Six Chicks Project Parade!!!

Good Morning, Happy Sunday and Happy December 6!!!! It's that time of month again when the Limelight DT get's to dazzle you with our monthly projects. This month our theme is anything to do with Calenders. Right away I knew what I wanted to do.

I have this neighbor who is wonderful about remembering birthdays. She sends a little something to each of our family member's on their special day. I want to be better at remembering birthday's, so I have been wanting to make one of these birthday date folders for some time. I thought this would be the perfect opportunity to make myself a little something cute to help me remember all the birthday's in my life. It was so easy to do with all the coordinating products Limelight Papercrafts carries. Actually, that was the hardest part for me, choosing which papers I wanted to use. I went with the Jillibean Soup products, most of them from the Lentil Soup line. Chocolate and olive are two of my favorite colors to work with so I knew this would be perfect. The template is a My Timeless template, it's the Recipe Wrap Up. There are 4 little pockets on the inside which hold the lined, month cards. I then can write the person's name and their birth date for their birthday month and I now have them all in one place. Here's a close up of the monthly cards. The template I used had the year printed on them, so I covered 'em up with a 3/4 circle since I don't need this 1 year, I get to use this over and over.

There are many different panels you can decorate on this template, I left a few of them plain, used 4 of them for the pockets and then did up 2 of them with large paperclips if I needed to add any notes or bits of paper along the years.

So here you have it, a great way to make a coordinated birthday date book. here's all the supplies I used:

CS: Kraft, olive, and chocolate chip cs, Jillibean Soup dp

Ink: white gel pen

Accessories: Bean stalks, cool beans, scalloped border punch, various circle punches, janome sew mini.

Be sure to see what the rest of the team came up with for this month's challenge. It's the perfect time to get started on next year's calender projects!!!!

Limelight Papercrafts Blog ~ Mandy
Altered Ambitions ~ Christi
Caffinated Cropper~ Amy
dahlhouse designs ~ Lisa
My Little Creative Escape~ Lisa
RyannMarin Designs ~ Ryann
Taylor~Made by... ~ JenMarie

and our December guest: JULIE SMITH

Limelight Papercraft specials:

On sale through Wednesday , 12/10:
All Basic Grey Eskimo Kisses, Nook & Pantry, and Wassail - 15% off!
All Pink Paislee Mistletoe & Co. - 20% off!
Open Stock Jillibean Soup 12x12 patterned papers - Buy 3, Get 1 Free! (Enter your choice of free Jillibean Soup papers in the Comments section at checkout!)

I love to share a Good Thing.

I know it seems like I buy a lot (I do, but truly I pride myself on the fact that I do use everything I purchase, at least once, LOL!). BUT (and there's always a but isn't there) I am not an impulse buyer. I think I have told you all this before. I really think about how much I will really use what I purchase. This is why I have not yet tried any of the My Timeless templates by Lauren Meader (carried by Papertrey Ink). I have loved the idea of them and really love what she has done with them, but I just didn't think they were for me. Boy, was I wrong! Yesterday I decided to finally try one out. For $5 I figured I had not a lot to lose, plus I knew it would work perfectly for the baby note cards I was making for my friend. I chose the All boxed up template since I do a lot of gift note packages and sell some too. The first thing that made me excited was once I paid for the template it was mine (I'm such an instant satisfaction kind of girl, lol!). I downloaded it, printed it and created with it. Here's what I did with it!First is the card I made. My girlfriend is having a baby shower today and I always like to make up a set of thank-you's she can use after the baby is born (there are always tons of thank-you's to write). I know the nursery is done up in light blues, greens and browns and stars! My cards played on those themes. I also just love this little hippo from Pun Fun (all supplies are SUO!) for baby cards. I paper pieced him with a bashful blue dot pattern from the soon-to-be-retired, Summer Picnic dsp pack. Isn't he just the cutest? These cards went together so fast. The stars were cut with my big shot and the Stars #2 die.
Here is the completed All Boxed Up, MyTimeless template! I decided to keep it simple for myself and used the same design on the outside of the box. I also included a photo of the inside of the box. I made this whole project, along with 8 cards and matching envelopes in about an hour (that includes the design process of the card).

I know the girls will just squeal when they see this today. I just love how it turned out and am thinking I need to make myself a set of notecards. Go check out the templates, find one that is right for you and give a try. These are my personal feelings on this product, I don't work for Papertrey Ink (boy wouldn't that be a dream come true, :) or Lauren Meader. I just like to share a good thing when I find one! Have a wonderful Sunday! Hugs, Lisa