The Greetery These are the Days Collection Release Day

Hello friends! I hope your week is off to a great start! Thank you so much for all of your sweet comments on yesterday's post! Today is the day that the These are the Days Collection is available for purchase starting at 10 am EDT! I have a bonus card to share with you today as well!

I was invited to a baby shower coming up in August and I thought it would be fun to make a card for the mom-to-be using the new calendar themed items! Since we don't know exactly WHEN the baby will be born, I thought it would be fun to make a shower card with her due date!

I loved some of the darker, moody calendar cards Betsy made for the release so I thought I would start with a darker panel for the calendar.

To begin, I used the Calendar Grid dies to cut the grid. I used the same popped up date like I did on the card I shared yesterday. I simply saved one of the pieces from the grid and stamped the date using the Calendar Basics stamp set.

Since the mom-to-be is expecting a baby girl, I chose some pink flowers to add to the calendar. There is an awesome sentiment from the "One Fine Day" stamp set that talks about the day you were born, so that would be perfect for a baby card once the baby is born, or for birthdays!

I used silver metallic ink for the September and "you'll remember always" sentiment.

I die cut the spiral binding and hanger from gold cardstock and added them with scotch tape to the back to add the binding and then liquid glue to add the hanger to the spirals.

I layered the calendar on a pink card base using foam squares.

This is such a fun and beautiful new release! Thanks for fluttering by!