Pet Shop Planner

Today's project is my weekly planner spread with Craftin' Desert Divas.

To complete this adorable layout, I used two digital stamp sets...the Planner Basic Bundle and Pet Shop.

I used patterned paper from my stash and colored all the images with colored pencils.

I printed my digis on sticker paper, colored the "To Do" and "Weekend" stickers using markers and then cut them out using my Scan N Cut.

That's it for me today...until next time~

Pretty Princess Planner Pages

 Today's post with Itsy Bitsy features the Princess and Dragon clear stamp set, Water Color Floral Ballet paper pack and Irregular Dot Stencil in a pretty planner spread.

After gathering my supplies, I started out by using the Irregular Dot stencil with Picked Raspberry Distress Ink to blend the design along the sides, top and bottom of each page in the planner spread.

 I used a fine line black pen to add the headers for my daily "to do" lists.

 I cut the 1. 5" x 2.5" rectangles from 3 of the patterns in the Water Color Ballet paper pack and glued them on in an alternating block pattern.

 I stamped the images using Black Chalk Ink onto white sticker paper and colored them up using Colored Pencils then used my Scan N Cut machine to cut them out. 

I also used polka dotted washi tape in two sizes to accent the page.

Using the "magical" sentiment stamp from the stamp set, I repeatedly stamped it using the Raspberry Distress Ink and then accented it by gluing on several tiny pink sequins from the Pixum Shaker Sprinkles pack.

That's it for me today, but boy did it feel good to take a break from snowy winter designs in my planner for a week, lol! Until next time, happy crafting with Itsy Bitsy~

December Planner Recap

Today's post is a recap of the month of December in my classic/medium size Happy Planner.

This spread used ink blending, stamps, washi tape, diecuts and pattern paper.

This spread used ink blending, stickers, and washi tape.

This spread uses ink blending, digi stamps, washi tape, stickers, punches and pattern paper.

This spread uses stickers, and washi tape.

This spread used ink blending, stamps (clear and digital), washi tape, stickers, diecuts and pattern paper.

I have been having fun spending a little bit of time every week designing a new planner spread and having a pretty way to keep everything in my life neatly organized!

Until next time~

My New Planner + October Recap

Whew -wow -October sure was a whirlwind and I finally have some time to sit down and share my new Classic Happy Planner with you!

This is the one I chose for my main planner this year and I couldn't be more pleased with my selection -it's totally PERFECT for me!!!

I did some personalizing to it -starting with the Rose Gold Classic Deluxe Cover and some Themed cards from the Fresh Floral Pocket Pages MAMBI memory collection. I also then altered some of the monthly dashboard dividers -with the "stay curious" one above, I added the black and white floral from one of the months that I recycled because I was not going to use it.(Because this was an 18 month planner that started with July, but I am not using the months prior to October)

For my monthly spreads, I will be using the retired calendar box die from Sweet Stamp Shop with patterned paper to highlight the birthdays and anniversaries that I need to send cards for. I also plan to decorate the pages using die cuts, patterned paper, stickers, ink and stamps.

Each week I complete a 2 page spread...sometimes I use Happy Planner stickers and cardstock, like below...

...and other times I will make my own stickers using stamps and ink like I did here in this post a few weeks ago.

On this one, I simply combined HP stickers with ink blending.

And on this one, I used patterned paper from my stash with the Happy Planner Weekly Box Punch and stamps from TAC, HP, Sweet Stamp Shop  and SU. Stazon has been my ink of choice for stamping directly on the pages and many other inks work when making stickers and ink blending.

Here you can see some of my supplies assembled while I was working on the pre-planning.

I chose to color my stickers with alcohol markers this time and then shaded them with colored pencils -I find myself doing this alot now that I've discovered how well it works!

Well, that's it for me today. I am loving using my new planner as a creative outlet that allows me to use my extensive collection of retired stamps and also keeps me organized. Until next time~

Planning for a Tropical Get-Away

Hello friends~Kathy here with a little sneak peak and inspiration using a new and upcoming tropical themed clear stamp set from Itsy Bitsy for personalizing your planner/agenda/calendar. Where I live, decorating planners is very popular right now...so I thought I would give it a try...and guess what? I love doing it! Who knew that having a "to do" list could be so much fun, lol?!? Even though we are leaving summer behind here and heading into the cooler weather of the fall season, sometimes we all just need to dream of a relaxing tropical get-away, am I right?

For this project I started with 2 blank planer pages, the new stamp set you can see here, along with paper from the Happy Birthday paper pad, Black Chalk Ink, Green Pearl and Gold Pearl Pigment Inks, thin white card and some washi tapes.

I stamped the images out that I knew I wanted to use in the black and green inks on the thin card and applied the washi tape as borders directly to the pages.

By using the boxes on my planner pages as a guide to trace with permanent marker on a scrap sheet of acetate, I cut my own stencil using a craft knife and then used that stencil to keep my ink blending within the individual rectangles. I used Gold for the middle row and Green for the bottom row. The camera doesn't really capture the beautiful shimmer these inks have because of their Pearl quality, but they are gorgeous in person and blend oh so beautifully!!!

I fussy cut the tropical leaves that I stamped in the Green Pearl and adhered them along the top edge of the page, trimming off the overhang just like you would with a sticker.

I colored the rest of the images using Colored Pencils, but then decided that I needed one more image... so, using a large flat piece of blank red rubber as a mirror image stamp, I stamped and transferred the flamingo image so that is was reversed -that way I had one facing the right and one facing the left. Some of the fine detail gets lost when you do that, but I still like the way it turned out!

Using that same rectangle template from the ink blending step, I traced and cut the patterned paper into the perfect sized rectangle to fill the spaces between my ink blended blocks. Then I glued my stamped, colored and fussy cut out images on top.

I did some ink blending on the left panel, tore a tiny piece of tan paper to act as the sand under the palm tree and glued that on to help ground the image so it didn't look like it was floating. I also stamped and then colored the tiny hibiscus flowers directly on the page in the top squares as bullet points for my organizing my "to-do" list.

The two patterns I chose from the paper pack were perfect for matching with the inks.

And I think the pencil colors blended very nicely to achieve depth and dimension on the hand-made "stickers".

If ya gotta stay organized, why not personalize it and make it pretty all at the same time? Let me know if you try something similar to your daily paper agenda/planner or calendar! Until next time, happy crafting with Itsy Bitsy and be sure to check out all the crafty goodness available both in person or in their webstore online.