Updated on June 4, 2023

DIY Snap-In Planner Dashboard. Easily create snap-in planner dashboards for any planner using the We R Memory Keepers planner punch board and tab punch board.

I am planner obsessed, as I am sure many of you are as well. I love making custom inserts, stickers, and other embellishments for my planners. But how many times have you wanted to customize something for your spiral bound planner or notebook, but had no way to punch the holes? The new planner punch board comes to the rescue to help create this DIY snap-in planner dashboard.

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Supplies:

• Planner Punch Board
• Spiral Punch Inserts
• Tab Punch Board
• Amy Tan On a Whim Double-Sided Cardstock
• Amy Tan On a Whim Stickers
• Laminator and Laminating Sheet

DIY Snap-In Planner Dashboard

I use an Emily Ley Simplified Daily Planner for my personal and work life, but I wanted to have a separate place to keep track of all of our finances. I needed a planner with monthly pages, but also ample space for notes, so for several years, I have been using an Erin Condren deluxe monthly notebook.

The monthly notebooks don’t come with tabs, so I added some with some sticky tabs I had. However, they are kind of flimsy and flipping to the current month puts a lot of strain on them. So, I wanted to create a snap-in monthly dashboard to easily find the current month.

Note: Erin Condren now makes monthly tabs for notebooks and planners. Mine are holding up very well this year so far.

I started by trimming my paper to allow an extra ¾” at the top. This is the height of the tab when you create one using the tab punch board. After my paper was trimmed, I created a medium size tab at the top.

I used some stickers from the Amy Tan On a Whim sticker book to spell out the word “MONTH”. And I added a few more hearts and a large flower to the paper.

Next, I used my laminator to make this dashboard extra sturdy. I left a ⅜” border on the left side to have plenty of space to punch the side without punching into my paper. Once it was laminated I trimmed around the tab at the top with scissors.

Using the planner punch board and the small pink spiral punch insert, I punched holes in the side of the dashboard. It easily punched through the laminate sheet.

Now, I can easily flip to the current month. And I can write reminders on it with a wet-erase marker or even add sticky notes to it for reminders about bills, budgeting, or anything else that may come up.

As a planner lover, the punch board is so wonderful. I have an A5 binder, Emily Ley Daily Planner, small personal size planner, this spiral bound finance book, plus a couple other little journals. Instead of needing so many different hole punches to be able to customize each one, I can have one tool that doesn’t take up very much space.

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