Hi there artful buddies, it’s Virginia Nebel right here to share with you a enjoyable undertaking I designed for the Spring 2023 Concern utilizing the Doodlebug Design Day-to-Day calendar pages and LDRS Inventive slimline dies. Check out what you’ll discover on web page 11:

Provides | Doodlebug Design: cardstock, patterned paper, enamel dots, ephemera, stickers; LDRS Inventive: Elegant Stitched Frames slimline dies; Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L: adhesive; American Crafts: letter stickers

I created this set of six vibrant folios with the Day-t0-Day 12 x 12-inch calendar pages from Doodlebug Design and embellished them, combining LDRS Inventive Elegant Stitched Frames slimline dies with a mixture of Doodlebug ephemera.

Right here’s how you can create the bottom folio:

Take one 12 x 12-inch calendar paper, and rating it vertically on the 4” and eight” marks. Rotate the paper 90 levels and rating 3.5” from the underside. Rotate and return the paper to its unique place. With scissors, reduce notches from the underside fringe of the paper as much as the highest line of the underside grid row (the reduce is approx. 2.5” lengthy) as proven within the diagram under. These angled cuts will assist the folio fold flatter.

After you will have scored and reduce the paper, fold the underside part up, the suitable facet into the center, after which the left facet into the center to create your folio! I created stomach bands to maintain the folios closed. Tip: Create the stomach band after you will have completed adorning the entrance of the folio so that there’s sufficient house for the stomach band to slip on and off easily.

Proven under are some examples of how versatile these folios will be in your reminiscence retaining. Wouldn’t or not it’s enjoyable to have ready-made tags or card fronts on your vital birthday card checklist?

How about crafting some constructive intentions? This intentions folio will be inside straightforward attain for that point once you want some encouragement or only a constructive elevate in your day.

Lastly, the folio calendar base makes for an ideal one-month view of your each day particulars. The little calendar numbers and month-to-month titles can be found within the Day-to-Day assortment to create your month-in-review. It could be superior to create a folio for each month of the yr!

Hope you loved this straightforward DIY undertaking and are impressed to make your personal set of folios. It could make for a ravishing show in your craft house or in your desk, have an exquisite day!

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