Here’s an easy project I did a few years ago to re-purpose a wall calendar from Rifle Paper Company, one of my favorite paper sources. I didn’t want to stop enjoying the lovely, floral botanical images so I made them into artwork.
I already had frames of a similar type with large mats, a style I prefer, and for the frames that didn’t have a mat I took them to Michael’s and they cut the mats for me to my specifications. I went through the calendar and decided to use pages that meant the most to me — months representing the birthdays of my parents and siblings and our wedding anniversary — February, April, May, June and August.
I am really not a DIY gal so I tend to do things in a less scientific way. When it came time to figure out the correct size for each frame, I just laid the glass or mat from the frame on the image I wanted to highlight, traced around the edge of the glass/mat with a pencil, then cut the image with scissors and put the page into each of the frames.
Some frames weren’t big enough for the calendar portion of the page, so I just focused on the month or the flowers. Something I didn’t do, but would be fun, is to circle the important dates on the calendar.
I’m really pleased with how it turned out. The gallery of art is soothing, beautiful and meaningful to me. Plus this DIY project cost less than $30 for a few pieces of mat board and I recycled a perfectly good calendar. As we near the end of 2016, now would be good time to find clearance calendars to do this project for yourself or as a wedding, baby or housewarming gift.
Hospitality is in my DNA. I founded Home with a Twist, a daughter’s twist on her mother’s traditions, in memory of my mother to celebrate her life and the gifts she shared with me. Mother loved to celebrate life’s occasions – big and small.
