Christmas Notebooks

Sweet and Simple: Menucca's Homemade Holiday Planner

Submitted by Cynthia on August, 27, 2010

holiday plannerLooking over our site, do you have the idea that over-the-top embellishments are standard fare for a handmade holiday planner?

For a different idea, take a look at this simple handmade holiday planner. Shared online by Scribd user Menucca, it's a 10-page, hand-drawn set of holiday planning pages. Uploaded in December, 2009, Menucca's calendar is for a previous year--but what does it matter when her pages are so fresh and creative and fun?

Menucca's whimsical doodle style makes for a unique and personal planner. Download her shared pages, or use her work as inspiration for a fresh take for your holiday planner:

Menucca's Holiday Planner

Coordinating Products Create Holiday Planner Magic!

Submitted by Cynthia on October, 16, 2009

altered composition book holiday plannerSimplicity doesn't have to be boring; check out this altered composition book from the Heart of a Lamb blog!

Starting with a simple composition book, blogger Doresa's holiday planner takes advantage of coordinated patterned paper, embellishments and stickers from stamping supplier Close To My Heart.

Using products designed to work together makes it easy to create a pretty planner (that looks like you worked MUCH harder than you did!)

Fast and festive? We love it:

Holiday Planner Magic

Kristen's Christmas Planner

Submitted by Cynthia on October, 13, 2009

Here's another pretty, practical Christmas notebook from blogger Kristen Stryker.

Behind the lovely cover, you'll find sections for lists, menus and holiday planning.

We like Kristen's eclectic approach to supplies and embellishments.

Because she's mixed and matched offerings from multiple suppliers, this project would make good use of holiday bits and pieces from the supply stash.

Another inspiring planner tour to help organize the holiday season!

Kristen's Christmas Planner

Christmas Planner Tour: Just Plain Happy's Holiday Planner

Submitted by Cynthia Ewer on July, 13, 2009

Christmas plannerSo 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!

Just Plain Happy's Holiday Planner

Christmas Planner Tutorial: Altered Spiral Notebook

Submitted by Cynthia Ewer on November, 4, 2008

holiday plannerIt'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!

Tutorial: Altered Spiral Notebook Holiday Planner

Christmas Notebook Tour: A Quilter's Planner

Submitted by Cynthia on October, 24, 2008

quilter's Christmas notebookPapercrafting, 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!

A Quilter's Christmas Notebook

Small Is Good: Purse-Sized Holiday Planner

Submitted by Cynthia Ewer on October, 21, 2008

christmas notebookDownsizing 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.

Laurie's Holiday Planner

Holiday Planner: Pretty Composition Notebook Cover

Submitted by Cynthia Ewer on October, 18, 2008

holiday plannerIf 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.

Holiday Planner

Notebook Makeover: Jake's Christmas Planner

Submitted by Cynthia Ewer on October, 16, 2008

christmas plannerHow 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!

Notebook Makeover: Jake's Christmas Planner

Christmas Notebook: Fa-La-Luscious Holiday Planner

Submitted by Cynthia Ewer on October, 13, 2008

holiday plannerPlanning 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:

Fa-La-La-La-La-La Holiday Planner

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