My DIY Life Planner: Erin Condren Inspired

At the weekend I watched a video about Erin Condren life planner's: https://www.erincondren.com/lifeplanner
I had never seen them before and fell in love. But because 1. I do not live in USA it would cost about £10 for delivery on top of the £40 for the actual thing. As this is too expensive I looked in to making my own.
1. I found some roughly A4 sized pieces of cardboard and covered it in strips of wrapping to make a striped effect. As I wanted it to have some metallic gold I coloured the dots in gold using a gold sharpie. I then bought a huge roll of sticky back plastic for £1 from STAPLES and put that on to protect it.

2. Then I went onto my old computer and went onto google and found some quotes that I liked which I could stick onto pretty paper.

 

3. I then wanted a Notes page where I could write things so I inserted lines and put a big headin with the words NOTES:
4. on the page next to it I put a reminders table. This reminders table has 3 columns one for the reminder another for the time and the last for the date. I did it in different colours to make sure each column stood out.

5. Then I made tables for each month. These also have a notes box. I went onto google and found cute headings for each month. But the reason the lines are darker is because when I printed it out not all the lines had printed so I needed to draw some on but I didn't have the right pen so I had to draw over the top of all the lines.

 

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6. I made a goal and achievements page which consists of two tables one for goals and one for achievements. I made this as there is one like this in the Erin Condren Life Planner. It is colour co-ordinated for prettiness and because that was my chosen theme.

 7. I then had a random ideas page because sometimes I and everyone has random ideas and I thought
if you had a page to note them down on you can look back on them and laugh.
8. The present ideas page is for when I have an idea for someone for a gift e.g. my aunty, cath kidston pen, Christmas.

 9. Then I had another Notes and quote pages
 10. I bought a cheep 52 paged week planner from a stationary shop.

11. I then had a page for my to- do lists and then a column next to it which can fit a tick in which says Done. Obviously, it is colour co-ordinated for prettiness and to fit with my theme.
12. on the next page I have a doodle page where when I feel like drawing I can flick to that page and doodle. I got the heading off google images and I love it.

 13. I them went to STAPLES to have the wire put on and it cost me about £3-£4, but because the card I used was too thick I had to have a piece of white card put on the front and back so that I could stick my cover onto that piece of white card.

I hope you enjoyed this post and if you make one send me a picture on twitter: @maybe_i_am_dot

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