My Newest Washi & Tape!! | August 2016

So over the past few months I've accumulated quite a few new tapes. Some are washi, some are glitter and some are plastic. I thought it'd be nice to share them, as some of them are pretty tricky to show when they are all rolled up.

Just a heads up, I will of course share where they are all from. But I'm not sure if all of them are still available, and all of them I purchased in store. I'm going to try and find links to where you can buy them online though! (at the bottom of this blogpost)

A lot of these tapes are from Paperchase, this summer I've had quite a few London trips for various events, but I can't go to London without popping into the flagship store on Tottenham Court road!

The pack of 'Purr Maids' tape was one of the first packs I picked up. This was one of the new collections I got to see when I attended the Back To School blogger event. I immediately fell in love with it and got myself a pack as soon as they were available in store!

My washi tapes are something I don't limit myself from buying. They are small, so a lot of them won't take up a ton of room. They are also something that you can easily gift in happy mail as 'washi samples' etc. So if you get bored of one design, you can always use it up. Unlike a notebook or something, where if you get bored of it you would have to get rid of the whole thing. 

That's my justification anyways hahah!!

These MT thin washi tapes come in packs of three for just £3, and I bought both packs from the Paperchase flagship store in London. Funny enough the normal sized rolls of MT washi are a similar price, and personally I don't feel they are as 'worth it' when I can get three rolls for about the same price (my bargain hunter brain kicks in). These are amazing quality washi tapes though, and I love the different colour combinations you can get. I've also been trying to grow my collection of thin washi tapes, as they do come in very handy when you are bordering things off in a planner, or a journal.

This roll of washi is from Paperchase, I think I got this one in the Manchester flagship store? (if not then it would be the Tottenham Court road store) I am in love with these overlapping washi designs, this one has a mixture of raspberry pink, turquoise, yellow and gold foiled in it! Which have all been my go to summer colours at the moment!

Tapes like this add a lot more interest to a page, without too much effort on your end. Of course you could  rip up lots of different tapes and overlap them, but this tape definitely saves time.

The last tapes I have to share are all from Flying Tiger, I picked up a pack of three washi tapes for £2. They have a lot of really nice packs available at the moment so if you are passing by a Flying Tiger anytime soon, I'd definitely recommend popping in! 

I also picked up a couple of their plastic tapes which they have available at 2 for £1. One has chunk of colour, and the other has simple blue and turquoise stripes.

I managed to find links to a few of them online, but as I said at the start, I did buy all of these in store so I couldn't find links to them all.

Purr Maids Tape Pack

MT Thin Washi - Pack 1

MT Thin Washi - Pack 2

I'm very excited to start using all of these in my projects. The last photo just fills my heart, I love all that colour in one place!!

I hope you are all having a wonderful Sunday!

- Daisy X

Back To School Giveaway! Ft. Flying Tiger [ CLOSED ]

Welcome to my back to school giveaway! It's not really back to school for me, it's been a while since I was at school or college. BUT doing an annual giveaway means I get to experience the fun of going 'back to school' stationery shopping, and three of you lovely people get a nice bundle of stationery. Whether you are at school/college/working, it doesn't matter, this is a giveaway for anyone!

If you have come here from my YouTube video, then you will know what's what. If you haven't then I'll leave the video at the bottom of this blogpost.

But in short I will be giving away a bundle of Flying Tiger stationery to one of you lucky ducks!

The prize bundle includes:

- Pack of decorative paper

- Exercise book

- Ruler

- Pencil case

- Pen pack

- x2 Plastic tapes

- Paper clip pack

- Washi tape pack

All of this will go to one winner. There's two other bundles that can be won over on my YouTube video!

Above is an overview of the prizes, designs and styles will vary, there's no saying you will get the exact bundle above. All bundles will be packed up prior to the giveaway ending and then sent out to the winners at random.

SO if you would like to enter, all you have to do is enter via the Rafflecopter widget below. You can get a maximum of four entries, the only mandatory thing you have to do to enter is to follow me on Bloglovin'.

a Rafflecopter giveaway

Rules

- Giveaway ends on the 23rd of August @ 12am BST (Midnight on the 22nd).

-  If you are under the age of 18 or still living with your parents, please make sure you have their permission to enter, as if you win you will need to provide your address.

- This is an international giveaway.

- There will be two winners on the video, and one winner on my blog.

- Please give me at least 48 hours to pick and announce the winners, I am still very busy and going through hundreds of comments is very time consuming!

- If I see anyone trying to cheat/gain extra entries in anyway at all, they will be automatically disqualified & blacklisted from any future giveaways.

- Winners must get back to me within a week of the giveaway ending, if not they may have to forfeit their prize.

Go and enter over on my video for two more chances to win!

(Please note comments lefts on this blogpost will not count towards any entries. You must comment in the YouTube video comments)

Good luck to everyone who enters!

- Daisy X

Kikki-k Goodies | March 2016

I'm sure a lot of you have already seen the video I did on my new Wellness Planner from Kikki-k. But I wanted to put together a little blogpost sharing not just the planner, but also the other things I got on my trip to Kikki-k a couple of weeks ago.

I've shared them briefly on videos, it's tricky to show details on there though. I bought three things from Kikki-k, the Wellness Planner, a notepad and a pen from their new cat collection!

I did hold back from buying the whole shop, I thought three things wasn't tooo much of a splurge.

Plus I did try to get in the mindset of 'only buy things you know you can use, not just because they are pretty'. So a pen, a notepad and a pretty planner... I got 2 out of 3 with that mindset, I think I did well. If you haven't been to any of the Kikki-k stores in London yet, then definitely go and have a nosey! You can most definitely make a stationery shopping day trip in London as there's stationery shops dotted all over the place.

As I said before the pen I got was from the new cat collection. But not being the biggest cat fan (they are cute and everything but I don't go gah gah for them), I went for something that didn't have cats on. I love the Kikki-k pens, I have a few already! They are very smooth to write with and the perfect size for most planner loops. The design on the barrel was just different trees with pop's of mint and peach dotted about! Simple but fun, my favourite sort of design!

The notepad I bought isn't just a plain old notepad (I have like 10 of those so that would have been silly y'no....), it has beautifully patterned pages!
There's a mixture of lined, gridded and plain paper, but they all have super cute decoration on them. Above is just one of the 20 different designs throughout the notepad (there's 120 pages). The versatility of a notepad like this is what made me buy it. The size of it is brilliant, it's not quite A5, but it's not A6 either .. It's somewhere in between. I know I will for sure be using this for journaling, the pages easily come out so I can use them as background paper (I always prefer using paper rather than card stock in my journals as I don't like to bulk them out too much). They would also be perfect for writing letters on, and you could trim them to go into personal or pocket sized planners.

The planner I got is the Wellness Planner, it's a planner which is based on improving your wellbeing. I've done a whole video flipping through all the inserts, so if you want to know exactly what's inside then make sure to watch that (I'll leave it at the bottom of this blogpost). Like the yellow & pink planners by Kikki-k, this one is also textured. I quite like the textured planners as they tend to not show up scratches or marks as obviously, overall they just feel a lot more durable.

The rings and other metal parts on the planner are light gold! Which is my favourite type of gold. 

The foiling on all the dividers also matches this, which just works so well. The rings on the planner were perfect, and I did get to check them in store before purchasing. This is one of the perks of buying in store, just ask one of the shop assistants if you can open it up and take a look at the rings, they will be fine with it. It's much better checking there, than getting home and finding you have a dodgey set of rings.

I was debating whether to make my own dividers for this planner, but for the first time ever I'm going to have a go at using the dividers it came with. The gold foiling just matches so well with the planner and I feel like it'd be a shame not to use them. As I'm going to be trying out all the inserts, and it'll be totally new ground for me (I've not used any inserts like this before). It just makes sense to keep things simple and stick with what it comes with, then alter as I need to in the future!

One of the things that I wish they did in all the planners, was have an extra 'fun' sticker sheet. All planners come with the tab and banner stickers for you to use. But this one had a really cute sheet of inspirational stickers! It's just a little extra perk to this planner. 

I hope you enjoyed having a closer look at the goodies I picked up in London the other week, when I visited the Kikki-k store!

If you want to see the video I did on the Wellness Planner then you can watch that here:

You can find direct links to all the products here:

Wellness Planner

Pen

Notepad

Let me know if you have any questions!

- Daisy X