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February 7, 2022 By Dru Cortez

Watercolor Annual Calendar 2022 – Free Printable

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Today I have released a watercolor annual calendar for 2022, so that you can get ready for all your planning for the year.

You’ll have three choices to choose from:

1) a watercolor annual calendar ( 8 1/2 x 11) which is set up with a Sun-through-Sat week and/or…

2) a watercolor annual calendar ( 81/2 x 11) that is set up with a Mon-through-Sun week and was specifically created for Erin Condren and Happy Planner users; however, of course, it can be used as a reference for project life fans as well as regular personal and work planning.

3) a half letter size watercolor annual calendar that should fit as an A5 planner inserst.

Ideally, you can use your calendar by referring to each week during your planning time and planning out your weekly to do’s. You might have developed the habit of taking at least 20 minutes every Sunday evening to view the week’s upcoming tasks and to do’s on your to-do list.

If not, now’s the time to develop that habit for the new year especially if “being more productive” or “using my time wisely” will be one of your New Year’s resolutions

Using your Annual Calendar

I designed this organization/planner freebie in order to get a bird’s eye view of the year all on one page and decorated it with a lovely floral watercolor arrangements. The font for the calendar is palitoon and , the week format is Sunday through Saturday and the weekends are light grey.

I have provided two annual calendar printables, one regular and one with the week’s number on the left hand side. You can reduce the printable in order to fit most planners, if you would like to use them as an insert.

You can use the calendar to refer to as you plan your week or for other purposes.

Planning Your Week

I also designed the following printable to use as a brain dump to provide you a “worksheet” to gather or place all your tasks for the upcoming week. It’s sort of a pre-planning sheet or a place to list all your “to do’s” and then commit them to a specific day.

It isn’t a necessary step, but I find it helpful to write up all my tasks, then allocate the day of the week I will post them in my planner. If I don’t get to all of the tasks, at least I can pick from the “top three” tasks for each day and feel I have been productive.

Here’s a sample of that weekly planner page. You can click on the image to access that printable as well.

Choosing Your Planner

Your planner choice will be a very personal one ( if you are not using one already) and there are many variables that will contribute to your decision. These annual calendars can be used in a notebook that takes 8 1/2 by 11 paper.

In addition, I have a board on Pinterest you might want to follow that has several ideas by other designers for Home Office Planning , stationery and Erin Condren Life Planner, Happy Planner, and other types of planner needs. You can view that board here, Home Office | Planners & Stationery Favs.

Facts about the freebie:

These free printables were designed on an 8 1/2″ by 11″ jpeg file.
File size: 2 MB and 2MB
These elements were created at 300 dpi, so your printing results should be very clear and sharp.
Printing tip: I would adjust the printing quality on your printer in order that you do not get an excessive amount of ink saturation. Just a tip, if you plan to use regular office paper as this freebie is at 300 dpi and you may need to adjust as you print.
Color scheme: black, white, dark grey, pink,green

Thank you for all your Pinterest and other social media pins…

I’d like to say thanks to all those taking the time to comment, I sure appreciate the gracious “thank yous” and the legitimate “link love” . I know you don’t always have time to leave a comment because you are busy, so I really appreciate it when blog visitors take the time to either like or comment.

Thank you for your single pins and for some of you, multiple pins of my various designs on Pinterest as well as Facebook and Instagram links. I also appreciate mentions in your blogs with appropriate link backs and active links.

Some things you should know before downloading:

* Vintage Glam Studio printables ) are for PERSONAL USE ONLY.
*You may not re-sell, redistribute, or claim the original or derivative designs as your own.
*Please do not remove the watermark or modify the design in any way other than for your own Personal use.
*If you post this on the internet, please give credit to Vintage Glam Studio & link back to my blog, so others can obtain the resources. Pinterest, Twitter and Facebook are great social media sharing platforms, it’s the sharing without a link back that can be a problem.

You can access the pdf file for the regular annual calendar >>>>> 2022 Watercolor Annual Calendar- Sun-Sat. Or if you like, click on the picture below for the download.

You can access the pdf file for the 2020 designated weeks annual calendar >>>>> 2022 Watercolor Annual Calendar – Mon-Sun. Or if you like, click on the picture below for the download.

Freebie #3 – A5 Calendar Planner Insert

Image Credit

Most images in this printable are original illustrations by Vintage Glam Studio and are under copyright with a few that are under commercial use or creative commons licensing.

February 24, 2021 By Dru Cortez

Free Tea Time Watercolor Digital Paper

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Hello peeps! It’s almost the end of February and I wanted to provide this red “tea time” themed set of watercolor digital paper printables for you. Today, I am providing a set of seamless gorgeous “red” watercolor digital papers with a bold color theme, and of course, tea time graphics.

I designed about 85% of the background vector graphics and other elements in these papers, the watercolor graphics are commercial use by the talented designer listed at the bottom of the post.

This is a whole new fun part of designing that I am currently exploring as I get a lot more familiar with using Photoshop CC and Adobe Illustrator (paid subscription) for designing digital paper and patterns. I had this set pre-designed at the end of last year and I was able to recover it from my Windows hard drive. Whew, saved it out of the permanent trash can!

This is my sixth digital paper set, that I have provided. I received some great feedback to my last set, so I am including this one as well. I also added a set of tabs made with this digital paper because that seems to be a hot item on my blog!

This time I am adding a couple of new papers that I have been able to figure out how to design, and make them seamless as well– two challenging tasks when designing digital paper.

Facts about the Tea Time Digital Paper

The picture below is the preview of the paper at 72 dpi, however the original is located on my Google Drive account and the file size is approximately a little hefty at 6 MB.

This set of digital papers were designed by me and were designed as 8″ x 8″ , 300 dpi seamless digital papers using several Photoshop CC brushes, actions and overlays. There are five 8″ x 8″ jpeg files in the zip file download, I added the doily paper pattern at the last minute.

These digital papers are included in the zip file. I have added a doily gingham as the one extra pattern in this mini set. I am still trying to master the “symmetry” factor in the gingham but it is seamless and has a hand drawn look.

I also am excited to share the new foil texture “words” that I have provided below. I created the “red foil” texture in Photoshop after watching a great Youtube video tutorial. After a few tries, I was pleased with the result…I hope you are too!

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This is the new watercolor digital paper released set, a total of five digital papers…

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I plan to release a few more of my designs from time to time in the future. I am still working on the coordinating graphic ( lines, dots, chevron) type of paper. The list of ideas is growing!

Color Theme

Many designs come with some inspiration, and the following pic gives you a peek of the pattern I designed for this digital paper set and the tea time photo that was the inspiration.

doily pattern digital paper

As usual these freebies are free for personal use, (check my TOU if you haven’t previously.)

If you have been here before, you know the drill. If you are new (no problem), you might want to read the quick TOU below before you access the printable.

Materials and Supplies

You will need to have software that opens zip files in order to access the jpgs. You will also need access to some type of online or offline photo editing software, like Canva or Pixlr to use the files.

You will need to have access to some type of digital cutter software like Silhouette Design Studio or Cricut to print and cut the word and tab printables. They make print and cut printables easy but are not absolutely necessary.

I would suggest that you use a glossy or non glossy photo paper in order to print the red foil words printable, otherwise your results will come out muddy and flat and the photo texture will be lost. If you are using them digitally, then of course, printer paper is not a concern.

Some things you should know before downloading:

* Vintage Glam Studio printables are for PERSONAL USE ONLY.
*You may not re-sell, redistribute, or claim the original or derivative designs as your own.

*These freebies are not to be used in POD (Print On Demand) sites such as Redbubble, Spoonflower, etc. or other digital download sites. You’re free to use them for personal papercrafting projects but the copyright remains with me.

*Please do not remove the watermark or modify the design in any way other than for your own Personal use.

*If you post this on the internet or projects made from this paper, please give credit to Vintage Glam Studio & link back to my blog, so others can obtain the resources. Pinterest, Twitter,Instagram and Facebook are great social media sharing platforms, it’s the sharing without a link back that can be a problem.

To download the digital paper, CLICK on the link or the image below, and you will be able to download it from my Google Drive. I hope you like them.

Freebie #1 – Watercolor Tea Time Digital Paper – [Pink-5 jpgs]

Freebie #2 – Tea Time Watercolor Tabs

Freebie #3- Tea Time Red Foil Words [ half letter – 5.5″ x 8.5″ png file]

Image Credit

Most of my elements are made from commercial use or public domain sources, however if any designer feels their copyright has been infringed upon the freebie will promptly be removed and the freebie will no longer be available. Tea time photo by Laura Ockel at Unsplash. Watercolor graphics can be obtained at CreativeFabrica.

February 8, 2021 By Dru Cortez

DIY Valentines Day Interchangeable Planner Covers

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Hello peeps and blog visitors! Today, I am providing you with this Valentine’s Day release of interchangeable covers and personal planner dashboards. I used the cute graphics for the recent digital paper release, they were so lovely, that I thought some planner dashboards would be a good idea. So, I am passing all the planer goodness on to you.

Today, I am excited to release another really fun project–two sets of Valentine’s Day Erin Condren interchangeable planner covers that I designed for your planner bliss. In addition, I also included a set of coordinating “planning” round foldable tab planner stickers for extra planner goodness!

Some of the best information I found on creating diy Erin Condren life planner interchangeable covers was on a pin via Pinterest when I released my first set of covers. You can access that comprehensive article here at DIY Erin Condren Life Planner Interchangeable Covers. I have tried making my own covers but I have always gone to Staple (office supply store) for high resolution covers, but the above article explains the whole diy process using your own home printer.

Materials and Supplies Needed

Please note you will need access to several tools, materials and supplies such as a laminator, laminate sheets, white cardstock or photo paper, a 1/8″ hole punch, and scissors in order to complete this project, but if you are a planner addict you may already have them on hand in your planner stash.

Quick Tip: Although you can use white cardstock, to ensure the best results try using white photo paper in order to get the best, high resolution included in the jpeg file when you print them. If you use plain cardstock, the colors come out flat and saturated.

I designed this set of DIY Erin Condren planner covers in colors that would coordinate with the digital paper I just mentioned. As a matter of fact, I used the violet digital paper for the round foldable tabs.

Some planner fans stick to only one cover. However, it’s fun to occasionally change the look of your planner, especially if you like to change your covers to match the season.

To view the official Erin’s Condren’s seasonal interchangeable covers click HERE.

These planner covers are specifically sized and designed for fans of the Erin Condren Planner only . As I suggested earlier, try to print on a bright photo matte or gloss photo paper to print out your covers so that the colors will be vibrant and the photo realistic textures will print clearly.

Note: These planner covers are not designed to upload to the Erin Condren website as they need to have a “bleed” space added in order for you to have them printed and cropped correctly, so keep that in mind.

Other Planner Ideas

If you are not interested in using these images as covers, I know that planner fans (who are technologically astute) will be able to resize the jpg files in order to create a dashboard or project life card for your papercraft use.

While that is totally doable for your own personal use, please abide by my TOU ( it is listed below) and do not sell or share the digital files. You are welcome to share the link back to my website, if you like. Do keep in mind that there might be some distortion when you reduce the size.

Just a little reminder, I wanted to let you know that I have a board on Pinterest that you might want to follow that has several pins (ideas) by other planner designers, stationery, home office decor, office supplies and planner freebies, you can view that here, Home Office | Planners & Stationery Favs.

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You might also like a previous release of fall themed planner covers for the Erin Condren:

DIY Fall Interchangeable Planner Covers

DIY Summer Interchangeable Planner Covers

Note**Please see my Terms of Use below before downloading if you have not to been to this site before.**

Facts about the Interchangeable Covers :

5 jpg digital files sized for Erin Condren Life Planner Covers and personal planner dashboards
5.5″ x 8.5″ planner stickers [jpg file]
File size – No bigger than 3 MB each
These elements were created at 300 dpi, so your printing results should be very clear and sharp with a smooth lay down of the ink color. The preview pictures both on the blog and on Google are at 72 dpi, so you often can not see all the detail accurately or colors are sometimes distorted.
Color scheme: violet, black, pink, mustard, hot pink, purple

As usual these freebies are free for personal use, (check my TOU if you haven’t previously.) If you have been here before, you know the drill. If not, you might want to read the quick TOU below before you access the printable.

Some things you should know before downloading:

* Vintage Glam Studio printables are for PERSONAL USE ONLY.
*You MAY NOT RESELL, redistribute, or claim the original or derivative designs as your own. Do not use these files to resell your own products on any other online store such as Shopify, Redbubble,etc.
*Please do not remove the watermark or modify the design in any way other than for your own Personal use.
*If you post this on the internet, please give credit to Vintage Glam Studio & link back to my blog (www.vintageglamstudio.com), so others can obtain the resources. Pinterest, Twitter and Facebook are great social media sharing platforms, it’s the sharing without a link back that can be a problem. If you use this printable on Instagram, tag me with #vintageglamstudio or @vintageglamstudio. Thanks!

Download Instructions

You can access the jpg files below. Click on the each individual picture or link below (pictures posted are low res preview pics) and you will be able to download the jpg files individually. Download one or all of them for your planning pleasure!

You must have access to software that can open a zip file. These files should open in any photo editing software including online photo editing tools like PicMonkey or Canva. Keep the aspect ratio as is and the image at 100 percent before printing. The dimensions of each Erin Condren jpg file should be 6.75″ by 8.875″ or 2025 px by 2663 px. The dimensions for the personal dashboards are 3.75″ by 6.75″.

Valentine’s Day Interchangeable Covers Download

Freebie #1 – Valentine’s Day Interchangeable Planner Cover (jpeg file)

Freebie #2 – Valentine’s Day Interchangeable Planner Cover 2 (jpeg file)

Freebie #3 – Valentine’s Day Personal Dashboard (jpg file)

Freebie #4 – Valentine’s Day Personal Dashboard (jpg file)

Freebie #5 – Valentine’s Day Round Foldable Tabs (jpg file)

Image Credit

The images used for this printable are original illustrations and are the direct copyright of Vintage Glam Studio. Fonts and grafphics are under commercial use. Graphics from clip art set Just Love Elements by Essentially Nomadic on Creative Fabrica.