I've always been a big fan of planners, making lists and trying to be organised being some of my favourite things to do. Every year I buy myself an organiser refill and end up using it for not more than a week. So this year I decided to drop the idea and made an illustrated list of New Year's resolutions instead. :)But then I found this old planner in my cupboard, with its cute, coloured panels, and decided to give organising yet another shot. Since it is April already, I didn't buy a refill with its mostly useless sheets, and chose to use some blank A4 printer paper to make my pages.Here's a quick DIY if you're looking for an inexpensive way to make your planner pages:I used some old planner pages as size reference to cut the A4 sheets - you'll get 2 pages out of one sheet. A couple of old newspapers act as a good cushion if you're cutting with a scale and paper cutter.
The real challenge here is to cut exact punch holes. I didn't have a 6-hole punch, so I decided to use my regular punch with some jugaad. :)Take your old planner paper and secure some blank sheets under it with a binder clip. Turn your punch upside down, hold it diagonally over the paper so that only one part of it can punch one hole on the paper. When you're trying to align white sheets on a white base, it can be quite tough to find the exact place.
So, I came up with a cool little solution. Just darken the stencil paper's punch holes with a marker and you'll be able to easily align the punch with the required point on the paper.
Makes it so much easier to align the sheets and locate the exact points to be punched now!
And if you don't mind the little paper circles flying around as you punch, just remove the bottom cover of your punch for a better view of the paper.
Ta-daaa! My zero cost planner insert pages are ready! Let's hope I use them a little more than every year this time :)
