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Black Friday Specials 2020

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Hello plannerpeeps.  So, it’s the day after Thanksgiving and  I hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving with you and your loved ones, at least to the degree you could under lockdown constraints.  I actually had a great time and am busy trying to stay away from all the Thanksgiving  leftovers, but yes, I am indulging in all kinds of goodies!

Today is Black Friday…and usually the biggest shopping day of the year.  However, I will say  due to Covid lockdowns there were a lot of retailers this year that had early bird sales even before Black Friday.    Regardless, I went ahead and rounded up these specials for the “official”  biggest shopping day of the year.

Most retail stores (online and brick and mortar)  of all types are offering huge discounts today for Black Friday, some up to  40 and 70 percent off, but they usually are deals that are available for only a limited time. 

This is the time to add to your crafting stash by purchasing many of the products you had saved on your “wish list” at heavily discounted prices– and  I usually save up my purchases to take advantage of these phenomonal sales. At least that is a technique I have used for years, especially to purchase my kid’s toys when they were little!

You have to grab these deep discounts within the time frame  that they are available which is usually  for only 24 to 48 hours.  Some retailers are extending their sales through the weekend to Cyber Monday to provide incentives to  the online shopping crowd.  Cyber Monday will be Monday, November 30th this year, so you might have a really good opportunity to shop all throughout this weekend. 

Here’s one good thing that has come from these lockdowns, I expanded into another craft…planner charms.  I watched some jewelry crafting vids on Youtube, purchased some amazing deals on Amazon online and got to work!  And guess what, I have a surplus  now, so  I will be either giving them as gifts to others or as giveaways! I’m thinking through what I have time to do!  Tell me what you think in the comments…

christmas planner charms

In any case, I decided to compile a few tips for  some of the planner and craft related specials (that I am aware of)  for you today.

 

 

Planner Deals

    • Erin Condren is having a 30% sitewide sale on all their planners and accessories for a limited time .  I am really excited by their new “Hello Kitty” line.   This is a great line for yourself or your planner Bffs.
        • If you like the Happy Planner (Big, Classic and Mini) by Me and My Big Ideas, Michael’s  (the craft store) is having storewide sales of up to 40 percent and 70 percent on selected craft items.  This sales is extended for two day’s.   You can also order online and pickup your order at a local store, ship to home or this year they have also provided curbside pickup.    Different rules may apply for each local store or  region in the United States.  I usually use my Michael’s phone app to access any coupons and deals.  I also have signed up via email for all their upcoming sales…these tools help keep my craft and craft related expenses lower than they would otherwise be.
        • Another source for the Happy Planner or other journals and planners is of course, Amazon.  I usually access their large assortment of planners and journals via this “category”  link >>HERE to see what are the latest deals  for the upcoming year available.   This is the best time to buy your planner for next year as the prices are deeply discounted for holiday sales.  Another great tool to buy for yourself or your planner BFF.
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        • If you have Amazon Prime ( which I do) you can usually have your purchases  shipped to you within two days.  This year my Prime membership has saved me an enormous amount of time and money especially because where I live in Southern California has been under strict lockdown.  You might want to consider membership. 

 

Cricut– this digital cutting, vinyl press irons and other cut file products company is having huge Black Friday sales as well as a variety of specials through to the end of December.

Silhouette – the  digital cutter company has been holding a Black November special for the whole month of November on many of their popular products.  However, for Black Friday Silhouette is offering Bundles starting at $14.99, with almost 50% off everything (some exclusions apply).  

I usually purchase my Silhouette products off of Amazon.  You can see the Black Friday Deals by clicking this “Silhouette Category” link to view available products and the select deals stores that partner with Amazon are offering.

When you do any type of planner sticker crafting or other types of graphic design,  you either need to make your own fonts and design elements  from sratch or purchase those that are  available on online sites.  These are some of the best places to buy especially when you are using these graphics  for commercial projects of any type. 

Creative Fabrica –One of my absolute favorite sites  and I purchased a subscription this year on this site. By subscribing to this site, it has reduced my graphic costs by a gi-normous (my made up word, of course) amount!  I am not exagerating, I have kept a tally of my monthly expenses for graphics for this site alone and I was able to reduce my monthly costs by about 2/3rds!  So, with this extra savings I have purchased other graphics on the other sites listed a la carte. Money savings all the way around!

Beginning today they are offering an $1 All Access Subscription, which will start on Friday, 27th November.  In this promo offer, customers can get our All Access subscription for $1 for the first month. After the first month,you pay $19/month (not $29). With this subscription, you can get access to ALL products on the site.

Etsy – many graphic designers are now setting up shops or products with appropriate licensing made for the small business owner or blogger, they vary from mockup photos to social media templates for Canva.  Today, Etsy is offering up to 60% off for Cyber week.  You might like my article/blog post on “10 Awesome Planner Finds on Etsy for Christmas Gifts for your Planner Bestie.

The Hungry Jpeg – This site is a great resource for graphics, fonts and mockups at affordable prices and with generous commercial use licenses. They offer a weekly freebie as well as great prices on graphics or font bundles at prices reduced over 80 percent if they were bought individually. This is a great way to get introduced to a variety of designers and collect design assets that you can use in your projects. You can purchase a la carte and many designers offer
their products at special one dollar USD discounts. For a limited time period, take 20% off sitewide using code: BLACKFRIYAY.  Sale ends November 30, 2020. 

Creative Market  -This site has premium designs, fonts and other design assests created/designed by professional graphic designers for professional graphic design use. Since the design assets are premium quality, you will need software and hardware to download and unpack their product offerings. The premium design asset offered also means prices are more expensive than other comparable sites.  They offer six freebies every week; most, however, (in my opinion) are products geared to other professional graphic designers.
But that is not to say, that there are reasonable and affordable products available. For a limited time period, save up to 75% on select items.  Sale ends November 30, 2020 at 11:59 PST.

FontBundles.net – I love the premium fonts available on this website. I have purchased a variety of unique and custom fonts on this website. They offer generous commercial use licenses and allow you to purchase via a “credits buying” system very similar to image/photo sites. They also have a sister site Designbundles.net which is great for affordable craft files for diy crafting.  Fontbundles & it’s sistersite Designbundles will have over 15,000 items (only 500 copies each) priced at $1.00 for this monster sale from Black Friday, November 27th to Monday, December 2nd .  The extra days will give you some time to review and favorite your purchases before buying.

 

 

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Spring Graphic Planner Stickers – Classic Happy Planner

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It’s Fri-yay…and this week’s planner stickers printable was inspired by this bright graphic digital paper. I used the flowers in  this digital paper pack to create some floral elements  to  coordinate with this set and I also created this two page layout that will cover your whole weekly spread.

These planner stickers are specifically designed for fans of the “Classic” MAMBI Happy Planner (vertical) or similar Week At A Glance Planners or other vertical weekly planners ;such as the Plum Paper Planner or Erin Condren Life Planner.

The functional planner stickers, especially the box stickers, are sized to fit within the vertical columns and boxes specifically for the Happy Planner. Keep in mind that the full boxes are sized at 1/4″ taller than your vertical boxes for the Erin Condren Planner and sometimes the designs can not be scaled down for your Erin Condren.

Also, if you are new to this site, 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 pins that are mostly planner related. You can view that board and/or follow here, Home Office | Planners & Stationery Favs.

There are 90+ planner stickers or elements total in today’s release. As always, these stickers and elements can either be used for journaling in your project life projects, smashbooks, art journals or other types of memory keeping and papercrafting but these were made specifically for you Happy Planner and Erin Condren fans. Note**Please see my Terms of Use below before downloading if you have not to been to this site before.**

Free Happy Planner planner stickers printable, for personal use only

How to Use this “Planner Stickers” Printable:

There are several ways you can use this printable to create your stickers and I have included a few in the following instructions:

1) The easiest way to use this printout is to print it out on a full sheet of white sticker paper and if you own a Silhouette Cameo or Silhouette Portrait or other digital cutter, (i.e. Cricut Explore)  you can cut out the to-do lists or planner stickers using their designer software. ( **Please note: You must have the Silhouette Designer Edition software upgrade to open pdfs in your Silhouette. I also have redesigned the template so that the margins are within the “registration” area of your silhouette. You will have to spend some time creating the cutlines for the silhouette but this should make creating the cutfile a lot easier.)

The Best Machine for DIY Projects

2) Also another method, would be to use heavy bond printer paper or you can use 65 lb. white cardstock depending on how thick you want your sticker and then place adhesive via a snail tape runner or with a Xyron sticker tool or machine.

3) The most tedious way is to print out the planner stickers on sticker paper and “fussy cut” out by hand, I have spaced the elements so that you can use a pair of good craft scissors to get a clean cut and handle the fussy cutting. In addition, don’t forget a paper trimmer which helps with the straight cuts. You should probably use punches for the circle stickers. I try to design the circle stickers at standard punch sizes.

Facts about the freebie:

*A set of 90+ planner stickers on an 8 1/2″ by 11″ pdf file.
*File size : 1.47MB +1.05MB
*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:  teal, pink, green, hot pink

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.

Terms of Use for this 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 (redesigned from the original) designs as your own. That includes redesigned as a free printable.
*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. If you use this printable on Instagram or other social media platform, tag me with #vintageglamstudio or @vintageglamstudio. Thanks!

>>>>Page One pdf file is>>> HERE

>>>>>Page Two pdf file>>> HERE.

 

Image Credit

Most images in this printable are original illustrations by Vintage Glam Studio and under copyright. Other images are under commercial use license. Digital paper by Lilly Bimble on Etsy.

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