Using Stickers and Ephemera for my Planner Spread | Planning with Debbie | #planningcrafters 

[Music] hi guys welcome back to Debbie J’s Crafting Corner it is a Monday so that
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means it is time for another planning video and I am behind
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uh the last week or so has been a little bit hectic for me uh we did
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have a card making class this weekend I kind of did a complete redo of my education site um
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that I just introduced anyway um but I’ve been working on all of that stuff and my camera is just a
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little bit crooked okay so um what I’m gonna do today
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now that I have time I usually release these like at 11 in the morning it is already like four o’clock in the
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afternoon I haven’t done this part yet because I was working on the other stuff um but I’m going to go ahead and
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decorate my layout for last week and for this week and just chat a little bit
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about some of the stuff that’s going on and why you really haven’t seen me much
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so as usual I’m using my sticker planning guide from
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Happy Planner and I’ve got out this is last week with some stuff written in in
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pencil that is completely wrong because I didn’t get to it okay so Monday and Tuesday we’re fine i
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did my plan with me video on Monday and we did the live stream on Tuesday but I did not get to play with the new Open Road stuff. I did not get to play with Happy Dance.
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I only got to play with Paint Your World on the Tuesday night live so if you didn’t see that you would have gotten to
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see all of the new Spellbinders releases um all the stuff that I have anyway and
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we went ahead and made a card using the um paint your world um card class was on
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Saturday and I did not get to play with the celebration stuff on Sunday so isn’t that fun what I was doing instead
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was updating the new EDU website if you haven’t seen that yet I encourage you to
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go ahead and check it out because I think that’s probably one of the reasons that we had a little bit of an issue
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there is just that you know no one had actually seen the site they didn’t know how it worked and didn’t know how to get
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into the classes and all that stuff and I really did try I just I feel like I must not have yet done a good enough job
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um getting all of that stuff coordinated and getting the information to everyone
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so for that reason we had tech difficulties isn’t that fun
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so I think what I’m gonna do for last week is
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I do like these. this pack is watercolor goals and watercolor is
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watercolor, watercolor is pretty so I think I’m going to use some of those for this one and as usual a couple
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of adulting some of my adulting stickers and
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as usual some type of a positive affirmation which I kind of need after
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last week so I only had two video days
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did have one additional video what was the date for that one I don’t remember
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off the top of my head but I know you guys got to see it that was on the 17th awesome that one was when I finally got
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the card kit of the month up okay so at least I did get one
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additional video up last week which that’ll do
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okay so what I think I’m gonna do is I have not used any of these word stickers I think I’m gonna do that this time
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around let’s put some important stickers up under the days that I have things that i
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need to always do which is Monday these are the days that I actually got something done last week anyway for
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video wise anyway I was busy all week so I got stuff done and we’ve got Tuesday for the important
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live stream and then we’ve got Thursday
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and this is there we go this is kind of a matte finish on this side so that side should
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be the one that is up I think that’s just has to do with how they stick and we’ll put that on Thursday and then
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I’ll do another one on Saturday for that all important card class
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next card class is due up on the 16th but in the meantime once I get
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everything caught up I may start working on some actual courses which would be different than the live classes okay so
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now what am I going to add on here [Music]
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here is a good sentiment look on the bright side and I do that regularly I think of it
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like if um something goes wrong that is a perfect opportunity for me to learn from
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it and improve i’m always wanting to improve everything do you like these paint swatches
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these watercolor swatches but i think i’m going to use them for the next week and here are some popsicles
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those are all so cute [Music]
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okay what else do I want to use in here i think i do want to use some kind of a
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something over here i’ve already got blue and yellow so i think maybe you want some pink behind it
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this one looks kind of cool
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so i’ll add that onto the actual underneath that look on the bright side because i think that would look kind of
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cool and do i want to do anything else with boxes boxes boxes
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okay i think that’ll be enough for that one
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and then we’ve got a lot of area that i can kind of fill in with some pretty stuff
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this one also has a lot of boxes that kind of go along here’s some
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flowers there’s some more flowers flowers are always nice some more
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watercolors which means i probably could have got just this one box here one mom sticker book here
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and then a lot of a lot of boxes and i was thinking that this was more of
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a decor one okay so i think what i’m gonna do is take a couple of these
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flowers and put those in there and then i’m gonna call it pretty much done and go on to
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working on this week’s now why i want to do that is i’ve decided that having my planner
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where i’m not really able to
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excuse me having my planner where i don’t really look at it every day is not
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really working for me not from a standpoint of actually using my planner
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so for that reason i am going to switch back to the
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[Music] the other way i was doing it which was getting everything ready ahead of time
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i do need some boxes in there though because this is just too plain i mean i could leave it like that but i can’t do
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that though [Music]
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[Music] now these are some pretty colors
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now there’s different size boxes in this thing um there is actually some that are like full length and i can’t see myself
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using them maybe i should go ahead and give it a try
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i think i want to use this other one i was thinking of using this one which is pink and white but instead i think i’m
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going to use this one and that is for my saturday
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because it kind of would be like nice i think for me to write a little bit more about what happened in the class the
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things that i didn’t like the things that i did like and kind of move forward
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so that would be a good piece for that
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and i like this little sentiment thing here it’s the little things in life
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like that and i think this side needs another affirmation
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[Music]
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[Music] so i have to tell you guys this is
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actually a little bit of a hard process today partially because my i’ve been using
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mostly left brain believe it or not been using a lot of left brain for the last week and that
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was also one of my issues on Saturday I had been so involved in
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the development and fixing and
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improvements all that kind of stuff on the um website
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that my crafty brain kinda forgot how to craft
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do you want to use that one now i think that’s a little bit too much blue i need to bring a little bit more pink in
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and I’ve already got one look on the bright side I almost grabbed this one that says look on the bright side it’s really cool
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just keep on going that’s a good affirmation
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okay this is a simple layout but i’m gonna go ahead and put that down almost forgot need my adulting right
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[Music] i need a lot of small ones to say need coffee [Music]
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and this week my brain was definitely an overthinking mode do
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i think this adulted one will be just enough but i have to have an adulting one on
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every layout right guys
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so that is going to go somewhere on Saturday because that’s what Saturday was definitely right
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okay so let’s go with this and i’m kind of going to lay them out
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and where i had them initially i think actually changed my mind
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i think i want this one here and then i can have my pretty flower
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kind of in with it i like that and then for this let’s see
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and i may add some other boxes later I have actually gone back and decided you know I want to tweak it just
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a little bit more and added a couple of additional things let me erase
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okay i like that okay so that side is done oh no it’s not that side’s almost done
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so i had Monday was important
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and so was Tuesday night live
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okay so that side is done now I can move on to this side and I
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think I’m going to start off with this big piece here
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see if I can lay it down straight this time
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okay that’s gonna have to be good enough
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[Music] okay that looks kind of cool and then i’ve got this important for
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doing the kom kit of the card kit of the month
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i’ll put that in the middle here [Music]
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so at least this is getting my brain a little bit going towards that creativity piece
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now i did do something else extra this morning which I will talk about in just a second but
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that is my very clean and simple beginner layout for last week so now I’m
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going to go on to this week that’s another reason why I didn’t put a lot down is that I want to go ahead and get
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caught up and get this done for this week okay so the plans right now for this
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week today is planning day tomorrow is Livestream day today I also did a um
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little [Music] little live craft and chat kind of thing
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where i did a little live basically did the same kind of format as my class uh partially to test it out
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and then i also did a little mini um zoom session a 30 minute zoom session at the end and all of this is still
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available to anyone who has purchased and or enrolled in my march
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class so even if you didn’t make it to the class on Saturday you still have access i send an email
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out to everyone if you have any kind of problems with it please let me know and we will get you into that and part of
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what that one does is let you know gives you a guided tour as to how everything is supposed to work from beginning to end i did a sample run to
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sign up for a class so you should see how everything is supposed to work but if you don’t check out this class
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the system beforehand it can get a little iffy I guess
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i’ve seen that actually on a couple of other things like even on this at the summit for instance there were folks
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with questions that because they didn’t look at anything until the last minute they didn’t find what they were looking
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for and it did cause them a little bit of grief and i hate that that happens
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but and i hate this i think part of the problem is i think some people didn’t get the emails from me
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i think their spam filter kind of kicked them out so
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because of that um some people may not have made it to my class but it is still available for
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replay i am leaving that up i am not taking it down and i want to make sure that you guys are aware of that
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okay i think what i’m gonna do this time because i haven’t is i think i’m gonna play with some of these tie-dye this
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adulting kit has a bunch of tie-dye you know kind of water colory looking tie-dye stuff in here and
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i think it’s kind of just to balance out all the snarkiness that’s in there so i think i’m going to add some of
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those and instead of doing straight why don’t we
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okay i’m going to do something very different for me i think i’m going to do a little bit of
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a [Music] kind of a scene or card design-ish kind
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of thing [Music]
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see what other colors do I have if I have these are all tags so I’ve got a
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couple more of the longer tags and then i’ve got some of the shorter tags so maybe what i should do
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is put a couple of the shorter tags in the middle and that page is just coming right on
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out so here’s a short tag
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and then i think i’ll come back down on the other side
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and do the same kind of thing and do the same colors but kind of in
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reverse order i’ll probably go in there because of the
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ocd in me and make them all straight again and since these are paper i can still
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write on them if i choose to
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and then i think i’ll leave this last one over here and have it with a
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an affirmation it looks a little interesting
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okay what kind of affirmations do i want to do
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[Music]
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so [Music]
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these are kind of pretty i don’t know there’s some stickers that i have not figured out yet how to use them i mean
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they’re good accents they’re pretty but it’s still it’s like how do i use that in a functional planner because you guys
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know me i am that’s that’s my biggest struggle okay one thing i am putting on here is
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one of my coffee mugs which i need to make myself some gold foil coffee mugs
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i might even have some clear sticker paper but i don’t remember
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if i do i need to get busy and use that okay moving on
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again i can’t make myself i can’t let myself take too long on this i’ve got so much other stuff that i really need to
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do okay i like these flags
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and i’m probably changing my mind completely about how i want to do these
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because i’m kind of wanting to use my big goals
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that’s what i’m gonna go with okay so we’re gonna have goals on one page and then this one says do all the things
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because that is what this week is going to definitely be all about and then i am going to take these guys
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down see if i can find where they went before
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[Music]
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and i may still use some but i’m not going to use all of them in there
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and since i’m never going to get them back exactly where they were there’s no point in even trying to right
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okay [Music]
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so
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[Music]
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so
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so
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[Music]
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and then something i wanted to try except i don’t know that i’ve got the
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right ones oh that’s cute
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okay i think what i’m also going to do is use some of the ephemera from the kit of the month
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that i have not put away yet and use also
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some new to me tombow mono glue stick i’ve never tried this i was one of the winners at the
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card maker success summit and i got some tombow products as my my prize and that came in the mail last few days and i
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have not tried the glue stick out yet so let’s try it out on my planner okay so i
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think i’m going to go ahead and put this stuff down and start decorating with that and then decide on what i want to
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add as my affirmations
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i do have this one that says do all the things
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[Music]
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that is going to be pretty
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okay so it’s been quite a while since I’ve used a glue stick period and one reason i’m willing to do it with
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the ephemera is the ephemera isn’t it’s not chipboard it’s not really thick
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it’s kind of in between my 65 pound and my like 80 pound cardstock
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so i’m thinking that that should it’s not going to bulk it up too badly but because of being too too thick
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okay and this little swag isn’t too huge
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i think i want that one there and i’m trying to go all the way to the
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edges with my little glue stick here and i’m doing it on my um on my glass
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mat so that i don’t you know don’t make anything stick to something that it shouldn’t
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and it’ll clean up really easy okay so that still gives me plenty of room to
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write
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okay so that’s a good start for that page and then for this one let me go ahead
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and start down with the goals
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again if i can get it down straight
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[Music] okay so there we’ve got that little guy
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and i got this and i think i do want to add the bird
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cause that would be cute but do i have anything like a branch or anything for them to sit on because that would be nice too
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i’ve also got these cute little lambs
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okay i don’t see any branches in here but that’s okay
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i think you’ll go just fine right there
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start filling some up at the top i like the corners having something in
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them usually [Music]
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and okay good it’s not completely stuck down yet because i think i want it to be
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overlapping some of this tag sticker okay
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that looks good
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[Music]
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yeah i think that’s where i want those [Music]
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and you probably noticed that number one everything that i’m messing with today pretty much for this next week is pretty
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much paper which means
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which means that i’ll be able to write on top of it if I choose to and I’m also leaving plenty of white
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space for me to write on now why did i say something about that why do i think
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that it’s something that i’m hoping you guys notice that means that i’m my intention
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my intention is to get a bunch of videos out for you guys this week
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got a bunch of stuff to do also um i need to leave make sure i leave plenty of room on friday because
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i because i was so busy i have not been checking my planner or checking to see
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what’s going on and i’ve i’ve got three videos that i was supposed to get
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up for that and i’ve moved one of them to the following week because i don’t think i’ve got time to get two hot
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videos actually yeah two hot videos plus a design team project all done
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by friday for that specific day so that’s what i’m going to be working on first is getting those up because i’ve
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got two hops going on on friday and then i’m going to work on getting a lot of other projects done this week and
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hopefully i will have enough time to get it all done
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plus i’m trying to work in oh forgot my cup of coffee that’s not good but i’m also trying to
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work in getting an exercise as often as possible i’ve gone on a couple bike rides this week i know only two come on
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debbie but i need to up that again but right now i also do not want to um
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i also do not want to to burn myself out like i’ve done in the
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past by doing too much too fast so what my plan is is to keep it to just about
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like every other day do a really short bike ride and for me a short bike ride
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is just three miles and not push myself at least for the next week or so
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and that’s what i did the last couple of times um so i’ve got that but i also want to
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i’m putting that on the sticker paper i mean on the sticker guide first but the reason i want to do that is i want to
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get my legs back used to going for bike rides and then i can start lengthening them a little bit
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not my legs but the bike rides right
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okay grow through what you go through
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and [Music] i know i’m gonna want to do another
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another pretty something
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these watercolor swatches are so pretty i think i want to use this one
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underneath that and then I’m probably going to add another saying somewhere too
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so i want this here [Music]
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and then where do i want that to go through through what you go through
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definitely need some color behind it but not too busy or too dark
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and i need another big affirmation
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[Music]
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[Music] this one’s pretty so i’ll do that it’s your time to shine
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[Music] and then i need one more watercolor swoosh
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[Music]
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and I think I’ll go with this purple
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i know i said that i needed to make sure i left a lot of that space open but i did also say that a lot of it is
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if it is paper so i can always write on it also
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and then my ever ever-present cup of coffee
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okay so that is gonna be it for this week and now i’ve got it nice and
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pretty and places to write and so now i can hopefully
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my plan is to actually use it so let’s go ahead and look back at what i had this was last week’s that i’m going to
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go ahead and fill in some details and such about what i was doing outside of
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crafting and then this one is more full both of them are still that soft spring pasteli
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look and i’m using some of my ephemera for this and i think that those ephemera pieces just accented so well we’ll see
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how um how they hold up over the next week or so but i have a feeling that this is going to be fine for me to use
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while i’ve still got you guys though i do want to share with you all the stuff that i made for the class now during the
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class first off i had done like one sample of each of the cards prior to the class
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but i made the rest of these guys during the class this is the small um
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shaped card so those turned out pretty cute and these are like little notebook note box
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or lunchbox cards and i used some some flowers that were already in my stash from previous projects from this past
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month and of course i’ve got them hidden there we go and then
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this was the sample that i made prior to the class and again this one is also a
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a shaped card this is the one that i made during the class and i did struggle
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a bit on this one first off i think that the my card base which is actually this yellow piece i cut it at an angle i
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didn’t have it folded exactly right so it wasn’t exactly where i wanted i also glued everything together before putting
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my note in and just different things that i wasn’t 100 happy with this so last
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night i got out some other things um one i had forgotten that i had this
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spellbinders sent me some of their brand new glitter
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foam which I haven’t done any die-cutting of foam in quite a while and definitely
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haven’t done any out in a while for embellishments but i went ahead and used that on this one that i made last night
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so i think that turned out pretty cute and while i was doing it i found a trick for getting all of the little bits out
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of an intricate piece like this and today during a
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during the little um craft and chat i guess is what i called it and during the crafting chat i made
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this card i already had a lot of stuff already pre-cut and all of that but i also demonstrated my little trick that i
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found for cutting foam and i think that that turned out awesome so i actually have got two more of this same design
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because after i did it the first time i was like oh my god that worked so well i had to try it again and make sure that it wasn’t just a fluke and it worked
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fine the second time that was last night and then this morning during the crafty chat i had to do it again to make sure
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again that it’s not a fluke and that i could actually demonstrate it and it was super cool so if you um are eligible to
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get that go on over to my edu site and take a look at
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the live stream and craft and chat afterwards that we did this morning so
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this one again is a car it’s a shaped card these are just so so
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super fun and i think these are i tried to make sure that i kept it right about the right sides to fit in a regular a2
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size envelope if you don’t do it the right size to fit in an envelope no worries you can always make an envelope
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right so anyway that is what i did for the class again we have another class coming up in
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april um easter weekend actually and so I’m hoping to see some of you
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guys there in between doing all your fun things with your family for easter and this is
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my layout for the week so you guys have a wonderful week i will see you tomorrow night at 5 30 eastern time for our um
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weekly live stream have no idea what i’m working on yet but it’ll probably be spellbinders because i got so much
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spellbinders stuff i want to play with um so it was probably gonna be something with that um
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i’ve also got some videos coming up this week so be sure to keep an ear out for that you guys have a wonderful week get
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into your planners and remember if I can do this you can too have a great day