Hello Stamping Friends,
‘Twas the week before class and all through the house this stamper wasn’t smiling she felt like a louse.
RSVP’s were in, the money was paid, but alas all seemed lost backordered kits were weeks away.
Ahhhh such was the situation as I prepared for the perpetual calendar class. With my DH’s help we decided we could make the kits ourselves.
I had purchased a kit during the preorder so I knew just what we needed.
For the box, we bought shirt boxes and cut them to 7 x 13 3/4 for the bottom and 7 1/8 x 13 7/8 for the lid. Each side was scored at 1″.
The ribbon holder was shaped like a barbell from a 5 1/4 x 2 1/2 Hello Honey card stock and wrapped with 36″ each of Gold Sequin Trim, Thick Twine, Baker’s Twine, and Lost Lagoon Ribbon.
Hearts were punched, feathers were stamped with Whisper White Craft Ink and then cut out with framelits, banners were made with 3/4″ strips, stars were cut with the stars framelits dies. I had the heart confetti and star confetti punch and made sticker sheets with the double back adhesive paper from which we punched stickers just like the kit.
The calendar sheets were made to fit two to a page – just slightly smaller than SU’s 4 1/2″ calendar sheets.
A nice cardboard backing was made from rectangular cake bases cut at 4 3/4 x 11 1/4.
The clip was a clothespin w/ blackboard found at the local hobby store.
I used MDS to create the label and Word to create the calendar sheets.
Here are those files should you choose to make your own perpetual calendar.
What a fun time we had and the stamper’s calendars looked great!
Have a great day!
SAL (Stamp A Lot, Smile A Little, Send A Letter, Share A Love!)
Karen
