Hey Everyone! I’m so excited to be sharing with you a dashboard I created for my A5 size planner that functions as both decoration and storage but can be easily switched out whenever I want to change the color scheme! It’s basically like a making a mini pocket letter for yourself but instead of filling it with goodies to give away you can store supplies for on the go planning!

All you really need is a 9 pocket trading card sheet protector and some paper but decorating is the best part- so grab your embellishments too! Here is a look at what I pulled out for this project.

I have a process video below showing the project from start to finish but here’s a quick rundown:

1. Trim the sheet protector down to 4 pockets. (Don’t toss out the extras- you can repurpose them for other projects)
2. Decorate your inserts however you’d like! I used motivating quotes and phrases to give me a little boost every time I open my planner.
3. Cover the punched holes with washi on the front and back and then using a divider you already have in your planner mark and punch the new holes so it will fit the rings in your binder.
4. Fill the back of the pockets with the supplies you want to have with you on the go- washi, stickers, tabs, paperclips, etc. Gift cards and store loyalty cards also fit perfectly in there!

Please check out my quick process video showing how I put this together!

If you aren’t looking to add more storage to your planner but like the idea of a pocket style dashboard I really like using this 4 pocket sleeve to display pocket letters from my pen pals. I slip in my 4 favorite cards they made and I can enjoy them until my next swap!

I hope you enjoyed this tutorial. Thanks for stopping by!

Lately I have started to have a bit more of a busy day than usual with a few new courses, and my Roller Derby training kicking into higher gear. My life is a madhouse and unfortunately some important things are starting to slip my mind. So on top of my weekly Planning I have thought about starting to use daily pages ie. a Day Designer. Luckily for me before I lay out any major money on a Day Designer they have pages that I can download easily for free.

So armed with those I've been keeping more on track of my to do's and working in all the important things for the day. Now I am one of those planners who have to decorate their planner in order to even look at it. So I've been thinking about how I can decorate the Day Designer pages with what I have. Then it struck me, I could use the left over weekly kits I have (which are many) to decorate daily pages.

My first step is Laying down all the washi strips including framing washi along the top and bottom. The left over washi strip I have left over from doing my sidebar in my Happy Planner fit perfectly in the Daily Gratitude space. If they are easy to write over I like filling the top four boxes with Washi too. This covers up the printed headers but that's fine I plan on covering them up anyway. Now on to the Headers and Stickers.

I replace the most of the headers with headers from the kit, especially the "today" and "to do" sections. I also like to add a "to clean" header sectioning off the last four line (three check boxes) where I can add what is on my cleaning schedule this week. Next I like to use icon stickers anywhere that I have something significant, like when my alarm goes off, when training starts, and what I plan on watching to unwind in the evening (I'm working my way through the Gilmore Girls in order to be prepared for the reunion show). I don't really need the notes section so I use a check list and film icon. 

Last thing to do is fill in all the info on what I'm hoping to achieve and what I have scheduled. I put a dot at the end of a task that has been carried over from the day before and two dots if it was the day before that. Almost always two dot items get moved to the Top Three section. I decided to use the former notes section to tick off the course subjects I wanted to complete "today". All I have to do now is start ticking off things that need to be done. 

I'm enjoying the Daily page, I just wish that it had a night owl version ;-) Do any of you use Daily pages How do you decorate them?

Hello, everyone!  It’s Jennifer here with a fun way to spice up your weekends in your planner!  Sure, weekend banners are awesome... but weekend banners with washi sticker flags are even better!  Let’s get started!  The newly reformatted Popfizzpaper weekly kits now come with washi sticker strips!  Each weekly set has three different designs of washi strips, and each design has two different sizes of washi strips: three quarter box sized strips and four narrower header sized strips.  We’re going to use these stickers to make a banner!

This design uses all three patterns of washi stickers: three quarter box sized strips of design A; two quarter box sized strips of design B; and 4 header sized strips of design C.  So go ahead and decide which design you’d like to use for A, B, and C. 

Starting with your A strips, slightly bend one end of the strips so the corners touch, and make a diagonal cut with your scissors down towards the end of the strips as illustrated in the photo.  This will give you a cute “v” shaped flag when you open the sticker back up.  Trim the strip for length, if you’d like, then place one A strip at each end where you’d like your weekend banner to go.  Add your last A strip in the middle.

Cut your pattern B strips into flags as well, trim the length as you wish, and lay the B strips down between the A strips.  One thing to note, you don’t have to worry about having the tops of the banners all even because we’re going to cover the tops with the actual weekend banner sticker at the end!  You should have a small gap in between each strip.  Cut your 4 design C strips into flags as well and use them to cover the small gaps between your wider strips.  You should end up with the pattern A C B C A C B C A.  Finally, place the actual weekend banner sticker from your kit over the tops of your washi flags.

How adorable is that, you guys?!  I used the Rio kit for this project, but all of the newly redesigned Popfizzpaper weekly kits have washi strips too!  Do you have a favorite way to use the new washi strip stickers?  I’d love to see!  Please share it on the Popfizzpaper Fans Facebook group!

Brittany

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Hey everyone, Sabrina here! Here to show you a quick, easy and fun way to create your own framed calendar. I don’t know about you all but during the fall my bod definitely is in a hibernation mode; hiding that food I’ve been storing from holidays or special events all the way until middle of next spring.

As a personal goal for myself I decided to start eating healthy and working out again. Because if I let myself I could eat pizza every day which is not good. So what better way than to start at the beginning of fall instead of waiting until a month or two before summer. Yes, I am one of those people who do that because I love all the delicious foods that come with the fall season. But not this time this calendar is going to help me focus!

I am going to show you how to create a calendar for… you guessed it; a workout schedule! Enough babbling let’s jump right into this…

So here are some supplies you will need:

1. A picture frame
2. A blank printable calendar
3. Washi tape
4. Stickers
5. Dry erasable markers
6. Optional: Tape runner or glue

First off, put aside your picture frame and dry easers all you need to begin is your blank calendar and some stickers. You can create your own calendar in word or excel or you can print one off the internet. In my printable collection I had a blank Day Designer calendar that I printed months ago so I’m just going to use that. I grabbed my PopFizzPaper sticker collection and pulled out some days of the week stickers, a month of the year sticker, lots of icons and some summer vibes quotes.

Start by sticking down your days of the week. Next is optional but it’s to grab some washi and decorate around the calendar. I ended up putting down my “August” month of the year sticker first before my washi and guess what… when I peeled it off I wasn’t careful so I ripped it a little. No worries though; no need to waste the sticker just grab a tape runner, put some tape on the back and you’re good to continue! If you make a mistake with a sticker gently and patiently peel it up don’t be like me and just rip it off like Band-Aid. Once you’ve gotten your washi down, either write at the top the month or use a sticker like me. Next is grab those workout icons and start pre planning your week [or entire month.]

For fun, I made each week a different color. I always end up having left over icons from my weekly kits so those are the icons that I am using in case you’re wondering why the sizing of some icons are smaller than others. Since my calendar boxes are small I could only fit one icon inside; I originally want to do two icons one related to work out and another for meals but I figured that would just be too cluttered. I actually like having this calendar just for my exercises that I plan to do for the week. I used 3 different icons:

• The shoe is for the type of exercise I plan to do that day

• The dumbbell is for cardio/ gym [if I decided to go to a gym]

• The scale is for weigh in to check how I am doing; which is a personal preference

Now that I have placed all my icons on the week days that I plan to work out I went ahead and just added a few motivational and fun quotes. Along with a couple of emoji stickers and since it’s Olympics month I’ve add a couple of Olympic symbols for extra motivation. I will be out of town one weekend this month so that little road sticker reminds me that even though I will be out of town to get that work out in and more in likely I will set a reminder alarm to get my workout in. When all your stickers are set in the perfect place you want them to be, grab a pen and write in the number of the day or feel free to use a sticker if you have the space. Once the decoration process is complete its time to place it into the picture frame.

You may have to cut down the sides if need be but make sure when you place it into the frame it’s exactly how you want it be because remember you’re going to be writing on the glass of the frame itself so line it up good and give yourself enough writing space on the sides. Now that your calendar is in the frame you’re ready to grab your dry easer marker and start filling in your week [or month.] Since I like to switch it up with different exercises I ended up categorizing what I plan to do for that specific day. Example: Mondays are leg days, Tuesdays are arm days, Wednesday is abs, Friday is cardio, etc. I also like to have at least one or two rest days a week depending on how hard I work myself. But you do you! Because you are writing on the glass you can remove, add or switch any of your work outs. Awesome, right? Well, that’s it! Go ahead and place it up on the wall behind your desk or stand it up on your desk.

I hope you enjoyed this cute idea feel free to use this for anything else like a meal plan calendar, work schedule, school schedule or for events; this idea works for all. If you create a cute picture framed calendar we want to see it so make sure you tag @PopFizzPaper on Instagram and join/ share on the PopFizzPaper Fans Facebook group!

With the Rio Olympics upon us the fire I feel for competitive sports rises to the surface. I have always had a passion for the Olympics. Whether it is summer or winter there are certain sports I love to watch. The best thing about the Olympics in 2016 is they will be the most live they have ever been for those of us at home. With Rio only being an hour ahead of the eastern time zone we are going to get so much live coverage which really excites me when it comes to gymnastics.

When the olympics start I am not going to be at home so I decided to create a Rio Olympics watching schedule based on what was available from the internet for my personal planner. I use a recollections planner from Michael’s that I absolutely love. I used the basic note paper that Michael’s provides and along with Pop Fizz Paper olympics tracking stickers I was able to create a fun way to track the most important things of interest to me.

The supplies I used:

• Pop fizz paper olympics tracking stickers

• Pop fizz paper rainbow tv show trackers

• Gold and white polka dot washi from a previous Pop Fizz Paper planner Kit

• Blue Michael’s thin washi

• Pop fizz paper Team USA kit 3 check flag to do lists

Using the minimal amount of information available on when exactly things will be aired I gave myself space to mark times as well as events. I also have space to write in more should I want to as well as use all the sports specific stickers included in the Olympics tracking set.

I was able to figure out the dates of the Gymnastics finals and I was able to mark those. The rest will be a mark as I go.

I did mark the Opening ceremonies and closing ceremonies with little TV icons from Pop Fizz Paper as opposed to the tracker stickers that are a box. I am going to use this schedule I made to remind me to set my TiVo from my phone everyday and to check and see what events are happening each day. My most important sports this year are Gymnastics, Swimming, Golf, Volleyball including Sand Volleyball and of course some of the track events.

How many of you love the Olympics? Will you be using the Rio or Team USA kits? Share your spreads for the Olympics with us on social media or join our facebook group so you can talk all things Pop Fizz Paper.