Ready to Get Organized?
Hi readers! Happy Saturday to you! We’re back with the fabulous and amazing Debby Hughes this month in another creative uses post that I think organizers will totally love! Grab your favorite morning beverage, sit back, relax, and enjoy!
I think my second hobby is organizing and planning! I don’t think I’m alone in this, after all, organizing our crafty supplies is part of the joy isn’t it? Jennifer McGuire leads the way in this topic, but I have a little addition to add today. When browsing through the Better Together release it occurred to me that the way the Danish Heart dies weave around each other is similar to some of the page markers and flags I have for my planner – the center post goes one side of the paper and the rest the other side.
A quick test run proved that this would indeed work for a great page marker. Just imagine the possibilities – any colour, any pattern from your stash, gold glitter if you want and all while using up those little left over scraps we can’t bear to part with! I recently bought a new planner; one of the Webster’s Pages ones in the light teal colour way. I’ve always been a planner nerd and am delighted that at the moment I’m trendy LOL. There are planners and accessories everywhere you look and I’m stoked that the paper crafting companies are joining in; Webster’s Pages have the Color Crush range and Heidi Swapp are bringing out planners too and I’m sure there are others. After all, what a perfect combination – a paper crafting company with their knowledge of colour and those pretty paper resources and a planner rolled into one!
Anyway, I’m getting carried away in my enthusiasm! I was saying that I’ve recently bought a planner and as I always do when setting up a new system I wanted to personalize it and have my own dividers (I don’t tend to stick to the preprinted categories).
A little patterned paper from an old American Crafts line cut to size created the divider. I cut the smallest of the Danish Heart dies from Sunshine card to match the paper and then trimmed the middle post of the die cut into a flag end. I weaved the three prongs over the top of the divider; the first behind, the middle in front and the last prong behind. Weaved like this the page marker is actually quiet firmly in place, but I added adhesive just to be sure. To finish I popped on a couple of Kelly Purkey Rise & Shine stickers. I am loving the blues and yellows together at the moment, possibly a desire for Spring and better weather!
Having created a new page marker for my planner, my mind was buzzing with the possibilities this quick and easy marker could be used for. How about a rainbow of dividers for a stamp storage system? To keep my stamps tidy, I use the Avery Elle pockets in an acrylic DVD box and it took only a few minutes to cut some white card to size and add a rainbow of page markers on top (Lipstick Red, Orange Peel, Sunshine, Green Apple, Audrey Blue). All I’ve got to decide now is whether to organize them alphabetically or by type.
Another use could be for a recipe card system; dividing cards by starter, main, dessert etc. A long time ago I started creating recipe cards for family favorites. The plan is that as the children get older and leave home they take the recipe cards with them. Here’s one I created, oh my goodness, years ago. Just look at that little punched butterfly; it must’ve been before I got my dies! I cut a piece of Audrey Blue card and added a tab in the same spotty paper (an old My Mind’s Eye) from the original recipe card along with a label printed with my Dymo label maker. I’m not sure what it says about my hoarding tendencies that I still have scraps of the original paper tucked away. Oh and if you fancy a nice pudding, pavlovas are delicious and the key to cooking them is not to take them out of the oven until they’ve cooled :D
So this has been rather an eclectic mix of uses for the Danish Heart die – from planner tab, to stamp storage and recipe organizing! I hope you give your dies another look and see what else you can use them for!
So awesome! Love it.
Fun creative organization.
Melissa
“Sunshine HoneyBee”
OMG OMG OMG!! How AWESOME!! What a FUN idea and way to use your dies!! THANKS SO MUCH for sharing and have a FABULOUS WEEKEND!! =)
I agree that organizing is half the fun. I’m always looking for the perfect container or idea and this use of the heart die fits the bill. Thanks Debbie
Great tab dies, love your organizaion ideas!
Great ideas! Love these yummy colors! Great use of the Danish Heart die!
What a great idea!
Fantastic idea! Though I am not much of a planner person, I think that makes a great book mark!
That looks like a fun creative way to be organized.
Such a great idea! Super cute, love the yellow and blue, too!
Thanks for sharing your fun idea! You look super-organized!
Great ideas!
Ingenious! Thanks for sharing this idea….now to decide how to use it myself! By the way, you’re not the only paper scrap hoarder…me too.
Great ideas! ;-)
What a stroke of genius, Debby. I love the idea of using the Danish Heart to organize things. I am always looking for new ways to organize. Now if I could just find the time. Thanks so mch!
I’ve been wanting the Danish Heart die for awhile. Now it is a more practical NEED! :o)
Great ideas.
Just love this idea, it is so easy and so pretty, you can use whatever papers you like. Thanks for this great idea, I am already a follower!!
Cool and cute ideas! TFS
So clever Debby!
Really nice “stretched” use of the die!
I always love Debby’s inspiration and this is no exception….
I too own the Webster’s Page’s Planner…and LOVE it… this will make some awesome and fun tabs to add to the collection!!! Thanks for sharing Debby….
Love the great ideas from Debby. And I’m loving the colors of the Webster pages planners!
Really great ideas. Love the idea for recipes.
Oh boy do I need some organization tips! These file tabs look cute and colorful!
Wonderful inspiration – taking such a simple idea and making it look amazing.
Debby, if you fancy a trip to Australia ‘d love to let you loose on my stash and you can organise your heart out!!
Love using the Danish hearts that way!
Such an awesome idea! I’ve been looking for the cute clips for my planner but I can make my own with these dies. I follow the blog by email.
I am always looking at ways to get extra use out of y dies. Thank you:)
Well, that is just awesome!!
Great idea for multipurposing!
now that is out of the box use
Good idea … another way to stretch our paper crafting supplies.
Wonderful, love seeing ideas like this!
Great ways to stay organized!
What a fun idea to make page markers. I would have fun making these for myself and friends as little gifts.
Organizing… not my strong suit! You make it seem easy, Debby!
What a way to stretch your dies! Great thinking!
I love when crafty items are multifunctional!!
SO PRETTY and SO PRACTICAL!!!
THANK YOU for giving me ANOTHER reason for why I NEED these dies Debby :)
What great ideas. I love the recipe card! Thanks for sharing Debby.
Makes a great looking
page marker!
Carla from Utah
Wow, I’d love to be as organised as Debby!
Great ideas :)
Love these, such a great idea! x
What fun. Love those bright little tabs against the white. Fab idea. Hugz
I love organizing things
I try to keep organized. This is a really neat idea, thank you!
When I “grow up” I want to be Debby Hughes!! :D always has a trick and an alternative use for so many things… by birds from SSS tags are still one of my favorites, Debby!!
=] Michele
this tab die is fantastic, so useful!!!