hey guys welcome to planning with crystal so today's unboxing is a paper gang and this is for
june 2021 it's a uk based stationery subscription but you can get it in other parts of the world
you just have to pay extra for your shipping so it retails at 14 pounds a month here in the uk
and that includes your uk shipping and you can actually get four pounds off your first box
using my link under the video so in today's video we are going to unbox the whole june box and i'm
going to tell you a little bit more about this subscription so essentially it is run by odia
and if you haven't checked out their website they do the most amazing stunning stationery
really great quality and this is the cheapest way of getting some of their products because
value-wise these boxes are always really really good so also everything in the box is generally
exclusive to the box so what happens is they think up an idea for the box they get an illustrator who
designs everything inside that month's box every four boxes that they sell they'll plant a tree
and you get a full box of stationery every month so it's just a lovely lovely idea so this little
leaflet here will tell us everything that's inside but i'm gonna like i said unbox it and
share everything with you right now first of all it tells us these are the designers
this month so this paper here you can reuse it in a journal or a diary or what have you
or there is actually a qr code and you can use it for like some origami
so it says happy birthday i don't know how they knew it actually was my birthday this month i am
a june baby so these are little rubber stamps there's happy birthday it's got this little
bird and then it's got this leaf and then they include a blue ink pad here so it says three
rubber stamps in three different designs with a blue ink pad and then we get three gel pens three
high quality gel pens with three different designs and ink colors and we will do a swatch of the pens
and of those stamps in just a minute but this is what they look like looks like we've got
blue pink and like a turquoisey green then we've got some sticker sheets so you get two of that
design and then two of this design these are actually washi sticker sheets so they're a much
kind of thinner sticker than some of the stickers have included before good thing is these will
tend to peel off if you were to put them on a piece of paper and need to peel them off
they should come off a little easier with them being made from washi so it just says
four washi sticker sheets four sticker sheets in two different designs i see so they've actually
included four blank greetings cards and i guess the reason for that is paper gang on the back
i guess the reason is so you can use your new stamps and stickers on there and then they also
include four super cute envelopes to go with that so they've all got this little window
on the front for you right in the address and the pattern is continued on the back and then they've
embossed it with paper gang and that's the same for each of the four envelopes here this month
particularly love this one with the birds and then finally we get this little notepad so this
is described as an a5 notepad and it's 85 sheets printed on sustainably sourced paper
with these lines on i actually have one right next to me from a previous box i use these an
awful lot they're just super handy to have on your desk and i love that they always follow that same
theme so we're gonna have a quick look in this month's booklet and then we're gonna
swatch everything so this is what we find inside this month's little leaflet so it's got a little
bit of a q a asking the designers like how they come up with the designs how they do it and stuff
then on the inside here it's got a little bit of information here about how you can use your
new stamps and what you can do with it so yeah you can just obviously do whatever you like you could
even include a sheet of the stickers to like gift to somebody sending them to so there's all kinds
of different options it's kind of everything you need there to send somebody a little bit of happy
mail and then here there's some information about the origami you just scan the qr code it tells you
how to do that there's 10 off barry's cactus club but actually i have a link that i think saves you
five pounds so if you watch one of my unboxings of that i explain a lot more about that particular
option and then there's also this little list here of everything that's included in your pack
so this one's theme is colorful tropics so let's get on and swatch these stamps and pens hope you
don't mind i'm going to use some scrap paper to test everything out so this is actually a
friend's calendar that i have when i peeled off that day on the calendar i save them and use them
for like taking notes and stuff so let's swatch everything so first of all the blue gel ink pen
so the ink is kind of not the best it's sort of skipping a little bit i don't know if you can
see that it's not giving the super clear kind of writing but hopefully that will just improve
the more that you do it it might just be because they are brand new that is the blue
and then this kind of green one this one's got a little bit of something on the nail box
that's a bit better they are super vibrant colors
though so i do appreciate that and i'm sure they will probably improve the more that we use them
now to the stamps so like i said we've got a little ink pad here in
blue might as well start off with happy birthday
that's not too bad i've got a little bit of a smudge there but
that's probably more to do with me than the stamps themselves
the bird
and the leaf not too bad at all so it doesn't actually tell me what kind of ink is in the ink
pad but i have just cleaned these stamps you could probably see that's why there's a bit of
water on them and it did rinse off really easily so i'm going to say it's probably a washable
link because it hasn't stained anything it has just come off really really easily
so here is a quick recap of everything that came in the june 2021 colorful tropics paper gang box
so we've got the a5 notepad 85 sheets on sustainably sourced paper
the four blank greetings cards with the four funky envelopes in four different designs
three rubber stamps with the blue ink pad the three gel pens and the four wish washi sticker
sheets as i said i'll drop my link under the video if you do want to get that discount on your first
box let me know in the comments what do you think of this month's selection i'm happy i just i think
they nail it every month do such a good job of this box i absolutely love when it arrives let me
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