 Hi everybody it's Sam at Mixed Up Craft, thank you for watching my tutorial today. I'm going to be showing you how to make this really sweet little desk calendar. I do like to make these kind of things just before the new year. I have my kind of file of facts which has all my kind of work related stuff in it but it is nice to just have that kind of month that glance on your desk just so you can kind of see. I always forget what day of the week it is. So I've made this one here so it's a little flip one, it's got a stand and you'll see there you've got every single day, every single month of the year sorry. So there's the stand so this is a nice gift if you want to keep it flat pop it in a little box and post it to another crafty friend or somebody then it's perfect but if you just open up the bottom there and then it will just stand up you kind of just move your little binder rings there in place and then just flip it over and it's got a really nice pro like it looks very nice that's how it looks when you have it on your desk and I love them they're very easy to make. I have made a larger one a couple of years ago so if you are someone that likes to write on your calendars then I have got one and I'll link it up here and I think I've got something else as well I'm sure there's another one and they're just yeah once you've you've done the stand these are just all you know simple cuts and you just have to do everything 12 times to cover every single month. I've kept mine using the this is Dress My Craft the Hydrangea Lawn Paper which I'll show you later so it's the same throughout the year if you want to do it you know have more spring colors in spring and summer and then October have your pumpkins and things like that then yeah go for it but I just wanted to keep mine quite simple and just something easy to look at on my desk so it's going to sit probably I've got a little shelf just in front of me there so I'll keep it there but yeah let me show you how to make this easy desk under. Okay so I've got everything that you're going to need here I'll go through the stand first of all and then what you need for the pages so to make the stand you'll want one piece of you want a strong card slot this is the no this is the two well it feels like it's more than it is but it's the little card stock so I think they have it at 270 or something but it feels like it's 300 plus anyway so this is a piece of seven and a half by four and three eighths of an inch that's all right I was just playing around with that size before I started filming so along the long side you want to score five inches six inches and seven inches okay if you flip over and you score the six again it will just help when we go to fold it and then flip it back you're going to fold the five so it becomes a mountain the six so it's a valley and the seven so it's a mountain so you'll have something like that that's going to be the base you can see there okay then to go on the front of that you want a piece of five and a half by four and three eighths and along the five and a half you want to score at five I just fold that over and what will happen is we're going to put some glue on that tab stick that to the top and stick that one to the bottom tab and there we will have our stand okay so that's that piece then you will need these for your pages so all of these sizes you're going to need 12 okay first of all you want to print off your calendar so I just went to print a calendar.com I'll share the link in my blog and I just printed off their 12 their month by month calendar again I'll link directly to that one and then when you print it out you do have it with all of the obviously the you know months above it but I don't want them I didn't like that font and I wanted to use my own so I just trimmed that off and I've trimmed it so it's this size but I did keep that with it until you get to it so you know what one's what because it's quite easy to get them mixed up so you know cut them one by one if you want or if you you know cut them all together just make sure you keep the date the month on top until you get to it but you're then going to create these little pages so I have used again very naughty because I can't give it away yet because it's not available but it's released any day soon so I will update but this is a um a die set with other things in it as well but it does have this lovely font of the days of the month and you can see there how they come out looks really really lovely and they're a real great size as well so because I needed to make my desk calendar I thought I'm going to use them but I will update it and I will share these projects when I not when I launch them but when I share the you know the dies and stuff in more detail so I've just got June left there and what I've done is I have got some mirrored cardstock and I've put a sheet of double-sided sticky tape on the back so that then when you run it through your die machine all of these will become stickers because they're a delicate you know font you you know adding glue to this especially when it's a mirrored cardstock it's just very very fiddly and it's much much easier if you just pop your you know double-sided sheet on the back so now that is all sticky and ready for me to stick down in a minute so I'm just going to take those bits out I'm just going to stick that to one side so get your you know your days of the month already but you can if you want to you can use the ones that are already on there as well that's not a problem it's just I wanted to have that lovely you know um silver car um yeah silver cardstock so for every page you're going to need a piece of four by four and a half cardstock so 12 pieces then you want a pattern piece that is three and three quarters by two and five eighths that's going to stick along the bottom here then I've got this piece here which is two and one eighths by two and three quarters and that's for this to go on so depending on the size that you make this will depend on that okay so um I did cut all of those from that link that I will share to one and seven eighths of an inch by two and three eighths of an inch and that will stick on there perfectly so I know that's the dune one because it's the last one I've got left so and then you also want two of your little binder rings here and these are the one and a quarter but it's always usually done in millimeters so this is 30 32 33 maybe so whatever one I link it would be you know as close to that one as possible so grab one of your pages I'm also using my posca pen to add some faux stitching it was just a nice way to add a little bit more detail and obviously once we add our hole punches it's all going to come together and these are quick to make you know you if you get a bit of a kind of a an order in place so do all of cut all of these first cut all the pattern paper first stick them together and do everything in blocks it comes together quite fast so I do like making these and as I mentioned at the beginning I have got those other ones as well so if you do want something bigger and you want to be able to write on it then go check out the other ones that I've done or the other one I can't remember if it's one or two I don't know if I done one last year or not I don't think I did anyway check them out so you can see here I'm just sticking them down making sure I've got a nice even border each time like so and then I've got the dune which is nice and sticky I do need to just take the center of the e out there there we go and then I'm just going to kind of line it up in the center as best as I can and then that will just stick down like so I think okay and then with my poster I'm just going to get rid of my scoreboard a really good shake be careful when you open the lid I always say that because it can just come out so just yeah I was lucky then that didn't hit where I was you know on my actual work here and I'm just going around just putting little dashes all around the side and it just creates a really nice effect I've done this on lots of things I go through stages and I'm in one of those stages at the moment where I just find myself using this a lot and it's great if you're kind of looking at a card and you think it's missing something I don't know what but you've already done everything you know you've done all your mats and layers and sometimes you know doing this or do like little kind of doodle lines and things like that can really make quite a difference so it's a great easy quick and very inexpensive way to add a bit more detail to your project so there just by doing that I think it makes a massive difference so that's everything there so I mean the video is going to be obviously quick because I've gone and done all that but like I said it didn't take me long to do I think I've done all of them in about half an hour so then we want the stand so I'm going to add you can use double sided tape if you want I'm going to use my callow just because this is going to sit on my desk now for the next 12 months so I want it to be nice and strong you know if it's if you've got a windowsill and you've got the sunlight you know you just want to make sure that it's going to be able to hold really so I'm just sticking that down on that bottom one there that bottom tab like so so you'll have something like that and then you want to add blue to this top one you're going to bring up this one here and just line it all up so just give that a minute to fully kind of grab and start to dry okay so now I have my stand so it's a nice little gift to send as well I mean you will have a little bit of bulk and obviously you've got the the rings to put on but it's certainly something that you could send out to you know another crafty friend you could personalize it mine is obviously this same papers throughout actually I don't think I shared them I would have mentioned it but I haven't showed shown you the pack it's this one here the hydrangea lawns so I just I love hydrangeas anyway and this is just such a nice different kind of color I haven't used purples and these colors since way before Christmas it's been a really nice project to make with totally different colors so um yeah mine are the same all throughout the year but that doesn't bother me I quite like that but you can see where you go and you can have you know an October oranges and you know autumnal kind of feel for it and then December or festive so yeah it's entirely up to you so now I need to get these all in order quickly okay so they're all ready to go so grab your first one and you want to lay it down on here okay you want there to be more of a gap at the bottom because you know when you add these in they will maybe drop so you don't want it to drop and drag on the floor but I give it about maybe one eighth of an inch of a gap from the top let me just check yeah one eighth of an inch so I am going to put a marker with my pokey tool here so I'm going to have one about there see I need to look at where I've done that um where I've got my January there so you may have to to be honest it's entirely up to you where you want to put your hole punches but I do have to bear in mind where I've got my lovely um die cut pieces there so I'm going to do one I think I'm going to do one about there once you've done the one you don't need to go and do all the rest so I'm just doing this to mark both so they've come in an inch okay so that's where I'm coming in on mine but it's entirely up to you and then I can take that away and I've got my markings there and I've not quite gone through so that's fine and then I'm going to grab my hole punch and I'm using this smaller one because the finder rings are quite small anyway and then just see where I'm going with that so if you want you can just do the top one and then you can lay it back down and do a pencil mark but um oh actually you want to go right through so it didn't matter if it was going to anyway so now I'm just going to line that up punch right the way through the hole like so okay and then you can use this one now as a guide for all of the rest so I'm just going to sit that on top and just do a pencil mark and just always use that same one don't then use February to March and you know cut it and do it that way do use your January to go and do all of them that way you know that they are all going to be exactly the same so I'm going to do that and get them all hole punched and then just thread them through the binder rings it's as simple as that little desk calendars are so fun to make they're great for gifts I know lots of people make and sell them at craft fairs once you get into kind of a bit of a system and some order with it you know you could spend a day just cutting loads of you know your pages and then do another day doing all the die cut months of the year you know it's um some tile it to you but they make lovely again if you want to do more of a homemade Christmas homemade gifts these are lovely and they're great teachers gifts as well so if you do want to do you know from mid-year to mid-year because that's how a lot of the teachers calendars are then you've got time you know you can do one now and and give it to them you know when the schools break so I am going to just punch these out okay so just open up your rings and just thread them through all of your hole punched holes keep them open because then you can thread it through the last one I'll actually have gone in no it's fine I'm going to do them up and then just thread through so you've got the join facing you and then the open end is at the back and then you can just thread it through the back of your stand and then pop those loops back through you spread your base out like so and there is your desk calendar may well go for slightly mind you though I say smaller loops by the type of the rings you need to be able to flip it but if I just hold it up it looks really cute look at that it looks so nice and now you can obviously you know turn them all over but they shouldn't touch the bottom because it does dip ever so slightly when you make these so you just want to make sure that you know yeah it doesn't I can see mine it doesn't you'll see it in the photos as well and then you just flip them over it looks really pretty it's so cute I love it and it works really really well I'm super pleased with that one so there you have it my very simple yet very effective and very handy mini desk calendar and like I said it makes a lovely gift because it all folds flat there there is the bolt but you can make a nice little gift box I'm sure I've got gift boxes on my channel that this would you know you could make to pop it in so yeah I love it so I hope you've enjoyed this one I hope it's inspired you check out my other um desk kind of yeah it is a desk under because I had it on my desk it's just very very big so you know head over check that one out as well and uh yeah let me know what you think so thank you for watching happy new year and I'll be back again soon with another tutorial bye