How to Design your own Beautiful, Inspirational Calendar
A creative activity for the Festive Season
If you are starting to get bored over the Festive period, after all that Turkey etc. Well, here's an interesting task for you to do. (Isn't it if funny how sometimes, when we have a lot of time to ourselves, we don't know what to do with ourselves, or is it just me?).
Anyway, it's getting to the time of the year when we all need new Calendars for the home, for the office and other places. How about creating your own calendar for a change - with what you want on it.
Example: you could have pictures of:
- Friends and Family
- Your favourite Celebrities
- Nature, beautiful Scenery
- Your Heart Throbs
- Photo’s about your Hobbies
- Dream Cars
- Politicians
- Animals/Pets
- Anything you want…..
It’s easy to create in 5 simple steps. You need a Computer with Microsoft Word, Paint Application and also the photo's you want to use, which should be saved on your computer.
Step one
- Open up a New Word Document.
- Open up the Photo you want to use.
- Open up timeanddate.com or just click Here.
or another 2010 Calendar of your choice.
Step Two
- Copy and paste the photo into the word document or Do a Print screen of your photo (press print screen button on your pc).
- Open up Paint and paste it there (Edit and Paste).
Step 2 - Edit and Paste
Step 3
Select it
- Click little box under Edit.
- Click near the picture and drag the box over it.
Step 3a - Click little box and drag over picture
3b - start to drag box over it, until it's completely selected
3c - Picture is completely selected in the Box
Step 4 - Right click mouse, select Copy and paste it in the Word Doc
Step 5
For the Calendar
- Do a print screen of the January Calendar Here (Change country if not in UK).
- Again select it (repeat step 3 and 4 - refer to diagrams above).
- Select little box under Edit.
- Click near the picture and drag the box over it.
- Object is selected ( in the box).
- Right Click and select copy.
- Paste it in the Word document. (under the photo)
- At the bottom, write any quote you like or just leave it blank.
You just need 11 more Photo’s or Paste 2 months on a page and use 6 Photo’s.
Another Example
** For the Page Border - In Microsoft Word, Click on:
- Format.
- Borders and Shading.
- Select Page Border.
- Select a Border Style and Click ok.