Make It! Create A Christmas Planner
What's the secret to keeping the cheer in Christmas? A Christmas planner!
Command central for holiday planning, a Christmas planner is a dedicated, portable place to keep gift lists, menus, recipes and Christmas card lists. Using a Christmas planner, you'll save time, cut stress and create the holiday of your dreams.
The Christmas planner concept is popping up everywhere. Scrapbookers make lavish lunchbox planners, while their stamping sisters embellish pocket planners. Notebook fans swear by their 3-ring Christmas binders, while PDA users swap databases for holiday planning.
Here at ChristmasPlanner.com, we gather the best tips, ideas and free printables to help you make your own Christmas planner. Click the read more link below to get organized with a Christmas planner:
Plan It! Get Organized With Christmas Checklists
For many of us, having the tools, in the form of a Christmas planner, isn't enough. We need more: a road map to an organized Christmas. Enter Christmas planning checklists!
Christmas planning checklists help focus and zero in on holiday chores. Checking off each step of holiday preparations makes it easy to get organized for the holiday season.
Christmas planning checklists simplify the holidays by focusing preparations on one step at a time. Having a list-based road map makes it easier to delegate jobs to others, and seeing the visual reminder of the process prevents becoming sidetracked along the way.
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!
