Big Plans: The Official Laurel Denise Blog

Planner season is officially ON, and the 2025–2026 Laurel Denise line just dropped — featuring new formats, dreamy covers, and accessories you didn’t know you needed (but absolutely do).

Whether you’re a teacher planning lessons, a student organizing semesters, or a busy parent juggling all the things, this launch is full of options that are practical, playful, and planner-girl approved.

In this post, we’re breaking down everything — layouts, covers, inserts, accessories, and our honest thoughts on the new bookbound format. Consider this your complete guide to the 2025 Laurel Denise collection.

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Launch Details

• Preview goes live: April 4

• Shop the full collection: April 9 at 12pm ET

• Available exclusively at laureldenise.com

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What’s Returning: Classic Layouts + Covers

Back by popular demand: our Horizontal Week & Month and Vertical Week & Month layouts. These are the short-page layouts you know and love — clean, minimal, distraction-free.

New for 2025–2026, we’ve got four deliciously fun cover designs:

• Bless Your Heart - vertical + horizontal

• Lucky Day - vertical + horizontal

• Pink Sherbet - vertical + horizontal

• Ice Queen - vertical + horizontal

And wait! All of these covers are also available in cute lil MINI planners!

(And yes, some cover names may or may not have gotten accidentally swapped during production. It’s fine. Everything’s fine. They’re still gorgeous.)

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Meet the Bookbound Week Planners (No Coil, No Fuss, All Function)

You asked for a coil-free option — and we delivered. Say hello to our brand-new Bookbound Week Planners: portable, minimal, and totally ready for your tote bag.

• Available in two layouts:
  → Horizontal Week
  → Vertical Week (created in collaboration with Amanda from Amanda’s Favorites!)

• 80 lb paper, soft covers, no coil, and our signature light lines and gentle formatting

• Accordion pocket in the back + two ribbon bookmarks

💬 Real talk: The covers are very soft. Like, “oops I fell asleep holding it” soft. They’re sturdy, but not quite up to our usual psycho-level LD standards — so they’re launching at a discounted price while we work on a glow-up for the next round.

🎥 Want the full dish on bookbound? We’ve got a full YouTube deep dive where we walk through both layout versions, best accessories, and get real about what we love and what we’re tweaking for the future. 

Watch Amanda's Favorites Youtube on her Vertical week bookbound collab here.

If you’ve been craving something sleek, flexible, and blissfully coil-free — this planner’s your new BFF.

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Portrait Planners Are Back (and Still Selling Out Fast)

You asked (loudly), and we heard you: Portrait Planners are back — and just as lovable as ever.

• Cover options: Iconic and Cranberry Tarte

• Vertical layout, bottom short pages

• Great for compact time blocking and daily lists

This layout continues to be a favorite among planner pros who like to keep things visually clean, vertically structured, and ready to grab on the go. (We ordered more this year, but they still go fast!)

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NEW: The Pop-Up Planner (for Countertop Queens + Visual Planners)

Introducing the Pop-Up Week & Month Planner — a brand-new format designed for those who want to see their week without flipping or folding.

• Stands up vertically on your counter or desk

• Spiral-bound at the top = no left-handed smudge life

• Same weekly layout concept as our portrait planners, just with the week on top and all on one page

• Cover: Sleepy Hollow

This layout is ideal if:

• You keep your planner open in one spot all week

• You want to tear off your to-dos and hand them to a teen, partner, or roommate

💬 Insider note: This is our first run, and we already have ideas to improve it for the future (dot grid, anyone?). But the vibe? So good. And we expect this one to sell out quick.

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The Teacher Planner (Still the MVP for teachers)

It’s the Teacher Planner, and it’s ideal if you’re livin’ that Monday-through-Friday, block-schedule life.

• Layout: Block-style weekly planning, Monday to Friday

• Perfect for classes, subjects, or time blocks

• Extra pages include:

• Lesson planning sheets

• Checklists

• Grid pages

• Passwords and planning prompts

• Cover options: Patchwork and Sailor

While it was designed with educators in mind, we’ve seen parents, freelancers, and homeschoolers absolutely thrive with this format. So if your brain works in blocks — and your weekends are for rest — this layout is calling your name.

💬 Pro tip: If you want more lesson planning pages than what’s included, you can grab our Lesson Planning Insert Pack to build out your setup exactly how you want it.

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Accessories That Make It All Better

We’ve got a bunch of new accessories designed to keep your planner cute and your life slightly more together:

Clip Folios

Clip your notes, stash your stickies, and look like you’ve got your act together (even if it’s held together with washi tape). Available in two prints: 

• High Tea

• She’s Electric

Pen + Pencil Pouches

Let’s talk about the ultimate planner sidekick: a pouch that carries your pens, washi, lip balm, rogue receipts, and maybe a secret chocolate stash.

• Large pen pouches: Arts & Crafts and The Magician — perfect for tossing in your bag or organizing your desk

• Elastic pen pouches: Roses are Red and Daydreaming — these stretchy cuties fit all of our planner layouts — Mini, Standard, Portrait*, Bookbound**, and Pop-Up.

📝 Just two things to note before you stretch and go:

1. *If you use an elastic pouch on the Portrait planner, it’ll stretch the band out too much to pop back onto a Mini later — so once you go Portrait, you commit.

2. **For the Bookbound planner, you’ll need to slide the elastic horizontally over the whole planner — not just one cover — to make it fit and function like the star it is. 

Choose your pouch, match it with your layout, and let the organizing magic begin.

Stickers + Sticky Notes

You know we love a sticker moment.

• New sticker sheets: Planner Girl, Dreamer, Hooray!, and Workout

• Functional tabs (perfect for bookbound planners or sewn journals)

• Itty bitty sticky notes in Colorful and Neutral sets

• Weekly sticky notes for quick planning, brain dumps, and fridge schedules

Fan favorite: Stick your sticky note into a plain notebook, jot your to-do list, and move tasks onto the actual planner when you’re ready. It’s planner peace, simplified.

New Inserts: Build Your Perfect Planner

Customize your planner to match your season of life:

• Student Booster Pack – class timetables, project planners, and more

• Block Week Inserts – 7-day layout (great for visual weekly planning)

• Lesson Planning Inserts – because sometimes you need 50 extra pages and sometimes you need 4

These are especially great if you use a standard layout but need a little boost for school, teaching, or long-term projects.

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FAQs

Can I use an elastic pen pouch on the bookbound planners?
You can put it over the ENTIRE planner horizontally. But wait until our 2026 version to just put it on one cover. 

What’s the biggest difference between horizontal and vertical layouts?
Horizontal = rows for daily planning.
Vertical = lined columns for time blocking or task grouping.

Do any of these layouts include weekend planning?
All except the Teacher layout — that one is Monday through Friday only on the week pages, and Saturday and Sunday share a box on its monthly calendar. 

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Final Thoughts (and Your To-Do List)

Here’s what to do next:

✅ Head to laureldenise.com to preview the full collection
📱 Follow us on Instagram for launch day lives, demos, and chaos
🎥 Watch our OMG Planners video for the full walkthrough
🛒 Start building your 2025–2026 planner stack

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May your jewels be juicy, your sticky notes super sticky, and your planner cart full of joy.

Let us know in the comments — which cover are you snagging first?