DAY TO DAY UNBOXING VIDEO | with Kathy

We are so excited that the new Day to Day Collection is now shipping to stores!  I received my Design Team box a day early so I decided it would be fun to do an unboxing video!!  Be sure to watch the video to check out the fun new calendar designs, and coordinating embellishments.  I also show a few of our other products that work perfectly with the new calendars!  Enjoy!

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Daily Doodles Birthday Reminder Calendar with Tya

Hey there Doodlebug fans - its Tya here with you today and I am so excited to share with you my project featuring the new Daily Doodles line. These calendar pages are so fun and so versatile as you have seen from the other projects my Design Team friends have shown you so far this week. For my project I decided to do a birthday reminder calendar page. Now in my family, birthday's are a big deal. Since both sides of my family live close we get to party a lot and there are a lot of family members to celebrate! What better way to keep track of who's birthday it is than to keep track of it on a customized calendar page.

 I had a great time decorating the calendar using oodles of  items from the Sugar Shoppe

and Hip Hip Hooray lines. Between the two lines I was able to get some really fun items on my calendar.
I added a few sprinkles of  sequins here and there on the calendar to make it feel more festive. I used some Simply Sweet letter stickers along with the Months cardstock stickers. 

 It's so fun to add photos of the birthday person in the squares next to their birthday. I printed out my photos to be about 1 1/2 inches square and mounted them on some textured cardstock.

I wrote in some of the names and I also used some Teensy Type stickers and some Grey Love Letter stickers to spell out the names and the date. They are the perfect size to fit in the squares of the calendar. I also added some glitter sprinkles, regular sprinkles, rhinestones and stars for some extra dimension and bling!

That's all there is to it! I hope I have inspired you today to go pick up a whole years worth of these awesome calendar pages. These would make a great Christmas gift to give grandparents! Thanks for stopping by today! Happy Crafting!

Countdown Calendars by Kelly Brown

I am sure I have shared this link in the past, but I cannot get it out of my head how awesome the ideas of creating a "Countdown Calendar" from the Create-a-Card cards and envelopes. Kelly Brown, local blogger and paper crafter expert is often featured on a local lifestyle show called Studio 5 and she's famous for her countdown calendars. So I thought it would be fun to share some of my favorites with you and host some of our Design Team's takes on Countdown Calendars.

Check out Kelly Brown's blog here.

 To view more pictures of Kelly's Halloween Countdown from last year, check her blog post here.

Kelly recently featured some great Christmas Countdown Calendars on her blog that I couldn't resist sharing. If you'd like to see her step-by-step instructions on some of these great calendars, check her blog post here.

Kelly's latest Halloween Countdown episode on Studio 5....