May bunting

I'll admit, that I chose bunting for this page, because I planned to post for the last weeks Craft Barn weekly challenge... I could probably have finished this by the deadline at midnight, but I don't want to loose my any sleep for crafting ( this isn't that serious, right?) so I'm settling for the Craft Barn calendar challenge (prompt words Magenta and Flowers) and the Rubberdance May challenge ( yellow, magenta, purple).

I am making a mixed media style calendar with old book paper as my personal choice for a theme that will tie the pages together. The background is purple watercolour and crackle paste through a TCW stencil. I cut my bunting from the old book paper (sermons from about 1840), stamped with a harlequin stamp from Rubberdance and sewed them in a line. 

I recently bought my first diecut machine, and took it out for the first time! I don't have many dies yet, but I bought this Lily of the Valley die because they happen to be my mom's favourite flowers and cutting was as easy as it should be. Just need to get over the fact that the plates get marks from the cutting... I drew the calendar grid by hand. It runs from Monday to Sunday, as calendars here do, and I also added the Finnish names that are set for each day, because it's always fun to remember a person on their nameday!

The previous pages for this calendar can be found here:
January
February
March
April