PlanneryButterfly: Happy Planner Hacks / DIYs

Hello, Butterflies

Today I want to share some of the Hacks and DIY's that I have used in my HappyPlanner. I do not claim that I personally come up with any of the Hacks or DIY's I may have just added my own little touches to them to fit what I envision in my own planner.

With saying all that let's jump into the Hacks and DIYs:

Protective Cover:

Materials Need

Dollar Tree Chopping Mats
Exacto Knife or Scissors
Ruler / Metal Ruler
Sharpie Pen or Non-Permanent Marker or Pen
Hole Punch
Front and Back Cover of your Happy Planner

Lay out the Chopping Mat place the front cover on the Chopping Mat. One side of the cover should be lined up to the edge of the chopping mat, trace around the cover. Place the back cover on the chopping mat and trace around it. Cut each the front and back out with your ruler and Exacto knife, you can also cut them out with a pair of scissors. For the straight edge, I would suggest using the Exacto knife. After the covers are cut out place the Happy Planner cover on top and trace the punch marks. Use your single hole punch to punch the hole and then go back in with your scissors to cut the slits. Pop the cover on to make sure that you have the slits wide enough to slide with ease. If not moving with ease remove and cut the slits wider.

Round the corners of each as they can be pointy and sharp. This can be easily done with a pair of scissors.

Page Marker/BookMark:

Materials Need

Dollar Tree Chopping Mats
Exacto Knife or Scissors
Ruler / Metal Ruler
Sharpie Pen or Non-Permanent Marker or Pen
Hole Punch

Lay out the Chopping Mat, Place your Happy Planner cover on top of the Chopping Mat and mark how tall you want the page marker to stick out above the cover. You can also do this for a side tab page marker, just mark how far you want it to stick out the side. You need to decide how wide you like the page marker to be and mark the wide on the Chopping Mat. After cutting the page marker out place your cover back on top with the tab part above the over and mark the hole to be punched out. Punch the holes and cut the slites. Round the corners as they will be pointy and sharp from being cut out. Place into your Happy Planner to make sure it moves with ease. If not moving with ease remove and cut the slits wider.

Folder:

Materials Need

File Folder
Scissors
Ruler
Pencil
Glue
Decorative Paper
Hole Punch

Pull one of you Happy Planner Divider place the divider on to of the File folder. Place the hole punches on the open side of the file folder that is open and trace out the divider without the tab. Cut the folder to the to the size of the divider, then mark one side of the fold with a diagonal line to mark the open of the folder when place in your Happy Planner. Cut on the diagonal line to remove from the folder. Lay your Decorative paper down and mark the size of the folder, cut out. Lay out the cut Decorative paper and mark the same diagonal line, cut on the line. Now its time to put it all together. Place the bottom part of the Decorative paper on the bottom part of the folder, and glue. Place the top part of the Decorative paper on the inside of the folder at the top and glue. Glue the bottom two pieces together to close the bottom. You can also add Decorative paper to the back of the folder, may want to do this before punching holes and cutting the slits. Place the divider on top of the folder and mark out the hole punches. Punch the hole and cut the slits.

You can add in Dashboard and Divider with the steps above. Instead of going and buying the paper you can just make your own line, grid and dot grid. Just use a page that does not have a tab to mark the size and hole punch marks.

Here are some images of the things I have done in my Happy Planner:

New Cover