Plan With Me using my November Happie Planner Fauxdori Kit!

Hi guys!

I had so much fun playing with my November happie planner kit and getting my fauxdori insert all set up for the coming week! 

In the video I demo how you can use some spray stains to add some easy flair to your fauxdori pages.  I also made some DIY ephemera pieces and modified the packaging from the kit to create an envelope to tip into my insert.  I always love having little places to tuck away stickers, note pads or bits of ephemera. 

I really hope you enjoy the video and get some inspiration for how to use your beautifully wintery happie planner kit!

With love and Christmas kisses!

Teddi <3

Organizing my card / gift recipients using Happie Scrappie Stickers

Hello!

Can you believe it's only a week away til Christmas?!  Where has time gone?

I wanted to share a quick idea that I thought would be useful for those who are still scrambling to write your holiday cards and gifts. 

I decided to use the super cute stickers that were in the November kit and use them as tabs for my notebook. I wanted an easy way to organize my list of card / gift recipients.   

First, I made tabs utilizing all of the remaining pages in my notebook. These stickers were perfect length and super cute too! To create the tab, I just folded the sticker in half and stuck each end to each side of the page.

Once I had a good amount of tabs, I wrote in the alphabet.  If you’ve been watching my youtube videos, you know how much I love fine point pens.  I had to include this month’s pen in this photo as I have been really enjoying it! 

I then, went through each tab and wrote down names and gift ideas for each person. These tabs came in so handy when I would think of someone out of the blue (this also applied to pen pals from Instagram and the online community).  

This is how the tabs look like in my Traveler’s Notebook.  I’m loving the cute pastel colours and how it’s keeping me organized.  How do you organize your list of gift / card recipients? 

I wanted to end this by sharing my heartfelt appreciation to every single one of you and to the wonderful members of the Happie Scrappie creative team.  This year has been such a huge learning experience for me. It has challenged me to step out of my comfort zone and to tap into my creative side; something I wouldn’t have been able to do without the inspiration and encouragement from you! I wish you a very happy holiday season and an exciting and fulfilling 2016!! Thank you from the bottom of my heart xoxo Mits @mylifemits

Regalos Navideños con el Kit de Happie Scrappie / Christmas Gifts with Happie Scrappie Planner Kit

Buenos días!!!  Aquí María de nuevo. Es increíble lo rápido que ha pasado este año, ya casi es Navidad! Así que Feliz Navidad a to@s!

Como ya es habitual en mí, el kit de Noviembre ha sido mi favorito, ya no puedo decir que es el mejor porque seguro que el mes que viene voy a estar diciendo lo mismo de nuevo…. ;)

Esta vez, se me ocurrió una idea diferente para enseñaros. Casi seguro que vais a hacer un montón de regalos estas fechas, verdad? Pues me dije, voy a compartir con mis seres queridos un poco de la belleza de los kits de Sam.

Good Morning!!! Here María again. It's amazing how fast this year has gone, it's almost Christmas! So Merry Christmas to all!

As usual for me, the November kit has been my favorite, I can not say that is the best one because for sure, the next month I'll be saying the same thing again .... ;)

This time, I decided to show you a different idea. Almost certainly you are going to do a lot of gifts these days, right? As I said, I will share with my loved ones a little beauties with Sam’s exclusive items.

Con la caja del kit y un dashboard he hecho unas etiquetas para adornar los regalos navideños.

I have prepared some tags to decorate the Christmas presents with the envelope box and the dashboard that came from the planner kit.

El dashboard ya viene separado en cuadrados, así que sólo tuve que cortarlos por separado. Los dibujos de la caja los recorté siguiendo la silueta he pegado un diseño de cada en una etiqueta. Sencillo, verdad?

The dashboard is already divided into few squarish boxes, so I just needed to cut them following the lines into individual square box and stick the cut-out images from the envelope to each of the tag. Simple, right?

A continuación, envolví los regalos y dejé una de las etiquetas colgando. Me encanta el resultado!

Then I wrapped the gifts, inserted each of the tag to the baker's twine and finally tie the presents. I absolutely love the result! 

Es un tutorial muy sencillo pero me parecía perfecto para mostraros las posibilidades de los kits.

Aquí os dejo algunas de las ideas que habéis dejado en el grupo de Facebook, algunas tengo que hacerlas yo también!

It is a very simple tutorial but there is endless possibilities with the kit. 

Here are some of the wonderful ideas that some of you have posted in the Facebook group, I will need to use (copy) your ideas, girls!

Anna Feucht

Lindsey Lamson

Melissa Barcelo

Como siempre, quería daros las gracias por estar ahí y os invito a que os unáis al grupo de Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/happiescrappie/

También, si usáis Instagram, compartáis vuestras creaciones con #happiescrappie y #happiescrappieplannerkit

As always, I wanted to say thanks for being there and I invite you to join the Facebook group https://www.facebook.com/groups/happiescrappie/?fref=ts

Also, if you use Instagram, do share your creations with #happiescrappie and #happiescrappieplannerkit hashtags.

Un beso a todas!

María

A kiss to all!

Maria

Happie Add-Ons To My Planner

Hello, it is Wan back on the blog, and today, I am going to share with you how I deal with busy months that require more planning space than is available in my planner.

I don’t know about you, but November and December tend to be really busy months for me. I have to start Christmas preparations (buying presents, etc) early because we have family living far away and we all know about those pesky postal delays that occur during the holiday season, don’t we? So, in order to have a buffer against such delays, I like to start sending presents off in the later half of November, which means I start getting busy with Christmas preparations from early November. In addition, I also start looking into places that do Christmas dinners during the latter two weeks of November because we host Christmas for my side of the family in Singapore, and we tend to buy in, rather than cook. All these extra activities need to be written down and tracked somewhere (with my leaky memory these days) and with my daily planner being maximally utilized even without these extra areas to co-ordinate, I had to get a little creative. Now, I have to say upfront that I don’t do all of my Christmas/extra planning in my daily planner (that is housed in a separate fauxdori insert that acts as Christmas preparation central), but I do need some extra space in my daily planner for some areas of Christmas planning. This is where the unpunched A5 inserts from Happie Scrappie come into great use.

First, I want a place to track presents for everyone, so I chose a grid style page and laid down some washi to make three separate columns.

I then used some of the stickers included in the kit for the headings. My three headings are “Names/Ideas” (for the person I am buying for and any ideas I have for their presents), “Budget” (the amount set aside for them) and “Actual” (the actual amount spent).

Once that is done, I used the magnetic clip to attach it in my Happy Planner (which is my daily planner). I chose this way of securing the page (rather than a more permanent way) because when I go Christmas shopping, I like to take this with me in the fauxdori insert which is Christmas preparation central, and thus, just loosely securing it this way makes it easier to move the page between the two planners. (As a side note, while I try and keep things as authentic as possible by showing pictures of pages that I have actually used, I have deliberately chosen to show a picture of an empty page with just the relevant headings in this case because some of my family follow what I do, and I don’t want them to know what I have actually budgeted/spent on their presents, so I apologise for the less than realistic pic. I assure you that it is currently all filled in in the planner.).  

The second page I created/used was actually inspired by the Happie Scrappie insert page itself (this is one of the great things about the Happie Scrappie inserts, they are all designed so well that it is often apparent what you should use them for). I have tasks that I perform regularly that I still sometimes write in my planner (because, as I have said, I have a leaky memory) and one of the insert pages included in this month’s kit is designed to be a tracking insert. That being the case, I moved all my regular tasks to the insert page, which freed up room in my daily planner for the extra Christmas activities that I need reminders for (for example, pick up Cold Storage Christmas brochure, etc).

I also took advantage of the little grid style area at the bottom of the page to highlight the tasks that HAD to be completed that week. With it being such a busy time, I found this to be extremely useful in ensuring that time sensitive tasks were not missed and thus, duly completed.

The page is then attached to the Happy Planner with a piece of washi tape (the same one I used in the layout that week to keep the look coordinated).

That way, I get to keep everything I need in my daily planning all in one place, and there is also the added advantage that the insert has extra space for anything else that I might want to track/plan in the week (it helps that the second side of this insert also features a grid style page which functions very well as note paper).  And just so you get a clear idea of how the page looks in my Happy Planner, here is a pic. 

So there you have it, a way to ensure that your planner can stretch to cover those busy times when you need more planning space. And that is it from me for today. If you do adopt this method of ‘expanding’ your planner, do tag us on IG or post in our Facebook group, because we would love to see it. Have a great day and Happie planning!

~ Wan

Things that I used in this blog post.

Christmas Winter A5 Inserts

Winter Theme Magnetic Bookmark

Christmas Winter Label Stickers