It's satisfying and fun to make your own planner stickers. You can choose your own colors and designs. Today I'm making stickers for the classic size Happy Planner by Me and My Big Ideas using Cricut Design Space and the Explore machine.
In Design Space I chose to "Insert Shape" and picked a square. I then resized the shape into a rectangle with the dimensions of the boxes in the Happy Planner. I added the patterned paper to each rectangle by clicking on the shape in the "Layers" area to the right of what you are seeing above. In the "Layer Attributes" pop up click on "Print", then select "Pattern". A large group of patterned papers comes up. You may purchase them, have access to several included in the Cricut Subscription program called Access, or have many of them granted to you by Cricut because you are/were an Imagine owner. Select one of the patterns for each of the rectangles you created. I added a few decorations on top of the patterned papers in a few instances. "Import Image" on the left of the screen and pick a few images to add. Choose to "Flatten" the image after you have resized it. Drag the image over to the rectangle and place it there. "Select All" and "Group" the rectangle and image so that if you want to move the image it will move as one item. Here are my created stickers ready to print and cut.
I added a few other images to decorate with. Just be sure to "Flatten" them so they print out as one image and not cut out the several layers that many images have. Hit the "Go" button to proceed to the next screen in Design Space for printing. I had to play around with the configuration of my images a bit to get the program to print them all onto one page. I just kept going back and forth and rearranging until I saw they would print all together. Follow the directions to print. Design Space will place Registration Marks on the page so that the machine will be able to cut the images out. After printing (onto a 8 1/2 x 11 Avery Shipping Label sticker sheet), place your printed sheet onto the Cricut mat. Continue to follow the prompts in Design Space. Load and hit the Cricut button. But be sure to set the dial on the machine to "Custom" and choose "Washi tape" so the Explore doesn't cut all the way through the sticker paper. It will kiss-cut on this setting. Here we go:
All my stickers are now cut! You can see that there is a lot of wasted space on the sticker sheet. Currently Cricut Design Space has a limited print and cut capability. Hopefully this will be corrected in a future Design Space update. The fun part is decorating the planner!!!
And then I added more decorations to this week in the planner. Now it's ready for the pen!
Hope you found this tutorial helpful on how to make your own planner stickers in Cricut Design Space. If you have any questions be sure to ask and I'll try to help! Craft on!
