Brimbles Sticker Club, August 2017!

I'm back with my August Brimbles Sticker Club! 

This month's theme was 'Cats in Bloom' which is a pretty unique theme, but Anna has pulled it off really well. I'm loving the pastel pink & turquoise combination!

There's a mixture of Anna's characters (this time they are cats). Then there's some planner themed stickers, some beautiful watercolour florals, and some alphabet stickers! I love the contrast between the delicate watercolours and the black and white sharpness of the cats. 

This is the 'planner' style sticker sheet, but like I always say, they are more versatile than you might think. You can definitely use them in journaling, or scrapbooking. The tick box page flags are great if you are documenting lists, or just using as they are as decorative page flags with dots on. You shouldn't always take a craft supply as it comes.

Here are Anna's adorable cats! I love that she uses as much of the spare space on the sheet as possible when she creates these stickers. Who's going to say no to more stickers?! Plus having varying sizes definitely comes in handy. I think my favourite little cat is the one with a heart on it's tum.

Alphabet stickers! YES PLEASE! I love me some alphabet stickers. I love than Anna has decided to go with three different colours on this sheet! So you can completely mix and match with them. Also the numbers are going to come in so handy, the fact that they go up to 30 instead of just being 0-9 is great!

Then the last sheet is this one! Watercolour heaven! How pretty are these designs,?! I'm loving the little hearts filling in some of the gaps on the sheet. Also those little paint streaks will be great for banners at the top of a page, or layering together with some washi on the corner of a photo. I like that they aren't just straight too, it's something a little different.

So that's the August Brimbles Sticker Club pack! If you want to subscribe, you can do so here.

Also don't forget to check out the rest of Anna's shop here!

- Daisy X

*Please note, even though these stickers were sent to me free of charge, this does not sway my views and opinions. I will always share my honest views on the product and company.

February Discagenda Planner Spread!

I've not shared much from my Discagenda yet, but I thought I may as well share one of my February spreads today! I used a lot of the things that came in my February Brimbles Box, along with a few of my favourites that I use every week.

A little run down of what my Discagenda is used for, because I don't use it every day. I use this planner one a week on a Sunday to pretty much gather my thoughts and plans for the week ahead. More than anything it makes me sit at my desk, and wind down at the end of the week. I mark out important dates for the week ahead, write things I want to aim to do on certain days, and pop some weekly goals at the side. I then transfer most things across into my bullet journal planner as that's my functional planner. This is purely for me to enjoy sticking down stickers, and creating a pretty spread, plus I've found that it most definitely helps me to gather my thoughts.

I used the check list stickers on one of the sticker sheets in the February Brimbles Box to mark down some things I needed to remember to take with me to my trip to Nottingham. I found that these stickers work best when you write on them with a permanent marker of some kind. Plain gel ink pens just don't cut it. That's not a massive inconvenience for me though, I always have some sort of marker sitting on my desk!

I used quite a few of these little love bug stickers on this spread, they are so sweet! I combined the pink heart/lace style washi tape that came in the Brimbles box, with some brown squiggle washi tape. Then I added a popcorn sticker and the 'Date Night' sticker to mark a bit of chill time with Jack. He works in hospitality, so his shifts usually mean the closest we come to a date night is collapsing on a sofa with a film and stuffing our faces with popcorn. I'm totally fine with this being our version of a 'Date Night' though haha!

If you would like to find out more about how I decorated the rest of the planner spread, then go and check out the rest of this blogpost on the Mrs Brimbles Blog, just click here!

So that's how my planning spread turned out, I definitely love using things that correspond with one another in this planner! The Brimbles box is brilliant for this!

- Daisy X

Travelling Notebook Page Decoration!

I spent so much of my time at the end of 2016 sorting things out with the house, I didn't have a chance to fully appreciate my Brimbles Boxes during those months. So this month I decided to dig everything out and just go to town with my Brimbles Box goodies!

Today I'm sharing a page spread I created, in a travelling notebook! This is someone else's travelling notebook, and about 4 or 5 people had already contributed to it. I chose to decorate two pages in this notebook as the owner had let the contributors choose how many pages they wanted to do.

I dug out my October Brimbles box, a few bits from my Brimbles Advent Calendar and also some things from the January box.

The October box was very autumnal themed, so there was plenty of orange popping up! I decided to go with this as the main colour, and then choose things to work with that. 

I used some of the orange washi tape and placed it randomly on the two pages. I used this floral jar sticky note from the Advent box to stamp one of the positive phrase stamps on to (from the January box). I tend to use decorative sticky notes, more like ephemera, than I do as sticky notes.

I used one of the marble sticky notes from the January box, along with a red circle spotted die cut from the October ephemera pack behind the stamped sticky note.

Once I'd arranged and stuck all these down I popped some enamel dots around the place, and stamped an arrow from the same clear stamp set in the January box, across my layered ephemera.

If you would like to find out more about how I decorated the opposite page, then go and check out the rest of this blogpost on the Mrs Brimbles Blog, just click here!

Be sure to take a nosey at the Travelling Mail Facebook group here. 

I hope this helped to show you how you can incorporate all your boxes together, no matter what time of the year it is!

- Daisy X

Stationery Advent Goodies! [ Week Two]

Week two brought many surprises yet again!! There was a massive variety of stuff, I love not knowing what I'm going to unwrap next. One day it's owl stickers, the next it's elephant pegs?!

The above photo is an overview of all of the goodies I got from both my advent calendars (Mrs Brimbles & Advent swap).

In the Mrs Brimbles Advent I got a couple of owl related goodies! There was a sticker sheet and a pencil sharpener. I'm planning to use the owl stickers in my journals, I use stickers like this to represent things like when I've had a late night, or if I've stayed up super late working, the phrase 'night owl' comes to mind. So decorating the day with owls would make sense.

There was also this minion pen (AHH MA GADDD) and pineapple washi tape! I have the washi tape in my shop, but I never kept one for myself because I had to limit myself to how many of the foil tapes I could keep from the stock. So it's really nice to have one I can actually keep and use myself!!

These stamps were from the Advent swap I received. I've seen these before in a set from Wilkos, I'm pretty sure I never got the set because I didn't think I'd use all of the stamps in the set. But this 'Hey!' and speech bubble were two of the stamps in the set I did actually like! Perfect to use on snailmail.

These stickers were very different, I've not seen them before but they are a very pretty font! I wasn't so sure on the colour, green is one of my least favourite colours and I do rarely use it (Ironic right, with the name 'MyGreenCow' lol), BUT I can always colour the letters, I could paint them, or use a permanent ink pad on them to make them black. Which is a colour I definitely use more often!

So yes that's week two of my advent goodies!!

Roll on week three! :D

- Daisy X