You can never be too organised, right? We love planning and scheming, especially if there’s a chance to add a crafty element! Feed your obsession with the best planner DIYs and products, super fresh for the summer. Here is Carly from Sew Crafty’s top 10!

Expand your collection
Grab these awesome customisable craft journals now to add to your collection of planners, and record each project in detail!

Make room for more
Customise the cover and add an elastic strap to keep your pen safe and keep loose papers together with this tutorial

This unicorn print elastic will bring a magical touch to any planner!

Personal Printables
Typing planner printables into Pinterest brings up a plethora of amazing additions. One of our favourites is this beautiful summery free blush pink collection by Eliza Ellis. The perfect layout, with gorgeous fonts, this is going to look so chic in our planners this season.

Washi Paper Clips
We all need reminders and it’s so much better when they’re pretty to look at! Follow this tutorial to make cute customised paper clips using any washi tape, or even ribbon. Change up the pattern to suit the season or your colour palette! These summery fruit themed tapes look good enough to eat!

Super Stickers
Did you know you can make your own planner stickers at home? Just grab some sticker paper, then print anything you like on it, cut out and stick. You can, of course, use a Silhouette machine for this too! These are one of our fave downloads for the summer season; pineapples, flamingos and ice-cream. Perfect!

Rainbow Notes
We know you have to actually fill your planners with… you know, plans, but why be boring? Why not write each one in a different colour? Or colour code your schedule? Maybe Green is Grocery Shopping? Purple for Craft Time? The Frixion pens are great for this as they’re erasable and come in every thickness and colour that other pens do! We’ve got this set from Ryman, but they’re available in all good stationers and online.

Sticky Situation
Whilst stickers are great, they’re permanent. Need a quick addition to the planner that can be removed once the task or the reminder has happened? Learn how to print onto sticky notes or Post-its with this planner hack from iheartplanners!

Create a Cute Caddy
If you’re anything like us, you update your planner on a Sunday evening, in front of the telly, ready for the week ahead. Why not create your own handy caddy to stick your pens, stickers, notes, hole punch, dividers, and everything else in! Take it one step further and crochet your own easy caddy. Adorable, and you can make sure the colour matches your living room!

Get the Kids Involved
Why not start ‘em young and help the kids create a fun summer activity planner with you! Gather fun and silly stickers from supermarkets and pound shops, give them your old scrap papers and inserts and make it an activity in itself. There are tonnes of printables for summer activities online. Here are just a few to get started:

Scattered Squirrel 
Sunny Day Family
Busy Bee 
Activity Village

Feed the habit
Fancy the idea of a different collection of stickers, inserts, papers, washi and dividers delivered to your front door every month? You may have already heard of popular subscription boxes like Graze for snacks, or Loot Crate for geeky goodies, well did you know you can get one for planner addicts? There are a few out there but the Brimbles Box is a great place to start! Reasonably priced, and if you fancy just getting stickers every month, they have an option for that too! No excuse for not having fresh planner pages every month now!

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