DIY 2018 Planner by Melanie

Hi Everyone! Melanie here today to share with you my planner for 2018. I LOVE having a planner! Over the past few years I've tried several different ones--but never really found one that I could use efficiently or that matched my needs. So . . . this year I decided to make my own :)

(Front Cover)

I wanted one that was light and compact; a planner that wouldn't end up half-unused. After searching around for blank journals, I found one that I preferred with dot pages. This makes it easy for me to line things up, but not feel like I have to fill up every line.

The look of colorful, decorated planners is BEAUTIFUL--but it doesn't work for my style of what I need a functioning planner to be. Using SRM stickers and stamps is perfect for designing my own planner because of their classic style and clear backing. It would be easy to add color to any of these pages if I wanted to.

(Inside title page)

(Year at a glance)

I tried to incorporate my favorite layouts from other planners, as well as ideas of my own. I need the year at a glance and planning ahead pages for the upcoming months. Because I am only making one month at a time (so I don't have wasted pages in between months), the layout with upcoming events is really important for my planning.

As you can see I used a ton of SRM stickers to set up these pages and they turned out better than I had imagined!

For the monthly layouts, I am using the new planner season stamps. For the February layout, I used both the Winter Plans and Spring Plans sets, as well as the Notes to Self Planner stamps for the days of the week.

I love having these pages tailored to my needs and style. Happy planning! :)

SRM Products Used:

Sticker Stitches/Black

Mini Calendar Stickers/Standard 2018

Year of Memories Sticker/2018

Clear Planner Stamp/Winter Plans

Clear Planner Stamp/Spring Plans

Clear Stamp/Planner Notes to Self

Plan With Me by Angie

Hello friends!! Angie here with you today!  I hope your new year is off to a great start!  

Speaking of starts, have you gotten your planner for the year organized and ready to go? Making your planner pretty yet functional doesn't have to be difficult.  Today I'm sharing how I'm organizing my 2018 planner showing you my January pages.

 I'm using a small planner from Michael's this year and I don't have a lot of time to spend on decorating. If you want quick and simple but beautiful planner pages, try SRM's amazing planner stamps. 

I used the seasonal plans stamps for my pages. I love that this stamp set has all the months of the year and little icons that represent each month. 

 SRM also has amazing clear stickers that can be used in your planner. I used the winter sentiment stickers and the year of memories stickers. Some of these stickers come in long strips but don't be afraid to cut them down to make them fit your planner pages.

The small calendar numbers are awesome for numbering your days in your planner. They are just the perfect size! 

I hope you will give these amazing products a try for your next planning session!

Pocket Calendar by Samantha

Hello! Samantha here to share a mini calendar project that also makes a great gift. 

For this project you'll need some plastic badge holders (you can find these in any office store or office department of a big box store), card stock, 2018 Mini Calendar Decorative stickers, Black Jute, and an assortment of other SRM stickers to decorate your calendar pages (I used A Year of Memories 2018, Stickers By the Dozen Valentine, Live Life Calendar Year, Stickers by the Dozen Patriotic, Express Yourself School, We've Got Your Sticker Treats, Sticker Sentiments Shine Your Light, and We've Got Your Borders Christmas).

If you're give this as a gift and want to create a matching gift bag you'll also need a cotton bag with gold dots and Fancy Sticker Sentiments Birthday.

I make one of these every year to keep in my purse (they also make a great desk calendar). The best part is they can look completely different every time you make them. Choose any card stock or patterned paper that you like for your pages, and choose coordinating stickers. 

This year I chose to use kraft paper that had gold or white printing on it. I stuck to only black stickers this year for my calendars and accent stickers, because I like the simple elegant look of black on kraft. 

I tied all of the pages together with coordinating jute. Again, I used black, but depending on the card stock or patterned paper you use, you can pick any of SRM's beautiful jute colors. 

These make an awesome (and inexpensive) gift. If you want to dress it up a bit for gifting, it will fit perfectly in a cotton bag! 

New Product Introductions - 2018 Mini Calendars - Day #3

Welcome to Day #3 of SRM's new product introductions.  Today were share with you some of our most popular products that we do each year.  Here are the 2018 versions of more products that are great for planners, calendars, scrapbook pages, cards or for creating mini calendar gifts. 

Here is the Decorative Mini Calendar for 2018.  What would you make with this fun sticker printed on clear so that the patterned paper or cardstock shows through? 

And the 2018 Standard Mini Calendar that's a bit more tailored. 

And the always popular and very versatile 2018 Year of Memories stickers that can be used for oodles of projects!

Which one do you crave for your stash?  Leave a comment on the blog or on Facebook for a chance to WIN your favorite sticker! 

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March Planner by Melanie

Hello from Melanie!  Spring is in the air and it is time for some March Planner pages!  I started off with some of SRM sticker sheets, LePens, and mint jute.

SRM stickers add such great color to my planner pages. I appreciate how easy it is to coordinate stickers from different sheets and themes.

The Planner sticker sheet has great icons to use to indicate important things to remember--from doctor appointments to Daylight Savings to meeting with friends.

 Here's to a fun-filled March!

SRM Products used:
Sticker Sentiments Spring
Freestyle Stickers Spring
Year of Memories Sticker 2017
Calendar Companion
Planner Icon Stickers
We've Got Your Sticker Plus/Thanks
We've Got Your Border Bright
LePen 4-Pen Neon Color
Jute Twine Mint

New Product Introduction - Calendars - Day #2

It's Calendar time!  And SRM offers lots of options for calendars!  

First up, our Keepsake Calendars!  The 12 x 12 Calendar is back by popular demand!  This product is perfect for creating scrapbook like pages on the top of each month.  Here's the 3 sizes of Keepsake Calendars:  12 x 12, 8 x 8 and 6 x  6.  Which one is your favorite? 

Here's one of my all time favorite 12 x 12 calendars by Corrie Jones. Aren't those 12 x 12 photos spectacular!

12" x 12"

Here's one of my all time favorite 8 x 8 calendars by Tobi Crawford. What a talent!  This size is perfect for planning or for gifting!

8" x 8" 

And here's a 6 x 6 calendar by Valerie Mangan, each month documented.  LOVE this!  See all details HERE. 

6" x 6"

And we have the mini calendars and year of memories each year and for 2017 here they are!  They were featured a few weeks ago on the blog.  See more details HERE!

Leave a comment here on the blog and you may WiN some of our new Calendar products! 

See you tomorrow for more new product goodness!

It's All About Heart Bible Journaling by Shannon

Good Morning!  Shannon here today to share some of my Bible Journaling with you.  Bible journaling is such a wonderful and personal craft.    By the way, SRM has a Bible Journaling Facebook group called Bible Journaling Journey.  Come join us HERE.  

June is Ordinary Time for my faith, but it is anything from ordinary. We devote a whole month to The Sacred Heart of Jesus, not to be overshadowed, we also honor The Immaculate Heart of Mary. These two hearts work in everyone's lives, whether they realize it or not. For those of us who call on them daily, they are a source of peace, love, growth, comfort, devotion, a safe place to tell your sorrows and joys to. 

My page I am sharing with you, it's a declaration of sorts, the reading is a sad one, before Jesus dies on the cross, and breathes his final breath, but it is a powerful declaration. Mary is mother to us all. She loves us and wants the very best for us. She is our protector, she is the one who wraps her arms around us in deep sorrow or celebratory joy. She is amazing and all the love in the world could never compare to the love she feels for each and every one of us.

I used many SRM goodies to create this page, the products are the perfect size for the limited margins in a journaling bible, and you truly can add dimension without bulk. I used SRM Glassine Bags as a subtle layer, you can still see the text and colors behind.  Large Scalloped Punched Pieces make a big impact and  an additional layer.

If you are looking for a quick way to add some journaling, SRM has tons of stickers with great sentiments, I used Free Style/Thrive and Sentiment/Shine Your Light to add some loving words. I can't complete any project without using my Le Pen or Sticker Stitches.

I used so many more great things available to you, here is a complete list:

Glassine Bags

Stickers by the Dozen/Valentine

 Punched Pieces - Large Scalloped Circle

Punched Pieces - Small Scalloped Circle

Year of Memories Sticker/2016

Free Style/Thrive

Little Borders/Black & White

Planner Icon Sticker

Sticker Stitches - Black

Sentiment/Shine Your Light

Le Pen 4 Piece Set - Dark Colors

Have a wonderful day & thank you for letting me share!  ❤

Mini Calendar Gift by Lorena

I celebration of our new 2017 Mini calendars, this week we are sharing some of my favorite mini calendar projects from our Design Team.  Today we have a little beauty from Lorena Cantó.  Using the 2017 Standards Mini calendars, 2017 Year of Memories and one of SRM's small glassine bags, you can create this little beauty too!

Lorena wanted a calendar that could be pinned to a cork or bulletin board and changed every month.  She created 12 die cut tags and adhered different colored 1/2" strips to each of them.   She then placed the calendars on each month.  What a happy project!

Once the individual months are finished she created a cover page with the year.  You change it to 2017 to make it current and you are good to go!  Put them all inside a small SRM glassine bag and it's great to use for yourself or to make for gifts.  

Super fun, super fast and something that anyone would love to receive.

Mini Calendar Inspiration by Tessa Wise

Welcome to day #2 of our introduction of our 2017 Mini Calendars and Year of Memories.  We celebrate this introduction with lots of ideas for you!  Here's a fun one from former SRM Design Team member Tessa Wise.  What a talent!  

Tessa created a a set of mini calendars.  And she loved storing the mini calendars in one of our darling floral bags!  She circled the important dates in each month so she would not forget to send a card.

She loved using our decorative die for this project!  

Tessa used a SRM Clear A2 Card box to hold 8 cards and she can add to them each month.  She added a bit of velcro tape to the back of each month's calendar and she can easily change the month as she goes through the year.  How fun!  When a new month comes around, she simply changes the month and adds the cards that she made for that month.  

Instead of the 2016 Year of Memories, you would use the 2017 decorative mini calendar sticker.  And don't forget the twine!  Tessa used Honeydew… one of my favorite colors!

What a great way to stay organized throughout the year! 

Be sure to come see us tomorrow when we will share a layout using SRM mini calendar stickers! 

ATC Tray 2016 Calendar by Amy

Hello everyone!!  This is Amy here to share a fun calendar project with you.  It would be a great gift idea for that hard to buy friend or family member on your list this year.  I created a calendar project with a black ATC Tray that I purchased but didn't quite know how to use.  I saw that they would fit the mini calendar stickers perfectly and then came up with this fun idea...….

I used the 2016 Decorative Mini Calendar Stickers mounted on vanilla cardstock and then used the matching Wafer Thin Die to cut out each month.  I filled in the tray with papers from the Echo Park Times and Season 2 collection.

I used some mini clothes pins covered with various black and white washi tapes.  I glued these in and then clipped the calendars into them that way they are interchangeable each year.

 At the top, I used a 2016 Year of Memories Sticker on some vanilla cardstock and then put some brads into is and glued it to the top of the tray.  I will have to take it off and put on a new year next time, but It won't be too difficult.

To finish it off, I tied up some black and white ribbons at the top.  So, what do you think??  I can't wait to display this in my home (or even gift it) this year.

Have a great day!!

Amy

New Products from SRM! - Day #1 - Mini Calendars

SRM is totally excited to share with you all of our new products for June 2015! Each year our #1 selling products are our mini calendars.  We offer 2 designs, standard and decorative.  These are great for gift calendars, cards, layouts, journals, planners and more!  Printed on clear, you can use them on cardstock or patterned papers.  So much fun!

Here's the 2016 decorative calendar!

And this year we've added a die for the decorative mini calendar!  How fun is that?  No more fussy cutting of your favorite little calendar. 

Create the most amazing projects like this one from Roberta Rossi!

Just click on her name and see a tutorial!

Here's the 2016 standard calendar!

And no calendar would be complete without the year!  Here's the 2016 Year of Memories that is great for gift calendars, cards, layouts, new year's projects, graduation projects, journals, planners and more!

And here are just a few of my favorite mini calendar projects from our fabulous design team members from each of the past 5 teams. 

From our 2015 team:  Annette Allen's little keychain calendar! 

Click on Annette's name to see details on how to create.

From our 2014 team:  Roberta Rossi's desktop calendar.

Click on Roberta's name to see more details.

From our 2013 team:  Liz Weber's mini desk calendar.

Click on Liz's name for complete details.

From our 2012 team:  Tessa Buys' wall calendar.

Want to make this one?  Just click on Tessa's name to 

for instructions.

From our 2011 team:  Tessa Buys' Year of Birthday Cards. 

See more details by clicking on Tessa's name.

From our 2010 team:  Jenyfur Pohl's mini desk calendar.

Click on Jenyfur's name to see more details.

And don't you just love the way Jenyfur displays her little calendar on this easel?

Inspired? Get even more ideas on SRM's Pinterest Calendar board.  Now go get yourself some mini calendars and start making amazing gift calendars. Your friends and family will love them!

Leave a comment here on the blog and you might be the lucky winner of a set of 2016 mini calendars, 2016 Year of Memories and one of our new Mini Calendar decorative dies!