Here are the October calendar pages for the Graphic 45 Calendar class held at The Paper Forest Scrapbook Boutique in Washington, Illinois.
From your sheet of cut-outs, you will need the postcard and the cat tag. Use brown and black ink to antique the edges of the postcard. Distress the edges of all papers with your scissors, then ink edges with black ink. Cut apart the Trick or Treat strip as shown. Ink all edges. From your class kit, ink edges of orange photo corner, and adhere to top left corner of postcard. Add black button with orange floss from your class kit. Layer eyelet border under left side of postcard and place hounds tooth paper under right side of postcard. Layer your cut apart Trick or Treat poem on top of hounds tooth paper, as shown. Add the orange brad from your kit to the chipboard tag of the girl and pumpkin. Adhere using double-sided tape. Distress and ink edges of cat tag. Punch out hole on cat tag. Thread orange and black ribbon through hole.
Nothing fancy here, just cut out the title from your cut-out sheets and adhere. You could add some small leaves in the swirls or scatter them across spaces on your calendar that are blank.
This is the right hand page of a two-page spread. Cut out your October tag and place it in the top left corner of your paper. Cut out one of the purple stamps with your stamp scissors to cover up the word "October". (Be sure to cut wide or your stamp will be too narrow to cover it up.) Ink the edges of your orange mats with black ink. This helps them to blend in to the black paper. (Be sure to place the mats with the brighter orange side up. The reverse side has a peach tone and is not the Halloween orange we are looking for on this page.) Apply adhesive to the backs of your mats and position them in a stair step fashion as shown. Cut out all of the elements shown from the cut out sheet. Cut out the post card and flip it over. Use the reverse side as mats for the boy and girl Halloween squares. Cut out the stamps with your stamp scissors. The border in the corner is made by cutting out the blue Halloween strip and adhering it to the back side of another title strip that we did not use.
For this page, you need to ink the edges of the orange photo mats (in your class kit) with black ink and adhere them in opposite corners of your black paper. (Be sure to have the brighter side of the orange mat facing up. The other side has a peach tone and is not the Halloween orange we want on this page.) Cut out the purple and black border from your cut out sheet and adhere across the middle of your paper. Adhere the collage elements from the cut out sheet as shown above. The patterned papers are leftover tags from the cut out sheet that we do not use. Just flip them over to add a little bit more texture and pattern to your page. Use your stamp scissors to cut out the stamps. I apologize, I did not get the orange button for the tag into your class kit. If you have an orange button or brad, you can add it. Or if you don't have orange, black would be great, too.
For the cover page, I selected the Fleur de Lys paper from Graphic 45's French Country Collection. Attach the black fleur de lys 6 inch x 6 inch paper in the center of the large diamond print paper. Use the red photo corners from your sticker sheet in opposite corners. Adhere the chipboard lady in the center of the black paper, using double-sided tape. Place a black goosebump from your kit in the center of each photo corner and in the hole of the chipboard piece. I place the Place in Time sticker (2 pieces!) on a piece of chipboard to add dimension to the page. Adhere it as shown near the top of the page.
