January Desk Calendar

Today I'm sharing my desk calendar page for January. I've made one of these for myself for each of the last few years, and get the blank calendars from Paper Mill Direct. Once again, I'm going to use all Penny Black stamps, and picked the 'Birthday Bears' set to use for January. I stamped them on to a snippet of watercolour paper, and used the number stamps in the set to add the year, then coloured them using watercolour pencils, before arefully cutting them out. For the background, I used a snippet of star covered paper from the 'Shine Like the Stars' pad from The Works, matting it on to a snippet of kraft card, having distressed the edges a little. I added a little gold star left over from making these tags.

Challenges for this calendar:

• Crafting Happiness - Happy New Year
• Little Red Wagon - New Beginnings
• Simon Says Stamp (Wednesdays) - Something New (New Year)
• Time Out - Beginnings