July Calendar Girls Blog Hop!

Welcome to our July Calendar Girls' Blog Hop. Papercrafts Presents 365 Cards magazine which is our inspiration for these monthly hops which thus became the Calendar Girls. The magazine has Creative Ideas for every day of the year: occasions, holidays, and celebrations including 42 unique holidays!!! These unique holidays are our inspiration. The July unique holidays are:

July 14th Calendar Girls Blog Hop:

National Ice Cream Month: Lisa Woodward

1st: Happy Canada Day- Laura

4th: Independence Day - Lisa

6th: National Fried Chicken Day- Edwina

11th: Cheer up the Lonely Day - Angie

12th: Teddy Bear Picnic Day - Lisa

14th: National Nude Day - Miriam

20th: National Lollipop Day - Kimberly

23rd: National Hotdog Day - Janet

24th: Amelia Earhart Day   Anita  

25th: Threading the Needle Day - Lynne

28th: National Chocolate Milk Day - Kimberly

29th: National Lasagna Day - Lisa

30th: National Cheesecake Day -Janet

The hop starts with Lisa Woodward  (http://mycraftyspaces.blogspot.com/). You won't want to miss a single calendar event not to mention the weddings, graduations, birthdays -- ok, you get the idea!!!! 

The line-up for July includes:

Lisa Woodward: http://mycraftyspaces.blogspot.com/

Laura: http://lauraleesdream.blogspot.com

Lisa Peters: http://handmadewithlove-lisa.blogspot.com/

Edwina:  http://edwinascreations.blogspot.com/

Angie: http://atuttletime.blogspot.com/

Miriam: http://miriamscreations.blogspot.com/

Kimberly - http://scrappingrookie.blogspot.com/

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

Anita: http://www.anitaandbugs.blogspot.com/

Stop by and check out these holidays as I am sure you are going to want to remember these holidays and include them in your card making projects!!!!! 

We will have blog candy to the lucky recipient that remarks on each site along the way!

I scream you scream, we ALL scream for Ice Cream!  How can National Ice Cream Month not make you happy?  And in National Ice Cream month, not 1 or 2 scoops will do!  Today we have 5!

My recipe:

5 ½ x 7 ½ half fold card in black

printed mat paper 5 x 7 (my own design)

Ice cream with cone and layerable scoops (.svg file)

Cuttlebug “Dots” embossing folder

Cuttlebug “Swirls” embossing folder

Papers from my stash.

I embossed and inked the “scoops and pieced together with the cone.  I attached that with 3-d mounting squares on a curved rectangle, layered on my printed mat, then adhered to the card.  Very simply, but festive at the same time.  I think it’s the perfect balance of technique.  With the various colors, embossing, and print, any more would be busy, IMO.  I hope you enjoyed my card.  Now on to Laura at http://lauraleesdream.blogspot.com.  Thanks for stopping by and mark your calendar again next month to see what Holidays to Celebrate on August 11th for the next Calendar Girls Blog Hop!

Until next time

Craft Happy-

Lisa Woodward