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Perpetual Birthday Calendar
Years ago I purchased a kit from Stampin’ Up! that is a perpetual birthday calendar. Without years shown and without days of the week and with only the days of the month listed, I can pencil in birthdays and have a nice stamped wall hanging for the office. I held a class when the kit came out; you can see that post HERE.
The kits were unavailable by the time I advertised and collected the fee so I made my own calendar kit as close to the original as possible.
Such a fun memory, however I never completed my calendar. It is hard being a hostess and attempting to stamp a project at the same time, so my kit was put away to prepare for the next event. It is time to work on my PHD (projects half done) so, out came the kit, and I finished it.
The sheets are 4 1/4 X 10 3/4, two could be printed on a sheet of white cardstock – just remember to watch for the number of days in the month.
“Thirty days hath September, April, June and November, all the rest have 31 except February.”
Thanks, Sal, and February this year has 29 and my printout only has 28. The pdf file does have 29.
. The stamp set that went with the kit is The Perpeteual Birthday Calendar. It has fantastic background stamps you will see me use. However, through the years I have purchased so many additional stamps and dies that I had a plethora of things to choose from.
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October uses left over pieces from a Paper Pumpkin. November uses a tiny ‘thanks’ from Waterfront, an acorn from ‘Time of Year’, another paper pumpkin piece and Itty Bitty Banners. December used ‘Holiday Invitation’ for the holly leaves.
They are Sal, because I didn’t take time to straighten and size and brighten the color on each one. I just needed to journal them for future reference. I think the calendar would make a nice craft booth product. It is an office decoration more than a necessary birthday reminder since our smart phones do that, but it sure is a quick look vs several clicks on the phone.
And now you can pencil in names!
Yes, and I do use a pencil since we have had so many folks come and go in our lives.
March 7 we will be celebrating 17 years of being in this house! That is a record for us! All but two of the neighbors on either side of us, across from us and behind us are new from when we moved in.
. Ummmm…. and Paul’s birthday?
Yes, we closed on the house on his birthday so that will be a fun celebration as well.
SAL, Stamping A Lot of unfinished projects
Karen
Riddle for today:
I am an odd number. Take away one letter and I become even. What number am I?
Seven.
Perpetual Calendar Class
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
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