It's Spring! No, not in reality, but in my latest page of my handmade mother-in-law's calendar: You may remember from a few posts ago that I'm rapidly trying to finish this scrapbook calendar that I gave to my MIL for christmas but rather rudely snatched back (no, asked nicely) to improve on the pages that I'd already completed.

For this May page I changed the theme completely. Before I added all this 'Springness' it had quite a boring picture of my boys playing with a remote controlled boat on the canal.

To be honest, I'm not normally a flower person, but the calendar already had the outline of flowers printed on the bottom of the page so I went with it. ...And when I remembered that picture on the left of my son holding that crocus I knew that I just had to use it.  These pretty type of images are the type of embellishments that I would save for when I make cards for my MIL so they were perfect for this themed page for her too.

I have also completed the July page.  The background page for this had the predetermined theme of 'Photo Star' so I found embellishments and stamps with a camera & an old film theme, together with lots of different sized stars.  These also conveniently tied in with my youngest son's magician costume (right) which also featured stars on it. I've quite enjoyed the process of making this calendar and seeing these old pictures again. I still can't believe how quickly the time has gone as these 'little boys' are now 14 and nearly 12. To me it only seems like yesterday that they were wearing these outfits, not 10 years, aaah!

Thanks for stopping by today, I will have more to show you soon,
Nicky {Creative Flourishes}

Posted by Nicky Stevenson at 11:15 pm K said...

I was surprised to see flowers as well Nicky, its looking fab!

Thursday, 6 March 2014 at 10:11:00 GMT Claire Boelema said...

Love it! Really like the use of colour on these pages it just shouts "life!"

Claire x

Friday, 7 March 2014 at 21:40:00 GMT Carmen said...

Did a double take at the flowers Nicky :D But they suit the page well!

Time does seem to be flying past doesn't it?

x x

Thursday, 13 March 2014 at 15:55:00 GMT
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