The Calendar Card
Posted: January 9, 2025 Filed under: Collage cards, simply perfect mix & match sentiments, Spellbinders | Tags: collage, Spellbinders 8 Comments
I’ve always liked the thumbnail page on a calendar. There’s something about seeing all the pictures in miniature which I find very cute. So when I bought a desktop calendar for a friend’s birthday I decided to remove the thumbnail page and create the card from the tiny month images.
The calendar is made by the Rifle Paper company and the paintings are quite delightful.
I stacked a white die-cut sentiment on a black one to help it stand out against the busy background. The dies are Spellbinders ‘simply perfect mix & match’ sentiment dies.
This gift has the added feature that if the recipient wishes, she can give me back the calendar pages as the months pass and I will turn them into cards for her to use. I enjoyed coming up with this card and idea and will be going through my calendar collection in the future to find both thumbnails and full pages I can turn into cards. In some ways I have come full circle; I made cards from calendars when I first started card making as a child.
Heather Telford 
What a great idea, Heather, and such a pretty calendar! Thank you for the beautiful poinsettia card.
Your calendars were beautiful for this year, Here is another idea. She is an artist in her own right. Shannon hopefully will arrive today for our weekend family Christmas. Prayers for a safe trip
That is a wonderful idea.
They do say what goes around comes around, and given time the things we had left behind come back to us again, as here with this cardmaking idea from when you were a child, and it looks great on a card with all the pretty thumbnails which work brilliantly together Heather. x
What a delightful idea! You are one of the most innovative stampers I know. Great idea to let yer send you the months back too. Fantastic card
Heather, what a clever idea. I love upcycling component of the card.
Such a great idea!
I love this idea! TFS