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Helpful How-To: Amanda's Christmas Planner Tour

Submitted by Cynthia Ewer on November, 8, 2012
Amanda's Christmas Planner

Wondering how a real-world Christmas planner looks--and works? Get inspired by this story from blogger Amanda at the Small Home Big Start blog.

Moving step-by-step through her planner, Amanda shows how she uses it to organize holiday preparation, gifts and decor. Without going "over the top", her planner tour focuses on usability. And with links to her favorite printables, she makes it easy to follow her lead to create a personal planner for Christmas organizing.

We love it!

Christmas Planner: Keeping Organized Over the Holidays

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Flexible and Fabulous: Cassadiva's Christmas Planner

Submitted by Cynthia Ewer on September, 1, 2012
Comb Bound Christmas Planner

Want an easy way to assemble a Christmas planner? Take a tip from blogger Cassadiva!

Her comb-bound Christmas planner lies flat, yet is flexible enough to fold back for easy use.

Cassadiva's assembled her personalized organizer from holiday planning templates from OrganizedChristmas.com. Using a binding service from her local office supply store to build her planner, she's created an efficient and easy-to-make planner option.

Decorated with pretty cover pages, it's a functional and fabulous power tool for holiday planning. Good job!

Cassadiva's Comb-Bound Christmas Planner

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Christmas Planner to Christmas Album? Yes!

Submitted by Cynthia on June, 27, 2012
creative christmas album

What's better than a D*I*Y Christmas planner? A Christmas planner that uses scraps from the paper stash and recycles itself into a Christmas album after the holiday season.

Check out this example of a ring-bound Christmas notebook from blogger Monika Wright. During the season, stock it with with printable Christmas pocket planner pages, and you have a scrappy Christmas planner for your organized Christmas. At season's end, replace planner pages with photos and journal entries for a clever, creative Christmas album!

Monika's tutorial takes you through construction of this nifty entry in the Christmas planner field. Check it out!

Monika's Christmas Planner / Christmas Album Tutorial

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Handmade Holiday Planner, 2010 Version

Submitted by Cynthia on October, 8, 2010

Amberlee, blogging at the Giver's Log site, is back for 2010 with a fresh new version of her handmade holiday planner.

This free printable is the one for you, if you're looking for portable simplicity in a Christmas planner. Pocket-sized and pretty, it's a minimalist's version of a working holiday organizer.

Best of all, Amberlee offers her design in both pre-filled (for those looking for direction) and fill-your-own versions. Nice!

Handmade Holiday Planner

handmade holiday planner

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Cardsister's Deluxe Die-Cut Holiday Planner

Submitted by Cynthia on October, 1, 2010

christmas plannerLavish and layered and oh, so glorious: check out this Christmas planner from crafts blogger Cardsister!

Sure, she's started with a simple composition book base, but this combination of coordinated patterned papers and layers of lavish die-cut elements is a knockout!

Add the sophisticated color combination, ribbon and chipboard letters, and you have a Christmas planner to die for.

Zowie ... where are my Tim Holtz dies for the Sizzix Big Shot?

P.S. This Westie owner ADORES Cardsister's profile pic!

Cardsister's Holiday Planner

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Dollar Store Delight: Janelle's Photo Album Holiday Organizer

Submitted by Cynthia on September, 30, 2010

photo album holiday organizerStart with a simple photo album from the dollar store. Add patterned paper, index cards and a bit of creativity, and what do you get? This delightful Christmas Planner from blogger Janelle at the Arizona Families blog.

What we love about this? Simplicity! Using an inexpensive photo album as the base, users add standard-sized index cards to photo pockets to create a durable holiday organizer.

Don't miss Janelle's advice about adding tabs. Using a paper punch makes it easy to make as many tabs as you need. Since you create your own planner, your tabs will be as unique and individual as you are!

Simple, inexpensive and creative: a winner!

Arizona Families Craft: Holiday Organizer

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Creative Christmas Planner: Scrappin' Cat's Altered Journal

Submitted by Cynthia on September, 27, 2010

christmas plannerWhat's the secret to Scrappin' Kat's elegant--and easy--altered journal Christmas planner? Combine coordinated patterned papers and cardstock, add an inexpensive composition book, and voila! A dashing entry in the Christmas planner field!

The organizer in me loves her abundance of pockets. With four sections to the planner, top tabs--a real innovation that should avoid the "dog-eared" look!--and the appeal of simplicity, this Christmas planner glows!

Nice job!

Scrappin' Cat's Christmas Planner

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Tag! You're It: A Shipping Tag Christmas Planner

Submitted by Cynthia on September, 16, 2010

Can you make a Christmas planner from .... shipping tags? Yes, you can!

To prove it, check out this tag-based Christmas planner from the Cre8nMemories blog:

shipping tag Christmas planner

Pocket pages, open on the sides, are gather together in an o-ring binding. Each pocket holds shipping-tag planner pages created with rubber stamps.

Bright ribbons spark up the tag "pages"; a coordinated Christmas scrapbooking kit keeps design elements in harmony. A great job from blogger Jody Gustafson:

Cre8nMemories' Christmas Planner

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Littlest Learner's Printable Christmas Gift List

Submitted by Cynthia on September, 6, 2010

printable Christmas gift listReady to make a list and check it twice? So is the happy blogger at the Littlest Learner's blog--and she's made it easy to follow along with this cute printable Christmas gift list!

Littlest Learner's earned her organizing chops honestly, as mom, teacher, and author of The Clutter-Free Classroom Guide.

Now she shares her method for Christmas organizing, along with a sprightly printable for your Christmas notebook. Using calendar deadlines, she gets holiday planning and holiday prep moving for an organized Christmas.

Don't miss the cute printable Christmas gift list! We love the bright elves and the simple--yet effective--form design. Grab it!

The Most Wonderful Time of the Year

Printable Christmas Gift List

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Judy's Crafty! A Precious Christmas Organiser

Submitted by Cynthia on September, 4, 2010

Christmas organiserMaking a splash from "across the pond": today, talented stamper Judy shares this fresh and striking Christmas organizer and planner. (That's "organiser", to our UK friends!)

Who'd have thought a non-traditional purple color scheme could be so endearing? Built on a simple lined notebook, Judy's use of hand-colored stamped images, creative contrast matting and just-right embellishments makes this Christmas planner truly shine.

Inside, Judy's stitched a sweet recipe for a Merry Christmas. All in all, a really dazzling planner that would make a wonderful Christmas gift:

Judy's Crafty Moments: Christmas Planner

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