the a muse calendars are here! for the last few years, a muse has created cute calendars and offered dowloadable variations for donations to worthy causes. this year the calendar is back (and bigger!) with proceeds going to water 1st. the calendar is offered in four different sizes, ready for you to put your creative stamp on it. since the calendar is a 16 month calendar, including the school year portion of 2009, i was inspired to create a school year at a glance calendar, using 10 of the months. the 4 bar size was just the right size for the job! here's a close up of the top section...
i mounted them onto three different petite gingham papers, adding a title on school lined card stock (of course!). words from the school time clear set were perfect additions to the birthday builder numbers to create a title: fun times '09 - '10 school is cool!" i had the most fun going through my a muse collection to find a stamp to represent each month. since i was mounting the calendars on full card stock, i wanted them to overlap the edge, so i focused on images that were bigger, and cut them out. but there are so many small images if you prefer to stamp right on the calendar. speaking of stamping on the calendar, i made note of special days on the calendar with two very small images. the mini solid apple (from the school time clear set) is stamped in red over first & last days of school, as well as conference days. tiny star, stamped in yellow, highlights days off; and stamped in blue, important special events and parties at or after school. the details of these events are on my iphone calendar, but it's nice to see the big picture at a glance!
you can see the close ups of the other two sections on the a muse news blog, so instead of showing you those again here, i wanted to share an additional tip for creating these. while the card stock is a nice and thick, it still bows a little under the weight of hanging from each other, so i added a strip of heavy duty cardboard to each section--at the top for the top piece, the bottom of the bottom piece, and the middle of the middle piece. i used the back of an old legal pad! the strips really help the calendar to hang nicely and lay flat against the wall. this was such an easy and fun project! and because the calendar is a download that i can print as much as i want, i can create more of these or something else completely different, like a purse calendar, a desk calendar, a planner, etc. the possibilities are endless! so head to a muse so you can donate & create, too...
:) lexi
