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Happy 2012!

Hau'oli Makahiki Hou – or Happy New Year – All!

     I just love living in Hawaii, but especially in the winter when I don't have to deal with the snow – and where I can actually remember the season's greetings in Hawaiian!  Besides that, there are flowers everywhere, which is something I did not experience in January when I lived on the mainland.  While I'll share my New Year's card with you in a moment, I just have to share a photo of this flower, which is blooming right now where I can see it from my kitchen window.

     This lovely Bird of Paradise will be around for many days to come!

     Also around for many days to come is the year 2012.  I am ALWAYS needing a calendar.  Figuring out that many of my friends and customers could also use a calendar, I decided to make them a New Year's card with a calendar built in.  As I was running out of time for hand-crafted projects in 2011, I remembered that Stampin' Up!'s My Digital Studio now has a trifold card design that would be perfect for me to include a calendar!  So back I came to my computer and this is the card that I ended up making! 

     I sent quite a few of these out this morning, and I actually had time to make a "real" bow out of the Sale-A-Bration ribbon set that inspired the design of this card.  So this card is just a little bit hybrid – mostly digital, and a touch of "real."  The flower stamps and the papers, as well as the beautifully thin ribbon, are all going to be part of the 2012 Sale-A-Bration catalog – and you can get them all for free with qualifying orders during the Sale-A-Bration sales period!

     But back to the card.  I found a digital image of the 2012 calendar and put that in the middle section of the card.  I left a blank white space in the third section of the card for me to write a note when I send it out.  I just love the colors – and the Stampin' Up! printing service does a gorgeous job matching Stampin' Up!'s colors!

     Here is the back of the card.  If you want, you can print just as much on the back as on the front.  Fellow Stampin' Up! demonstrator, Patty Bennett, used this format to include lots of pictures of her and her family along with journaling about their 2011 activities.  Each panel is 3-1/2" high by 5" long, so plenty of space for that. I just wanted to show off the pretty papers that are going to be available!

     So here we are in 2012!  I hope that it's all that you want it to be – and that you'll have lots of time to have fun with paper crafting!

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