My first design for this week provides a bright mixture of colors and textured accents to get you in the mood for the fall season.  I decided to use this design as my own screen wallpaper for the month.  With enough space to add events and company logos, this would be a good basic promotional calendar design for just about any business to capture the attention of customers who are ready to see something memorable from your business.

Calendars make great desktop accents.

The second offering of the week is a brightly colored calendar cube design that has enough punch to satisfy any calendar buying enthusiast.  I like to use this kind of design in my digital picture frame to add dimension and flair to any room in the house.  This calendar page is tempting to keep on hand after the month has passed.  It is also good for posting event information in a simulated metallic etching, all at no extra cost per image.

Who says calendars have to be boring? Not me...

If you like green marble texture, the third calendar for this week will appeal to your senses along with the embedded matted photo accent which further enriches the image.  This composition might go well with marble counter tops or other marble design accents around the house.  Using virtual materials makes it easy and affordable to look rich on a working person’s salary.

Virtual elegance can be yours now.

The last calendar for the month uses metallic accents to enrich the fall photo theme, through a blend of textured copper and brass coloring in a simple, yet elegant design.  This type of calendar design also lends well to promotional calendar purposes, adding snap and value to events, advertising, and company logo impressions.  All these digital designs carry the added value of being produced once, then replicated as many times as needed for no extra cost or effort.  Just get a page and send it to all your customers or friends via email or by loading them directly into a digital picture frame.  By spreading the electronic images, there are no mailing or printing costs to make a big hit.  Where else can you get designs like these for so little?

Beef up your promotional reach for less than a song...

This week, I am focusing on four digital plaques made from the digital matted photos of flowers that I started with.  Whether I am making funny digital plaques, inspirational, or something in between, these virtual plaques always liven up my digital photo frame content, and bring me another way to enjoy the variations made from my digital photos.

My first composition uses a lively photo matting design, and surrounds it with a cloth texture.  Though the design may appear a bit busy to some, my wife confirmed that she liked it, so I went with the 2 of 2 votes on that one.  Of course the quotes on the plaques for this week all came from the unrehearsed, spontaneous responses to the compositions spoken by my favorite author and critic.  This way, whether the sayings are original or not, I merely ensure they are the most recent. 

A bold and monumental tribute to flowers - right.

The next funny digital plaque is designed to help my buds who just do not seem able to grasp the concept of romance.  This one is for their wives who rarely see a flower, much less their husbands. So, as your guy heads off on his fishing or hunting trip into the woods, you can turn on the digital photo frame, and dream that he just offered you this beautiful bloom.

Romance never dies...just the fish.

The following humorous plaque carries on with a less than favorable eye for beautiful flowers.  In the sea of poetic quotes about flowers, I have personally never encountered this expression of perspective before.  This is another example of testing whether the photo or the caption gets the most immediate attention.

Grass will not grow? Remember this lawn secret.

This kind of thinking leads to the final and ultimate question for this week.  The plaque offers yet another thought I have not heard anywhere other than Matte Watch.  Though this week’s virtual plaques were largely focused on humor, flowers still make a good foundation for lots of different sentiments.

The logical mind at work.

Drawing on the digitally matted photos of some nice flowers that I posted last week, this week I will provide some of my ideas for creating digital photo frame calendar designs.  Among the most popular of these designs, I made four distinct presentations for my audience to enjoy.  The first offering takes the basic matted photo, and dresses it up with a calendar page and complementary accents to further enhance the photo.  All the blooms came from some pictures I took in Overland Park, Kansas on a weekend outing to celebrate the coming of fall.

Make the months come alive with unusual digital photo frame calendar designs.

Next in line is a spherical design using the flower photo as a backdrop for the calendar page which I think makes a festive looking picture suitable for the upcoming holiday season.  The bright colors in the matte give the piece a nice ornamental look to pass the time through the month.  Many thematic variations of color and subject make this design a versatile way to show off your favorite photo subjects in an unusual way.  I say this is unusual because I have not seen similar work elsewhere.

Christmas is around the corner, so why not put some festive calendar designs into your photo frame.

My third creation expands the photo matting from the original picture matte to create a rich texture to the blended metallic background.  I have not seen anyone posting this type of blended design for calendar creations, as most photographic sites concentrate on plain Jane, rubber stamp templates to sock your pictures into, without offering much else for people to choose from. 

Special days are easy to remember with a calendar like this to put them on.

My final picture returns to another variation on the cubical digital calendar design that also shows a lot of promise for a wide variety of unique compositions fueled by the focus of the individual picture which provides it starting point.  If you are tired of the same old calendar designs available from year to year, digital photo calendars might turn out to be one of your best choices for arriving with something people will really notice.  Of course, if you want to add personalized events, holidays, and other notable information in the design, we can add those to the mix as well.

No photo frame? Use these images as computer screen wallpapers to dazzle your eyes while you work!