DIY Canvas Calendar

I intended to write this post yesterday and have it publish early this morning.  I also intended to write a post for yesterday.  Until some DINKUS drove a truck into some power lines.  Since he was uninjured, I feel no guilt in calling him a DINKUS.  He took out cable, internet and telephone for THE ENTIRE TOWN. Dinkus.


Twelve hours later, it came back on but by that time I was sleepy.  Without further whining, let's talk about this easy project.


I spotted this calendar in a Pottery Barn catalog last season.  When I went to find the picture of it online, I found that it's not available anymore and neither is the picture.  But, it looks a lot like the one I just finished, so we don't need their silly little picture, now do we?


I painted a 16" x 20" size canvas in a nice sandy color.  I took some brown ribbon and laid them across the canvas to start...

Four pieces of ribbon across, making five rows.  Then I added some ribbon going the other way...

Six pieces of ribbon going down, making seven columns.  I arranged them until I was happy with the evenness and then I used straight pins to keep them in place.

So far, so good.  I need to be able to hang this up so I trimmed the pins in the back using some sort of tool that can cut straight pins.  I don't know what it's called.  My son found it in the garage.  We find lots of things in the garage.

Once I had them trimmed to a nice size, I hot glued the ends to the back of the canvas to keep them in place.  You could do this from the front, but I didn't want to see globs of hot glue.

Alrighty then... we have something resembling a calendar.

I grabbed my seasonal pack of scrapbook paper that I got on ridiculous sale with coupon at Michael's a few months ago.  It has some papers that have the name of the month on them.

I used contact paper to cover it and then I used regular ol' scotch tape to attach it to the calendar.  This way, switching out the month is easy-shmeasy.

Look at the happy little bird.  He doesn't tweet though.  Not sure why.


I used the Silhouette to cut out some 1" x 1" squares and some numbers from cardstock and I mod podge'd both sides.  I taped those up too and the calendar was done.  I had the hubs show his skills and hang it up for me.

BOOM.  Now I know the date.  The great thing about this is that I can change out the date cards with the seasons too, so I can make them more festive when the occasion calls for it.  Love that!

The only thing I had to buy for this project was the canvas (50% off, thankyouverymuch) and the brown ribbon... everything else was on hand!



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