Review: We put together a template of our kids and included every family and friend birthday, anniversary, celebration that we could. Then depending on which side of the family we were sending it to we toggled on/off the dates that were important to them. Of course we made one calendar for ourselves with all of the dates.

For a design we had the kids do painting using their hands that was based on the month (for example in February it was a heart made out of their hands, October a turkey, etc...)

Pros: High quality paper and prints. It looked fabulous

Cons: It would be nice if you could get a larger then 8.5x11 one as with so many custom dates there was very little room left for handwritten notes.

Bottom Line: A steal of a deal, especially if you can nab it during a sale. Everyone loved them!

Location:Ottawa Canada

Review: I love making things my own and put my own personal twist on everything

Pros: amazing quality...totally personalized to what I like, vibrant colours, great photos...

Cons: nothing

Bottom Line: love love love the calendars....will make more soon

Location:Sligo, Ireland

Review: I ordered two calendars for Christmas Presents for 2013. The ease of loading photos and placing them on the calendar the way I wanted them was a lot easier than some sites I have used in the past. The pictures came out absolutely perfect, eve the ones that had warnings that they may come out a little grainy were fantastically clear! I also love the paper being sturdy as are the bindings!

Pros: Sturdy materials, easy of picture upload and placement

Cons: a foreign product. Wish it was made in the U.S.A.

Bottom Line: Overall, I would tell anyone and everyone in the market for a personalized wall calendar to purchase one from artscow!

Location:U.S.A.

Review: Image turned out quite nicely.

Pros: Very nice personalized gifts for Christmas (n new year!)

Cons: Would hv been easier for users if the "add events" can be shared within different calendars. I started with this wall calendar, then I decided to make two other desktop calendars with different sizes, which made me to add New Zealand's public holidays for 3 times! And of coz it will be even better if u provide the holidays for different countries to choose from! I made two for my relatives in Canada, and had to add in their holidays, which is quite time consuming for sure!

Bottom Line: It's v easy to make with the templates provided, if you do not need to add in public holidays... :)

Location:New Zealand

Review: love it using for a Christmas present

Pros: you can use your own pictures

Cons: have never found any cons with Art Cow

Location:Hammond In. USA

Review: I've been making ArtsCow calendars for several years. I go to the previous year's saved design and immediately save it as the current year, change the calendar year and all of your customized dates fall into the right slots without having to reenter each year. EASY. You can use your kits for extra jazz. Because I go into a lot of details and customizations, I usually start designing them in September each year. By the time ArtsCow has a sale, I'm ready to order!

Pros: Price - good quality for a good product. Customer Service - Since I've ordered about 50 calendars over the years, occasionally there is a mishap with one of them. ArtsCow has always made adjustments quickly. Appreciation - my family, even extended family, loves to receive these for Christmas gifts.

Cons: Having to start so early - I find that my Thanksgiving and Christmas pictures are two years old by the time we see them. But hey..... I drive myself crazy adding so many extras to each calendar (you can put pictures on the bottom too!). I need to settle down and just make a calendar with 12 pictures - but that's not going to happen.

Location:Arlington TX

Review: Neat customization options to add holidays and events to the calendar. Great gift.

Pros: Nice quality, think paper and good binding Nice gift

Cons: Can't think of any.

Location:Nc

Review: I ordered the two calenders because they were in the new customer offer, so I could see how they come out.
The printing was very good quality and the customization was really nice and easy to do!

Pros: Prints were in good quality and the calendar looks neat overall! The customization was easy and it was fun to be able to add some personal messages for certain days (such as birthdays and local events)

Cons: One of the pictures was printed slightly to the left leaving a small white line to the right side of the picture despite that I had filled the bleed areas on the making. It would be nice to have a version for the calender part with all blank days so that I wouldn't get those events marked down that aren't celebrated in my country.

Location:Finland

Review: Received the package very fast and the printing quality of the calendar is just amazing! I can customize the date and images all over the calendar, and plenty of design templates are provided. Silverlight designer is easy and user friendly. My family members love this so much! what a impressing gift! :)

Pros: High quality printing and papers, looks neat and simple. The best personalized gift

Cons: Just more than I expected, can't think of any Cons

Review: This was my first order from ArtsCow. Overall, I am pleased. The photo printing is a bit on the overexposed side & contrast was flat (they were all checked with Photoshop & print ok elsewhere). But for the price you can't really complain.
The spiral binding & heavy paper card stock throughout are excellent. The grid pages are printed crisp & clear. Also not mentioned in the product page, they come in individual cello packages, which is nice for presentation.
Overall very good product; the only reason I took off points was for the light photo printing.

Pros: Nice spiral binding, super heavy-card-stock paper, individual wrapping, overall very nice presentation.

Cons: Photos come out a bit on the light & non-contrasty side.

Location:Canada