One of my favorite blogs which I love reading had the cutest project they shared awhile back. Young House Love had taken the cutest calendar and turned it into artwork for their hallway. I debated back and forth about buying it when they posted the link for the calendar. By the time I had said ok I’m going for it, it was sold out. I was pretty bummed but was determined to find a cute calendar to do this project. A couple sunday’s later I was in our church’s bookstore and they had the cutest calendar with inspiration sayings and the colors were perfect for our guest room. I bought it and made my DIY Calendar Artwork.
So I purchased the calendar (which ended up being half price, cue happy dance) and brought it home. I wasn’t sure where I was going to find frames to put the 12×12 calendar sheets in so I did my research and settled on Ikea. I found 12×12 record frames to use. We took a Saturday trip to Ikea where I had to get permission to purchase the display frames because I wasn’t going home empty handed! We also came out with a new dresser, so it wasn’t the cheap trip we had anticipated.
I picked out four of the pictures that I liked and cut them out. After that I used glue to stick them to the backs of the pages that came in the frame. That way when I put them in the frames they didn’t slide around because they were just a little smaller than the frames. I then placed all of them into their frames with Tyler’s assistance and they then sat on the guest room bed for a couple months. But as you saw with my Guestroom Makeover Reveal we finished the room and finally got them hung up! So I am able to bring this easy, inexpensive project to you. it is such a great way to get artwork for your home.
I now plan to pay attention in January and February when the calendar stores put everything on sale. I once got quite the stock of calendars for $1 but they were from all my favorite TV shows and wouldn’t make good artwork. Have any of you ever done a project like this?
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What a neat idea!!! I’m keeping my eye open for a cute calendar now!! Thanks for the fun idea!
Selene @ Restoration Beauty
Thank you! I was so pleased with it. Thank you for coming by!
Thanks for linking up with us at TGIF! I love these! I am always looking for inexpensive ways to decorate and I’ve never thought to do this! Thanks for sharing!
It is such a great inexpensive way to decorate. I can’t wait to do it for another room!
Cute idea!! Thank you so much for sharing & linking up at Thank You Honey’s Whatever Wednesday Party!! The party goes live every Tuesday!
Cheers
Sarah
Thanks for linking up to the Friday Follow Along. Those look great!
Hi Emily,
This is the cutest project! What a great idea to upcycle it to artwork – kudos!
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– Ang
Juggling Act Mama
Thank you! I love how it turned out! Thank you for stopping by!
I really like these! The colors are great!
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This is a beautiful idea! I recently did this for my kids with a wresting calendar but it wasn’t half as pretty! Thanks for linking up to the Friday Follow Along! I hope you will linkup again! http://www.ffflinkypals.blogspot.com/2013/07/friday-follow-along-link-up-and-party.html
Hi Emily, I have not yet met you but I am a friend of the Glovers and enjoy reading your blog. I have done a similar calendar art project and also have done the same with artwork from a day planner.
Hi Lindsey! Thank you for coming by the blog!
Emily, this is so cute! I am definitely going to do this!
Ciara from daily blog boost
Thank you! I love how inexpensive it is.
Emily
Love this idea, I’m pinning!
Thank you! I plan to do it again in my new house!
Emily