Do you need a great way to store and organize receipts and small notes in your planner?

Want a way to boost the use of your planner by making it more functional yet maintain its pretty?

Find out how to make pretty envelopes for your planner! Super easy DIY project that you can do with only a few materials, a bit of time, and have creative fun.

What You Will Need to Make Pretty Envelopes for Your Planner:

1. 12 x 12″ Cardstock

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2. Scissors

3. Washi tape (or regular tape)

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4. Glue stick

5. Marker (optional)

6. Paper clip (optional)

Steps to Make Your Pretty Envelopes

Select the 12 x 12″ cardstock that you would like to use for your pretty planner envelope.

2. Use a 6 x 9″ mailing envelope as a template.

3. Gently open up mailing envelope at its seams and lay out on cardstock.

4. Use a pencil to lightly trace the template onto cardstock.

5. Cut on traced lines. Save those paper trimmings! You can use those pieces in creative ways in your planners!

6. Optional: Draw light lines on cardstock where you plan to fold.

7. Fold cardstock along seams (two vertical on sides and one seam on bottom). Use a ruler (or other straight surface) to press the seam and flatten.

8. Use ruler again to make sure seams are flat.

9. Use a glue stick to apply a thin line of glue to outer edge of one vertical side. Overlap the other side and press to adhere.

10. Use glue stick on bottom seam of the envelope. Fold bottom side up and press to adhere.

11. To make your envelope even prettier, use a few pieces of washi tape to reinforce the seams.

12. Fold the top side down. You can use a piece of washi tape to keep envelope shut.

13. A paper clip can also be a great way to secure your pretty planner envelope.

14. Use a punch appropriate for your planner to place holes in the envelope on the side (or bottom). (Shown: my A5 Carpe Diem, Stella, with Recollections punch. Yes, I name my planners. They are like good friends.)

And there you have it! Rinse and repeat for as many pretty planner envelopes as you like! You can even make these envelopes to use outside of your planners. The possibilities are endless!

How will you use your DIY pretty planner envelopes?

Happy Planner users – rejoice! Long gone are the days of printing your decorative elements onto sticker paper. I have discovered a method that allows you to print directly onto your pages, and today I’m going to show you exactly how to do it with this Happy Planner printing hack!

I love to decorate my Happy Planner. There are so many amazing weekly kits out there ~~but since I do not have a sticker cutting machine~~ (Now I do! Here is my new friend!) but it takes so much time to hand cut each sticker out and place them where I want them.

Then one day, I was scrolling through one of my favorite planning facebook groups and found someone had shared this awesome Happy Planner hack! I was so excited about it that I knew I had to share it with you!

(Thank you so much to Jing Pia Roan for allowing me to share this tutorial here on Planner Squad and for also allowing me to use her happy planner template files as well! You can find Jing online here and here.)

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Happy Planner Printing Hack Tutorial

Step 1: Download Software, Templates, and Design

In order to get started, you will first need to download the FREE Silhouette Studio Basic Edition software. No, you do not have to have a Silhouette to do this tutorial – but you do need the software (or Photoshop).

You will also need to download these free Happy Planner page templates (courtesy of Jing) as well. You can find the free downloads here at our free printables page.

(For this tutorial you can either create your own decorative boxes and elements on your own, or I’ve created some you can use to practice with. These will be included in the download with the templates.)

Step 2: Open Templates into the Silhouette Software

Find where you downloaded your template files and open them in the Silhouette Studio software. To do this click on “File>Open>Select File>OK”. Print this Template from the Silhouette Studio Software prior to decorating on regular computer paper.

(Tip: Make sure your image is not resized to fit the page. It should be printed at its actual, 100% size, which is 8.5×11)

Step 3: Import Decorative Files to Library

Import all of your decorative elements to the Silhouette Studio Library. To do this click on “File>Import>Import to Library>Find File to Import>OK”.

Step 4: Open the “Library” in Silhouette

Click on “File>Library>Library” to open.

Step 5: Insert Decorative Elements to the Template

Find the decorative elements you wish to add to the template and double click on it. It will then be inserted to the file on top of your template. Click and drag to move the element where you would like it to print on the page. Do this for all of the elements until you have placed them all where you want them.

(Tip: Make sure the template is not selected with a border around it while adding your design. It will cause the design to not add correctly. Click somewhere in the grey area to deselect the template.)

Step 6: Add a Page From Your Happy Planner to the Printed Template

Use your printed blank template and add a page from your happy planner so that it fits in the box.

(Tip: To make sure all of the lines add up perfectly, hold the page up to a light so you can see where the lines are. Some printers print differently so doing this will make sure you’ve lined everything up properly. If your printed template is not the right size, you will need to reprint and check your printer settings to make sure it wasn’t resized wrong.)

Once you have lined up the pages correctly, use washi tape to keep the paper in place during the printing process.

(Tip: I tape along the top and bottom instead of the sides like in the photo to keep from ripping the punched side of the paper).

Step 7: Remove the Template

Click on the white page of the template to select only the template. Then press “delete”. Your design elements should be in place still, but the template boxes should disappear.

Step 8. Print!

Put the template with the Happy Planner page taped to it, into your printer. Press File>Print, and print your design. Your design will print directly onto your happy planner page!

Voila!

There you have it! A decorated Happy Planner Weekly Spread and it didn’t use a single sheet of sticker paper! Of course now you can add more fun elements to it to spice it up if you’d like, but this Happy Planner printing hack makes the process much easier and saves so much sticker paper!

Did you try this Happy Planner printing hack out for yourself? I’d love to see how it turned out! Share a photo with us on Instagram and tag @PlannerSquad! I can’t wait to see what you all come up with!

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