All the Digital Calendar Kits You May Ever Want
Tuesday, December 20, 2005 at 12:49PM Searching for a Calendar Kit for next year, I began to realise there are a lot - with more even being produced right up until Christmas. So, here are all the links I can find towards 2006 Digital Calendar Kits.
Most of the below Calendar kits follow 3 formats -
- The Page Kits or Printables - each month is provided with a calendar element, background image, perhaps an overpage or quickpage element for placing a photo under or over. Some calendars are nationalistic or seasonal - in being themed towards some defined USA dates such as July 4th or having a northern hemisphere-centric definition of summer being in the May - July months but others are reasonably generic. These can further be broken down to normal wall calendar sizes, and those of desk or mini calendars.
- Month Calendar Templates - solely the calendar png file itself - you can use these on whatever backgrounds you wish to use.
The Printables
Christy Lyle has a kit called simply 2006 Calendar Kit, in a pastel colour range. This kit is available from The Digichick Boutique.
Mek & Crew sell several different Calendar Kits through Scrap Outside the Box. The Classy Version (shown here) allows you to make a two page calendar spread for any month of any year. Backgrounds, numbers, month names an week names plus 4 different styles of calendar grids are supplied. The Calendar Kit - Fun Version is similar but in brighter colours. There are also Spring, Fall, Summer and Winter Add-on kits for both these calendars - which include additional seasonal papers and wordart co-ordinates. Or you can get the whole lot - the classy, fun and seasonal add- on packs, in a mega kit called Calendar Kit - Mega Version.
Francine Harman has a calendar kit available via Digital Scrapbook Design com, or Scrapbook Bytes called Calendary 2006 Two. Or if you’re after a simple quickpage calendar in 8 1/2 x 11 inch format, Francine also has one called Easy Page Calendar Heritage Postcard. This set is available from the same places as above.
One of the first calendar kits to come out which caused a lot of comments was the colloborative effort between Heather Ann Melzer and Gina Cabrera - available from Gina’s site, Digital Design Essentials or Heather’s site, Heather Ann Designs. This 2006 Calendar Kit is a simple printable set in 8 1/2 x 11 inch sizing, in pastel tonings.
Cottagearts.net has two different Calendar sizes available - the 2006 8x10 ScrapOver Calendar Pak comes all up, based on the 2005 Template pak. And a slightly larger format is available, but split into two different kit downloads - the 2006 11x8.5 Calendar/Album Pak 1 (Spring/Summer) and Pak 2 (Fall/Winter).
Kim Hill, from her website, CG Essentials, has both a 2006 Calendar kit as a printable collection, plus an Add-On pack of Calendar Elements. I can’t give you a preview here, as Kim does not allow image copying from the website, even from previews.So if you’re interested in this lovely kit, go take a look.
Dani Mogstad has a calendar kit via her own boutique website, Designs by Dani. It is not only a Calendar, but the Year of Memories Collection includes a lot more elements to create layouts or whatever you wish. The collection is available as a download, or on CD, or you can purchase individual seasonal components. There is also available A Year of Memories Quick Page set with only the calendar pages.
The Scrapartist Team have a beautiful calendar kit for 2006, called the ScrapArtist Team 2006 Calendar. If purchased up to Christmas 2005, a donation will be made to a charity. This is an 8 1/2 x 11 inch kit in monthly themes to suit the Northern Hemisphere.
Anne Langpap has a 2006 Calendar page set available through 2 Peas, in lovely pastel tonings.
If you love Mo Jackson’s very individualistic designs, then you may be interested in her two calendar collections, available from her website. Entry to the Mo’land Mall is currently open only to registered members. Logon via the Mo Jackson website. The 2006 Calendar Collection includes 12 months with quick pages, and additional elements to put onto your designs. Or you can get a collection of Monthly Zippidy Doodads - you can buy the months in quarterly packs, or in a whopping 12 month pack. The Zippidy Months don’t come with a calendar insert - just lots of backgrounds and elements themed for the month.
Tracy Ann Robinson has released a fantastic graphical calendar through Scrapbook Bytes. The Days of 2006 kit utilises flower designs by CK Hall of Famer, Stacy McFadden, which Tracy digitally coloured. The 12x12 size pages also come with a cover page with quote also.
Melissa Buhler has a Calendar Kit, at Do it Digi. Melissa’s Calendar Kit features 8 1/2 x 11 inch png files feature windows to place your photos under. These are reasonably generic in theme for most months, aside from the July one which has a big "Celebrate" on it.
Traci Simms has a 2006 Calendar Kit available from Scrapbook-Elements. This comes with twelve 8 1/2 x 11 inch month pages and 14 digital stamps to put on the pages for various holidays like Easter. The stamps are a good idea for international scrappers - although we celebrate Easter on the same days, things like Mother’s Day can be different.
Olivia Meyers has added to whimsical collections for calendars at Scrapbook Elements. These are hand-water coloured. The month template section of the pages is now shown in preview, but the two collections are very cute. Check out the 2006 Whimsical Mice Calendar and the 2006 Whimsical Teddy Bear Calendar. Here is the link to the later.
Amy Villalba has a Quick and Easy 2006 Calendar available via Digitals, which comes with a bonus 12 month calendar on one page - to print out and put on your refrigerator, as Amy suggests.
Lauren Bavin and Kim Liddiard have a 4x6 Desk Calendar Kit available at Digital Scrapbook Place. The month part of each page includes a notes area, and Lauren and Kim have a great idea to simply plop a small jpeg of your scrapbook layouts onto these cards. Because of their standard size, printing should be a breeze through most online photo developers. The same templates are available in landscape format also.
Lauren Bavin and Kim Liddiard have provided several other calendar templates at Digital Scrapbook Place. Check out the Bookmark Calendar Templates (shown here), a CD Case 2 Month Glance Calendar, a CD Case Calendar (Monthly), a Cube Calendar, and if you search around the same section, you can find an 8x10 Monthly Calendar, a Wide Desk Calendar, an 8x10 3 Month Glance Calendar and a Long Hanging Calendar.Wow, those gals have been busy!
Clara Wallace of Matter of Scrap has a fantastic (this has got to be one of my own personal favourites) bright and funky kit called the 2006 Calendar Kit. The kit comes down in normal pdf/png file formats, but also as a pdf for those that like to simply print out their calendars.There is also a bonus Birthday / Anniversary calendar, plus January, February, May and June havealternate designs for versatility.
Melyssa Connolly has a 12 Joys Calendar set at Digitals. Based on a baby’s first year, you will have calendar months like Baby’s First Easter as one example.
Jolene Shaffer has a unique idea in a Christmas Calendar Countdown kit. This is prepared for the month of December for 2005 through to 2008. The corresponding month overlays are provided, as are 31 Holiday elements to place on your December countdown. Available through Digitals.
Scrapgirls has a 2006 Calendar Easy Pages Kit available instore. This has some bright background to choose from for each month.
The Scrapgirls ScrapSimple Create Your Own Calendar 2006 is a great idea. You get digital layout templates in 8 1/2 x 11 inch sizing, calendar grids, sidebars for the calendars, and hand-drawn doodles to mark special occasions on the calendars (ie birthdays). The kit also comes with splatter brushes, and some bonus templates also. You can also buy the ScrapSimple Create Your Own Calendar Doodles separately - these are the doodles for occassions to scatter through your calendars or layouts through the year.
Digirocks, the colloborative effort between designers, EvaK Designs and Jan Holsford, have a 2006 Calendar Quick Pages set available at Digital Freebies. This set comes in 8 x 10 size (for home printing) and with two additional covers to choose from, plus 14 stickers for days during the calendar year.
You can buy additional Calendar Stickers, or this quickpage set in a commercial license also. Or if you don’t like the quickpage concept, you can buy a Digirock’s 2006 Calendar Bundle with brackgrounds, calendar grids and elements to build your own calendars. This, again is available in commercial license also. Finally the Digirock’s 2006 Calendar Power Pak combines it all.
The Month Templates
Lianne Carper sells a Month Template through 3 Scrapateers. The 2006 Calendar Template includes a border of zig zag stitching for each month.
Shelle Pukas, through her website, Scrappin’ By Design or Scrapbook Elements, has a Calendar template set, which looks hand-drawn. This does not have standard 2006 months - you have to put the days in yourself, and the template at this point only goes up to 2006. However, accompanying this build-it-yourself template set, are purchaseable add-on sets of little icons. You can buy a Baby Add-ons set or a Pregnancy Milestones set - to plot a pregnancy over the 9 months (hopefully). The two addons are available separately, or with the calendar templates included.
Valarie Lemons produced one of the first set of 2006 Calendar Templates, in October 2005 which are available through the Digitals or Scrapbook Bytes stores online, These are in either a set with horizontal or vertical formats. I use these ones myself, when creating Digital Wallpaper for my own work PC - each month I have a new wallpaper on my screen, including the month calendar.Valarie has laterly come out with her calendar templates in a 2006 Calendars 4 x 6 Mini Album form (which comes with bonus background papers), and a 2006 Gold and Silver Calendar set also.
Heather Ann Melzer also has an interesting template idea - she has a pack of CD Desk Calendar month templates. Simply add your own photos and elements to the top, print out and they are the perfect size to fit in a normal CD Case. Flip over the CD cover, and pop it onto your desk, and you have a desk calendar. Called the CD Case Desk Calendar Kit, this template set is available from Heather Ann Designs. She’s right - this would make a great stocking filler.
Scrapbook Elements themselves have 2006 Calendar Templates - you can use these up to the size of 11 x 17 inchs, or shrink down to fit a normal 8 1/2 x 11 inch format, for normal printing. The overlays are also available in the SBE Through the Year CD.
Marsha Zepeda has a 2006 Calendar Kit of templates available through The Digi Chick boutique.
Kristen Fulton of Black Squirrel Designs has 2006 Calendar Templates available through Scrap Outside the Box. The templates come in black, white, and tan.
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