Hey planner friends! It’s Rachel, and I am back on the blog sharing my January setup in my “on the go” planner/wallet. Now I know that from the outside, this looks a ring bound planner, but surprise! It’s actually a travelers notebook! I shared a few months back how I converted or “hacked” my personal size planner into a B6 (5x7in) travelers notebook and I’m...

Hello lovely planner friends! It’s Kylie here with you today and I’m going to share with you how I have been using the Seasons A5 Monthly Planner inserts as well as some of the fun sticker tablets! I love the bright colours of these monthly inserts and each month features a beautiful theme. I decided my A5 Colour Wash planner was the...

We're thrilled to introduce our brand new spring Carpe Diem release!  From 3 gorgeous new A5 Planners, new Monthly Insert Sets, Sticker Tablets and FOUR new Spiral Planners - including Home and Budget! - you'll find everything you need to get & stay organized in a simple, yet beautiful way.   Make sure to visit us on Facebook & Instagram for chances to WIN the new products before you can buy them!...

Happy New Year! Emma back with you, and today I’d like to share with you my ‘heartsbyemma’ twist on divider making! Now, it’s a trade secret, so this is purely between you and me! ;) I’ve chosen to use the delightful Kissing Booth Collection that Simple Stories have brought out as the ‘Valentines’ collection. Firstly, let’s scrap the whole ‘valentine’...

Hello, it is Kelly here today on the Carpe Diem blog. Last year I showed you how I have setup my Color Wash Carpe Diem planner for 2019 using the ‘Hello’ monthly inserts. In this blog I will show you how I have decorated my spreads for the winter. I first decorated the first week of the new year. This...

Happy New Year! It’s Cara here today and I LOVE a fresh start and that’s why I love Mondays. I love that fresh new week, a blank slate, but the very first Monday of a new year? Wow, it’s like my birthday!! And so, I’m super excited for this coming Monday and this coming week. I’m using the gorgeous Bloom collection today to pretty up my January...

Hello friends! It’s Kylie with you today sharing some of my most favourite planning supplies. For January I am planning in my Blush Personal Planner for its cute and compact size. I’ve also teamed it with the new Kissing Booth collection by Simple Stories. My first favourite supply I want to share with you is the Personal Divider Templates. This awesome tool also comes in the A5...

Happy New Year, Planner Friends! It’s Rachel and I am so excited to be on the blog today, sharing a special planner setup that I will be using for 2019! I am jumping on the One Little Word bandwagon and will be using the word ENJOY to shape the way I experience this next year! I decided to set up a Traveler’s notebook specifically...

Hello creatives! I hope you all have been having a wonderful holiday season. Leah here with you all today showing you more into my December TN before I start transitioning my setup for the new year. If you’d like to see how I decorated the front pockets and the cover of the front notebook, you can check out my last blog post...

'Oh the weather outside is frightful But the fire is so delightful And since we've no place to go Let is Snow, Let it Snow, Let it Snow" Oh how I wish it will snow here in Southern California for Christmas. We moved from Chicago to California in 2006 and now I kinda missed having a White Christmas. I want...

Happy Christmas! It’s Emma here with you today and I’d like to show you how I’ve started setting up my Blush Carpe Diem A5 planner for 2019. I’ve used the new ‘Hello’ Monthly Inserts and the Freezin’ Season Simple Stories Collection.  Look how well the tab colours from the ‘Hello’ monthly inserts work with the Freezin’ Season Collection! It was...

Hi everyone, it is Kelly here and today I will show you how I have setup my December traveler’s notebook (TN). I used the Carpe Diem Cream Dot TN and the Merry & Bright collection by Simple Stories. For my monthly spread I printed the monthly December overview from the December free printables at the Simple Stories website. I printed the...

Hello, my name is Cara and I’m a December Daily drop out. I’ve tried, I really have. I have a few albums where I’ve documented my December, but mostly, my albums sit half finished. I’ve tried to finish them in January and that did work… a bit. For two years now, I just haven’t been able to finish.  I want to do...

Hello creatives! Leah here with you on the blog today. I’ve started setting up my December TN using a blend of the Freezin’ Season and Merry & Bright collections. In my previous December Daily projects (learn more about this memory-keeping project started by Ali Edwards here), I have typically stuck to a more traditional Christmas color scheme. This year, I wanted to blend...

Hey planner friends! It’s Rachel again and I am back on the blog to share a little “plan with me” using my favorite basic essentials on the Carpe Diem Planner website. Ah…nothing more satisfying than a fresh new week! First up, I use the clear number stickers to add my dates in my weekly planner insert. If you are like me and are a planner opportunist (hee...

Hello friends, it’s Kylie here with you all today. Do you like making lists? Better yet do you like checking them off? I am a huge list maker and today I thought I would share with you how I have been making lists for December in my Typewriter Circles TN, as well as how I have set it up using the ‘Freezin Season’ collection by...

Jomelle here today and I am sharing with you my Christmas Set Up in my A5 Planner. First, I needed to decide what planner to use to go with the Simple Vintage Christmas collection. I couldn't decide between the Clover or the Black Speckle. Which one would you pick? I actually love showcasing this collection. I wanted to keep it...

Hello again, as promised I’m back with a little look at my Christmas set up, all ready for December. If you remember last time I showed you how I’d made some pockets & insert covers using the Simple Vintage Christmas collection. Well I’ve now finished decorating and setting up my Aztec Black & White TN by Carpe Diem Planners. So,...

Howdy friends!  It’s Layle Koncar – think ‘Gayle’, with an ‘L’ – Director of Marketing for Carpe Diem.  I’m back again today to share a set of FREE "Oh What Fun" Holiday Printables!  Even better - they're available in A5, Personal and Traveler's Notebook formats - hooray! I made myself a holiday-themed Traveler’s Notebook/TN for December with some of the...

Howdy friends!  It's Layle, Carpe Diem Marketing Director, & I'm back for another blog post.  Welcome!   Thanksgiving Day, Black Friday, Cyber Monday - oh my!  December is right around the corner - this year has seriously flown by,  Where in the world does the time go!   A new month means new Free Printables & a new planner set up....

Hi everyone, it is Kelly here today on the Carpe Diem blog. I get asked quite often how I set up a new planner and what basic supplies I use. In this blog I will show how I have setup my new planner for 2019. Step 1: choose a planner and monthly insert set I love to use the A5...

Hello! Maria here, to decorate a new month in my bullet journal, now it's December and Christmas is coming. I can not wait for it! I fell in love with the Simple Stories "Merry & Bright" Collection the since I first saw it, I knew that I needed to use it to decorate my month of December. The "Bits &...

Hi, it’s Cara here today, for my very first post on the gorgeous new website!  I’m completely addicted to setting myself goals and going after my dreams, so as we get closer to 2019, I’ve been thinking a lot about my year to come. I love setting myself goals and challenges for the year, to make it better than the year before....

Hello friends! It’s Kylie with you all today. I’m going to share how I have been setting up my planner for December. Yes I know it’s November but I’m totally going to be ready to enjoy the festive season. I can never get enough of Christmas and a Christmas theme for my planning too. I decided to use my Clover A5 planner because…’Hello festive...

Happy fall, y’all Planner Babes! It’s Rachel, back on the on the blog to share my Cream Dot Traveler’s Notebook set up for November. With so many beautiful travelers notebooks, it was tough to choose which one to use. Spoiler alert: I’ll end up using two this month. The Cream Dot Notebook will be used this month as my catch all “get things done”...

Today we thought we'd share a post from last year about setting up a Faith/Spiritual planner... Hi everyone, Its Meredy and welcome to my first ever blog post!  I have a lot to share with you today as I walk through how I set up a Faith/Spiritual Planner using the Faith collection.  I want to start by saying that although I am Christian these...

Hello there creatives! Leah here with you on the blog today. I often feel like I have a million tabs open in my head. The more stressed I get, the worse that seems to get. Then the more information that is flying around in my head, the more stressed I get. It’s a spiral. When I feel too overwhelmed, it can be...

Halloween, Thanksgiving & Christmas - 3 back to back holidays in the US that finds many of us enjoying all too much the goodies & treats and wishing we hadn't!  Today we thought we'd share a post from last year about setting up a Fitness planner.  Just in time to keep you on track as we head into the 'eating...

Let's make a recipe planner! Shop Planners Shop Stickers Shop Inserts We recently shared a recipe planner photo that our community loved! So, we thought it would be a good idea to show you how you can create your own! When I first saw the release of our recipe goodies including our recipe sticker tablet, recipe planner printables and recipe planner...

Leaves are Falling, Autumn is Calling. Oh how I wish I live where the leaves change color and fall to the ground. Pumpkin Spice and everything nice is in full swing. I love everything about the Simple Stories "Forever Fall" Collection.  I'm embracing Fall in myBlush Speckle Traveler's Notebook and Blush A5 Planner for my Fall Set up.  To create...

Hi everyone, it is Kelly here today with some fun fall decorations in my planner.  I used the punch and A5 divider template to cut a new front dashboard out of the fall floral paper. Besides the floral background paper, the other main decorative element of this dashboard is a 4x4 card with the text ‘Hello Autumn’. I layered the...

Howdy friends, it's Layle here, marketing director at Carpe Diem.  Today I'm sharing an in depth look at a Home planner I set up last year.  Below you'll see how I've approached the Home Planning 'stuff'!   After setting up the month I added the Home Insert Set to my planner along with the Home Doc It Journal to really start getting...

Hello friends! Maria here with a different post, this time I will teach you my tricks to plan the organization of your home.  Now more than ever I need a good organizational tool to get to everything,  so for my home I use a planner different from my bullet journal, which is more personal and helps me with making sure...

Hello again creatives! Leah here on the blog today with lots of fun ideas, tips and tricks to show you in my traveler's notebook this month. I've got a lot to share so let's jump right in! I am still using and loving the layout of the Carpe Diem Daily TN inserts. I love all the space I get from...

Good Morning everyone. Jomelle here today on the blog and I want to share with you my planner set up. I've always loved the "I Am" collection from early this year and to top it off, the new "Hello" Spiral Planner is a perfect match. I also love the new matching washi tapes. I am using the Hello Spiral Planner...

Hey friends! It’s Kylie back today, sharing some inspiration from my August planning. This month I am using the divine A5 Colour Wash Planner. When I first saw this, I loved how the design also looked like little colourful macaroons! I decided the ‘Good Vibes’ collection from Simple Stories would be the perfect match in this planner for my August...

Hi everyone, Kelly here today with a new blogpost! For this month I decorated my Robin’s Egg A5 planner inserts and Typewriter circle TN with the same ‘Dream Big’ collection. This collection has lots of fun florals and awesome rainbow colors. I use the planner for planning and the TN for documenting and lists. I decorated my TN pockets with...

Hello, this month I’d like to show you how I’ve been using one of my many Carpediemplanner TN Inserts with the beautiful Simple Stories Bloom collection. I really enjoy gardening and watching how it evolves over time, I decided that the bloom collection would perfect to document all about my garden this year. I’m going to show you some of...

Hello, it’s Emma here, who’s ready for fall? I’d like to show you how I’ve set up my beautiful blush speckled tn. I chose the blush not only because it’s pink, and I love pink! but I thought it would pick out the delicate pinks dotted throughout this collection, and soften some of the darker colours, oh and yes, I...

Hey, Planner Babes! It’s Rachel, and I’m up on the blog today gushing about the new Carpe Diem Planner Stamps. If you follow me on Instagram, then you know that stamps are one of my favorite planner supplies. Now, I know some planner babes are a little hesitant when it comes to stamping, so I thought I would share today three reasons I love planner stamps and three...

Rainbows, Mermaids, Fairies and Unicorns Oh My! So many magical things you can create with this collection that I decided to set up my A5 Robin's Egg planner and my Blush Speckle TN. I wanted my set up to highlight the color yellow so I added the flower ribbon on the side of my TN. I used bits & pieces...