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.

Holiday 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!

Notebook Makeover: Jake's Christmas Planner

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.

Holiday Checklists

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:

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

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!

Christmas Pocket Planner Instructions

Looking at some of our "over the top" Christmas planner tours, it can be hard to imagine using these works of art to actually organize the Christmas holidays.

That's why blogger Headly's hard-working Christmas notebook is worth the tour: it shows the nuts and bolts of using a Christmas planner to get organized for the holiday season.

We love her hands-on photo tour of a working Christmas planner:

Christmas Notebook Tour: Stay At Home Mom To Three Blog

Who says your Christmas planner has to be built on pre-fab forms? Check out this clever and creative Christmas planner built around a junior-sized lined writing pad.

Scrapbooker, rubber stamper and blogger Mish, from MishMash, shares her lush little Christmas pad planner--and adds a how-to tutorial to make it easy to "scraplift" this design. Using this method, it is easy to create a pad planner based around any size lined pad!

Holiday Gift Ensemble from MishMash

Have you heard about Christmas pocket planners? Handmade from scrapbooking paper and a simple pocket file folder, these little holiday planners are inexpensive, creative and just plain fun!

The pocket planner concept is sweeping the scrapbooking and rubber stamping world, but there's always been one thing missing: a set of printable forms for Christmas organizing.

Until now! Introducing the latest Organized Christmas forms set: Christmas Pocket Planner Forms!

They're simple, fresh, and free: printable Christmas lists and holiday planners from MintPrintable.com.

Brightened up with colorful clip art, this selection of Christmas gift lists, Christmas card list, to-do lists and Christmas wish lists is free for the printing!

If you're making a Christmas pocket planner to use--or to give--this year, take note of the Christmas to-do list. Offered four to a page, it's right-sized for a planner pocket.

Printable Christmas Gifts and Holiday Planners

It's eye candy for your Christmas planner: a free printable Ultimate Holiday Planner from MarthaStewart.com.

A mix of menus and recipes, crafts and clip art, this 15-page holiday planner includes a sweet and simple Christmas checklist that'll have you cruising through the holidays in short order.

In .PDF format, so you'll need the free Adobe reader to view and print:

Ultimate Holiday Planner