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Planner essentials with Jillibean Soup!

Hello SCT friends! We are back with another Planner Essentials with Jillbean Soup! If you missed our other posts they are linked at the bottom of this post!

The Jillibean Soup Day2Day planner collection has a multitude of products that can be used for planning, card making or scrapbooking. The versatility of this collection will keep you crafting month to month. Today we'd like to show you may of our products in the collection - in action! 

Planner pages, pocket dividers and bookmarks

Our planner pages come undated - no dates or years on any of the pages. You can start your planner today and wrap into the next year because you can customize each month to match the year you are currently in. 

Within each month you get a month at a glance AND weekly pages! We have both stamps and mini number stickers to mark each date of the month. Color coordinate or mix and match your stickers and stamped numbers. Be creative!

Next, you can purchase the tabbed pocket dividers. These dividers are perfect for holding receipts, to do lists, tickets, or even supplies to use in your planner.

We have 2 different bookmarks that can snap in and out of your planner without opening the binder rings. This makes it easy to keep track of where you are in your month - yet keeping it pretty at the same time!

Stickers, stamps, and more!

Now is where you can really let your personality shine! All of our Day2Day collection is simple yet colorful. Use these products to mix and match with ANY other Jillibean Soup collection or really any products on the market. Versatility is HUGE with us!

We have sets of mini stamps that fit perfectly within each of our squares in your planner. Fun frames or lines to make lists. 

Next check out the great stickers! We have clear stickers, puffy stickers, cardstock stickers and epoxy stickers. Plus  removable sticky items (think Post-It) and washi tape! Yes, they are stickers too!

We also have great little clips you can add to your planner to keep your place or hold a photo, receipt, note or anything your heart desires. 

You don't even need to use the planner as a "planner". You can use it as a journal or photo album as well like one of our designers did for her trip to CHA in January. Great way to document her travels!

Our designer have also found themselves using our Day2Day collection for scrapbooking. Check out these layouts by Kat Benjamin and Wendy Antenucci. The Day2Day collection items coordinate perfectly with all our Jillibean collections. We love how Wendy actually pulled a page out of planner and added it to her scrapbook page.

Designer Jaclyn Rench and Kat Benjamin created cards using the stickers, stamps and clips. These little items are sized perfectly for card making. 

I think you will agree, these aren't just "planner" products. The Day2Day collection is a collection you can use over and over again in your daily crafting. 

• Check out our collection here: http://www.jillibean-soup.com/retail/index.php?route=product/category&path=296
• Need inspiration? Check out our blog: http://jillibeansoup.typepad.com
• Follow us on Instagram: http://instagram.com/jillibeansoup
• Pin some inspiration on our Pinterest page: http://pinterest.com/jillibeansoup

Thank you for joining us today and thanks SCT for letting us share! Be sure to also check out our past SCT planner posts:

February 22, 2017

May 24, 2017

Planner tips and ideas with Maggie Massey!

Hello, hello everyone! Happy summer! (or winter, if you happen to be in the Southern Hemisphere...;) Maggie here with yet another look into how my 2017 Memory Planner is coming along! 

If you'll remember, this year I'm using a personal-sized Heidi Swapp Memory Planner to record my family's stories, so there is not an awful lot of extra space to document longer memories – or to add extra photos directly to my daily pages.

For that reason, I've had to be a little more creative in how I choose to use those pages. Read my last post, HERE, to see how I'm adding extra photos & memorabilia to my planner.

This month, I'm sharing a couple of tips on how to add interactive, added elements to your planner. Adding these extra elements is an easy, fun way to add visual interest to your documenting, while still allowing you to get your jounaling done.

My daughter and her friends recently bought a little fish that they plan on all “raising” together (teenagers...sigh...smile). Before the girl who had the honor of keeping him at her house brought him home, they decided they wanted to take “family photos” that included all of them with their new ward. I, of course, had to add this story to my planner, so I printed out a small, square photo of all of the girls with their fish and adhered it to the daily space in my book.

Then I simply wrote the story on the back of a small, instax-sized card and attached the card directly over my photo with a piece of washi tape.

When the card is down, it just appears to be an embellishment, but as soon as you lift it, you can not only see the photo, but you can also read the text that goes along with it.

This next example was the perfect solution for me when I needed to document my son's recent week at camp in Michigan.

I cut a sheet of ledger paper down to the height I needed and then folded it a couple of times so that it would fit in my planner width-wise. I made sure to leave room so that I could punch holes into the left side.

Now, because the kids weren't allowed to bring their phones, the only photos we have from the week were the ones that Gray's Youth Pastor was able to snap right before they left for home. I printed both of those out and tucked them into the folded paper, and then I punched holes into both the photos and the folded ledger paper.

On each folded section I wrote a little something about the week.  I left the space behind the photos blank so that Grayson could do a little journaling of his own.

In order to document a day-trip to a local state park, I started with a couple of pieces of note paper from the new Heidi Swapp Stationery Collection. I attached the pieces to each other at the top with a length of washi tape, and then I added some binder attachers to the bottom page so that I didn't need to punch holes directly into the notes.

TIP: Don't have binder attachers or an attacher die to create your own? No worries! For these attachers, I simply took an oversized label, cut it in half, folded both of those pieces in half and adhered them to the bottom card. Then I punched my planner holes into labels...easy peasy!

I added some photos and journaling to each note card and popped the entire thing into my album.

Finally, in order to hold some memorabilia and notes from a baseball game my son & husband attended, I altered a greeting card to make a pocket.

I sewed up the bottom and side of the card, and used a 1” hold punch to create a little slot in the top of my new pocket.

I punched my planner holes directly into the pockets & tucked the tickets & journaling in. So quick & so easy!

I love finding new & interesting ways to add to my documenting...and I hope I've inspired you to do the same! Why not try something new in your planner today?

 To see more of my work, and to keep up with my scrapbooking & planning, check out my blog: Midwestern Girl DIY, follow me on Instagram @maggiemassey, or visit my Facebook Page.

Be sure to also check out my past SCT planner posts:

 January 25, 2017

April 26, 2017

Thank you so much for stopping by!

 ~ Maggie Massey

 

 

 

 

 

 

Planner share with Layle Koncar of Simple Stories!

Howdy everyone!  I’m back…. :)

It’s Layle Koncar - think ‘Gayle’, with an ‘L’ - Director of Marketing for Simple Stories/Carpe Diem.  I’m so excited to be here with you again this month sharing parts of the June & July set up in my A5 Carpe Diem planner.  

For the summer I switched to the Coral planner – the bright color was a perfect match for our Summer Days collection! I’m sharing a few pics of it here, you can see more from my post earlier this month on the Simple Stories blog.

I love the bright & sunny colors of Summer Days, it’s like a little dose of sunshine each day when I open my planner!

I’ve added a few things to my planner since I set it up in late May that I thought would be fun to share with you guys.

The Carpe Diem Boxed Sets and the weekly & daily inserts all include a ‘month in review’ page for each month.

It’s a great place to include birthdays, Don’t Forgets, and other things, right at your fingertips. I add this page directly after the monthly spread in my planner each month. 

I use bookmarks in several different places to help easily identify places I visit frequently in my planner – the current day, to do lists, projects, etc.  This month I made my own bookmark with a piece of clear acetate & some handy dandy tools. 

I started with a 12x2 sheet of clear acetate and used an existing bookmark to trim it to size, round the corners & punch the holes.  From there I took one of the Carpe Diem Planner Decals and adhered to the center of the bookmark.  For those of you that have been around the scrapbooking world for a while, they’re kind of like a giant rub-on!  A few more stickers to finish it off at the top and voila – a custom bookmark.

One of the things I love to make to personalize my planner are dashboards.  Sometimes they’re as simple as a vertical 4x6 photo or card just punched & inserted; other times I like to get a little bit more creative like with this pocket page.

I mixed different embellishments from the Summer Days collection along with some fun sequins and in the pockets they went.  From there I used the Fuse from We R Memory Keepers to seal up the pockets so the pieces wouldn’t fall out. 

The pocket pages are designed for our 6x8 [email protected]! Binders; the 2 holes on the pocket pages line up exactly with the top & bottom middle rings in standard A5 sized planners, so I just needed to punch the additional holes and it fit right in :)

As June is coming to a close, I’m getting bit of a jump start on July.  Since the first week includes the 4^th, I of course went with a patriotic theme for the 4^th of July. 

I added strips of gold foil striped washi to both pages of the weekly spread to give it a little more flair.  Our A5 Punch makes it so easy to do things like that and just repunch the holes.

For July I’ve moved out of the Coral planner, into the Black Speckle design that we introduced in March.  Those polka dots, tho!  The original, 1st edition Carpe Diem planners with the interior black & white polka dots were such a popular design that we knew we just had to reintroduce it, but in an exciting new way. 

Thanks so much for letting me share some of the fun additions to my June set up and the start of July with you.  You’ll find me on Instagram here at @laylekoncar; keep an eye out on Instagram for the rest of my July set up!

I’ll see you back here again in a few months.  Enjoy the rest of your summer! 

~ Layle 

Be sure to visit our friends at Simple Stories in all these places:

Website - https://www.simplestories.com

Blog - https://www.simplestories.com/blog

Facebook -  https://www.facebook.com/SimpleStoriesScrapbook/

Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/CarpeDiemPlanners/

Instagram - Simple Stories - https://www.instagram.com/simplestories_/

Instagram - Carpe Diem - https://www.instagram.com/carpediemplanners/

Pinterest - https://www.pinterest.com/simplestories/

Twitter - https://twitter.com/SimpleStories

You Tube - https://www.youtube.com/user/SimpleStoriesTV/videos

Planner essentials with Jillibean Soup!

Welcome back to another planner feature with Scrapbook & Cards Today and Jillibean Soup’s Day 2 Day collection! In our last post, we introduced you to our new planner collection that released at the beginning of the year. Today we’d like to share with you some of our team’s planners that show HOW they used these fun products!

  

Designer, Rebecca Kappel used the monthly date stickers to number her calendar. Our calendar pages come undated so you can start using them today and continue using them into next year with no problem going from 2017 to 2018. You can also see she used some of the removable arrow stickers and notes. These are great to highlight a specific event or make a quick note and add it to a square in your calendar. Tip: If you don’t get the task complete, move the note to another date!

 
Designer Leanne Allinson used a few of the stamps that fit perfectly inside each of the squares on the planner pages. Tip: She added a few of the fun cardstock stickers and epoxy stickers for a pop of color and to add a bit of fun to a daily event.

 
Leanne also used a bit of our washi tape to just bring a smile to her face! Tip: The fun paper clips – such as the big thumb tack clip, help keep your place in your planner as well as add a bit of whimsy.

 

Designer Wendy Antenucci went decked out her February with some of the removable note squares with the cute puffy stickers added to them. She also added a few of the epoxy hearts and stars along with some of the die-cuts from the Hardy Hodgepodge collection. Tip: They perfectly coordinate our Day 2 Day collection. As do all the other Jillibean collections.  It’s like we ‘planned’ it!

 

Wendy also used the stamps here to frame a few embellishments. Got to just love how those stamps fit perfectly inside the planner squares!

Designer Summer Fullerton had a blast playing with the different supplies. I think her favorite is the wine glass clip she used on the upper left corner of her planner.

Our friend, Megan Hoppener used the stamps, washi tape, clips and epoxy stickers to ‘scrapbook’ in her planner. Tip: We love how she thought outside the box and added photos from her week. A great way to keep memories and not just the daily schedule!

To see more of our Day 2 Day products be sure to visit our website and to see more projects, be sure to follow our blog!

 ~ Kimber McGray, Jillibean Soup

Planning ideas with Maggie Massey!

Hey everyone! Maggie back again with another look inside my 2017 Memory Planner! If you haven't already read my last post on how I'm using my personal-sized Heidi Swapp Memory Planner to document our every day this year, you can find it HERE.

I'm happy to be back on the SCT blog this month to share share a few ideas on how I like to add memorabilia and extra photos to my planner. This personal-size planner is a little smaller than some of the planners I've used in the past...and, while this size is awesome and takes the pressure off when I'm documenting, it's not so awesome when I have a longer, more involved story to tell...or when I have more photos to add. So I've had to kind of change things up a bit to make them work.

Now, I love to document the special things we do as a family...especially when we see new movies, or have a movie night at home. So, when we recently saw a couple of shows at the theater, I recorded them by printing out little mini movie posters and adding them straight into my planner. For the Lego Batman movie, I adhered little die-cut paper binder attachers to my card (so I wouldn't have to punch through the graphics), and added them directly over the binder rings. 

For the Boss Baby “poster” I simply punched the card itself and added it.

And, while I continue to add sized-down photos directly onto my daily pages, I'm also adding “extra” photos to photo sleeves, or I'm punching them and just slipping them over my binder rings.

If the story that goes along with those photos is longer, I'll add an additional sheet of paper, with my journaling/photos on it to my planner...like I did here with the story of a birthday party my younger son attended.

I used a photo template here, sized to fit the dimensions of my planner,  so that I could add a number of photos, and a bit of journaling, to a single page...thus eliminating a lot of bulky pages & printed photos.

Show tickets & restaurant cards simply get punched and added in...

 

...and I did the same with this Thank You card I wanted to remember...

 

Every once in a while I'll adhere a tiny little vellum envelope to my page and slip a photo and a bit of journaling inside...just for some variety.

I love incorporating all of the things that are important to my family and me into my planner...and I love trying new ways to do that. I hope I've inspired you to add to your planner all of those meaningful little photos and stories.

And remember, your planner is YOURS! Make sure it works for YOU!

To see more of my work, and to keep up with my scrapbooking & planning, check out my blog: Midwestern Girl DIY, follow me on Instagram @maggiemassey, or visit my Facebook Page.

Thank you so much for stopping by!

~ Maggie Massey

Planner ideas with Layle Koncar!

Howdy everyone!  I’m Layle (think ‘Gayle’, with an ‘L’) Koncar, Director of Marketing for Simple Stories/Carpe Diem & I’m so excited to be here with you sharing my April set up in my A5 Carpe Diem planner.  I’m a tried and true 'planner girl' at heart; as a kid I was a Mrs. Grossman’s sticker collector, Trapper Keeper decorator and lover of lists (ok, am I dating myself or what?!) In college I discovered the world of Filofax and then the Franklin Covey planner as I started my career.  When planners came back into style a few years ago - and when I say style, I mean something that had the cuteness & fun factor! - I was all in.  In fact, I typically use more than one planner at a time, along with several Travelers’s Notebooks- yes, I practice what I preach :)

Ok, I digress.  If you know me, that’s what I do :)  So back to my April set up!

This month I’m using products from the Domestic Bliss and Carpe Diem Home collections - the gorgeous color palette & patterns in the collections paired with the sass & tongue in cheek humor are right up my alley! The first thing I do when I set up my planner for a new month is to decorate the pockets. When I open my planner, it’s usually because I have a lot to do, so having something fun to greet me back is always a nice start before digging in.  

This coordinating page is from the Home Insert Set.  I’ll be on the Simple Stories blog on Thursday the 30th digging into how I’ve used the Insert Set & Doc It Journal to track projects upon projects upon projects on my To Do list for our home.  

Lots of fun stuff happening here on the April month on two pages spread with washi, stickers & stamps.  Washi is definitely a staple in my planners, one of my favorite things to do with it is to cover a continuous number of days to mark something, like I’ve done for our Spring Break trip.

I use a combination of the Carpe Diem Horizontal Weekly Inserts and the Daily Inserts for my day to day planning.  I do the decorating on the weekly spreads, again using a mix of washi and stickers.  

Thanks so much for letting me share my April set up with you.  You’ll find me on Instagram here at @laylekoncar if you want to take a peek at more of my planners & Traveler’s Notebooks!

See you back here again in a few months!

~ Layle Koncar

Thanks so much for joining us Layle and for sharing your busy month of April! For more Simple Stories/Carpe Diem, click the links below:

Website - https://www.simplestories.com

Blog - https://www.simplestories.com/blog

Facebook - http://bit.ly/1ntY7fw (simplestories)

Instagram - Simple Stories - https://www.instagram.com/simplestories_/

Instagram - Carpe Diem - https://www.instagram.com/carpediemplanners/

Pinterest - https://www.pinterest.com/simplestories/

Twitter - https://twitter.com/SimpleStories

YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/user/SimpleStoriesTV/videos

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