stamping seemed to be good idea...but...you need to find the perfect stamps...very difficult...especially if you want to have a calendar in german...i found some beautiful and affordable stamps in swedish and norwegian (i guess it was norwegian)...and i could have bought english stamps online from the states...apart from the shipping costs and that i most probably would have to personally claim it at customs...it would have taken ages to arrive...did i mention, i am quite late for making calendars???
anyhow...i found a stamp, i could sort of live with...as it was called stamping set, i assumed that it was a set (stupid me)...it came as one stamp...months, days and numbers in one stamp...okay...i still thought i could live with that...but the display seemed to be rather confusing and i decided to cut it apart.
...the idea was to create a stamp which shows the block if numbers the specific day and the month and i could rearrange it for every single day of the year...nice idea...but..this was quite time consuming too.
...so i thought i try another arrangement...inspired by a save the date wedding inivitation...it is so beautiful, i stuck to it.
as the month of january comes to an end...this will be my last calendar for this year and i guess there will be some more to come end of the year.
thank you very much for stopping by...i hope you enjoyed your visit...best regards...silke
this is what you need
- calendar stamp "set"
- small motive stamp (heart, star, flower, skull)
- three hundered and sixty five sheets of rather small paper
- black stamp ink
- coloured stamp ink
- hole puncher
- matching coloured crayon
- wooden paint stirrer or wooden spoon
- wood stain paint
- brush
- two nails
- hammer
this is what you have to do
- get your wooden paint stirrer or you spoon ready
- sand the wood thoroughly on both sides
- get your wood stain paint and your brush ready
- paint both sides of the wood
- it might look like this
- get your hammer and one of the nails ready
- hammer the nail in the miiddle of the frontside of the stirrer
- here we go
- get your papers and your hole puncher ready
- start punching one hole in the upper corner of each paper
- like this
- get your calendar stamp and your ink ready
- place the stamp in the middle of the paper sheet
- here we go
- repeat with the remaining papers
- get your smaller motive stamp and the coloured ink ready
- place the stamp onto the day, you want to highlight to mark the respective day of the week
- it could look like this
- and this
- repeat with the respective month
- here we go
- get your crayon ready
- mark the respective number
- hang the calendar sheets onto the nail of the paint stirrer
- hammer the remaining nail into your wall
- hang your wooden stirrer calendar onto your wall
- and that's it
i hope you enjoyed my last calendar for this year..best regards...silke
