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I created this calendar as a Christmas gift for my grandmother. She doesn't really have space on her wall, or tables for a calendar so she always has a page on the fridge. I kept in mind space and weight concerns here - didn't want to take up the whole fridge, or pull the magnet off. The weight issue is why I didn't bind them together, this way she can put up one page at a time. The pages are 7.5 x 7 inches - big enough for her to read the numbers and even write a little if she wants, but small enough to not take up too much room on her fridge.

The month banners are my favorite part. I created them digitally. By performing a sepia action on the photos, cropping them to the appropriate size, then adding the letters, in a font, that I found on dafont.com called mkbats, that looks similar to the typewriter style font used on the WP Wonder Fall papers. The font was black and the letters were actually transparent, so I had to do a little bit of photoshop work to get them the right color brown and with a white background.

The calendars I created in Word using a template that I downloaded, then modified. I chose fonts that were pretty and matched the feel I wanted to create, but that would also be readable for my grandmother. I printed the calendars onto cardstock that I had already run through the printer once, to print a WP digital design on. For that background design I used one of the digital papers from the Life's Portrait collection. It was blue, but I changed the color to brown then lightened it up A LOT, so it gave just a slight design to the backgrounds of the calendars. For the background kraft cardstock, I chose three different designs from the Life's Portrait and Hollywood Vogue digital collections, changed the color to brown, lightened them up and printed them out on kraft cardstock. Then I alternated the three designs from month to month.

Next I cut out a TON of the floral edges from the Wonder Fall collection and started arranging them on the pages. At first I thought I was never going to have enough to do all 12 pages, but I realized that a lot of stuff was going to end up hidden under corners of the calendars and the titles, so I carefully cut those parts out before gluing down the edge. In that way, I stretched my floral designs to all 12 months! (I did have to end up piecing a couple of odds and ends together for the last page or two, but I don't think you will ever guess which pages those were because I didnt work in order and I dont think they look pieced together)

Next I went back and embellished. Since there was not a lot of room and I didn't want too much weight, I kept the embellishments minimal, but I used almost all of the stickers from the sticker sheet, some printed butterflies and birds from the Life's Portrait digital motifs, some punched borders, some trims and some bling.


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