Arctic Stamper

Year 2011 January 22, 2011

Finally I’ve finished my calendar for the year. It’s very simple but it’s all I need. Not so much happens around here, so a massive Filofax bursting at its seams is not what I need.

I made little tabs for each page and decided to stamp just three letters of each month. Usually the months are abbreviated in Finnish by leaving the ‘kuu’ out. Every month ends in that in Finnish and it literally means ‘moon’. I went for just three letters and realised that they make funny words, or something resembling a word. February becomes ‘hel’ which is obviously like ‘hell’, or ‘Helsinki’. You can see this a lot at the airports and take a flight to Hel. I’ve done that many times, hehe. April is ‘huh’ and as well as ‘huh?’ it could also mean ‘phew’. July is ‘hei’ which means ‘hi’. And the best one is December which is ‘jou’, and sounds like ‘yo’. I need very little to be entertained

2010 February 17, 2010

This is my calendar for the year. I made the pages out of cardboard boxes. I was going to bind the calendar with the Bind-it-all but, as usual, I got carried away and the calendar ended up way too thick for any o-wires. So I used bookrings instead. As always, I prefer the writing pages to be on the left, and the calendars on the right. Easier for a lefty that way.

Industrialize it! February 18, 2009

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.

Winged thing February 17, 2009

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.

Yet another one February 13, 2009

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.

A house is just a house February 12, 2009

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.

Another calendar, another house February 11, 2009

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

House of cards February 10, 2009

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?