Making a Calendar

So this year, I have basically no money. But my boyfriend and I are coming off our two-year anniversary and I had no idea what I could possibly afford to give him.

For a long time, I've wanted to go to Kinko's a make a calendar with pictures of us, but just haven't gotten around to it. Luckily, I was looking through a book of scrapbook paper I had purchased for a previous project and had a realization: I CAN MAKE A CALENDAR FOR HIM FROM MY SCRAPBOOK PAPER!

So this is what I do. I get my scrapbook paper and choose 12 of the pages I liked best that I thought would maybe be boyfriend friendly. Fortunately I bought a black and white themed book.

I got my tools together:
Scrapbook pages (13) You'll need an extra one to write the dates of December on.
Pencil
Ruler
Sharpie Pen
Mod Podge and Sponge
Tape
Pictures (I went to Kinko's and printed out 20 photos in different sizes from my flash drive)

So what I did after having all my tools ready is go through the pictures and find out exactly which pictures I want to put on each month. I tried to make sure that there was enough difference between the pages so no two consecutive sheets looked too similar in color. So after I put all the sheets in order of the months I want them, I laid out the photos on top of them and decided which go where.

Once I decided which pictures will go with each month I turned them over and wrote with my sharpie which photos go with which month (just in case I get them out of order. Turned out to be REALLY helpful). 

After putting those in order, I decided to focus on the real work ahead, making the date boxes for the months. The key to this is using the back of the following months picture page. For example. The dates for the month of January are written on the back of the dates for February. They are essentially upside down because once you flip the page up, if there is writing on the sheet of scrapbook paper, it would be face up. 

I was really scared when doing this, so I decided to trace everything out with a pencil before going back over it with the sharpie. 

I made each box 1.5in x 1.5in and made a 1.5in by .25in boxes for the days of the week at the top 

That's it for right now. I'm going to post my next installment later.