Printing A5 Pages

Most of the PDFs we produce are designed to fit inside our Scrapbook Planners. The planners are A5 sized to make them easy to use. The easiest way to print them out is to use A5 paper, you can just use your trimmer to cut your normal A4 printer paper in half, no special supplies needed.

How to print out A5 PDFs for your planner:

1. Cut down some A4 paper to A5, or use A5 paper.
2. Put A5 paper into printer.
3. Open PDF files in Adobe Reader (I’ve got version 8).
4. Go to File – Page Setup.
5. Change Paper Size to A5.
   
6. Go to File – Print
7. That’s it!

If you are trying to print something else out that is not A5, when you print,

1. Select Shrink to Printable Area.
   
2. Press Print.

You can also select which pages to print, so you can print all your odd numbered pages first, then put your paper back into the printer and print your even sides, they will then fit inside like a book, printed on both sides.

Christmas Gift Ideas

What’s on your Christmas List this year?

Scrap Fever

A Place at Scrap Fever is the perfect gift. It doesn’t need dusting (always a bonus for me!) and gives you a weekend away from it all scrapping away and being  inspired and taught by some of the best. Our April weekend is going to be another fantastic Scrapbook Retreat, add it to your list today!

Book a spot online…

Scrapbook Planners

Our Scrapbook Planners have been designed for the British Scrapbooker. Using A5 pages, they are easy to customise to make your perfect planner. The Filofax compatible rings hold an assortment of pages, and you can easily replace them with any pages y ou like. We include a full pack with each one, plenty to keep you going throughout the year. There’s a fantastic range of colours to choose from, but order your favourite now before it sells out!

Join a Club

For a gift that inspires for the whole year, a subscription to one of our clubs is perfect. Receive a fantastic kit direct to your door each month. Choose from any of our clubs, our most popular are the Stash Sundae and Quartet Club, with options to customise them to your favourite supplies.

Wishlist

You can add any of our products to your wishlist at any time, just click the Add to Wishlist button on the products you like. Print it off and it makes the perfect shopping list for your other half! No excuses for getting it wrong!

Planning for Christmas?

Are you always trying to be more organised for Christmas??

I am! I need to be this year, there’s no way I’m going to be able to walk around shopping centres at 36weeks pregnant!

Here’s my solution, a  Christmas Planner Special! It fits inside my Scrapbook Planner, or any other A5 Filofax size planner, so I can carry it with me, and get as much done as soon as possible. there’s a place for everything, all my notes, and gift ideas, and no more forgetting about that perfect gift idea I had. It’s all written down, including all the online orders I’ll be placing.

Download your copy now! It’s never too early!

I Love My Planner!

I love my planner because it gives me a place to doodle, write, sketch and be inspired even when I’m no where near my scrapbooking stuff. It keeps the creativity flowing, so when I’m on the bus or train I can flip through and find something I want to try when I get home. I find it keeps the excitement in scrapbooking, I spend time looking through all the layouts and details I stick in, then i immediately feel I want to go home and try it out! The sketch pages are great, letting you plan every little details with a nice big space to draw or stick in other layouts. The journaling pages have plenty of room to let your thoughts flow, and gives you the freedom to think and edit things before finally doing the real page. It helps me feel prepared on days where I just can’t motivate myself to start.

As exepcted, the diary pages are great for keeping track of things, and the little box on each page is handy to pop a little inspiration or something you want to try that week, a little challenge to keep up with. I also like using the “to do” list pages as a “to buy” list… there’s something nice about writing down the scrappy stuff you’d like and tick if off when you get round to buying it! And finally, the pockets at the front and back are very useful for slotting those everyday bits and bobs, notes or even photos that you’re looking to plan a layout around.

So thats why I love my planner!

Order yours here

Free Planner Inserts!

Have you got one of our planners? Love using it? Want some free inserts for it?

All you have to do is write a review for your planner, let us know what you love about it, and how you use it, have you changed some of the inserts? created your own tabs?

Put it all in writing, (minimum 100 words) and email it over to us at sales@willowtreecrafts.co.uk. If you’re really pround of it then send us a few pics too! Put “I Love my Planner” in the subject, and don’t forget your name and address!

When we receive your review, we’ll send you out a free pack of inserts….thats it!

Planner Sketch 02

Here’s another sketch for your scrapbooking planners. By popular demand, we’ve also added a full page version into the PDF download, so now you can print it directly onto a diary page, or as a full page sketch for you to file away for a rainy day.

We love seeing what you do with these, so please post in the comments if you have a layout using this sketch, you can post a link to your gallery or blog if you’ve posted it there.

Download the PDF here: planner-09sk02

Planner Sketch 01

OK, so the year is starting to settle down, people are back at work, kids are back at school, and your diary is looking a bit more normal. You’ve got a fab new scrapbooking planner, or a whole new 2009 pack in your planner, and you’ve got these two boxes at the top of every week. What on earth to do with them?

We intentionally left them blank so you can use them for anything, glue/staple a picture from a magazine in there? an inspiring scrapbook layout? a little map of a fab new scrapbook shop you’ve found? a quick little self portrait? a fabulous sketch that’s just popped into your head? the choice is yours.

If, however, you’re a little stuck, grab the download below and print it directly into the space. The PDF we’ve got for you here is sized for A5 paper (the same as your scrapbook planner) and the sketch is in exactly the right place for the little box. We’ve got 4 pages in the PDF so you can print the sketch on the left or right page, and we’ve got an example of a layout using the sketch that is also available on the left and right hand sides.

Simply choose the page you want, pop your planner sheet in your printer and voila, a little scrapbooking inspiration for the week.

planner-09sk01

This layout used Basic Grey Lilykate Queen Anne Paper, American Crafts Remarks Journalling Book 1, American Crafts Black Fine Slick Writer, Creative Cafe Tag, Heidi Swapp Center of Attention Letters, American Crafts Chipboard Heart.

Happy Planner Peeps

Some of the responses from happy Planner Fans!

Just BRILLIANT!!!!! I am so glad I bought this instead of a boring black filofax!! The cover feels great – I want to carry it everywhere. And having my diary and scrap planner in the same place is SO fantastic!!!

I’m totally in love with my new planner. My crafty planning and practial diary all in one. Bliss. Don’t even think about this one… Just go for it!!

Order yours here

Bubblegum, Red, Turqouise and Lime… Yum Yum!

Strokable…

These new planners are just gorgeous. There are some photos of the Red, Bubblegum, Lime and Turquoise planners which are our favourite colours at the moment. Great feel good colours.

You can also see how full they are when you receive them, there’s plenty in there for you.

There’s still time to get one before Christmas, call into the shop today before 5pm to pick up your favourite, or order online before noon so we can get this in the post to you today!

Have an organised 2009

Our 2009 Planners have been redesigned. We’ve streamlined some of the pages, and created our own diary pages. Each week is split across 2 pages, with appointment times, and space for all those TO DO lists we accumulate. Theres also space at the top for a sketch (Keep an eye in the blog for those), or a place for an idea, print something from the Internet, or cut something out of a magazine.

I’ll be hoping to use this space for a bit of weekly inspiration.

We’ve got 2 great new colours, Lime and Turquoise, so grab one while they are in stock.

Order Online or buy Instore

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