Inspire Me Thursday- Calander

A couple weeks ago a prompt was given to create an art calender on Inspire Me Thursday.  I really liked the idea because I make calendars each year as gifts for my family.  My hope is to do something a little different for the next batch, so this was a good excuse to experiment a bit.  Sorry Mom, you're getting a preview!

For this page I designed a calender layout in a graphics/photo program (Comic Life) and then added photos to some of the squares.  I printed out the page and then added color with watercolor pencils and pastels.  The flowers that overlap the date squares are from an old card.  And of course it wasn't complete without pieces of text and a few illustrations from a vintage text book. 

I think that this really gives me a direction for my gift calendars.   I'll have to do something different for one of my grandmothers as she uses the date space to journal.  Everyday she writes a little bit of something on her calendars.  She's done this for years and years. 

As I was thinking about Grandma it occurred to me that I wanted to do a calender for myself, which really was what the prompt for Inspire Me Thursday was to do anyway (more or less!).   My thought is that I'll make it a goal to take at least one picture or scan an image for each day and then choose an image that sums up the day for me.   I'll post these once a month I think. 

Hmm...this layout is actually a nice one to start with.  It's really a summary of pictures and projects from over the last year.  The photo of the daisy in the middle is the image used for my first response to an Inspire Me Thursday prompt, which I have now done for exactly a year!