It's the classic Christmas gift. Calendars are suitable for just about everyone on your shopping list, and what better than to create your own, personalised for the recipient.

Materials:

EK Success Art Blanche Tent Calendar (available at Pulp & Circumstance)

Color Oasis Alphabet Stickers, Curious (available at Pulp & Circumstance)

American Crafts Ribbon, Midtown Purple Polka-Dot (available at Pulp & Circumstance)

Basic Grey Oh Baby Peapod paper (available at Gibbons)

Basic Grey Oh Baby Lilac paper (available at Gibbons)

Doodlebug Design Buttons, Seaglass Assortment (available at Gibbons)

Heidi Swap Flower Centres, Martha (available at Gibbons)

4"x4" photo

3-½"x5" photo

double-sided tape

straight-edge paper cutter

brown or black liquid chalk ink

purple or black gel pen

Method:

1. Cut a 6"x5-¾" rectangle out of the Peapod paper and a 4-½"x4-½" square of the Lilac paper.

2. Gently ink the edges of each of the paper pieces.

3. Using double-sided tape or other photo-safe adhesive, attach your 4"x4" photo to the centre of the square of Lilac. Then, adhere the matted photo to the larger Peapod piece, off-centre, closer to the lower right corner. Make sure that you have the Peapod piece properly oriented, with the length being longer than the height.

4. Add the decorative "bling" Heidi Swap Flower Centres to the left side of the photo.

5. Using double-sided tape, adhere the miniature scrapbook page to the first flap in the EK Success Art Blanche Tent Calendar.

6. In the corresponding calendar table, using the Color Oasis alphabet stickers, spell out the appropriate month. Using your gel pen, carefully write in the appropriate dates for the calendar month. Continue to carefully fill in all of the calendar tables through the entire calendar.

7. Cut out a 6"x5-¾" rectangle out of the Lilac paper and a 1"x6" strip of the Peapod paper.

8. Gently ink the edges of each of the paper pieces.

9. Adhere the strip of Peapod paper along the length of the Lilac paper approximately ¾"-1" from the bottom, making sure that the Lilac paper is properly oriented.

10. Cut a 6" strip of the ribbon, sealing both ends by gently melting the cuts with a match or lighter. Adhere the ribbon using double-sided adhesive across the width of the paper, centering it in the strip of Peapod paper.

11. Add your 3-½"x5" photo, using double-sided adhesive. Embellish with a selection of buttons. Buttons can be adhered with double-sided tape or sewn on.

12. Using double-sided tape, adhere the miniature scrapbook page to the opposite side of first flap in the EK Success Art Blanche Tent Calendar.

13. Create additional pages for the remaining 10 blank pages in the calendar, using a maximum of one photo per page, and using coordinating colours.