Arctic Stamper

I swear, this is the last calendar this year! This one is my favourite though. Good old Scandinavian minimalism meets industrialism. I just glued bits of aluminium tape onto chipboard and pricked all the edges to make them look riveted. I punched odd numbers and letters with metal stamps, attached piece of chain to the top and a screw brad to the bottom. Easy peasy.

I made this calendar using everything I could find already stamped. The charms at the bottom are bright orange plastic charms which I embossed with gold to make them a bit nicer. I almost melted them with the heat gun.

These calendars seem to come out of the woodwork. So, yet another one. This one is really simple and quick to make. The base is thick chipboard, as is the key which is covered in brown ink and UTEE. The heart is a piece of canvas. There is a magnet at the back of the calendar.

I had some diluted white paint left over once and had to use it on something, so I stamped a black card with some circles. I think it looks so cool. I could not cover it too much so I made a very simple calendar with it. The house and the tree are glued onto chipboard and covered in Crackle Accents.

Here is a close-up of the house.

I made some of these houses into pins by glueing a pin at the back.

Not only stuck with calendars, but houses as well. Here is yet another calendar. With houses.

I can’t quite believe this but here is yet another calendar. I wonder if I manage to post all the pictures of this year’s calendars before I make some for the next year? Oh well, this one is really cool anyway. I got carried away with houses. It’s an accordion calendar which is attached with jump rings. All the pages have various houses on them which have been stamped on inked book pages. The calendar pages were about the same colour, so to make the houses stand out more I swiped some gesso at the bottom. Looks a lot like a real pea-souper but who cares?

One more quick calendar. This one is for me. Not much space to write anything down and there are two possible reasons. Either 1. Nothing much happens in my life or 2. My memory is so splendidly good that I don’t need to write anything down.

Most stamps are by Paperbagstudios and Artjourney. All purchased at my favourite European stamp store Artjourney. They are in Holland, isn’t that weird?

Back and front covers

If I want to get any calendars done before next summer they have to be quick to make. This one was. Ethnic meets Scandinavian minimalism! It’s simply stamped, embossed and coloured with glitter pens. Edges of the thick watercolour card are distressed with a paper distresser.