Fruity Planner & Journal Spread from Grace

Hello! So this is my first post as a Sticker Club DT member - I'm so super honoured and super excited :D Alright, I admit, I'm not so good at eating fruit, but I do like a smoothie. So when I saw this month's kit I remembered some silly selfies I had on my phone I'd sent in a group chat after making myself a smoothie one day. I decided this month's kit would be perfect for making a fun creative journal spread, featuring said silly selfies. The first thing I did was throw some watercolour on the pages (of a standard size traveller's notebook). I had the stickers nearby so I could make sure the colours matched. I made one side more green because I knew that's where I was going to put the photos, which had lots of green in the background.

 

While I waited for that to dry, I got out my Copic markers and fineliners and drew out and then coloured a glass full of smoothie. I'm fairly happy with how it turned out:

 

(for Copic Marker users I used R00, RV10, RV13, and R85) Then I painted the 'empty' part of the glass with the same colours I'd painted the right hand page, went over the lines with a black fineliner, and cut it out:

 

Then came sticking time! I started with some of the washi strips and boxes from the kit that I wanted in the background:

 

Then stuck down my photos and the glass:

 

Next was my favourite part of the whole layout. I started by getting the watercolours out again and painting a pink swirl going down into the glass:

 

(yes I smudged the black fineliner a bit but it's ok because it gets covered up!) Then once that was dry I stuck down a load of the cute little fruit stickers on the swirl as if they were going down into the smoothie (sorry little fruits!)

 

As you can see I purposely placed one sticker (the apple) where I could draw the rim of the glass over it, to really give the idea that they were going down into the glass of delicious smoothie! After that I got sticker happy...

 

Especially with those little phrase stickers. I LOVE a good pun, so those cracked me up far more than they really should have. The only stickers used that are not from this month's kit are those I used for the 'smoothie' title. They were from Mrs Brimbles last year. Then I got a little more sticker happy, just filling up some spaces that I thought looked like they needed a little something more. I even fussy cut out a little orange from the washi strip as a wanted a little fruit!

 

Spot the little orange? Just a reminder to do whatever you want with stickers, cut boxes in half, fussy cut them, etc.,: they're just as versatile as paper, but you don't have to add glue! I also used the page flags from the functional sheet of stickers to make some bunting in the top corner. And there we go! An admittedly, very silly journal spread, that was great fun to make. It's not about anything important or life changing, but it's a fun memory to look at. If you're interested, I also have a process video on this spread which you can watch here, and I also used sticker's from this kit to decorate a week in my personal size planner:

 

I also have a Plan With Me Video on this spread. Thanks so much for reading my first post, I hope you enjoyed it. 

See you all next time! 

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How to use your stickers in a different way

Hello fellow planner nerds! It’s Zinia here today and I’m really excited to join you once again and share some planner tips and tricks.

I’m sure most of you already know that this month we welcomed a brand new subscription in the Brimbles family, the Sticker Club! As the name suggests it’s an amazing collection of stickers you can use in your planners, journals or any other paper crafts. I really loved my April sticker box and all the wonderful sticker sheets it included.

So since the sticker club box is something new, I thought I’d share with you an idea on how to use your stickers in a different way than just sticking them down to decorate your pages. This idea works really great with the emoji stickers that came in most of the April boxes.

We are going to make paper clips out of stickers! As I said it works best for stickers with simple shapes that you can put back to back. 

You are going to need some paper clips, a hot glue gun (or some other strong adhesive) and of course stickers. The process is extremely simple. Just stick one sticker on top of your paper clip, flip it over, add some hot glue and sandwich the glue with another sticker of the same size and shape.

If you want to use a sticker that’s not working good if you flip it, you can punch a small circle and use it to sandwich the glue. This way your paper clips will be single sided but they can still be super adorable.

The emoji stickers look absolutely adorable because their shapes fit nicely. Also the Sea Salt & Paper stickers that were included in the sticker club subscription have some beautiful simple shapes you can use.

For those who didn’t get the sticker subscription, you can make your paper clips out of Anna’s exclusive stickers for this month, the bows that are included in the sheet have exactly the same size and match perfectly. 

You can also do the same thing with page flags. The pencil flags that were included in this month’s boxes are really fun to use. Just make sure to cover the whole area with hot glue to make sure it stays in place and also to reinforce it a bit since it’s just a thin piece of paper and can get damaged if you just use your tape runner. 

Using stickers in my planner

I'm really excited to be sharing today about the new add on you can get with the Brimbles boxes! STICKERS!!! Yep, Anna Brim has gone above and beyond and created a Sticker Club. It costs £10 a month to subscribe and you can sign up in addition to one of her amazing subscription boxes! The sticker club is;

"A monthly sticker subscription. This is not themed but there might be a slight overlap in contents of the regular boxes."

It is a great way to start building up your sticker collection. Here is what I did with mine. I moved into my A5 Coral Carpe Diem Planner and as it had to be practical there's going to be no neat handwriting so the stickers will go a long way to jazz things up. I'm coming out of my comfort zone this week and toying with a few ideas.

Apart from the hydrate bottles and confetti washi, all of the stickers and washi used were from this months sticker club. I used the page flags by Beautiful Planning, for the date of each day. Hydrate stickers I received as happy mail. They are by Crazy Organized.

The the washi and stickers (designed by the creative Anna Brim herself), I used to give my week a colour theme.

Included in the sticker pack were two sheets of black and white tribal themed stickers by Sea Salt and Paper which I've already decided will be the theme for next week.

Finally, as I am currently home schooling my youngest, I used one of the emoji stickers, by Beautiful Planning, as a reward sticker to she how happy I was with her work!

You can see an unboxing (or rather, unpackaging in this case) of the stickers in the video below. Enjoy!

Planner Sticker Haul (Decorative & functional)

I have a planner sticker haul to share with you today, both the decorative sort and the functional (whilst being pretty) sort! Sheree reached out to me and asked me if I would do a review / share the love of her new sticker business and of course, I am not one to turn down an opportunity like that lol! The lovely Julie you have seen on the blog before and I did a swap with her. I sent her some bits and she sent me some stickers. I thought I would combine the two together to make it into a 'Haul' for your viewing pleasure...

If you like what you see, which I am sure you will please do go and check out both of these ladies shops:

Handcrafted by Sheree: https://www.etsy.com/shop/handcraftedbysheree use code MRSBRIMBLES10 for 10% off your purchase, no minimum spend.

Pinkhedgehogpretties: https://www.etsy.com/shop/pinkhedgehogpretties



and if you would prefer to see stills:

Here are the lovely stickers from Sheree, she even made me my own custom logo stickers which just blew me away!

I think this little sampler is something you get with your order, don't quote me on it though! I love the little hashtags, they are so darling!

And just look at the cuteness of this halloween set! Adorbs!

and then from Julie, as well as some others, she sent me these amazing Autumnal ones...

So that is me all sorted!





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