. My parents each have their own office so I make a desk top calendar for each of them, and a 12 x 12 for their house. My mother in law in retired but likes both. As I was going through all my picture files I found myself being drawn to the candid pictures from the wedding. Tons of pictures of us sisters and our brother. The nephew and neices hanging out. Pictures of the kids with Grandpa and Grandma. I decided I wanted to make use of more of the pics so I decided to make a desktop calendar for my youngest sister of all the nephews and nieces, and a desktop for my sister in law of her four kids.
Over the next couple of weeks I am going to share the layouts of the various calendars.
The first set is the desktop calendars for my parents and mother in law. Some of these are cased, some are inspired and some are my own design.
This little layout was inspired by a layout using different snowflake set. I dug out my "Snow flurries" set to make the side border. I added a little dimention by making just a few of the snowflakes pop up.
I loved the wide twill when I saw this on a different layout. They used a piece of hodge podge hardware which looked classy. I decided to use a piece of pink ribbon that matched the background paper.
The layout on this page is expanded from a card. I changed the color scheme to what I wanted.