Since I started my You Tube Channel, I’ve realised that people LOVE planner videos. Now I’ll admit, I’m definitely part of the planner geek community, but I never expected some of my planner videos to get over 35,000 views!

For 2016, I want to share more planner content and will attempt to share my weekly planner layouts on Instagram. I take time to decorate them and create new themes each week – any excuse to buy cute tape eh?

Thank you for the love on my last post. Just had lots of reminders that life is too short! Here’s my week #1 planner layout. Rainy theme as it has been the wettest winter since weather records began in the UK! I am going to try and share this each week. I use my calendar pages for appointments and to dos using some bullet journalling elements. Just waiting on a Craftie Charlie delivery of some Heidi Swapp goodies before I share my new 2016 planner and set up. Stay tuned!

A photo posted by @claireabellemakes on Jan 9, 2016 at 7:02am PST

My week 2 layout has a completely different style and you will see I’ve switched into a new planner, a leather peach one from the Kikki.K sale. I plan to share a video soon with a walk through of my set up for the year.

You can see more photos of this layout and how I created the elements using die cutting techniques on the Sizzix blog here.

Don’t forget there is a Sizzix giveaway which you can enter until 22 January by clicking the link at the end of this post!