During our 12 Days of Christmas Giveaway series we here at CraftPaperScissors will be running a different giveaway each day. Check back with us every day to see a wonderful new craft and prize that you can win through Friday, December 12th, 2014! Now, let’s take a look at today’s project.
On the third day of our 12 Days of Christmas Giveaway, my true love gave to me a DIY Chalkboard Tag Calendar from Fiskars. Make this calendar for your own walls or as a holiday gift. Not only is it adorable, but once it’s finished, you’ll never have to buy a calendar again! Enjoy decorating the chalkboard pieces each month and making special markers for family celebrations and major holidays.
Make today’s project!
Materials:
- Fiskars Standard Tag Maker
- Fiskars 18×24 Cutting Mat
- Fiskars Star Pop-up Punch
- Fiskars SureCut Deluxe Craft Paper Trimmer
- Chalkboard paper
- Adhesive
- Chalk
- Alphabet stickers
- 16×20 inch frame
Instructions:
1. Using the Standard Tag maker, punch tag shapes from chalkboard paper. You will need about 35 to 40 tags.
2. Punch hole on each tag and set an eyelet in the hole.
3. Arrange tags to form calendar the calendar rows, mounting them with adhesive onto your chosen background. For this calendar, we used a base that fit into a 16×20 inch frame.
4. Use letter stickers to add the days of the week at the top of each column.
5. Cut a strip of chalkboard paper and place it at the top of the calendar to write your month.
6. Punch some small stars as additional embellishments.
Enter to win today’s giveaway
Today’s prize is a Cut and Punch Craft Supply Kit from Fiskars. The Cut and Punch Craft Supply Kit comes with one Standard Tag Maker and one pair of Thick and Heavy Mixed Media Scissors. In order to win today’s 12 Days of Christmas Giveaway, all you need to do is leave a comment on this blog post below telling us:
What is your favorite way to craft with paper?
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- Winner will be selected at random from the comments on this blog post.
- Winner will be announced here on the blog December 5, 2014 as well as contacted by the email address provided.
- You have until tomorrow, December 4, 2014 at 11:59p EST to leave your comment. Comments posted after that will not be counted.
- Contest open to anyone 18+ in US and/or Canada.
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Congratulations to John!
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What unique ideas you have, I’m looking forward to utilizing them.
I like making origami out of any paper.
would love to have new things for our preschool class.
I like to coverify plain things with the pretty papers. You can cover just about anything : )
I like to make little memo pads fot my kids.
I use paper as backgrounds in projects. I also do a bit of folding, cutting and gluing to create.
I just adore taking a low investment craft material, like paper, and turning it into something 3-dimensional. For example, when my children and I make paper chains for holidays and birthdays. Or when you can do paper folds with embellishments and make an origami piece or even a practical measure like homemade envelopes…sweet :)!!
I like to make intricate cuttings and frame them. I also like to make paper garlands.
i love making scrap books. i also love doing oragami. i used to be really good at it.
I have used modge podge to make Christmas ornaments with paper.
I love card making and Scrapbooking. It’s a very good feeling to see people’s faces when they receive homemade cards created for them! And…it’s good therapy when life gets intense.
My kids and I do a lot of different crafts with paper (they are 7,6,5,4). Most recently they made their own Christmas trees out of paper and we are sending those as their Christmas cards to family and friends.
scrapbooking
I love giving my boys, 7,8,10.. some paper and see what they can imagine into creation…. myself I love to scrapbook and share with my friends and family.
I use paper for so many things but my favorite is making fun crafts with my kids.
I like to redecorate handled shopping bags for the occasion. I cover the “words” on the bag w/ paper flowers or other appropriate motifs.
I love to incorporate vintage ephemera into my art projects.
I love to help my daughter (age 32) make personalized handmade wedding invitations, place cards, table numbers, thank you favors, etc for her friends getting married. It’s is wonderful getting to share in their happiness!
I would like to get into this hobby but I don’t know how to do crafts. I do enjoy making the ring countdown that you place on your wall, counting the days until Christmas. We sometimes make a ring to wrap around the tree. The house just isn’t festive enough, so I guess I would love to learn how to do crafts, making a bunch of things to put on the walls for the Christmas season. Afterwards, if I knew some ideas, I think this would be a great new hobby!
i like to have paper snow flakes hanging every where.
I haven’t dome much with paper–but plan to decorate some gift bags. could sure some good scissors.
By making cards.
I like to use paper to make templates for quilts and to make shapes for scrapbooks.
i love making my own greeting cards 🙂
I love making my own pop-up greeting cards.
My favorite way to craft with paper is to make my own gift tags and special occasion cards. Would love to be able to use this prize package. So many ideas and possibilities! :0)
origami
I love using paper to create, and if I have to choose one favorite way, I guess I would have to say…. scrapbooks from my two wonderful Grandsons. What a wonderful prize today, thanks for the chance to win.
Many hours of crafting and enjoyment for my grandkids and I
I love this time of year! The holidays always sends my mind into the world of creation. My most favorite part is showing my granddaughters how to create for others. This package would be such a great addition to my craft room.
When I have the time, I make all sorts of cards–not enough to please my husband after buying so much stuff–but I keep at it when I can!
Right now my favorite craft with paper is amusing my grandchildren with simple, useful origami. When my children were young, we used to make pop-up cards and I think my grandkids are about the right age to start on those, too. The tags look sweet and easy to adapt for many uses!
I like scrapbooks and making cards.
I like making storage/gift boxes out of greeting cards, calendar pages, etc.
What a terrific idea for a giveaway! I feel like I am back in school and being asked a trick question! I use paper for so many different crafts. I love decoupage, to transform something boring into something fabulous! Painting, origami and the list goes on and on…
I love to help my grandchildren make all kinds of cards, and trying origami with them!
I love to do quilling. Thanks for the 12 Days of Christmas giveaways!
I love to craft many different things with paper. I enjoy origami, paper mache, and scrap booking, but my favorite craft recently has been decorating old wine bottles that i saved with paper and paint, and Hodge Podging them.
I like to make impressionist-style collages out of small bits of paper.
I Like making cards and scrapbooking.
I have been very interested in taking up paper quilling along with learning Origami.
Currently I use paper for making sewing patterns; quilting templates, paper piecing patterns for my quilt blocks, transfer templates for painting, crayon or color-pencil art on either clothing, or for mixed media quilt blocks.
In the past, I was collecting all types of different papers and such because I wanted to learn scrap booking. Unfortunately I have lost all those supplies to my son who has stolen everything I own and worked for the past 35 years and now I am starting over with everything (including trying to find a home).
Since becoming disabled in 2009, I am not able to do the things I used to enjoy and was a source of income such as gardening, horseback riding and training horses.
Now, because I am trying to put my life back together, I have literally forced myself into finding something I could do, so I have taken up sewing, quilting and continue to find as many other craft projects I can in order to remain sane and keep from falling into depression.
I love to design, and have given much thought into designing and selling my own greeting and postcard line here at our local store on the lake for the upcoming tourist season since I also used to do a lot of photography and have the software to utilize photo’s into my cards.
Anything crafty other than working with crochet or knitting interests me as I just have a need to design and do artwork in pretty much any form. 🙂
I love learning new craft ideas!!!
The only paper crafting I’ve done is making cards with my sister, and a long time ago I used to frame wedding invitations (and decorate) for gifts.
Love Fiskars products of any kind. The best to craft with.
I love to do cards. It is nice to see people admiring your work and wanting to start making cards as well. Making cards is a therapy that don’ t cost you much.
I like to scrapbook with paper
Paper crafts are great! I love making paper beads( from junk mail), scrapbooking, paper Christmas ornaments, snowflakes… The list is endless. My favorite depends on the season and any upcoming occasions.
My love with paper started in pre-school with drawing and then learning to make paper snowflakes with just a few snips of the scissors. As a grown up I learned of the almost lost art of Victorian paper cutting that puts cut-outs in a whole new category. I love different papers for writing, and drawing and scrapbooking still. My favorite way to use paper however is to wrap presents for people I love with unique hand-crafted flourishes, representative of each recipient…the package should be as much a work of art as the gift inside, after all.
I love doing things with pretty scrapbooking paper. Today I used a punch like the one in your post to make gift tags!
My favorite paper activity was giving my son (1st grade or so) several bookmark shaped pieces of cardboard and some Christmas-y gummed paper cutouts and telling him to put the cutouts on the cardboard. The family loved the bookmarks! I also like scrapbooking, making cards, papier mache, and have done some origami as well.
I use paper for scrapbooking
I love making cards, scrapbook pages and favors! I’m love paper, scissors, stamps and glue! A kindergartner at heart!
I love making collage with pretty scrapbook papers and old photos. I like to make up stories about the beautiful faces.
Mostly I make jewelry (not just paper beads) with fiber, including paper–gift wrap, handmade specialty, printer, scrapbook papers, tissue, etc.
I like making ornaments out of paper that can be handed down to our next generations.
I like to make cards.
I love crafting with paper! There are so many ways to reuse magazines/scraps and tons of them are perfect for the holidays! This year I am making all of my bows for gift-wrapping using magazine pages, cutting and pasting an advent calendar, cards, garlands, ornaments,,,the list goes on, haha! After the holidays, I will be back to my normal papercrafting hobbies, which are ever-expanding!
I never have done much paper crafting. I am always looking for new craft ideas, especially things I can teach younger people to do.
I like to make cards, but more and more I find myself pushing the envelope and trying new things from books, journals to easel cards, tags, projects, etc.
I like to use paper for
cards and scrapbooking.
I also like to use mod podge
to attach paper to altered
items, boxes, trays, etc.
Carla from Utah
I would love to create my own greeting cards. This would seem to make a good start and Fiskers are already my favorite scissors
What a great idea for a chalk board. I live by my calendar. Helps me to remember those important dates.
I’m not very good at paper crafts, but my daughter loves to make paper fashions. She’s 17 now and still does them and then buys fabric and tries to sew the outfits she designed.
Scrap-booking and arts and crafts
I like to do Origami – although I’m not very good at it.
I like to make envelopes out of wallpaper sample books
I like to do origami and gift cards.
We like to use heavy construction paper to paint and make ornaments for our little tree
My favorite paper crafts are making paper beads and making cool flowers from old books.
I love making cards especially birthday cards…they make my friends feel extra special!
I like making cards out of paper.
Make scrap books and greeting cards
I like making cards the best.
Great ideas, I love scrapbooking and making greeting cards
I love to make snowflakes and paper chains like I did when I was in school. Thank you for the giveaway!
I love to make personalized Holiday cards with different textures of paper.
We like to do origami! Thanks so much for the chances to win.
scrapbooking
I love to make cards. When I am stressed, I love to rip newspaper. Now I am looking for ideas to use with my new grand-son as he gets older. He’s only 6 weeks old, so I am really planning ahead. LOL
I love this project, it would be great for Advent Calendar or reward calendar. Thanks for sharing.
I like making cool things with scrap books. Thank you
I’ve loved to make snowflakes since I was young , but now I use a littler color
I love do the paper snowflakes. They are so beautiful and much fun to make. All the children love to do them with me. They decorate their homes at Christmas time with them. This year we even had some “Star Wars” themed ones that the boys loved!!
I like to make collage crafts with paper
I like to make seasonal decorations using origami
i like making cards for all occasions an just started working on scrap booking family events
I love to make things with paper for scrap books.
I use to like doing orgami and a few other paper snowflakes .
Handmade cards for all occasions
I enjoy making cards with different types and scraps of paper.
I like making homemade cards.
I am always eager to try a new craft, paperworks and scrapbooking are something I have not tried yet. What a wonderful Christmas present this would be for me. Thanks for promoting this giveaway.
I like to cut snowflakes year around with my three year old and hang them up at the end of the year to see and the pretty differences as she grows 🙂
I love to find new ways of using some of these prize materials.
I don’t normally craft with paper other than the fun things I do with Christmas wrapping. I’d love to learn to do more stuff.
I like scrapbooking, I am a beginner so I love your ideas.
scrapbooks
Right now, we’re making tree trimmings out of paper.
Anything that involves crafting with my 8 yr old daughter. The imagination of a child is AMAZING.
I like to make snowflakes
My grandchildren and I love working with paper and making all kinds of gifts for people plus for their room at my house. They are always wanting to make something and with paper is the easiest way to do it. I really enjoy working with my grandchildren at everything.
I love doing cards, scrapbook pages, and mixed media projects with paper.
I love to make gift tags with quilling strips.
This looks like a lot of fun! I can’t wait to get started!
Our favorite way to craft with paper is to make Christmas cards for family and friends.
What a unique way to use the punch. Awesome project.
cards birthday cards xmas card haloween card you get the idea
Decoupage is my favorite paper crafting technique.
I love to quill, do origami,tea bag folding and kusaduma.I also enjoy paper wheat weaving and paper weave in triaxial weaves. Not to mention card making with die cuts and punches
I do many crafts with paper. One of my favorites is making paper beads. I am working on making Christmas garland from old scraps of wrapping paper.
I enjoy making paper beads.
My favorite way to craft with paper is to make Origami. It is challenging and fun to learn new folds 🙂
My favorite way to craft with paper is stamp on it to make greeting cards.
Paper snowflakes
I like to make pretty cards and gift bags out of papers.
I love to make cards and decorate things with paper, such as journals. I have also made boxes out of paper (generally card stock for boxes).
I like to scrapbook with paper and make greeting cards.
We have been crafting lots of paper snowflakes lately!
I like to make cards and decorations.
I like to make paper trifolded butterflys:)
Love to use paper in making 3D conceptual art pieces, and shadow boxes.