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!

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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!

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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

The sale finishes at midnight so make sure you get your order in today!

There are still some great bargains, on albums, books, and planners particularly.

Don’t forget to grab your spot at our crop on Sunday too.

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.

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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.

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!!

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Bubblegum, Red, Turqouise and Lime… Yum Yum!

Merry Christmas to all our customers.

Today we’ll be sending out all special delivery orders which should arrive before Christmas. There’s still time to get your order in, the planners are very popular, along with the refills, and we’ve still got a couple of the QuicKutz Revolution kits in stock, these will be great under the tree! Just make sure to select Special Delivery.

After today we’ll be closed until December 30th when we’ll ship out orders placed while we are closed. The Watford shop is closed until January 2nd when our Annual New Year Sale starts both instore and online.

Over the break we’ll still be blogging so do keep visiting, and we’ll see you in the New Year.

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!

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.

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