Hi creative friends,
Christmas planners are nothing new to Shabby Art Boutique. In fact… this will be the eleventh year that I will be offering a free Christmas planner, when we kick off our annual Simply Christmas event on November 1st.
The last couple of years I’ve also offered a more deluxe Christmas planner as part of the Handmade Club and now on Etsy.
For my ‘Home for Christmas’ digital collection, I have offered two versions of the perpetual Christmas planner; one is a portrait orientation 5” x 7” planner to secure in a journal or binder and the other is something new…. a planner in a box!
Flip through of Christmas Planner on YouTube
Christmas Planner in a Box
The best way to describe this planner is to think of it like a mini filing system…. or if you are a journal maker, it’s kind off like a deconstructed journal. It contains everything you’d have in a journal, except the spine is not bound, meaning every item can be removed and used as necessary.
Everything you need to make this project is included in the –> ‘Home for Christmas’ Perpetual Christmas Planner in a box listing on etsy.
The planner pages are in landscape orientation and measure 5” high x 7” wide.
The Etsy listing provides a 30 page PDF printable. You have the choice of printing it all or just picking out the pages that are relevant to what you’d like to include in your Christmas planner.
What you’ll get in this Planner
The Christmas Planner in a Box printable contains a variety of divider pages, tabs and tags, as well as many different lists, organisational pages and calendars.
There are also lots of fussy cut images and papers in the coordinating mini digital Home for Christmas kit that you can use to decorate your planner box if you wish.
Calendars, weekly planners and daily to-Do lists: there is a blank calendar for both November and December. I printed four each of the weekly pages for both November and December, so I could plan out the whole month. However, I only printed two of the To-Do list pages, as I laminated them so I can keep re-using them daily with a white board marker.
Cards, emails and zoom video call lists: these cards offer a place to keep track of your Christmas correspondence.
This year I am returning to making and sending cards, seeing as so many people will be home for Christmas. I also email Christmas letters to friends and family overseas, so I’ve included a card for organising emails as well. This year for the first time I also added in a zoom video card to keep track of the zoom calls we all use these days.
Gift giving lists: In the gift files I have included a handy list for organising your list of gifts, so you can keep track of what you are giving each person, when it is wrapped and sent. There are individual printable wish and shopping lists and a handy internet shopping file to jot down all of the important information about internet purchases, shipping etc. I’ve printed multiple copies of the shopping list to create a list pad.
Make files: For those of us that also make Christmas gifts, there’s a card for Handmade projects. You could also use this file to keep pictures for inspiration, receipts for crafting supplies etc. I’ve added another shopping list in with this card to jot down crafting supply needs.
Bake: An important part of Christmas for many people is the baking of festive treats, so this year I have included a menu planner, grocery shopping list and and two styles of recipe cards.
Recipe cards – There’s a 5” x 7” recipe card that you can write on both front and back, plus a larger recipe card that measures 10” x 7” that will be perfect for recipes with longer instructions. This larger card can be scored across the centre to fold in two to measure 5” x 7” and you have the option of using the back of the card or to add a photo to the back.
These cards would also be perfect to use for a cookie exchange.
This is definitely a project that you can make your own… whether that is a basic holiday planner or place to store everything you need to organise your festive season.
How to Purchase The Home For Christmas Kit
This project is from the ‘Home for Christmas’ collection that is now available in my Etsy store.
I’d love to see your Christmas planner in a box, so please feel free to share what you make in our Facebook group, Simply Shabbilicious.
Happy crafting my friends!
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♥
Kerryanne
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This is beautiful! Thank you for all your hard work, and lovely ideas.
Love your creative ideas Kerryanne❣️❣️❣️ Thank you for sharing them with us…they will be of great help as we approach the coming holidays??? The Christmas box is just gorgeous…I love it??? It’s ALL SO VERY BEAUTIFUL??? YOUR TALENT IS BEAUTIFUL ??? Take care KerryAnne, and thank you again ❣️❣️❣️ Smiles, Deborah ???
Your creativity never ceases to amaze me. I think your planner would be easily re-made into a scrapbook with pix of people opening the gifts, Zoom pix, etc. My Christmas gift list book is plain old printer paper folded in half to make a “book” with everyone’s name given a half or quarter page that I write in as I wrap the gift! Oh, well! It’s not glamorous, but it works! As I shop yearround, a plan like yours would work so much better!
This is great! Definitely a handy tool to have in preparation for Christmas. I always feel like it takes so long to get here, and then around this time, it just flies by!
Thank you for sharing these ideas and images with us. I just scribed to the Handmade Club and can’t wait to start making this organizer. I’m grateful for the FB page so that I can learn tips from your followers. This is all new to me.
Cheers, Keri
Hi there – I just want to tell you that I LOVE your stuff! This is amazing. I absolutely loved the fairy book. I need to make one…you are inspiring. I need to carve time to get in my craft room.
Hello from Arizona! I’m late to the party, but this project kept popping up on my Pinterest page and I just have to make it! Everything is printed and mostly cut out! I’m wondering if you have still shots of all of your divider pages posted somewhere. You showed about 80% of everything on your video, but skipped past a few things. I’d love to see exactly how you’ve arranged everything! Thank you so much!
Cindy