Hey,
So this is a scheduled post as I am now in London.
Yes, sometimes I do forget I'm a crafter, especially when I see shiny, pretty paper goods and stationery on display in shops..
I like to have a calendar hanging on my pinboard above my craft / work desk and last year I had a cute one from Michaels that was a dollar.
It came with the handy clipboard that you can see in my main photo.
I've seen lots of really lovely small hanging calendars and have been tempted to buy one..then when I was taking down my 2015 one, I thought - hold on, why don't I make one for myself..idiot!
So I trawled around for a calendar style I liked (very fussy about this) and came across a fellow WOYWWer Scrappy Sticky Inky Mess - she has a whole host of fabulous free printables on her blog and I found one that had a blank space for you to decorate.
I printed it out and cut it down to fit the clipboard (recycling points) and then I added a swipe of distress stain to the top of each month, found appropriate stamps and voila 15 mins later I had a calendar...
Nice to be reminded of the fact that I have an entire craft room at my disposal..
Here are photos of all of the months..
I used all different stamps for my interpretation of the months..Sept is cake because it's my birth month :) I did notice that I need one more distress stain colour :) because I had to reuse a colour...excuses for spendy spendy...
Cx
Stamps are by - Lawn Fawn, Simon Says Stamp, Quick Cards, Paper Mania, Avery Elle, Avocado Arts.
You must have more distress inks than that, I don't believe that you had to reuse one. Love this idea though. It's simple but creative, quirky but straight forward. Why don't we do more simple things like this more often!? x
ReplyDeleteHa ha I do.. But these are stains.. I agree, we need to do simple stuff like this way more.. I have a project for us.. Cx
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