Hand Embossed Calender

Assignment: To make a unique calender using any method you desire.
Brainstorming: Wrote down many different ideas, doodled and then felt that this was the strongest of idea. Now to decide on what mediums to do.
Conception of design: I liked using water color paper and embossing designs. My idea was to show the phases of birds and the tree throughout the different months. February; the mother making the nest, March; the eggs and flowers blooming, April the birds hatching, May was the baby birds feeding and growing and so on to the empty nest in December.
Design Phase: First I did all the embossing using watercolor paper and different objects to get the desired shapes letting each one dry before applying the next layer. After creating all the separate months I photographed them, scanned into PhotoShop, manipulated photos and added day and year. Using natural twine I attached them together. Most of all I had a lot of fun just being creative. Embossing is expensive on a large scale but can sell an idea.
*Saving your old designs could be beneficial to utilize these techniques for new jobs for future designs. I call this my "Inspiration Box and it contains old drawings, layouts and ideas that did not work at the time.