As I mentioned yesterday, on Sunday I finished off my Perpetual Birthday Calendar with some friends. The October stamp is differing sizes of circles and I decided to use one of my favourite colour combinations – lost lagoon, pear pizzazz and pool party.

I started by stamping the month in lost lagoon and then added the circles first in pear pizzazz, then pool party and finally some lost lagoon. The lost lagoon star out of the kit just didn’t work for me and I hit upon pulling a piece of lost lagoon and white from the now retired Moonlight DSP stack since it was already out to make banners for March for those of the class copying what I’d done last year. I then coloured an O using the Stampin’ Write marker in pear pizzazz – I did this, rather than pat it onto an inkpad so that it wouldn’t get too dark. Once it was dry, I stuck it onto the banner. It needed a little something else so I went over the O with the clear wink of Stella. It adds the perfect finishing touch.

For $16 (plus postage and tax) it’s a really affordable kit – although you need the stamp set ($24) too if you want to follow the directions. Of course you could use another set if you had one for the months and decorate differently. An afternoon (or two) with friends making these kits is really fun, I recommend it. And if there are just two of you, the two kits plus the stamp set would be enough to get a Sale-a-bration freebie, always a good thing!

See you tomorrow,

Liz