Planners Gonna Plan

I'm so excited that Close To My Heart has come out with its very own planner! The special for the month of December is a Planner bundle which gives you all you need to set up your very own planner binder. During December, you can get your hands on the new, gorgeous Everyday Life™ album from Close To My Heart, the accompanying Everyday Life 2016 planner pages, and the coordinating Everyday Life Perfect Plan roller stamp in an exclusive product bundle for only $29.95. 

There are other products which coordinate with the Everyday Life binder too. You can mix and match or just use one type of product in your binder. Click here to check out the whole line. The binder rings are not huge, which I think is good because who wants to carry around a bulky planner? But, I just want to let you know that because I don't think one binder could comfortably accommodate every single item that was made for it. I do think you can add bits of the other items.

I've started putting my binder together as mostly a planner so I have the planner pages but I have also included 12- 4" x 3" Memory Protectors (pocket pages). I've slipped a variety of Picture My Life™ cards in the Memory Protectors and included some quotes on some of them. So far I have one Memory Protector in front of each month. I think I may include one or two pictures from the month and/or written memories in some of these pockets later on as well. I think it is a good size with just these two products in there and doubt that I will add more to this particular binder. I tend to use the monthly calendar more than the weekly calendar, so there's a chance that as the weeks go on, I may remove the weeks that have passed, in which case I may see if I want to add some of the My Crush® Everyday Life Pages or more Memory Protectors.

Here's what January looks like so far. This is the front of the Memory Protector located right before January's calendar pages.

This is the flip side of the Memory Protector. You can see that I left the cards blank so that I could add to it later. You can also see the beautiful "cover" page on the left side which comes before the January monthly calendar.

Here is my embellished January monthly calendar. I used the stickers and the stamp which came with the Planners Gonna Plan bundle but, like many of you, I already have a lot of stuff! I used rub-ons from both CTMH, which have since retired, and from other brands. You may also notice some stickers from older Base and Bling Style Sheets. Of course I used washi tapes...my favorite is CTMH's Gold Polka-Dot Washi Tape which is on clearance right now. 

Here's a picture of an unembellished January monthly calendar just so you can see the difference.

Here's a snapshot of the weekly spread along with the "Today" bookmark that come with the planner pages.

The last page is a pocket file which holds the stickers which are included in the planner pages pack. I really like these stickers. While I had trouble with smearing when I wrote on the washi tape, I didn't have any problems writing on these stickers.

Finally, I want to show you both the outside and inside covers. I used rub-ons to include my initials to differentiate my planner from my daughter's since we now have the same planner!

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