A Muse News: Calendar Inspiration

Monday, September 21, 2009

Calendar Inspiration - Laurie Schmidlin

Our next amazing calendar project comes to you from another of our stamping friends - Laurie Schmidlin! Laurie created a beautiful calendar book gift using the A1 (4-bar) version of the calendar!

Laurie plans to make calendar gifts this year and several of her family members like to put their calendar pages on their fridge, so she didn't want the binding permanent. So inside the book is a pocket page for each month's calendar! The inside pages of the book are six 3 5/8" x 11 pieces of Ivory cardstock that are folded and adhered together. Then she created the pockets by sewing on pieces of patterned paper!

Here you can see the book open. Each calendar has a ribbon at the top to make it easy to slip the calendar page out of it's pocket and replace it as needed.

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Below you can see a close-up of December. Laurie decorated the whole book with a Christmas theme, but the calendar pages themselves are non-Holiday specific. She stamped a beautiful border design at the top of each calendar page - to coordinate with the patterned papers. You can also see some of Laurie's details - the scallop edge, stitching, and button. Be sure to visit Laurie's blog for more details! Thank you Laurie for sharing your beautiful work, your time and your talent with us!