Making It Mine

The RAK program is so popular it needs its own planner to stay organized!

I saw a post for a used planner for sale and literally bought it in 30 seconds flat!

It arrived in a few days and I put it immediately to use keeping track of all the RAK requests and anything else of interest from the Erin Condren groups.

Here is the planner as I received it in the mail.

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The cover is a soothing Cornflower Blue in the Gingham pattern with minimal customization.

I tried several things to cover the name but finally just ended up using my favorite pin stripe Washi tape and some cute ABC stickers to write “RAK 2014”.

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To protect the stickers and keep the Washi from peeling, I put a small piece of clear packing tape over the area.  You can just barely see the left bottom corner of the packing tape in this next photo!  A person would have to look REALLY HARD to see the packing tape, so it is a good option for protecting any decor that might be added to a used planner to cover the other person’s name.

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On the inside, I used complimentary colored pens to keep track of RAK requests, new people, international requests, and notes about anything that was necessary to remember in managing the various Erin Condren groups that I started.  I was giving out between 300-400 names weekly, so there was a lot to jot down!!

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This little “used” planner (though it was completely brand new), has and is totally serving its purpose.  I think the cover turned out just fine and I am grateful that I found a used one that I could purchase for this purpose!

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Colors of the Months

I know many people like to color coordinate the event stickers with each month.  This offers a more uniform look to the planner, something that is appealing to many.  Each month has a great duo of color!  You can order Event Stickers to match your months!!

Here are the colors EC has used for each month…

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ORANGE & SEAFOAM

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RED & LIGHT PINK

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PLANNER GREEN (KELLY GREEN WORKS) & LIME

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TURQUOISE & PLANNER PURPLE

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SEAFOAM & PEONY

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CORAL & TEAL

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NAVY & RED

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GREEN & GOLD

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CHARTREUSE & PURPLE

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MOCHA & ORANGE

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THIS BROWN MATCHES NOTHING (TAN or TAUPE COULD WORK) & TEAL

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BABY BLUE & ARMY GREEN

When ordering Custom Event Stickers to match the months, please remember that “Planner Green” and “Planner Purple” are not available in the Custom Event Sticker color choices.  For those months, you would need to choose the other color in the monthly color duo, or use the blank stickers that came with your Life Planner or Notebook.

Blank Event Stickers In Your Planner/Notebook

One of my favorite items available for the Planners and Notebooks is the blank colored stickers.  I have stacks of them waiting to designate that special event, day, or activity.  Every Life Planner and Notebooks with the monthly calendar pages come with 2 pages of pre-printed events, as well as 2 pages of blank stickers.

Let’s talk about the blank stickers.

There are 10 different colors of blank stickers, 5 on each sheet.  I don’t know the order they are in, because I had already removed these and cut them apart before deciding to do this post.  I am grouping the photos into two different groups like this… (please remember colors vary according to lighting when the photo is taken as well as the way a monitor displays the colors).

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AND

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The reason they are grouped like this is because the first six strips of color have actual names available on the Erin Condren website.  These colors can be selected when you order Custom Event Stickers.

The colors are:

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This next group of stickers don’t have names.  I have ordered every color of sticker available on the EC website, and these 4 colors are not part of what I received.  They come in every Life Planner, but they don’t match any of the color choices on the EC website.

I have given them my own names, for now, but I will be checking with EC to see if they actually do have names for these colors (I’m sure they do).  When I find out what they are, or if anyone already knows, I will be sure to post about it here on the blog.

These colors are close to the Custom Event Sticker colors, but they are not an exact match, and cannot be ordered for Custom Event Stickers.

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The Planner Lime is very close to the regular Lime color, but it isn’t quite a match.  The Planner Purple is a most lovely purple color, and I really wish they had this one available to order, but they don’t.  The Planner Teal and the Teal on the website, are close, but again, not an exact match, and the Planner Green is quite a bit darker than Kelly Green, but not as dark as Army Green.

In the next blog post, I will be showing which colors match each calendar month.  Most of the colors are available if you want to order Custom Event Stickers that match your months, but a couple of the months actually use a few of the 4 colors above that are not available for custom ordering.

Stay tuned…!

Paisley With a Twist of Hot Pink and Turquoise

I love finding unique color combinations that WORK, and this is definitely one of them!  Thank you to Jennifer for sharing her planner cover with us!

Hi Kristy!

…The colors I picked were turquoise for the background and hot pink for the design. At the time, I didn’t know that you could change the font and I just went with the one that came with the planner. In hindsight I wish I would have done a cursive, but I still love it. I picked these colors to match my company colors with Origami Owl. (I am an Independent Designer with the company).

Thanks so much!!!
Jennifer Throckmorton

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Photo by Jennifer Throckmorton

Feel free to check out Jennifer’s Origami Owl site by clicking on her planner photo!  Thanks again Jennifer for sharing your vibrant cover with us!  I think it looks fantastic!!

My FAVORITE Cover So Far!!

All of the credit goes to Shea Johnson. She designed this, and it came out perfectly!! I think it should become a planner choice on the Erin Condren website when they roll out their new designs in June. I believe 1000’s of this cover would sell because it is that cute and yet classy, cheerful, playful, and just very pleasing to the eye! Thank you so much Shea for letting me show this to the world! I absolutely LOVE it!!

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Photo by Shea Johnson

Here are the specifics in case you want to order this cover as well…

She asked for the outer stripes to be Hot Pink, and the middle stripe to be Pool. The personalization was “the johnson family” on Line 1, and the names of her family members with asterisks between each one on line 2.

Then in the special instructions box she specified the following:

I am wanting The and Family in Hot Pink in the Instagram font, johnson in multi colors with the big EC asterisk in Hot pink at the end. (Is there any way to substitute the red in the multi color to Hot Pink?) Also, please put the EC asterisk in multicolors between the names on line 2. I would like johnson to be as wide as possible, to fit the full space. Also want The to sit in the middle, right on top of johnson (starting above the n, with no big gaps…I want it to look uniform.) Please let me know if there are ANY questions! I hope this turns out as cute as I think it will! **Please note, I have already asked Customer Service if this would be a custom design and they said no. Thanks!** 🙂

The absolute beauty is that EC did everything EXACTLY as she had asked, on the first try, and it definitely is as cute as she thought it would be. I have spoken with Shea and she says she would be honored if people ordered this design for themselves…she loves it so much she would be happy for others to share in that same joy! Now, that is such a beautiful spirit. Thank you Shea!

She also shared a photo of the free labels that came with it. Be still my heart!!

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