hey friends elizabeth here from plant based bride back again with another video and today i'm
setting up my husband's bullet journal for march with a 70s inspired theme this was a bit of a
throwback well it's a literal throwback to the 70s but it's also a throwback because the first time i
ever made a bullet journal for my husband years ago now i set it up with a 70s inspired theme
so i feel like i'm going back to my roots and it's lots of fun so for this setup i'm using
three colors of acrylographs and a black pen and that's it really simple not very many supplies
of course if you don't have acrylographs at home you could use any paint pen you could
use actual paint you could use markers or colored pencils whatever you have on hand
and the color palette here is a really nice and simple warm color palette of peach yellow and
orange so the cover page is really the big design piece of the setup it's sort of the wow factor
and the other spreads are a little more simple so this cover page took me quite a while to do
but with some editing magic i've made this video a lot shorter more compact for those of you at home
so for the cover page i decided to start with the lettering itself
and i wanted the letters to be peach with an orange outline so i'm starting with the peach
and i've sketched out my pattern for this spread as well as the letters ahead of time and then
i erased any extraneous pencil marks so that i would just have the lines that i was following
since this is quite a busy pattern and i didn't want to get confused and fill in the wrong spot
even though the nice thing about acrylographs and one of the reasons i chose them is that they are
opaque and they layer on top of each other really well so if you do make a mistake when you're using
an acrylic graft it's actually really easy to wait for them to dry and then just go over them
with another color even a lighter color and it's really not an issue at all which very much helps
with something as complicated as this so as you can see on the right i have march and on the left
for my quote and i'm doing air quotes when i say quote because it's not really a quote but for
my saying for the spread i chose can you dig it because it just feels like a very 70s thing to say
i almost put groovy instead but i decided against it at first i was thinking of just
starting from the top center and working my way down and out cycling through my colors
but i ended up deciding it would actually probably be easier to work one color at a time
especially when i realized that this was going to take me a while and i was going
to want to use some editing magic to speed this up so while i started with that yellow
in the top center i switched back to my peach and decided to do all of the peach areas first
so as you can see as i start to fill in these areas this is a very
loose wiggly sort of psychedelic pattern
inspired by some 70s art prints that i found on pinterest and in the end the peach is going
to almost look like the background of the pattern with the yellow and orange on top
once i finished filling in all of the sections that i designated to be peach sections i moved
over to orange so i grabbed my orange acrylograph and again thanks to some editing magic i quickly
filled in those orange stripes and then i did the exact same thing with my yellow acrylic graph
i am so happy with how this pattern turned out but oh my goodness it took so long and my hand
oh no my hand was cramping so bad it's a few days later and my hand still hurts so
just beware take it slow if you're trying this at home once the whole pattern was dry i went
in with my orange acrylic graph to outline the lettering just to make it nice and bold and clean
once that first spread was finished i flipped over to the next one to create the monthly calendar i'm
keeping this super simple a two-page monthly calendar and for the calendar itself i'm just
using a secure micron the zero five size nib just very simple and using the zero one nib to write
in all the numbers i considered using acrylographs to make the calendar itself but i feel like in the
past when i've done this i ended up not really liking the final result for whatever reason
i prefer when the calendar is black even if the rest of the pattern has no black in it whatsoever
maybe that's just a me thing you can let me know in the comments if you felt the same
but i did want to bring in that 70s inspired pattern into the spread as well while keeping
it a lot more minimal so for this spread i just added a little touch a little taste
a flavor of the 70s with one stripe of each color in the top left hand corner and the
bottom right hand corner and then of course the march header and that same 70s inspired font
and then also adding the little headers for the days of the week sunday through saturday
in that same font although i decided to just do them in peach and not do an outline
just so that they wouldn't stand out too much and pull the focus from the main header
flipping over to the final spread which is just the first page of my husband's
notes pages where he takes notes as the name would imply
and again using that good old editing magic to do this really quick for you
so that is the setup completely finished i hope you liked this one it was really fun to go back
and do something 70s inspired again i love this color palette just so good my husband and
i share love of 70s aesthetics and he was really excited about this he was wowed by the cover page
so i was really excited to give him something that he enjoyed and something
pretty different from what he made for himself last month in his bullet journal if you missed his
setup last month definitely check it out i will link it in the card and in the description box
he set up his own bullet journal last month for the first time ever and he did such a good job
it looked amazing so definitely check that out if you missed it and of course check out my setup
in my bullet journal if you haven't seen that yet my setup is a little simpler this month but still
has my signature style and a little bit of gold in there it's very fresh and spring inspired so
check that one out if you missed it before i go i want to take a quick second to thank my patrons
for their support extra special thanks to our newest patrons andrea ivy nina stephanie reelin
lana liz benty helene and catherine welcome all of you to the squad we are so excited to have you
if you at home want to join the squad feel free there's a link in the card and in the description
box down below and with that i'm gonna get going thank you so much for watching this video
leave an orange or yellow or peach emoji in the comments if you made it all the way to the end
so i know you're a real one and i'll see you really soon in my next one bye friends