Calendar - 3 Foot Accordion version

3 Foot Accordion Wall Calendar

Here is a very fun and fairly simple calendar to make. This project requires only 6 sheets of patterned cardstock. The final product also folds up flat to 6x12 which makes a great size if you are mailing it as a gift.

Supply List:
Patterned cardstock (Club Scrap)
Modge Podge
Acrylic paint
Calendar pages (you can download blank templates of calendars from Microsoft Office online)
Photos
Eyelets
Ribbon
Silk flowers (optional)

Tools needed:
Foam paint brush
Eyelet setting tools

Instructions:
1. Gather up 6 pieces of complimentary 12x12 patterned cardstock.

2. Determine grain of paper. You do this by hold the paper on one side, then the other direction, which ever side has the most *bend* to it, is the one you should fold on.

3. Fold 5 of the 6 sheets in half. The 6th sheet needs to be cut in half creating (2) 6x12 pieces.

4. Use bonefolder to reinforce folds.

5. On the backside of the pattern cardstock, apply a thin layer of modge podge to one side of it.

6. Add half of another page to that first sheet, creating a 3 panel section. Repeat process adhering back to back until you have a 6 panel section with an *unpatterned* panel on each end.

7. Once you have the 6 panel section together, be sure to flatten and hold flat while the modge podge takes hold.

8. Modge podge the blank unpatterned panels and attach the 2 pieces of 6x12 cut in step 3. Now you should have a accordion 6 panel project. All panels will have patterned paper on them.

9. Once the project dries, use acrylic paint and paint all the edges and folds.

10. Take your sheet of calendars – printed 4 months on one 8.5x11 sheet of cardstock – and cut out.

11. Ink edges of the calendar pages with brown ink.

12. Mat onto cardstock along with a photo, repeat for all months and set aside.

13. Using foam stamps and acrylic paint, stamp images and month names onto each section of the calendar.

14. Adhere the photo and calendar onto the each section of the calendar using modge podge.

15. Add eyelets and ribbon or fibers to allow for hanging on the wall.

Good luck and have fun!!
Debbie Weller
DebDuzScrappin.com

Calendar - Wallet size

This is a really simple - easy gift for say Teachers, or others in your life...

Supplies
Club Scrap's yearly digital Calendar kit
Cardstock
Hole punch
Ribbons
Ink
Scoring tool

1. Print out monthly calendars onto cardstock and trim them all out to the same size. Ink edges.

2. Score each page about 1.5 inches from the left edge.

3. Punch three holes. Add ribbons.

Good luck and have fun!! Debbie Weller aka DebDuzScrappin

Altered - Clipboard - Calendar

"Altered Clipboard" Flip Photo Calendar

Supplies:
7x7 Clipboard: Club Scrap
Pesto; Cranberry; and Eggplant Inks: Ranger
Black ink: Superior Palette Noir Black
“2006,” “Calendar,” “screws,” “numbers” rubberstamps: Club Scrap
“Month words” stamps: My Sentiments Exactly
Crackle Medium: Craft Store
Acrylic paint: Delta
Metal binder: Dollar store
Silk flowers: Dollar Store
Zig Marker
Sizzix page tabs diecut
Quickutz photo corners diecut
Ribbons: Lil Davis, Michaels, Club Scrap
Chain: Club Scrap

Instructions:

1. Paint clipboard brown. Let dry.
2. Paint clipboard with crackle medium. Follow instructions on bottle. Let dry.
3. Paint clipboard cream. Let dry. It will crackle.
4. Drill 2 holes in the upper right and upper left hand corners. Tie various ribbons and fibers to the clipboard.
5. Take a green silk flower and a burgundy silk flower apart and intermix them – put them back together and adhere to clipboard handle.
6. Take a cheap address book from the dollar store and tear it apart, getting just the metal binder.
7. Cut 13 sheets of patterned cardstock 4.25in x 4.75in in green, blue, and burgundy.
8. Punch 6 holes across the top of each sheet matching up with the binder. Rubberstamp “screws” over top of the holes in eggplant.
9. Ink all edges of the 13 sheets alternating between eggplant, cranberry, and pesto inks.
10. Place the 13 sheets into the binder.
11. For the cover, rubberstamp “2006” on different colors of scraps, cut out and ink edges. Adhere to a mat on cover sheet.
12. Cut 12 sheets 3.25in x 4.25in in cream cardstock. Rubberstamp “calendar” on each one. Ink edges in the three inks.
13. Stamp “numbers” onto the calendar pages and adhere to pages in the binder. Add page corner diecuts for embellishments.
14. Stamp “month word” on cream cardstock, ink edges and adhere to pages for each month.
15. Cut and mat various small photos to the pages for each month.
16. Diecut page tabs and handwrite in the months on both sides, adhere to appropriate pages.
17. Run chain through the metal binder and you can hang the ‘closed’ calendar around the metal handle on the clipboard, or use the clip to hang the “opened” calendar pages.
18. Hang on wall and enjoy for a whole year.

Good luck and have fun!!
Debbie Weller
DebDuzScrappin.com

"Advent Tree" Altered Cookie Sheet

"Advent Tree"
Altered Cookie Sheet

Supplies:
1 metal baking pan
Alcohol Inks: Ranger Industries
Inks: Ranger Industries
Plastic Disks: Rollabind
Glossy Accents: Ranger Industries
Small circle magnets:
Glue Dots
Rubberstamps: Club Scrap
Pattern paper: Club Scrap
Modge Podge
Polycrylic Gloss Overcoat

Instructions:

1. Using felt applicator, and a q-tip as needed, apply cranberry alcohol ink to the edges and inside of the metal baking pan. Let dry.
2. Cut background pattern paper to fix the backside of the metal pan, round corners. Ink edges.
3. Apply a coat of modge podge to the backside of the metal pan, put down the pattern paper, apply another coat of modge podge. Let dry.
4. Take pattern paper with the tree image, and carefully tear out the tree. Ink edges of the torn image.
5. Apply a coat of modge podge to the backside of the tree image and lay image down onto the background paper, apply another coat of modge podge over tree image.
6. Take pattern paper with ‘presents’ images, cut out presents, ink edges.
7. Stamp an image of the “sled” on the red cardstock and the “star” on cream cardstock, trim out image, ink edges.
8. Apply a coat of modge podge to the backside of the “presents” and “sled” images and lay images down onto the background paper at the base of the tree, place the “star” at the top of the tree, apply another coat of modge podge over these images. Let dry.
9. Once completely dry, spray entire backside of pan with a clear polycrylic protective spray. Do 2-3 coats, allowing appropriate dry time in between coats per instructions on canister.
10. To create the “ornaments,” get 25 white rollabind disks. Using alcohol inks, color the oraments with eggplant, caramel, cranberry, and pesto. Let dry.
11. Punch small cream colored circles that fit inside the rollabind disks.
12. Stamp numbers 1 through 25 onto the circles.
13. Put a drop of glossy accents into the rollobind disc, then place the circle punch in, press into the glossy accents, finish by covering the circle with a coat of the glossy accents. Let dry.
14. On the backside of each rollabind disc, use 3D glue dots to attach magnet discs.
15. If your pan doesn’t have a hole in the upper handle, you can drill one. Now you can hang on the wall. You can store all the magnets on the inside of the pan and add them one at a time for each day to the front of the pan on the “tree”.

Good luck and have fun!!
Debbie Weller
DebDuzScrappin.com

Calendar - Perpetual

Here is a fun project from Club Scrap's "Refresh" Stamp Kit project...it is a perpetual calendar - how nice is that? Use it year after year - add all your dates to remember and hang'r on the wall!!

Christmas - Advent Calendar - 12 days of Christmas

12 Days of Christmas Advent Tree

I thought this was the cutest idea. You can create even bigger sandwiches with two drawers on each side, creating a 24 drawer tree with an extra matchbox on the tip top for 25 if you wanted to do a full months worth of drawers. I think my kids are going to have a great time with this during the holidays as I will be putting little notes and/or sweets in each drawer for them to find. Most all materials used in this project are from Club Scrap.

Supply List:
-Patterned paper: Club Scrap
-Cardstock: Club Scrap
-Rubberstamps: Club Scrap
-Ink: Brilliance Gold
-Gold Accent Pen: Impress
-Mat board
-Modge Podge
-Crafter’s Pick Ultimate Glue
-Wooden drawer pulls or rubber ‘feet”
-Gold spray paint
-Glue dots
-Double sided red tape (Art Accentz)
-Small Matchbox Template
-Medium Matchbox Template
-Large Matchbox Template
-Quikutz Paige Numbers
-Sizzix Christmas light & Star die cuts
-Xyron

Instructions:

1. Create (4) small matchboxes, (4) medium matchboxes, and (4) large matchboxes using matchbox templates.

2. Fold drawer and slider cut outs into matchboxes. Adhere edges using glue dots. Ink edges of both sliders to distress.

3. Rubberstamp gold images of tree sprig onto the outer edge of matchbox that will be showing on the final piece. Repeat on all boxes and let dry.

4. Cover all 6 pieces of mat board with pattern paper. To do this, cut pattern paper larger than mat board by 1 inch on all four sides. Apply modge podge to mat board and place in center of pattern paper. Hold flat for a few seconds. Trim all four corners at an angle. Use modge podge and apply to the four flaps and fold over the mat board, holding in place until secure. Repeat on all pieces of mat board.

5. Take the 4 small matchboxes and place in a square, end of box to side of box all the way around. Making sure the rubberstamped images are on the outside and that each box drawer opens out one way. Use modge podge and apply to bottom side of the mat board pieces and make sort of a sandwich. Mat board – 4 boxes – Mat board sandwich. Hold the whole sandwich together while the glue sets up. You can carefully place under a heavier object to dry. Repeat with other two sets of four boxes and their associated mat board pieces.

6. While your sandwiches are drying, take your rubber or wooden “feet” and spray paint gold. Paint all sides and let dry thoroughly.

7. Once your three sandwiches are dry. Flip to the bottom side and use Crafter’s Pick glue to adhere the gold feet, one in each of the four corners of you box sandwiches. Let dry.

8. Use your Sizzix machine and cut out 12 gold Christmas lights and 4 large gold stars.

9. Use your Quikutz tool and cut out the numbers 1-12 using the green cardstock. Run numbers through the Xyron machine and place onto the Christmas lights.

10. To create the ‘handles’ for the drawers, use scrap pieces of ¼ inch wide strips about 1.5 inches long. Bend in half and use double sided sticky tape to stick to the back of the Christmas light and the inside of each drawer. Now you can use the light bulb to pull and the drawer will slide open.

11. To create the star topper. Take all four stars and score a line down the center of each one. Fold the stars in half. Adhere two stars together first, then the other two stars. Now take a piece of scratch gold paper and cut a piece about ¾ inch by 8 inches. Fold in half and glue together. Now glue the two sets of stars together placing the 4 inch piece of gold for a base. Small bits of while may be showing on the star where they don’t match up perfectly. Trim as necessary, then outline the entire star with a gold accent pen.

12. Carefully, using an exacto knife, cut a 5/8 ths inch slit in center of smallest box sandwich to slide the star into.

13. Now you can stack the three sandwiches, star on top and you have an adorable little Advent Christmas tree where you can place small sentiments, sweets, or surprises.

If you decide to try this project - email me and I will email you back the templates for the matchboxes.

Have fun and good luck!
Debbie Weller
DebDuzScrappin'

Project Tutorial - "Planner" Box

"Planner" Altered Index Card Box

Supplies:

Pattern paper
File box (holds 5x8 index cards)
Modge Podge (MP)
Foam paint brush
Silk flowers
Brad
Crafter’s Pick glue
Foam stamps
Acrylic paint

1. Measure you file box and cut pattern paper to fit.
2. Apply a coat of MP to file box, add pattern paper. Hold paper firmly to box for a few seconds, while the MP sets up.
3. Once it sets up a few minutes, add another coat of MP over top of the paper. Let dry.
4. Repeat until the entire box is covered with pattern paper.
5. Using foam brush, paint acrylic paint onto the face of the foam stamps and stamp “Planner” on the front of the box. Using decorative foam stamps, stamp additional decorative images around the box.
6. Using a brad, create a layer silk flower and attach to box using crafter’s pick glue.
7. Use a 5in x 8in index card as a template to cut cardstock and create pages for inside the box.
8. I used MS Word (using word art) to create the “month” tabs, I created the words so that they would fit perfectly in my circle punch, and punched them out. I created two sets of each month, one for the front side of the card, and one for the backside. I then ran all the punched circles through my Xyron to make them sticky and added them to my cards.
9. On one side of my divider cards, I put a plain mat for a photo and then a decorative tag. On the other side I put a calendar. You can download different versions of calendars on Microsoft’s website under templates.
10. I then created two more cards for each month, one for “Birthdays/Anniversaries” and one for “To do list”. I still wanted lines on them, so I cut an original lined index card down to fit on the blue cardstock. I then embellished all of the cards with flowers and brads and such.

Other fun options: Try doing a “Card Keeper” box. You can create a side for the ‘months’ and one side by ‘type of card’ like birthdays, thank you’s, congratulations, anniversaries, blank, thinking of you, etc. Creating it with two sides, allows you to change your mind and/or give it as a gift where they can chose how they like to store their cards. If your box is large enough, you could do both.

Good luck and have fun!!
Debbie Weller
DebDuzScrappin.com