Place In Time Calendar Tutorial Series: Part 11 October

Hello G45ers,

Happy Monday and welcome to another great week here at the Graphic 45 blog! We've got a wonderful day of inspiration planned for you today! We're continuing our Place in Time calendar tutorial series with a gorgeous tutorial by Nicole Eccles! She has created a stunning calendar page for the month of October that will look incredible in your 2013 calendar! Get ready for a fantastic creative journey through the creation of Nicole's marvelous October page! Plus we have a winner to announce for today's blog contest! We have been giving away the delightful Place in Time prize pack, pictured below, everyday during this amazing calendar tutorial series! There's still a couple more days left so be sure to leave us a blog or Facebook comment today for your chance to win! Today's winner was chosen at random from comments left on our blog last Friday. And the winner is...

-Jeannine D (Grammy GG): "As a Kindergarten teacher September is one of the most exciting months of the year. Loved this beautiful page."

Congratulations, Jeannine! Please email us with your shipping information at [email protected] to claim your prize! Remember, G45ers, there's still more chances to win this fabulous prize! Leave us a blog or Facebook comment today for your chance to win!

And now it's time for some incredible fun with this amazing tutorial by Nicole Eccles! Nicole is known for her love of Halloween. We knew she'd be perfect for creating the October calendar page for your 2013 Place in Time calendar! We were right! This page is so gorgeous! Get ready for a fun and inspiring journey! This page will go on the reverse of your March calendar page in your Graphic 45 12x12 Easel Album with the album's biding on the top. Have fun and enjoy creating your October page! Take it away, Nicole!

Supplies:

Graphic 45 Products:

A Place and Time :

1 Calendar Foundation

1 October Foundation

1 Sentiments

  2 October Cut Aparts

  1 Alphabet sticker sheet

Olde Curiosity Shoppe:

1 Optical Oddities

1 Counting Down

Happy Haunting Collection:

1 Midnight Magic

1 Fright Night

1 Alphabet stickers

(if you want to use different colored numbers on calendar to help mark special dates)

Core’dinations Vintage Series: Black Magic Houndstooth

Martha Stewart: Drippy Goo Punch

Detail Cutting Scissors

Paper Trimmer

Lg. 10 1/4 inch dinner plate, or convenience of a Cricut Machine

3D Foam Squares

Desired Adhesive

Pencil

 

Step 1: Start with the October Foundation page from the A Place in Time collection, and turn it over so you do not see the words October.  Using your Paper Trimmer or scissors, cut along the outside edge of the printed border, removing any excess crème along the edges. 

Use your detail to scissors to simply snip out the rounded corners.

Step 2: Ink along all the edges and adhere the directly to the easel book using desired adhesive. 

 

Step 3: Using a paper trimmer, cut Olde Curiosity Shoppes, Optical Oddities to 3 1/4” x 11/1/4”, making sure the stripes are going vertically.

 

Step 4: Lay the cut piece of Optical Oddities along the left border edge of the background.  It should fit just inside the border with an exception to the corners.

 

Step 5: To remove the corners, use your detail cutting scissors to blind cut following the curvature of the exposed border.

 

 Step 6: Ink and adhere to the background using desired adhesive

 

 

Step 7: Using your Cricut machine, or a Dinner plate, cut a large circle at 10 1/4” from Core’dinations Vintage Black Magic Houndstooth paper.

 

Step 8: Adhere directly to the center of the layout using desired adhesive.

Step 9: Cut and remove the orange striped paper from the A Place in Time Cut Apart Sheet.  Once removed, turn lengthwise in your paper trimmer and trim length to 11 1/4”.

 

 

Step 10: Ink edges and adhere just below the center of background page using desired adhesive.

 

 

Step 11: Cut fence strip and clock from Happy Haunting’s Magic Midnight paper.  Once removed, cut fence strip length to 11 1/4”.  Set aside clock for later use.

 

 

Step 12:  Fussy cut Owls and Haunted House from Happy Haunting Fright Night paper.  Set aside owls for later use.

 

 

Step 13: Flip cut out haunted house over and place 3D foam squares just along the top of backside.  Along the bottom use a small line of permanent adhesive.

 

 

Step 14.  Ink fence strip cut from Magic Midnight paper and adhere horizontally, just 1/8” from the  bottom of the orange striped strip.  Working quickly, adhere the haunted house just right of center, tucking the bottom adhesive edge just under the top of the fence strip. 

 

 

 

Step 15: Cut the following images from the A Place and Time; October Cut Aparts sheet.

Orange word border

Black word border

Running girl block

Saturday Evening Post Image

Step 16: Fussy cut out the image of the running little girl.  Set aside

 

 

Step 17: Cut length of Black word strip to 11 1/4”.  Flip over, and place 3D foam squares along the backside of the strip.

 

Step 18:  Adhere Black word strip just over the bottom edge of the orange striped strip, covering over the remaining orange showing. 

 

Step 19:  Ink the Saturday Evening Post image and flip over.  Place 3D foam squares along the back, leaving a horizontal strip in the middle open from foam squares, to place overtop the black word strip that was just adhered to the background page.

 

 

Step 20: Adhere in left corner overtop black word strip.

 

 

Step 21: Separate the words Trick or Treat from the orange word strip, and set aside. 

Step 22: Ink and adhere the Orange Word bprder, just underneath the Black Word border, lining the right edge against the Saturday Evening Post image.

 

 

Step 23:  Using the Martha Stewart Drippy Goo border punch, punch a strip of Core’dinations Vintage Black Magic Houndstooth approx. 10” in length.

 

 

 

Step 24: After the border has been punched, trim off using your paper trimmer to approx. 3/8” wide, measuring from the ends of the goo.

 

Step 25: Adhere the punched Drippy border along the top of the Orange Stripe.  Trim the right side using scissors to match curvature of the Lg. Black circle.

 

Step 26: Fussy cut the #31 from Olde Curiosity Shoppe’s Counting down.

 

Step 27: Ink and adhere along the Drippy goo border, inside the Lg. Back circle, on the right side.

 

 

Step 28: Grab fussy cut owl from the set aside pile.  Flip over and place 3D foam squares on the back of the owl images.

 

 

 

Step 29: Adhere owl image overtop the #31, lining the branch up to the inside of the border

 

 

 

Step 30: Cut the October mini Calendar from A Place and Time; Calendar Foundation.

 

Step 31: Cut the word October and the small black decorative square from A Place and Time; Sentiments.

 

Step 32: Adhere the cut October title, to the mini October Calendar.

 

 

 

 

Step 34: Using the remaining piece of October cut aparts, line the mini calendar up along the checkered paper, leaving 2 rows of checkers around the calendar, on each side. 

 

 

Step 35: Cut out the checkered background, and ink and adhere the calendar to the checkered background.

 

Step 36:  Adhere the decorative black square in the right upper corner of the orange striped border.

 

 

Step 37: Grab the clock from the set aside pile.  Flip over and place 3D foam squares along the top edge, and a small strip of adhesive along the bottom.

 

 

Step 38: Place the Clock behind the left corner of the Mini Calendar.  Adhere to the orange striped paper, along the left side. Adjust the clock if necessary to make sure there is no hang off of the book.

 

Step 39: Using the A Place in Time Alphabet stickers, place the dates on the mini calendar.  Begin with the 1st, on the 1st Tuesday, and ending with 30, leaving 31 blank. 

(If you have other G45 Alphabet sheets, use other colored numbers to make special dates like birthdays, or Sweetest Day on the 19th)

 

 Step 40: From the remaining Oct. Cut apart sheet cut the words Jack O’ Lantern from the Black word strip.

Ink and adhere above the clock

 

Step 41:  Grab the orange strip that says Trick Or Treat from the set aside pile.  Flip over and adhere 3D foam squares along the back.

 

 

 

Step 42: Adhere to the right of the clock, just overtop the punched Drippy goo border.

 

 

 

Step 43:  Fussy cut the pumpkin from the Happy Haunting; Halloween Greetings page.

 

Step 44: Adhere the pumpkin on the mini calendar, in place of the #31, to mark Halloween!

 

Step 45: Grab the image of the Running little girl from the set aside pile.  Flip over and adhere 3D foam squares along the top of the back of the image.  Run a strip of adhesive along the bottom.

 

Step 46: Complete the page by adhering the little girl, running away from the pumpkin.

 

That's all for today, G45ers! We want to thank the amazing Nicole Eccles for today's beautiful tutorial! Thank you all so much for joining us today! We hope you had a lot of fun. Please come back and see us tomorrow as Kristin Wilson shows you how to create your November calendar page! We will also have a new blog prize winner to announce! It's going to be a fantastic day! We hope you enjoy the rest of your Monday!

Happy Papercrafting!

Your Friends at Graphic 45

Comments

[Sue B.]

I think this is one of the quietest so for.

[vihreantalonunelmat]

Gorgeous! Though Halloween isn't my favourite... papers of G45 are just so fabulous!

[Teresa]

Love this one! My birthmonth!

[Heidi Muska]

This really had some great ideas! Love this calendar layout! :)

[Debbie Flowers]

Beautiful! Going to have to make sure I have all the supplies to scrap lift this! Thanks for sharing.

[Solveig M]

Love the dripping goo border!

[Amy Kluchesky]

Really great step by step. Love combining this calendar page with the Happy Hauntings stack. Tomorrow is my Birth month and I can't wait to see what they do. -Amy

[Sharon Young]

Love Halloween. Great job with the layering and fussy cutting.

[Barbie]

Wow so SPOOKY cute!

[Mandy W]

Just love it!

[pamela teel]

I so appreciate the detailed step by step instructions. The page is FABULOUS :-) FABULOUS. Thank you for sharing your talent Nicole

[Phyllis M.]

Wonderful page and also all of the steps for making it. Thanks for sharing.

[Kent Mullens]

Great Job... I love all the layering. Great tutorial also...

[{vicki}]

October is probably my favoarite month---love the cool crisp air that it brings
Love Hallowwen---great layout today!

[Shanda Harrington]

Love the paper punch used. You always know exactly what to use. :-)

[Lu]

My favorite so far! Love the step-by-step instructions!

[Elizabeth Russell]

I love how different collections were used to make this fun page. Love it!TFS.

[Mary H]

Excellent instructions...excellent papers to work with, too!

[maryjanew]

I really like this page. It's so well thought out and balanced. I love the layering.

[Ruth M.]

This calendar page is so much fun. It's so cute how the little girl is running from the pumpkin. Thanks for sharing.

[Jeniff]

I love this page, is so beautiful.

[Jocelyn]

Cute! Great Inspiration for Halloween. I love Halloween.

[Vanessa Hayden]

Nicole's work is fabulous! ...and October is my favorite month too :)

[Rebecca Harvey]

This has been such a great project. Thanks for all our pages and pages to come.

[Shannon Faris-Parnell]

Excellent instructions, Nicole! Thank you for that. And thank you for a great, not "over the top" Halloween/October calendar page.

[Jennifer S.]

Fantastic project and great instructions! I am loving this collection!

[Kathleen Rimer]

This is sooo adorable! You know it is practically impossible to pick a favorite...so there is no doubt I MUST absolutely have this collection! Hmmm, is one going to to enough??

[Kathy Jo]

Great use of paper. The page looks fantastic!

[Rita P.]

I love the big black moon shape instead of the usual moon in full bloom. And, the drippy border. I have that punch and haven't used it yet. Love this page!

[Wendy Wakefield]

You can tell Nicole loves Halloween - great job on the October calendar page. So much inspiration, so little time!!! I need to win the lottery so I can just happy scrap all day! Thanks for the tutorial G45!

[pitje]

very different from all the other pages, but fun!

[mitz]

... love the neutrals with a splash of orange.. its beautiful...

[Judy D.]

Another great page! Am enjoying all the step-by-step instructions - thanks! Judy D.

[kerstin zelmer]

I am not a Hallowe'en fan but the owl a very pretty and this page is fantastic to.

[Diana Pyeatt]

I love Halloween, and THIS is great! Love it!

[Susan P.]

What a fun page!! I love the use of the small calendar.

[rhoda lynch]

My favorite month so far. So much detail in the tutorial. Thanks.

[Michelle Salazar]

Oct is so fun another great page!

[Barbara F]

I love October and Halloween! This idea could also be used for a scrapbooking page, too!! Wonderful design....

[sue smith]

This layout reminds me of the Halloween of my childhood. We were free to roam our neighborhood without fear. We knew all those in our neighborhood and so did our parents. When we arrived home our grocery bags would be full of treats both store bought or homemade.