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Christmas Planner
Christmas Planner Tour: Just Plain Happy's Holiday Planner
So you like the Christmas pocket planner concept, but need more room? With full-size pages and the convenience of pockets, blogger Just Plain Happy's holiday planner is worthy of note!
Check out her colorful, clever solution to holiday planning. Slip full-sized planner pages, notepads and receipt envelopes into the decorated pockets of this Christmas planner to organize gifts, crafts and Christmas cards.
It's a winner!
Planner Tour: Charming Christmas Organizer
It's a Christmas pocket planner of great charm: this entry from Angela, via blogger Polished to Perfection.
As you tour Angela's take on a Christmas pocket planner, note the clever and creative decorations applied to stamps, labels, and most of all, notepads!
Who wouldn't love to get ready for the holiday season with this charming planner? Nicely done!
Tutorial: Make A Holiday Planner With Technique Trail
Here you go: a nicely-illustrated tutorial for a Christmas pocket planner, from blogger Pat at The Technique Trail.
We like Pat's restful color scheme, precise measurements and supply list; this tutorial will take you from start to finish quickly and easily.
To make it better? Add printable Christmas planner pages to speed the job--and create holiday gifts for sisters and friends.
Holiday Organizer: 12 Days of Christmas Planner
It's a massive download, but a pretty planner: a downloadable holiday organizer from WebTV4Women.tv.
Offered by a group of online Christian women web publishers, this printable .PDF download includes planning pages, calendars, checklists and recipes. Designed to complement an upcoming Webcast, the download also includes 12 messages from the event's participants.
Be warned: at 84 pages and 33 megabytes, this download will take some time, even over broadband Internet connections. And check your ink cartridges before you print: heavy use of colored backgrounds will make a this a pretty--if pricey--printable.
Altered File Folder: Cheerful Christmas Planner!
It's cute and cheerful: an altered file folder Christmas planner from blogger hulachickabella.
A decorated file folder forms the base of this Christmas pocket planner; printable holiday planner forms slide neatly into place.
And the cover design? Love it!
Tutorial: Cardstock Holiday Organizer
Ready to make a holiday organizer for Christmas planning? Check out this tutorial from Ruth's Stamping Corner.
Starting from a piece of cardstock, the tutorial takes you through the process, step-by-step. Adding simple stamped and punched embellishments, this Christmas planning project is easy to make--and to give.
Christmas Planner Tutorial: Altered Spiral Notebook
It's purse-sized and powerful: an altered spiral notebook turned holiday planner!
Papercrafter Krista, blogging as Scraps in Bloom, shares her method for creating a tiny treasure for holiday planning with this step-by-step tutorial. Beginning with a small notebook, she shows how to add covers, divider pages and embellishments.
We'd suggest including a fold-out envelope for receipts--and we love the ribbon-tab dividers!
Made in multiple, these small Christmas planners would make wonderful gifts for a special sister or friend. Get crafting!
Thanksgiving Holiday Planning Book: Free Custom Printables!
From sister site OrganizedChristmas.com:
American Thanksgiving is on the way, and it's time to get organized? Check out this free customizable Thanksgiving holiday feature from OceanSpray.com!
To print pages for a Thanksgiving holiday planning book, check off items from a list of planning pages, menus, recipes and tips. Click the "create book" button at the bottom of the page, and the site will generate a .PDF file containing all the information you requested.
Don't miss the Holiday Countdown! A November calendar, it sets out a four-week schedule to prepare for Thanksgiving Day. Nice!
Christmas Planner: Zowie!
We've seen creative Christmas planners around here, but zowie! This one is a marvel!
From blogger Life Outside the Fishbowl, we're stunned by the colorful, creative use of shapes, embellishments and materials--and only wish we could see more.
Looks like this christmas planner is the subject of an upcoming class in Chantilly, Virginia; if only it were taking place in my neck of the woods!
Christmas Planners Go Vertical: Long, Lean Christmas Notebook!
How's this for creative? Using our printable Christmas pocket planner forms, a Bind-it-all and some rubber stamping savvy, papercrafter Rita has created a long, lean notebook for her Christmas lists.
By binding this small planner at the top, she's got flip-through convenience for holiday planning.
We like the tabbed approach, the pretty cover and tiny footprint for this mini-album. It's easy to imagine toting this planner while shopping; tucked into a purse, you'll be ready for Christmas any time, anywhere!
Christmas Notebook Tour: A Quilter's Planner
Papercrafting, scrapbooking and rubber stamping your Christmas planner? Move over for a new crafting inspiration, with this notebook tour of a quilter's Christmas planner.
Quilter Cathi added a printed paper label to festive fabric to make this wonderful Christmas planner.
Custom-made divider pages and title page add to the appeal of this handmade Christmas notebook, so don't miss Cathi's version of the Christmas Countdown calendar!
Check it out!
Small Is Good: Purse-Sized Holiday Planner
Downsizing your Christmas notebook this year? Take a look at this simple--but powerful--purse-sized Christmas planner created by Laurie.
Blogging as My Home For The Holidays, she's made small and simple her goal this year. Using downsized copies of Christmas planner forms from OrganizedChristmas.com, her hand-made notebook has all the organizing elements anyone would need to get organized for Christmas.
Tutorial: Altered File Folder Christmas Planner
Ready to get organized for the holiday season? Find inspiration--and how-to help--with this altered file folder tutorial from papercraft blog Angel Stamper.
Made from a simple office file folder, this lovely little Christmas planner packs a lot of punch into a small space. Precise measurements, clear instructions and close-up photos make it easy (even for crafting klutzes like me!) to create a pretty place to prepare for Christmas.
Note, too, the clever use of non-traditional colors and patterns. Who says Christmas has to be red and green? With this kind of inspiration, an inexpensive file folder and a few scraps of scrapbooking paper can become a Christmas organizing powerhouse. Nice job!
Christmas Countdown Has Started: Bekka's Pocket Planner
The Christmas Countdown has started, notes UK stamper Bekka--so she's made it easy to make a list and check it twice with a Christmas pocket planner.
Showcased at her Feeling Crafty blog, Bekka's clever use of specialty punches and scrapbooking embellishments makes this project a stand-out. The tall column with the scalloped notch makes a tidy home for holiday receipts, while the turned-down pockets to either side keep Christmas pocket planner forms handy.
Check it out--and while you're visiting, don't miss Bekka's offer to e-mail assembly instructions for this beautiful Christmas pocket planner:
The Christmas Countdown Has Started: Christmas Pocket Planner
Holiday Planner: Pretty Composition Notebook Cover
If simple--but pretty--is what you're looking for in a Christmas planner, check out this offering from FiskarCrafts.com.
Using a simple composition notebook, these clever crafters have added a pretty, three-dimensional cover. Stamped felt holly leaves form a pretty frame for a die-cut title.
We like the innovative stamping technique of running scrap cardstock through a crimper, then using it as a rubber stamp to create candy-stripe effects.
Notebook Makeover: Jake's Christmas Planner
How simple--and frugal--is this? UK blogger Just Jake does a creative makeover on an inexpensive ring-bound notebook to produce this bright and creative Christmas planner.
Finding her makeover material at the "pound store" (that's "dollar store" to us Yanks!), she's documented the before, during and after of turning a spare notebook into a work of Christmas art.
Innovation we love: a recycled clothes pin, or "peg" in UK parlance, stands in for a receipt envelope. Clever Jake!
Holiday Spending Planner For A Debt-Free Christmas
It's a printable planner with a purpose: Credit.com's holiday spending planner.
Similar to our Holiday Budget worksheet, this two-page printable budget form lists holiday spending line by line. Comprehensive and complete, it'll show you the true cost of celebrating the season--and it's offered as a printable .PDF form or as an interactive Excel spreadsheet.
Add it to your Christmas planner to save money on Christmas. First, use this planner to estimate total costs for the holiday season, then consult it as you shop to keep spending within budget.
Give yourself the ultimate Christmas gift: no new debt!
Gift Lists: Colorful Holiday Checklists To Print
Ready to get giving for the holiday season: Christmas, Hannukah or Kwanzaa? Print these colorful holiday checklists from HP.com!
Done up in gift-list style, these holiday checklists will keep tabs on the progress of your gift list.
Tuck one into your Christmas planner today! With versions for Christmas, Hannukah and Kwanzaa, they've got your holiday giving covered.
Christmas Notebook: Fa-La-Luscious Holiday Planner
Planning for Christmas? Who wouldn't love to store gift lists and holiday menu plans in this fa-la-luscious example of a Christmas notebook?
Crafted by blogger Nancy, it's a great balance of creative inspiration and solid notebook divider pages.
Better, her eclectic, colorful approach is a great way to use bits and pieces of scrap paper to create a one-of-a-kind Christmas planner:
Christmas Pocket Planner: Photo Instructions
It's pretty in pink--and illustrated with a thorough photo tutorial: Christine's Christmas pocket planner!
If you're intrigued by these slender holiday organizers, but need step-by-step instructions, blogger Christine has the right stuff.
Follow along as she creates a holiday planner from a manila file folder. Get inspired!
