Desk Calendar Cum Album with Mix Media Cover

Hello, all!

Flowers always make people feel better, happier and more helpful. They is sunshine, food and medicine for all souls. It’s from my childhood that I always got fascinated to Sunflowers. Their fresh colors, tall high attitude has always inspired me a lot.

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow. That’s what Sunflowers do…!!

It’s a beautiful quote by Hellen Keller, that I always loved.

If I were a flower… I would be a sunflower. To always follow the sun, turn my back to darkness, stand proud, tall and straight even with my head full of seeds.

Isn’t it what we all should be like?? Off course, YES !!

I am always in love with flowers, especially Sunflowers.

Today I will be sharing 3 projects that I created for initial submission of Heartfelt Creation DT application form. I am happy that I was able to give my best and achieved the results what actually I expected before starting the projects. Since the projects have lots of details, I have made three separate posts on my blog. As I said I always get inspired by sunflowers, the first project I created is with sunflowers only. I feel they are lucky for me always.

PROJECT 1: DESK CALENDAR CUM ALBUM

The calendar has 12 pages. Each page has a calendar on one side and a flip fold and belly band albums to hold pictures of various sizes on the other side. Please refer to the close-ups to study the details.

Here are the list of supplies from Heartfelt Creations that wee used:

• Classic Sunflower Paper Collection HCDP1-247
• Classic Sunflower Die HCD1-753
• Classic Sunflower Cling stamp HCPC-3626
• Raindrops on Roses  Die HCD1- 743
• Regal Border Die Hcd1-779
• Classic Leaf Die HCD1-736
• Classic Leaf cling stamp HCPC- 3546
• Open Leaf Cling Stamp HCPC-3645
• Color box chalk ink Harvest -71082
• Color box chalk ink pad Guocamole – 71058
• Color box chalk ink pad Lime Pastels -71026

Other supplies used :-

Die- cutting machine, glue dots, glue, fussy cutting scissors, Brushed Corduroy Distress ink, blending tool and blending foam, trimmer, score board, magnets, tacky tape, stickles, clear rock

candy glitter, clear diamond-dust , acetate sheet, black card stock, black chip board, double sided adhesive sheet.

 

Instructions…

Flowers and Leaves :

The flower image is stamped using Plum Archival inks with HFC Classic Sunflower Cling Stamp and then aligned with its co coordinating die HFC Classic Sunflower Die and cut through die cutting machine. The leaves are stamped from two sets of stamps, HFC Open Leaf Stamp and HFC Classic Leaf Stamp with Fern Green Archival ink and then cut through die cutting machine using HFC Classic Leaf die. since we have to mist the die-cuts with water, the stamped inks has to be permanent. For me Archivals work best. Color the flower petals with Harvest and shade a little with plum archival on edges. Color leaves with Color Box lime Pastel and Color box Guacamole on edges. For flower construction follow the video by Emma Lou Beechy HERE. Once the flowers and leaves are ready just dust them with clear rock candy glitter and clear diamond dust using glossy accent.

 

Base of the Calendar :

Base of the calendar measures 10 1/2″ by 8 1/2″ . Cut 2pcs of black chipboard of the same size. Mat designer paper from Classic sunflower Collection leaving 1/8th of an inch on all sides. Cut one piece of a black card stock and make a hinge of 1 1/2″ x10 1/2″ . Score at 3/4″. Join both the chip boards with this hinge on top. To make the calendar stand stable on the desk attach it with a lower hinge. The lower hinge measures 6″ by 10 1/2 ” . Score at 3/4″, 1 1/2″, 2 1/4″, 3″, 3 3/4″, 4 1/2″,

5 1/4″ . Crease on all the score points and make mountain and peak hinge. Attach the same to the lower part of both the chip boards. Decorate the front and back with textures and heat embossing powders. Make two holes on both the sides of calendar leaving equal distance for the rings with the help of crop-a-dile.

For the pages :

Cut 12 pages from black card stock of 7″ by 5 1/2″. Adhere 1 1/2 ” by 7″ strip of double sided adhesive sheet. Align only the edge die from HC Regal Border Die and cut through die cutting machine. Cut extra from both sides with scissors. Now cut designer paper 1/8 less from all sides for the base pages. Align both edge and border dies and run through big shot machine. Remove sticker sheet from the base card and set the designer paper on top. Dust the adhesive space with glitters. Burnish it with your fingers for extra sparkle. Prick two holes aligning the main calendar base.

Decorate all the pages as per your style.

 

Flower cluster on the calendar:

I have used black Die cuts from HFC Rain Drop Roses die as a base fo flowers . Layer few leaves and assemble few flowers using glue to form a flower cluster on both sides of calendar.

 

Here are the pictures showing all details.

Front of the calendar showing album pages. All pages have different presentation of flip folds or belly bands to hold pics. Few can hold up to 7-8 pics on one page.

 

 

Its calendar on the back side.  Simply designed using HfC Raindrop Roses Die cuts and fussy cut flowers.

 

Close-up of calendar showing all the pages together.  Can you see how I have fussy cut the image and made a window for my flip folds. Clear rock candy glitter is making the image pop more.

 

Look at that glitter…beautifully popping behind HFC Regal Border Die cuts.

GORGEOUS!! Also check the fussy cut flowers. I am little hand fisted crafter….will never throw a single bit of paper. If a smaller part of an image is cut while layering or matting, I will save that and use it as an embellishments for my projects.

 

Different pages have different belly bands to hold tags.

 

Few more belly bands.

 

Many of the pages  have flip folds. All have magnetic closure or ribbons to save the pictures from falling.

 

More flip folds…

 

All calendars out…..

 

Front side of the calendar without flaps….

 

Backside …..without flaps.

 

Little more close-ups of flower cluster.

 

Beautiful flutter…

 

 

And that’s all…

Sorry for such a long post. But I really enjoyed sharing the beauty of my project from all the angles.

So….this is my first project for submission. Will be posting 2 more today.  I would appreciate if you leave some love if you liked my creation.  Thanks for stopping by.

Hope you enjoyed it too!!