I decided that it was time to move on a little with my perpetual birthday calendar project and so here’s August.

I got the colours from a piece of Painted Petals DSP – I’m using blackberry bliss, blushing bride and rose red. I started by stamping the butterflies at the bottome right hand corner of the calendar – the blackberry bliss butterflies were stamped off once so that the colour blended better with the other pinks. I also punched out a few small butterflies out of card and added a couple.

I then turned my attention to the top and carefully marked the centre in pencil and then stamped August in blackberry bliss. After a few minutes I went to erase the pencil mark and smudged the stamping. This is a good example of the oft cited “there are no mistakes in stamping”! I found my elegant butterfly punch (the small ones couldn’t cover the word, thank goodness this wasn’t November!) and fortunately this covered the smudge. This time I decided to stamp the month in rose red. I then added masses of butterflies in the three colours.

See you tomorrow,

Liz