September complete, October, 2019 ready in my never ending calendar, and a tag, too

Since I have a few hours between Monday Murals and T Time, I though I should show my September calendar that is now complete, as well as my October calendar which is ready to be written in.

But first, I want to share a tag I made for Tag Tuesday.

Joan's theme this fortnight is Trees.  Additionally, Try it on Tuesday wants us to think Hot, Hot, Hot!  That's what I tried to do when I made this.

Another hole reinforcer I stamped, this time with a rubber stamp that has ancient words on it.  The camera was not my friend for this tag.

Unlike my American friends, I am NOT a fan of the word "Fall" replacing autumn.   However, I will gladly use it in this instance.

It's time for us to Fall into Autumn.  It's ironic and quite fortuitous that Moo Mania and More's theme this fortnight is Autumn Glory.  I'll be linking there, too.

Falling leaves help reinforce that.

However, the real focus should have been on the tree

now completely devoid of leaves

and heat embossed, too!

I finally got a decent photo of my stamped hole reinforcer,

so took an extra photo just in case!

For this tag, I began with a piece of used file folder that I painted using two colors of fluid acrylics: Quinacridone/Nickel Azo Gold and Red Iron Oxide.  Once the paint was dry, which was overnight, I sewed the black construction paper to the file folder using variegated thread.  To give a bit of additional color to the construction paper, I used the (only) decorative stitch on my sewing machine and sewed around the outside, again using the same variegated thread.  I printed the computer generated words using my laser printer, then attached them to heavy cardboard using PVA glue.  While those were drying, I used my handmade baby powder filled pouncer, then stamped the tree (very old wood mounted Stampington red rubber) using VersaMark.  I then added black embossing powder, but failed to remove all the excess bits as I should have.  Next, I added the words and the leaves using red liner tape.  I then stamped a hole reinforcer, punched a hole, and added it to the tag.  Finally, I added fancy fibers from my stash.

I hope you will join me at Tag Tuesday, Moo Mania and More, and Try it on Tuesday.  These three challenge blogs have very fine artists who make incredible art.

Now for my calendar pages as promised.

Sadly this shows how very boring my life is.  Feel free to enlarge to see the minutia.  This month was all about the art and autumn rolling in.

It's fairly obvious, October is all about pumpkins, black cats, and Halloween.

I'm quite sure I'm no better stamping than I was when I started this calendar last December, but I was also surprised how many stamps I had that I could use for a specific month.

Thanks for joining me as I shared my monthly never ending calendar.  You won't find it anywhere in the world, except on my blog.