Arc Planner Goodness, and a Quick Tutorial

 Good morning.  This is my doggie, Ace, helping with this mornings tutorial and share.  I have recently ordered a few things from Levenger to use in my Arc notebook that I use for my planner.  OK, I also have a project Arc notebook, and a purse sized Arc notebook, and  a couple of others.  Yes, I'm hooked on Arc.  I love them.   But, they have a limited variety of planner/notebook inserts for their books.  I am hoping that more start to come out.  A lot of people make their inserts.  However, when I saw these I knew I needed them.

 They had a great variety of "Apps" for your planner.  They fit PERFECTLY in the Arc.  So, I am adding to my planner awesomeness with these List pages, the Time Map daily inserts, the Smart Tabs, and the Doodler pages.  The list pages come perforated, so you can put them in your planner, and tear out the one side to use when you go shopping.  I have a shopping/coupon book that this is going into.  The Time Map will come in handy for single busy days, as I am a weekly page person.  The Doodler page is just that, blocks of color to go crazy with for jotting or sketching ideas.  I love them!

 With my order I got some 2" and 1/4" discs.  They work perfectly with my Arc notebook covers, dividers, etc.  Arc doesn't carry bigger discs than 1 1/2", so I tried these, and they are awesome.  The 1/4" ones are PERFECT for small notepads to stick in your pocket or purse.  Because I spent enough money, I got their 1,2,3 punch for free.  This baby is going into my organizer bag that I have posted earlier!

So then, I bought one of the new Arc Notebooks with the awesome cover art pages.  Then, I had an idea.  Why waste the cover art when you can use it and see them all of the time as DIVIDERS!!!

 I took a piece of paper in the size of the cover pages.  8 3/4" tall by 6 5/16" wide.  Then I divided it into four sections on what will be the "tab" side.

 Four sections turn out to be 2 3/16" each.

 I used my envelope maker by We Are Memory Keepers, thinking about the  tutorial by Kathy at Paper Phenomenon that I have used here for my Craft Supply Inventory Book, I punched the top edge...

 ...then the first marking for the first tab...

 ...and I got this.

 Then I cut off the excess, which lines up at 3/8" by the ruler...

...And I got the tab.  The teal one is the first one, I just sliced off the edges accordingly to make the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th tabs!

I think this will be my Arc Bill Planning Notebook.  I need a new one for 2014.  I think this will work. I am so excited to be able to use all of the tabs!  It turned out quite lovely, and I think it will work beautifully!  

Stay crafty, and organized, my friends!

Arc Planner Updates, Stuff and Things

I am loving my Arc Notebook turned planner/organizer/life saver.  I love having paper and pen to write things down.  Technology is OK, but there is nothing like sitting down with a paper and pen, there's so much freedom with that.

I discovered Levenger. I actually stumbled on it via Pinterest.  Have we discussed Pinterest yet? OMG, both are awesome! I did some net surfing about compatability, then made an order, and found out that the Levenger Circa system really does fit perfectly with my Arc system.  Score for me!!  I am sure that the popularity of the Arc has created demand for more options and insert styles, but until then, I am shopping some at the Levenger site.

 This was my first order.   It is a sample kit with a few things for the classic and full sized notebooks.  I thought this would be a safe way to try the stuff out, and see what I thought.

 It came with two sets of discs, some dividers, covers...

 ...and 4 different sizes of notes!  I think I'm in love!  With this, there was a special gift of a $40 gift certificate good for your next order.  Well...OK, twist my arm!  I ordered some more stuff immediately!

 This was my next order!  I got a 300 sheet pack of colored notes pages, more top dividers, some mini note pages, and a sampler pack for a standard size book like my Arc system.  They also have different sizes of discs, so I ordered some 1/4" discs!

 I used some of them to create a mini notebook with 3x5 index cards.  This size fits PERFECTLY in my pocket at work!  Now, instead of random papers with notes, I use this, then zip it out of this book and it GOES INTO MY ARC NOTEBOOK PERFECTLY!

 Yes, I am a planner geek, organizer nerd, and a note-taking fanatic!  I admit it!!

 So, finally, here are some of my latest weekly pages.  My Stuff and Things.  This week above, I color coded the days to the to-do's.

 This week, I just liked this set of stickers, so I used them.  Kind of pretty and girly.

 This was the week of the 4th of July, so I went with red, white, and blue.

And this was last week, as I was beginning it.  I just used some leftover random stickers from my "Happy Days" mini album!

Have a great week, stay crafty and ORGANIZED my friends!