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2012 CALENDAR GIRLS Blog Group - FULL with 10 members
We are the Calendar Girls... and this is our second year of existence. Who are the Calendar Girls? We are a group of bloggers who want to have a place where friendships blossom, creativity abounds, and encouragement prevails! In keeping with that dream, this blog group has been created so we will have a place to interact and enjoy being fellow bloggers.
We have a theme song (found by our own Sweet P) - it's called Calendar Girls
so it is "our" song!
The guidelines for this group are fairly simple:
1. Each member MUST have a blog (it’s a blog group, after all) and members need to post to their own blogs at least once or twice a week.
2. Each member needs to become a follower of the blogs of all the members. (It would also be great if members would place links of the blogs – a blog list – in the sidebar of their own blogs.)
3. Each member needs to visit the blogs of the other members at least once or twice a week and barring unforeseen circumstances, members should leave a comment on the blogs at least every week. (Encouragement is such a wonderful thing!)
4. I will open/host an SCS thread for the blog group (here it is!). It is a place where the members can post links to resources, challenges the others might like to participate in, information about publication calls or DT calls, blog candy, and such, etc. I foresee the SCS thread as a place of friendship!
5. Each month the Blog Group would have a challenge among themselves. One member each month would be the hostess of the challenge. That simply means she is the one who chooses the Challenge theme. It could be a seasonal theme (Autumn), a holiday theme (Christmas), a color theme (purple and white), a technique theme (embossing), a theme using a particular type of embellishment (glitter), an inspiration theme (a photo that inspires the creation), a special theme (anything but a card), etc. Each member would choose her own products and way of interpreting the theme. These creations would be posted to the blogs of the members on a pre-determined day.
6. Other ideas could be generated among the group for ways to strengthen the blog group and these might be added to the guidelines at a later time.
At this point we are semi-active. We will officially begin in January. But for now we will chat, enjoy each other's company, select a name for our blog group, and decide who will host the challenges in which months.
Oh, and we'll have lots and lots of fun!!!
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Here is the list of SCS names of the group members in case you need to copy/paste them into a new PM message: Aprilo ; barbaralynn ; momcgw ; djones ; Forest Ranger ; MiamiKel4 ; pattem ; Sama ; BlueInks ; terry0926
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Blog Group Challenge Hostesses
January - Jeanette
February - Kelly
March - April
April - Terry
May - Barb
June - Carol
July - Michelle
August - lil' dj/Debbie
September - Paola/Sweet P
October - Tami
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Saved for January - March Themes
Our January Theme
It’s time for our first challenge of 2012. Can you believe we’ve now been together as a blog group for an entire year? That is exciting! I want to celebrate who we are and the fun we’ve had together. Sooooooooo my challenge for January is this: Something New Using Something Old!
What do I mean by that? This isn’t exactly what it seems. It’s not a vintage theme, though you can make your card/project vintage if you’d like. What I do want you to do is look back over your Calendar Girl posts/creations from the year 2011 and choose one of the images you used. Then I want you to create something entirely different with the same image. It cannot look at all like the previous Calendar Girl creation; nor can you use the same papers/embellishments/etc.
When you post to your blog – on January 28 – I want you to also post a picture of your 2011 card/project that used the same image so we can see the two and how different they are.
I hope you are up to the challenge! I can’t wait to see your Something NEW Using Something OLD!
Our February Theme
** Show us how FURRY you are! **
Hee hee! It’s February, a month that symbolizes
LOVE. When thinking of a theme for this month’s
Challenge, I knew I wanted us to get happy with
the furry ones! My challenge for you this month is: Show some
LOVE to our furry animals! I love them great and small,
Short and tall – furry and fluffy! I am also
sure at one point we have all had a special pet that we have loved,
or maybe still do have a pet (or a bunch!) So let’s show them
some love! I challenge you to show us fur, your fluff, your waggin’ tails! The possibilities are endless – from doggies to cats, mice to turtles – in one case, a spider! (lil dj!!) LOL! Let’s bring some creativity to making a card (etc) with any image showing us a pet (including if you don’t actually own one!)
** For an extra part of the challenge, since it is February, please try to include the color RED on your card somewhere (coloring of the image, your DSP, cardstock, embellies – just a touch (or a lot!) of red.
Please post your cards to your blogs on February 28th ! I hope you LOVE
this challenge this month and LOVE creating with FUR and FLUFF!
Kelly (Miss February)
Our March Theme
And now the moment you have been waiting for.....
Drum roll, please.....
This month's challenge:
{In another thread, we were talking about what kind of challenges we like best and that is where I got this idea}
I want you to make a birthday card based on your date of birth.
I would love you to use two parts of your birthdate and use the corresponding color and sketch challenges available on the forums.
So, my birthday is 3-8-67.....either 3, 8, or 67 would be the color challenge and either of the two remaining would be the sketch challenge.
My choices could be: 3/8, 3/67, 8/67; or the reverse of these combos for color/sketch or sketch/color.....
Clear as mud, right?? Use two parts of your birthdate and the corresponding challenge to make a birthday card!
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Saved for April - June Themes
April Challenge
What is a Barn Quilt? A barn quilt is an 8 foot by 8 foot replica of a quilt block made of plywood and hung on the side of old barns here in Wisconsin. There are hundreds throughout the state and I love seeing them up close and personal. Here are some examples (the first picture I pass every day):
My challenge to you is to use one of the following quilt blocks to create this months card:
Terry (Miss April)
Okay, Jeanette here. I can't seem to figure out how to insert the photos Terry gave us, so please go to Post #810 to see what she's challenging us with this month. Sorry!
May Challenge
Here is the Challenge for the Month of May…………. Memorial Day--a day of honor, remembrance, family picnics, parades, flags placed at cemeteries, concerts and the unofficial start to summer! So the challenge this month for the Calendar Girls is to ink up a patriotic stamp, get out the red/white/blue paper and DSP to post a card that shouts respect to your country and those who have served in the past. I would also like you to note in your post on the 28th what is in your plans this year or what typically has been part of your celebration in the past years on Memorial Day. Paola--my challenge to you is to also show us your Canadian Patriotism with a card that reflects the colors and images that you are proud of.
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Okay, here it is..... our January theme!
It’s time for our first challenge of 2012. Can you believe we’ve now been together as a blog group for an entire year? That is exciting! I want to celebrate who we are and the fun we’ve had together. Sooooooooo my challenge for January is this: Something New Using Something Old!
What do I mean by that? This isn’t exactly what it seems. It’s not a vintage theme, though you can make your card/project vintage if you’d like. What I do want you to do is look back over your Calendar Girl posts/creations from the year 2011 and choose one of the images you used. Then I want you to create something entirely different with the same image. It cannot look at all like the previous Calendar Girl creation; nor can you use the same papers/embellishments/etc.
When you post to your blog – on January 28 – I want you to also post a picture of your 2011 card/project that used the same image so we can see the two and how different they are.
I hope you are up to the challenge! I can’t wait to see your Something NEW Using Something OLD!
YAY!!! Deb's here, too! So glad you like the theme!
Liked it so much. Went and looked at my old cards, found an image and made my "new" card. YAY!!! Actually, made two of em, but didn't like the first one so much...
Great theme...and I need a jump start to get my mojo going...thank you for that jump start!!!
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Debbie - little dj
BLOG:The Ink Igloo
BRAK Member
"Feed your faith and your doubts will starve to death."
"I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble."
Helen Keller
"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those that mind don't matter, and those that matter, don't mind." Dr. Seuss
Miss September here!
Happy New Wonderful Year to all of US ♥
...and what an AWESOME theme to start our new year as CG group!!
♥ Love it Jeanette!! woot!!!♥
Hi Tami... no, that isn't bad. I'm pretty sure most of us would be that same way; I know I am!
Yikes....I took a peek last night. I don't have much to choose from! Why is that?! Like five things. A few of the five were images I received in an image swap, so no more. I am down to two and will have to make due! If nothing else I could write a rhyme! I'm such a dork!
I'm late, I'm late, I'm late....................................... but I am here!
Great Challenge Jeanette!
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It’s time for our first challenge of 2012. Can you believe we’ve now been together as a blog group for an entire year? That is exciting! I want to celebrate who we are and the fun we’ve had together. Sooooooooo my challenge for January is this: Something New Using Something Old!
What do I mean by that? This isn’t exactly what it seems. It’s not a vintage theme, though you can make your card/project vintage if you’d like. What I do want you to do is look back over your Calendar Girl posts/creations from the year 2011 and choose one of the images you used. Then I want you to create something entirely different with the same image. It cannot look at all like the previous Calendar Girl creation; nor can you use the same papers/embellishments/etc.
When you post to your blog – on January 28 – I want you to also post a picture of your 2011 card/project that used the same image so we can see the two and how different they are.
I hope you are up to the challenge! I can’t wait to see your Something NEW Using Something OLD!
What a fun theme!!! I will have to look and see what I even made, lol! You set the bar high!!!!
Girls, it will be fine. Makes you think outside the box...and that is always a good challenge. You are all super creative and you will master this challenge.
Forest, don't feel bad...it's a great challenge.
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Debbie - little dj
BLOG:The Ink Igloo
BRAK Member
"Feed your faith and your doubts will starve to death."
"I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble."
Helen Keller
"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those that mind don't matter, and those that matter, don't mind." Dr. Seuss
__________________ Barb's Inky BlogClick for my Gallery BRAK Coordinator-We'd like you to join us--PM me for info...........Donate to a Ronald McDonald House-click Here
Girls, it will be fine. Makes you think outside the box...and that is always a good challenge. You are all super creative and you will master this challenge.
Forest, don't feel bad...it's a great challenge.
I am DITTOING everything Deb said! U girls are soo talented!!
Whew, finally made my way over to my blog to post my card (which was done, btw, before we left!) My camera is a mess, but I managed to get a few semi decent pics to post ...........
So who wants to see what my WORD from Jeanette is?!!!! I am so excited to have put it to paper when I finally figured out where I was going with MY WORD You'll have to scroll down through my New Year's post but it's there. Off to blurf and see what ya'll made - I have not blogged, or visited blogs, or peeked at your cards, but did see in the thread that my word distressed our lil April - I'm so sorry! I didn't mean for it to cause you confusion I actually got the word from my daughter when I asked for a word as we drove down the road. Before I could say "for a card" she quickly said "Masterpiece!" and it stuck
2012 CALENDAR GIRLS Blog Group - FULL with 10 members
Okay, here it is..... our January theme!
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