kro designs

  Every month I always enjoy coming up with fresh ideas to use my favorite parts of each kit in a new way.  With this months set up I wanted to focus on pockets. There is an easy way to use your paper  to achieve this but also your specialty paper in each kit works well too. Folding over the edge makes a natural pocket but I laminated it after for not just the study factor, but also to "adhere" the top and bottom edges.  Then taking a Xacto knife, slit the lamination right on that seam to make a pocket! On the back side I did use one of the adhesive pockets from the Lillians Garden Classified Planner Kit to add some additional storage.  I love how these are opaque too so the vellum does stay pretty transparent in the decorations too! I couldn't go the whole month without a set up of my garden with a garden themed kit, could I?! Using the packaging from the Lillian's Garden Planner Add-ons , I made a mock up of our tiny garden area, leaving it a little blank beca...

  There are so many ways to approach planning. I like to divide the major ways to plan into fun layouts vs. functional.  Each one can easily be constructed using the same types of elements in the CD Planner kit. Sometimes we have to think of the way we use the kit to achieve the outcome we want. Take for instance the circle stickers, a staple from the planner sicker kit.  Instead of just writing just the activity on the sticker, I just added a dotted or straight line and now I have a tennis or volleyball. Additionally even tho the heart checklist box is for 4 items, I just chopped mine for 2.  Don't forget to rotate your stickers-they were designed to go horizontally across the column but we can turn them vertically for a narrow space filler as well. On the other hand, functional layouts are a little easier to do because they are more linear in nature.  Activities and columns without blurring the lines between them normally add more structure to a planner layout...

  One of my great joys in receiving the Main Planner Kit each month is seeing what the pattern paper is.  No doubt each one is beautiful and each one can also enhance and functionalize you planner. Because I put my Standard Daisy Dori on discs this month I find I use the paper's more to funtionalize with dividers. While I did cut some packaging for a pocket at the bottom of this divider, I also sliced the corner so I could see the date of the week in which it was before. Because I chose not to have a pocketed cover this month, I wanted to have a place to house my habit tracker and keep it accessible.  I chose a scrap piece of paper from trimming my cover, fussy cut a large dandelion from another , then added just 2 stickers on the bottom to round the bookmark out. While this use isn't entirely functional, it's too terriabley cute not to show it as an option this month.  As you've seen this kit has an array of butterflies.  Why not make them fly!  I used a s...

  If you're like me, sometimes I hate rewriting what I already put down.  The way I constructed this weeks schedule in my Daisy Dori.  Yes, I did punch it for rings but you can do this with any size bound or unbound insert. Starting on the left, I placed all the people with timed events and drew it out with our Zebra Click Art Pen from the Main Planner Kit. Then placed all the event within the grid system. Then I sliced just enough so that the names would show on the former page when a new blank one was inserted on the opposite side.  This page can be reserved for must-do's for that day or for anything you like, really. Then when you are ready to turn the page on the day, head the top of the narrower page with stickers from the Classified Sticker Kit, draw your horizontal lines and you are ready to go! Now my to-do list might look a little sparse but after 2 days, don't worry, I'll fill it up!