October is a busy time in our house, with decorating, planning parties, and of course getting ready for Halloween! To help us count down the days, I made a hybrid Halloween Countdown Calendar. Follow along as I walk you through the project.
For my calendar base, I used Design 365 Month Masks by Carina Gardner.
For paper and elements I used Haunted Paper Set 1, Haunted Paper Set 2, Haunted Tags, Haunted Bingo and Haunted Epoxy Brads all by Carina Gardner, and The Superstition Collection Word Art by Deena Rutter.
Other supplies needed:
- 12 x 12 inch black cardstock, letter stickers, paper trimmer, scissors, corner rounder, adhesive, page frame, ribbon or yarn
- Optional: black distress ink, Stickles in Black Diamond and Diamond (or Crystal), Glimmer Mist
Place the calendar mask onto an 11×8.5 canvas for ease of printing. Resize to fit.
Clip desired papers to each calendar block, moving and resizing as necessary to show your favorite parts of the papers. Then select and copy the numbers and place on each day. Add drop shadows to each of the numbers.
Because the mask has more than 31 blocks, I chose to merge the last several blocks to have a bigger spot for the day of Halloween. I used parts of various tags and bingo cards so I could incorporate more than one of the gorgeous illustrations on that block. Add “Happy Halloween” word art.
Print calendar on matte presentation paper. On a separate sheet, also print additional tags and epoxy buttons to embellish the calendar. Cut out all pieces, rounding corners where needed. Ink all edges with black distress ink, if desired.
Add mist and/or Stickles to embellishments. Set aside to dry.
Adhere calendar blocks to 12 x 12 inch sheet of black cardstock.
Adhere embellishments and title. Add Diamond Stickles to “Halloween” for extra emphasis. Let dry.
Slide in page frame and hang using ribbon or yarn.
You can use a dry erase mark to cross off each day or use a Halloween-themed window cling to move each day as you count down to Halloween!
Happy Halloween!
~Carey
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Okay, now that’s just so cool!
seriously awesome! I might have to do this. I have all the supplies lying around too…
This is really adorable!
so awesome! I would buy this.
Carey this is soooo cute!
Way too cute. And the colors will match my house perfectly! I think I might glue it to a magnet board and make a few epoxy button magnets so the kids can actually mark the days down. Can’t wait!