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| Alias monthly undated design - personal size |
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| Undated Mint Ice Cream Shoppe design - personal size |
But I do enjoy designing planners for the few types of planner devices I have. I have a 1995 Day Runner in the personal size. This was the address book I used when I was in college. But it has a nice 6 ring binder and it makes a perfect filofax dupe. I have made a couple of monthly designs and some week on two pages designs.
I thought since this is my blog about being creative that I would show you how I am creative in my personal sized planner.
My first attempt at planner designs was what I called Mint Ice Cream Shoppe. It was a mint green and coral undated calendar. I know how I am about planning and I thought if I went to the trouble of dating this thing, I would sabotage myself. So, I went undated. And now I can print out the design and put it into my planner at my own whim.
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| Fox Orange week on 2 pages - personal size |
The next design was called Fox Orange. I thought these foxes were just adorable. I mean, how can you resist them? I really want to make a hedgehog design but I haven't quite gotten there yet.
Next I spied this sweet grid design on an Etsy shop and thought "i can do that." So I did. I made myself a grid-like undated monthly planner. Originally I was going for a green color since green is my favorite but I ended up with pink. Not sure why since I am not that crazy about pink. I found these little owls and thought they set the design off nicely.
Then there was this Alias undated monthly personal sized planner. I was watching the tv show, Alias, during my Thanksgiving day off and I made a whole marathon out of it. Before I got through season one I was creating my own Alias calendar. I am such a dork. lol
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| Pink Owl Grid Undated Monthly - personal size |
There is a whole community surrounding this Erin Condren Life Planner. You can find her website here: www.erincondren.com. I mean, this gal's planners are just H-U-G-E! Not huge as in a big product but huge as in her influence is far reaching. She gets the YouTubers of the world to use her products and then have them talk about her calenders on each of their channels. I mean, I can appreciate how she does it. This is just genius. Marketing at its best. And considering each of her planners is a sweet $50 bucks, she must be good at what she does if people shell out that kind of dough.
I made my own version of her planner for myself. I mean, that is what is great about being a graphic designer, I can create my own stuff and use it in any way I want.
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| Undated Erin Condren Look-alike with design 7x9 cut down and placed in a Studio C Notebook |
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| Undated Erin Condren Look-alike without design 7x9 printed on 8.5x11 |
What do you think about these planners I have created? Like them? Yeah or nay? Let me know. I am always about fixing what needs to be fixed. I hope you're having a creatively blessed day.
Plan on!
~Toni
