Joanna Sheen Calendar Tutorial

Morning all

Well as you know i have just joined the Joanna Sheen design team and i am thrilled to be part of this very talented team.
As part of my duties i have been asked to make a tutorial, now this came as quite a shock and i did have a bit of a panic attack as i have never in all my life done a tut before, so i thought i would show you how i made this Calendar.

I actually saw something similar to this on Facebook but it was made from wood and engraved by burning but they were being sold for £30 each, now to a pensioner like me that's a bit extravagant lol so to save pennies i thought i would have a go at a cheaper version. 

Ingredients used are

Thick card i used 620 gsm 

Ribbon

Eyelets 2 sizes 

cropodile

corner rounder

small round die

chain links

promarkers

 House Mouse images from 

Joanna Sheen House Mouse triple cd purchased ( HERE ) 

Flowers for decoration

I cut the thick card to 6" or 15cm whichever measurements you use, i'm an oldie so it's 6" to me

 i then rounded the corners

Printed on thinner card special days and the letters of each month 

cut this also to 6" 15cm and rounded the corners, coloured all the letters with promarkers

I did them in different colours to make it cheerful but you can use 1 colour it's all down to your own personal choice 

Glued this to the thick card 

Then using the cropodile and eyelets i put 2 at the top for the ribbon 

then 12 equally spaced along the bottom

Using the chalks or you could use your inks but i prefer chalks i rubbed all around the edges of the card just to soften it

I then cut 12 or as many as you need, round discs using the die 

Again using my chalks coloured in the discs in different colours 

Using the cropodile and small eyelets added to each one

Then attached a chain link

Using the chain links i then attached the discs to each large eyelet

as you can see i have added an extra 1 just to show you how you can add extras for each special day you have for example i have 4 special days happening in June so i will add an extra disc for each event

I then decorated the calendar with decoupaged images of House Mouse and flowers 

All i have left to do now is write the names and dates on the discs 

In all i think this version has cost less than £5 which leaves more money for buying crafty stuff :)

Hope you like it and if you do have a go i would love to see your interpretations 

so please let me know

                                                 Shaz xx