May Calendar Girls Blog Hop

Welcome to our May Calendar Girls' Blog Hop. It’s absolutely amazing when you do a Google search the interesting facts you may find. Such a find is special and unique occasions throughout the year!!! These unique holidays are our inspiration. As Neil Sedaka sang in his song "Calendar Girls" - "May, maybe I’ll ask your mom and dad . . .". Guess, you’ll have to come back to see what he’s going to ask your mom and dad in June . . . .LOL!!!

The hop starts with the beautiful and very talented Vicky.  The entire line-up is available just in case you get bogged down with all the holidaze and craziness at the bottom of this post!!!!

Holidays, Special and Wacky Days for May are:

National Barbecue Month: 

National Hamburger Month: Vicky

1 Mother Goose Day: Jearise

4 Bird Day:  Sandy

5 Cinco de Mayo: 

6 National Nurses Day:  Janet

8 Iris Day: Lynne

8 No Socks Day: Laura

9 Lost Sock Memorial Day: Sandy

9 National Train Day: Lynne

10 Clean up Your Room Day: 

11 Eat What You Want Day:  

13 Frog Jumping Day: Laura

12 Mother's Day: Kimberly

14 Dance Like a Chicken Day: 

15 National Chocolate Chip Day: 

16 Love a Tree Day:Anita 

20 Pick Strawberries Day: Sandy

23 Lucky Penny Day: 

25 National Missing Children's Day: Jearise

26 Sally Ride Day : Anita

27 Memorial Day:   Janet

30 Water a Flower Day: Kimberly

31 Save Your Hearing Day: 

31 World No Tobacco Day: 

This month, I did cards using my Cricut. They range from a basic 3 min card to a fancy fold one. As always let me know if you have any Cricut/Gypsy and/or CCR questions.

Here is my first card for May 4th BIRD DAY....

•  Black card stock for base
• Songbird for images and words
• Birdcages cut at 1.75" and words cut at 3/4"  (remember: height is from the highest to lowest point, in this case, the g and h letters)
• A sheet of pattern paper and just assemble.

Easy card to do, took all of 3 mins and that was after I chose my paper (that took the longest). Here is the inside...  I used my Gypsy to weld the letters together to say "a happy birthday to you", the font is Songbird also.

Next I have for you, May 9th, LOST SOCK MEMORIAL DAY...  This is a common occurrence at our house, so today is in honor of all those lost matches, RIP!

•  Using Gypsy or CCR, weld together two sock images to make the white card base.  I used footwear from Everyday Paper Dolls.
• The font is from Don Juan and "miss" is welded together
• The "o" is a 1" circle, stamped with Peachy Keen character face stamp (poor little guy)
• Using T.H. antique linen distress ink, color the card stock. Use antique linen distress marker and outline/"decorate" the poor sock.

Lastly, in honor of May 20th, Pick Strawberries Day, I have a cute bushel of strawberries for you...

• Basket cut from Doodlecharms, basket @ 2"
• Strawberry at 1" from Paisley cart.
• Sentiment font Designer's Calendar, letters sized 1" and welded together

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• piece together using foam dots for basket and bottom berry and place onto pattern paper

• inside layer has a journal tag from the paper pack, which is Summer Fresh from Simple Stories.

• here is the inside, as you can see this card is a pamphlet fancy fold...SURPRISE!!! lol

Card fold:

• start with 8.5" x 10.5" card stock
• score horizontally at 3.5" and 7" and fold at creases
• measuring down 2" from top of card, cut the left and right flaps horizontally (see above for example)
• finish card measure 3.5" x 8.5"

We are offering some fabulous blog candy to 3 lucky winners:

• Miriam's Crafting Supplies is offering ten (10) sets of pearls to one lucky winner by becoming a fan on her new blog, Miriams's Crafting Blog, http://miriamscraftingblog.com/, 

• The Stamping Chef,   http://thestampingchef.oo.gd/, is our wonderful sponsor for today's blog hop and has designed at least 4 of the images that have been used in today's hop. She is offering 3 of her wonderful designs, winner's choice to one lucky blog hopper that responds on each of the Calendar Girls along with her facebook page, https://www.facebook.com/groups/TSCRecipes/, commenting that you hopped with the Calendar Girls.

• Lynne will be going through her stash and sending one lucky winner a surprise package to someone that remarks and gives bloggie love on each of the participants.

Your next stop along the way of the calendar is Janet. Thanks for stopping by and mark your calendar again next month to see what Holidays to Celebrate on June 8, 2013, for the next Calendar Girls Blog Hop!

The line-up for May includes:

Crafting Vicky~http://crafting-vicky.blogspot.ca/

Jearise ~ http://lorbysworld.blogspot.com

Sandy ~- http://www.scrapbookblessings.blogspot.com

Janet ~ http://ladyluvbug.blogspot.com/

Lynne ~ http://slasewcraftiness.blogspot.com/

Laura - www.lauraleesdream.blogspot.com

Kimberly ~ http://scrappingrookie.blogspot.com

Anita ~  http://www.anitaandbugs.com

Hope you have a blessed day and thanks for stopping by,