Happy October everybody!

Thanks to Marlies (aka MK-Designs) for this awesome calendar design, I was able to make the 2011 CD calendar. Geez~, 2011 already!

Calendar 2011 by MK-Designs

Printed on River Linen paper from Red River Paper.

After I made the calendar, I thought this would be a perfect gift for Mia. So I made a matching 4×4 card to send with the calendar. She was diagnosed with a brain tumor. She is a 6-year-old niece of an awesome card maker, Susie. I was going to send her a card a while ago, but if you know me, you know how I procrastinate! *sigh*

This is for Kelleigh Ratzlaff Designs newest release template, Top Heavy Bag. I used the smaller template. What a cute way to give a small size gift to someone =).

Check out Perfect Pumpkin template, also released today. I’ll be back with my creation tomorrow~. Thank you!!!

Digi paper: Oh Girl Page Kit by Julia Makotinsky from Little Dreamer Designs;
Brad: Sassafras Dainty Dots;
Ribbon: BasicGrey’s collection of INFUSE.

I’ve never believed in my color printer. I have HP Officejet Pro K550. It didn’t print well. I mean, it printed the black and white very well, but not the colors. So I used this color printer mainly to print black and white documents, urmmm… like Michael’s and A.C. Moore coupons.

Well, it wasn’t the printer’s fault. I was using the wrong kind of papers! After reading TheDigiChicks blog, I bought Epson Premium Presentation Matte Photo Paper. And, oh boy oh boy~! Did it make a difference! I have about, urmmm… over 2,000 digi papers, so I’ll be printing a lot of those from now on!

Bailey is eating a rice cracker. Kyle took the photo.

And, I switched the rice cracker with sweet orange slices, heehee.

Stamps: Citrus Sets and Bubble-ma-jig from Purple Onion Designs.
I was mesmerized by Kim Teasdale‘s creations using Tombow markers, I gave it a try. And I colored the edges with markers (the technique I learned from Purple Onion Designs’ blog).

Base green cardstock: Prima Marketing Rock on Rock Out Collection;
Digital patterned papers: Sugar Maple and Sweet Pea kits by Cory Gammon from ScrapArtist.com;
Coloring: Tombow markers with BrusH2O on Canson Watercolor 90lbs paper

THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!