Designers-calendars anyone?

[schock77]

Anyone interested or thinking about making QP style calendars? If so, can I request they come in landscape? I always scrap my own calendars and have them printed at shutterfly or artscow for my family... they like "traditional" spiral bound landscape calendars...

Anyway, I'm thinking I'll "cheat" this year and use a QP style calendar if I can find one in the right orientation (hint, hint)... I saw Melissa's 8.5x11, but I need 11x8.5. TIA!

[Jennilyn]

Do you mean like the ones that have binding in the middle with a picture on the top and the calendar on the bottom? Misty has these in the shop.

[schock77]

That's exactly what I'm talking about! How did I miss these? I especially love that your can title them yourself.

[Jennilyn]

My mom wants one for Christmas and I've never done one before. Is there an option to do a scrapbooking calendar at Shutterfly? Or do you just use the one that has the biggest opening for a photo?

[kscwgirl]

no you can do it at Shutterfly. One of the layout options is a single photo, just like the photo books.

[isaacsmom]

Here's another incentive to get your calendars done: Shutterfly is having a sale and calendars are 30% off through Sept 30th!!

Edit: Just noticed that they have free shipping on orders over $30 too. I need to get mine done!!

[schock77]

See...I knew there was a reason I needed to hurry! And yes- Shutterfly has where you can upload the entire "top" instead of using their stuff.

[Jennilyn]

Originally Posted by isaacsmom

Here's another incentive to get your calendars done: Shutterfly is having a sale and calendars are 30% off through Sept 30th!!

Edit: Just noticed that they have free shipping on orders over $30 too. I need to get mine done!!

I'm trying to get mine done before the sale ends...first I need to get a crucial part from Misty. LOL

ETA: I'm good to go! Now I know what I'm going to do tonight!

[isaacsmom]

Originally Posted by Jennilyn

I'm trying to get mine done before the sale ends...first I need to get a crucial part from Misty. LOL

ETA: I'm good to go! Now I know what I'm going to do tonight!

I can't wait to see how it turns out! I'm going to work on mine tonight too - hopefully I can get it all done in time!

[Melissa Bennett]

I just wanted to add, mine are landscape, on the preview they look different because I put the two pages together, if that makes sense.

[Voodoo_Bryn]

Also, Zoe should be putting out her new ones shortly, too. Not this weekend, I think, but super soon.

[Jennilyn]

Stephanie, is there a way to get the cover of the calendar to actually cover the whole page? The biggest one I can find looks like this:

[Shawna]

Jen the ones I made @ Shutterfly for 2008 had the entire front of the calendar covered so there is a way to do it. Let me see if I can figure it out

[kscwgirl]

it's under the collage calendars.

[Shawna]

Okay I just checked and mine was the Collage Calendar and not the Classic Calendar, so that is the difference. The Collage version allows you to fully customize all pages including the cover

[schock77]

Originally Posted by Jennilyn

Stephanie, is there a way to get the cover of the calendar to actually cover the whole page? The biggest one I can find looks like this:

Yes... go to "collage calendar" and create or edit. Then there are tabs on the left- click layout, and in the row that says 1 picture, on the far right you'll see the full page gray page. You don't have to worry about the background then obviously, so just ignore that tab.

Thanks Melissa for letting me know too! I thought it was a hybrid letter style and not landscape. thanks!

[Jennilyn]

Thanks! I got it made and ordered

[Shawna]

I need to get started on mine for 2010 so I actually get them done this year. I never got around to making the 2009 ones for the grandparents and great-grandparents and believe me I've been hearing about it all year long!! After getting them for Christmas the previous two years before that I guess they've come to expect them! lol

[schock77]

Look what I found on page 1 of the GGG sale!!!


Since I made my own last year, it doesn't matter if these were for 2009! Grabbing!

[mnm_y2]

Originally Posted by schock77

Look what I found on page 1 of the GGG sale!!!


Since I made my own last year, it doesn't matter if these were for 2009! Grabbing!

Ohh! Thanks for the heads up! I did like 5 calendars last year and some toppers were the same.. others a bit different.. I've got Misty's already in the works for my mom... and now I can have a totally different one for MIL

[Kat Stokes]

My problem is that I want matching bottoms (the calendar part) too!

Melissa, didn't you do that last year? I thought that's where I got mine but I could be wrong....

I also used Artscow and they turned out great, minus the fact that they had an issue with shipping the 2nd, 3rd and 4th calendars to me (they took a month longer than the first one).

[Shawna]

Melissa's new set does include the tops & bottoms -

[Kat Stokes]

Originally Posted by Shawna

Melissa's new set does include the tops & bottoms

Thank you!!!!

[Penny Springmann]

I'll have a set coming out next week as well!

[digideb]

Originally Posted by Kat Stokes

My problem is that I want matching bottoms (the calendar part) too!

Can you customize the bottoms w/Shutterfly?

[Penny Springmann]

Originally Posted by digideb

Can you customize the bottoms w/Shutterfly?

Yes, you can put in birthdays, anniversaries, etc.

[digideb]

Cool. Thanks! I didn't know you could do that! But I meant like w/a LO (like Melissa's)? lol

[Sarah8914]

No Deb, you can't, unless it has changed recently...

[Shawna]

I think Mpix will let you use your own calendar bottoms, not sure of any others though.

[schock77]

You can do "bottoms" at Artscow too. That just sounds dirty! LOL