Cheat Easy D.I.Y Filo Dividers

I was feeling lazy a few weeks back and decided to make some homemade dividers, but I had very few resources and not a lot of energy so I decided to cheat.

Here’s my brief tutorial on how to too!

What you need:

Scissors

Pritt Stick

Blank filofax dividers

Printed out designs from the computer/postcards/pictures

Standard hole punch

Tools

 Step 1

Decide if you want a theme for your dividers and then go forth and search for pretty pictures to inspire you throughout the year.

I printed some pictures off from the internet.

For the A5 size I printed two pictures each the size of half a landscape piece of A4 paper.

For a personal size divider I printed the pictures to a slightly larger size than those found on personal insert templates.

Step 2

Once you have your pictures printed out:

For an A5 divider go ahead and cut them out

For a personal divider take your current divider and place it on the printed paper and draw around it.

Draw an outline of your personal divider and cut out

Don’t forget to draw in the punch holes too. Once your done go ahead and chop chop chop!

Step 3

Re-arrange the picture on to your blank filofax divider and go ahead and stick on some pritt stick really making sure you get the edges and stick on to the divider.

Arrange & stick!

Please note: for the A5 dividers the half an A4 size picture printout will be small and fit in the middle of the filofax divider without you needing to punch holes. Adjust the picture size before printing if you’d like the print out to cover the whole divider.

Step 4 – for Personal size

It’s optional whether you want to punch the holes before or after you stick the picture on the filofax divider. I find with a little patience and your eye close to your hole punch you can just punch the holes one by one over the pencil markings you drew earlier.

Punch holes

Ensure that your hole punch is the correct size and not too small for your filofax rings. Also be careful not to re-punch early parts of the paper as you move the hole punch down the page (as I did one too many times!)

Et voila! Cheat easy, sort of professional looking dividers. If your extra creative go ahead and laminate and decorate etc. I don’t have the tools so these lovelies will do me good for now!

A5 dividers

Personal sizied dividers

Tips

I use pritt stick instead of heavier glue as I’ve found I can usually peel it off with little tears and rips to the original divider later on when I change my mind and want a new picture. This happens very often.

Hope this helps!