Get Ready for 2015 with Graphic 45!
It is New Year's week and we are filling your Tuesday with fantastic ideas for 2015 with Time to Flourish! Annette Green and Keri Sallee will inspire your handmade calendars. Annette shares an amazing desktop infinity calendar and tutorial. Then, Keri shows you a fussy cutting masterpiece! Enjoy these great ideas just in time for 2015.
Before we jump in, don't forget to enter our giveaway this week! You could make a beautiful mini album with Botanical Tea:
You are going to fall in love with Annette's Time to Flourish desktop calendar. She provides a tutorial and PDFs for this year's calendar months and days. Fantastic!
"I’m delighted with Time To Flourish because I love making a customized calendar each new year. But if you’re not one to take on this creative endeavor every year, the solution is easy. Simply build the calendar so that the date portion is removable and replaceable year after year. This desktop calendar is designed to hold two cards on top: the month’s cut-aparts as a pretty decorative piece and a simple calendar with the actual dates. Once the month is over, store the cards inside the book box, toss the little calendar portion, and move on to the next month’s cards. I used an old favorite Graphic 45 collection for the outside of my box: Botanicabella from 2011, but any neutral black and tan pattern would do, of which there are plenty in most Graphic 45 collections. " ~Annette
Download Annette's PDF Calendar Templates:
Download 2015 Calendar Small 1 (1)
Download 2015 Calendar Small 2
Supply List
Graphic 45 Time To Flourish 8” x 8” pad
Graphic 45 Regular Kraft Book Box
Graphic 45 Ornate Metal Door Pulls, 2
Graphic 45 Botanicabella (retired) papers to cover the box
Core’dinations Signature Series cardstock for Graphic 45
Several Sheets of Plain Kraft Cardstock
Black Acrylic Paint
Tarnished Brass Distress Paint
Sizzix Alterations Dies for all die cuts
Metal keyhole
Striped ribbon, May Arts
Keri made a brilliant calendar using canvases and Time to Flourish that can be used for years to come! Her fussy cutting on this is so beautiful. Love this!
"I LOVE 'Time to Flourish!' The colors are lush and vibrant and there isn’t one paper that I pulled out that I didn’t 'OOO and AAAHHHH' over. With it being a 'calendar' based collection, I knew I wanted to showcase that aspect, but I didn’t want to make a typical calendar because it’s of no use the after the year ends {insert tears!} So I decided to make a 'perpetual calendar', which basically means that dates are done as a list by month, instead of on a grid calendar where they are assigned to specific days of the week. That way...you can keep it always! Just display the month you are on to keep track of all of those important dates.
For my base, I found these great 8.5x6 burlap canvases at Walmart (yes...WALMART!) for 2/$4. I joined them at the back using a strip of leftover canvas, lightly tacked with hot glue and then secured with upholstery tacks." ~Keri
Supply List
“Time to Flourish” Decorative Stickers
Other Supplies:
Beacon 3-n-1 Adhesive
Hot Glue
Burlap Canvases-Walmart
Navy Canvas-Hobby Lobby
Upholstery Tacks-Lowes
We love these fabulous calendar ideas. And who doesn't love a calendar that can be used for years to come? Thanks for joining us today, and big thanks to Annette and Keri for their great ideas.
Happy Calendar-Making,
Graphic 45
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Love these! Annette's calendar ia amazing. I started mine with this beautiful collection the other day.
Posted by: Pam | December 30, 2014 at 06:00 AM
Gorgeous!!!
Posted by: Dorothy McCarthy | December 30, 2014 at 06:12 AM
Is it just me but the downloads for the calendars don't open correctly. The first one is almost non existent and cut off - the last 4 I can open but I don't think that's the size they are supposed to be. I'll try at home on my home computer. Lovely calendar idea thanks!
Posted by: Brenda E | December 30, 2014 at 06:43 AM
These are both amazing but the first one is out of this world awesome!!!! Definitely going to give this one a go!! TFS!
Posted by: barbara macaskill | December 30, 2014 at 07:10 AM
I can't decide which creation I love the most. Would have to flip a coin. Thanks for the inspiration and chance to win my favorite Graphic 45 collection!
Posted by: Wendy Wakefield | December 30, 2014 at 08:15 AM
Fantastic, have to make this
Posted by: Margaret Ann Moffat | December 30, 2014 at 09:24 AM
These projects are absolutely beautiful!! The combination of incredibly talented designers and awesome G45 products is amazing!!!
Posted by: Deb Clark | December 30, 2014 at 09:32 AM
"Time To Flourish" is such a beautiful collection! I love that I can create cards for every person within a specific month. Thanks for posting these projects.
Posted by: Martie Rollin | December 30, 2014 at 10:18 AM
Brenda E, it's not just you. Neither pdf file makes any sense to me or my computer, either.
Nice projects, though :-)
Posted by: Danielle | December 30, 2014 at 10:55 AM
Very Beautiful Project! Thank you for showing the tutorial on how you created it!
Posted by: Judy Estrada | December 30, 2014 at 11:23 AM
You all are the BOMB!!! These are gorgeous projects!!! Thank you!
Posted by: Carolyn D'Annolfo | December 30, 2014 at 12:06 PM
The Time to Flourish collection is full of everything I love. Both calendar creations are exceptional and I had to pin them both. I overhead in love with the perpetual calendar book's use of the collection.
Posted by: Elizabeth Etheridge | December 30, 2014 at 03:23 PM
Thank you for the calendars. They will make my life much easier.
Posted by: Gail Gill | December 30, 2014 at 04:08 PM
What wonderously beautiful calendars. G45 designers have my mind filled with such beautiful, creative calendars. How do I decide?
Annette's calendar today does have my interest peaked. Going to love trying to recreate her magic, at least a little. Thanks.
Posted by: Cathy Osborne | December 30, 2014 at 04:17 PM
beautiful projects. The PDF files for the calendars do not open properly.
Posted by: Tracy Ross | December 30, 2014 at 04:20 PM
Amazing and lovely projects.
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Posted by: Iris Soscia | December 30, 2014 at 04:39 PM
Such a great idea for the calenders. but have to agree the pdf's are messed up. I got Sep, Oct,Nov and Dec to print. But the 1st pdf isn't correct. I hope you will fix this for us!
Posted by: jan | December 30, 2014 at 05:59 PM
Absolutely lovely! Unfortunately, the PDF's are messed up. Just a little speed bump. I totally want to make these!
Posted by: Katherine Buchanan | December 30, 2014 at 06:11 PM
Both calenders are wonderful. I'm especially fond of Keri's because of all the wonderful fussy cutting.
Posted by: Karen Itzenhuiser | December 30, 2014 at 10:08 PM
Both of these are just gorgeous!! Might have to try doing at least one of each, now all I need are the papers etc!!!
Posted by: Christine Kosmak | December 30, 2014 at 10:31 PM
These are both such stunning projects!
Posted by: Viki Banaszak | December 30, 2014 at 11:51 PM
Great ideas. Makes me want to go hide out in my art room.
Posted by: Michelle Nettleton | December 31, 2014 at 02:01 AM
My apologies for the weird PDF. I'm sending a revised one today. Try again later and it should work for you. Sorry!
Posted by: Annette Green | December 31, 2014 at 05:55 AM
All greatness!
Posted by: SuZeQ | December 31, 2014 at 06:57 AM
Beautiful calenders I love all the colors. Can't wait to make my own.
Posted by: Traci | December 31, 2014 at 07:49 AM
SOOOO Gorgeous! I love it.
Posted by: Jocelyn Tan-gonzales | December 31, 2014 at 07:58 AM
AMAZING!! Wish I was more imaginative!! So glad others are and freely share their projects.
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!
Posted by: Cindy | December 31, 2014 at 07:59 AM
Both very pretty!
Posted by: TeresaIgo | December 31, 2014 at 10:18 PM
Thanks for the new pdf's! I am starting my calendar this afternoon!
Posted by: jan | January 01, 2015 at 12:12 PM
You NEVER disappoint, LOVE everything, crossing my fingers, I'd love to win so I could play along.
Posted by: Nancy Carroll | January 02, 2015 at 05:57 PM
This is so much fun. Love the sneak peaks! I really like the layout of the black window box.
Posted by: Dottie in CT | January 03, 2015 at 08:20 AM
Bravo, je m en suis inspirée !!!
Posted by: JELTSCH | February 26, 2015 at 07:53 AM