Pimp your (free) calendar

Every year I receive these free

calendars from our garage and they

are wonderful to decorate to your

own liking.

(if you don't get them, you can also

buy them rather cheap in the bookstore)

 

The calendar part usually is pnly fastened

to the back with 2 stapels. So after opening

these, you can take this part of and

put away until the end.

(Just don't forget to keep the holes!)

The back of the calendar is now ready for decorating.

You can paint it, decorate it with one

piece of (scrap)paper or like I did with a

few pieces of decorated paper.

When i had them all gluied to the cardboard

I used a little gesso over the top, to soften the color

and to make it easier to stamp on.

Around the border I added some vintage distress ink.

 

For the top of the calendar I used the Stampin'Up!

pendant punch, an oval punch

and Michael Strong's oval Numbers

and Cloisonné Cranes

and a word stamp.

You can see I embossed all the stamps on different papers

and cut or punched them out before arranging

it on the back pannel.

I went on by stamping a little

on the background using some Tim holtz stamps

and a circle stencil to give it an overal look

like it was one piece of paper.

On the bottom iI added a strip of one of the

long tim holtz die cuts.

 

Then I stamped Michael Strong's new little elephant stamps

a few times on dark grey paper to have them on the bottom

underneath the calendar. I also stamped one large elephant

to be the head of the heard.

 

I did not like to have just something on the top and bottom, so

leaves were stamped, embossed and cut out to go

along the calendar.

After aranging everything like I wanted it,

I glued everything to the cardboard

and it was time to add the calendar again.

Open the stapels real straight and

have them go through the holed front to back.

Close the staples on the back with plyers or screwdriver.

Now your calendar is finished and just have to

wait a month to hang it and start using it.

 

A close up to the bottom with the elephants.

A close up to the leaves and the flowers I  added.

 

Hope i have giving you some inspiration.

Have fun playing!

 

 

Have a creative day!