Gift wrap Dashboards

It's no secret I'm a massive fan of all things Paperchase, so it shouldn't come as much of a surprise that I bought my Christmas paper from there this year. It's beautiful and I can't wait to give the carefully wrapped presents under the tree to my family... There might even be an effort to convert a family member or two to the ways of planner addiction.

I had one problem though, there were offcuts of beautiful paper and no more gifts to wrap. I'm too much of a hoarder to throw them away, so I did what comes naturally to a planner girl; I laminated and made dashboards from them.

I just couldn't resist, I mean look at them! 

As foiled paper, added with the lamination, these were quite tricky to photograph well and the picture really doesn't do them justice. It's so beautiful though, I love how there's a range of deer heads!

I have a bit of a thing about penguins, my brother even adopted one for me last Christmas. I couldn't resist these sweet little guys and their cute colourful scarves.

Finally my favourite, the sprouts! I've got Christmas baubles and sticky tape to match, I love this one so much! 

One thing is for certain, in going to be whipping out the planner every chance I get to show these off this Christmas. 

New Dividers and Dashboard

I couldn't resist a girly new set-up for my fluoro, so (under close supervision of Pixie) made the most of the sunshine and had a crafty day.

As you can see Pixie was very dedicated to the task, choosing to nap instead on my work planner.

I used this paper stack which I picked up in TK Maxx. The paper is lovely and thick, more like card so I'm going to risk not laminating for the time being.

I love the quote on the dashboard and the graffiti style decoration. It just had to be the first thing to see when you open my planner.

The dividers are fun and pretty, they made me feel a little nostalgic to be perfectly honest.

The pink and green ones are my favourite, but it was really hard to choose just six papers from the stack as they were all so cute!

I hope you like them, thanks for stopping by! 

Alice Dashboard

It's not really finished, but I loved this so much I could not resist sharing! 

It's in need of laminating and punching but I'm impatient and in love! I used Alice themed scrapbooking cards by Kaisercraft from Craftie Charlie. 

I combined this with steampunk themed scrapbook paper by Michaels which I picked up in TK Maxx.

I can't wait to get started on matching dividers now! 

Setting up my butterfly

I've been itching to set this pretty little number up since I got my grubby mitts on it. The only problem was I wanted the perfect papers to do so. I finally found some this weekend, so she's finally ready, I can scarcely contain my excitement! 

These pretty dividers were made with some paper I picked up in TK Maxx this weekend. 

As I can't resist anything pink and girly I bought some pink weekly pages and helped a good cause too. Filofax make these every year to raise funds for Breast Cancer.

I also added some pretty lined paper I picked up from Paperchase. It has bunting along the top which I thought was very sweet.

I kept the original dashboard though as I thought it was very pretty. 

I also added a cheerful journalling card which matches my mood at the moment as I've been doing lots of long term goal planning and thinking about the future.

I'm so happy to now be using this beautiful planner. I can't wait to start decorating my pages.

New Dashboards

It's been a crafty day here and I've created a new dashboard for each of my planners. I used postcards from Paperchase alongside coloured paper so now I gave something to smile about any time I open either planner.

This fun blue dashboard is for my work planner, because sometimes it's not just what you know that's important!

This cheerful yellow one in my daily makes me feel all summery and happy. I can't wait for the summer sunshine it get here and this reminds me it's coming soon! 

Happy World Book Day!

And may the odds be ever in your favour!

I wasn't able to dress up for Workd Book Day this year, so instead of a costume I opted for black tshirt, cardigan and trousers with my mockingjay pin and a Katniss braid.

I didn't just extend my love of the Hunger Games to my wardrobe though. My work planner is already literary themed with Roald Dahl dividers, I used the cover of the Hunger Games to make a new dashboard.

I'm pretty pleased with the way it turned out and love having the book cover as my dashboard. I may need to make some more book cover dashboards!

Personal Size Dashboard

I've been crafting and creating again, this time making a dashboard for my personal size. I toyed with the idea of doing something different, but as it's supposed to work alongside my A5 I decided that the dashboard would be very similar. 

It's not exactly the same as my A5, but from the same paper stock. The only down side to this was that some of the pictures were too big to use as the personal is smaller. The paper was from Amazon and is Disney themed scrapbook paper. There's a huge selection available but I opted for the princess papers.

Hole punching was an experience too. I bought a rapesco personal size hole punch a while back, believing it to be A5. Not only was it a bit stiff, though I attributed this to the laminated paper, but it was trickier than I expected to line up. I'll need a bit more practice before I do dividers to match the dashboard.

All in all though, I'm happy with the way it has turned out. It looks so sweet in the front of my planner.

Another Dashboard

I can seldom resist some crafty time and today's produced a Roald Dahl themed dashboard. I love the design as it has lots of little books on it and it looks really cute in my domino. 

It's got all my childhood favourites on it and makes me feel warm and fuzzy. The illustrations are all so sweet. 

I like this dashboard so much I've already made a start on some dividers also from more Roald Dahl paper, which came from The Range. At this rate I'm going to be finding excuses to make dividers for every reason possible! 

Dashboard

Feeling a little bit crafty tonight I've made a pretty new dashboard for my tweed. It's not anything special but I'm pleased with it anyway. 

Ta da! 

I bought some girly princess scrapbook paper before Christmas then used the original dashboard that came with the planner as a template. I then laminated and hole punched it and voila! A lovely girly front page for my planner. 

It was far easier than I anticipated so I'll be attempting some dividers next!