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- Hey everyone, it's Amanda.
Welcome back to my channel.
You guys already know what today's video is,
it's my September "Plan With Me".
I'm gonna be setting up my bullet journal
for the month of September so sit back, relax.
You can grab a snack, you can also set up
your bullet journal and kind of do it
along with me if you want.
But of course, before we get into it,
I love to showcase your guys's recreations
of my bullet journal from last month.
A bunch of the recreations will be above me.
As usual, if you guys wanna send me pictures
of your recreations you can tag me in the photo
on Instagram @amandarachdoodles.
Make sure to tag me in the photo not just the caption
'cause then I can like all of them
and comment on all of them
and share the love with y'all.
You guys always do amazing things
and add your little personal touches
to my bullet journal themes which I love to see.
So keep sending those in
and maybe yours'll be in the next video.
But for September's theme I actually asked you guys
in a poll on Twitter
what theme you guys would wanna see
and you guys chose succulents/cacti
and it was a very, very close race might I add
so I will be doing the other theme next.
But for this month we're just going with succulents.
So I hope you guys enjoy my September "Plan With Me".
Be sure to stick around to the end
because I'm doing a little mini giveaway.
But with no further ado, I'm gonna
hand you guys off to the voice over.
All right, so for my cover page, as you can see,
I decided to go with a cluster of different types
of succulents and this is done from an overhead angle.
There is a bunch of different ways
you can draw succulents and cacti.
You can draw them in pots, you can draw them from the side.
I decided to go for the overhead angle.
I am gonna be playing around
with a bunch of different methods
of drawing cactus throughout the month
with my theme, like playing around
with my weekly spreads and everything.
So you guys will eventually see
me experimenting over my Instagram or what not.
And I will also kind of try to do some mini tutorials
because I know that these can get kind of tricky to draw.
I used my Tombow Dual Brush Pen in the shade 192
to color in the succulents.
This is kind of going to be my accent color
for the duration of this month
and I thought it was a nice faded, earthy green
that resembled succulents very well
and it's not too in your face
which is perfect for me.
I tried to add some blue in as well
because I know that there are different colors of succulents
but then I realized that I didn't like it
so I went only with some subtle touches of the blue
and tried to add in some darker greens as well
to give it a little more depth
because since there is a lot of coloring
I didn't want it to look too, too flat.
At this point I thought it looked a little too busy
for my liking, so I added a thicker black outline
around the main parts of the succulent
and it really just finishes off the cover page
and makes it pop a little better.
Here's where I made a mistake.
I think I just went a little crazy with the coloring
and I decided to color the background of the September green
which I just didn't like how it looked
because the September didn't stand out.
So I had to write September out on som cream paper,
cut it out and then glue it on.
I actually liked how this looked in the very end
because it stands out a lot better
and you can read it more.
So there's a little trick for y'all.
Next up is my monthly log.
Since I am going back to school this month
I decided to go back to my standard calendar layout
just because I will be able to fit in
a ton of different events in each day
and I'll also get to put in my project
and test assignment due dates.
I just like having the larger squares for this.
Just in case you guys are curious,
each of the little squares in the calendar
is six by six dots in the Leuchttrum notebook.
And then in total I have five rows
and of course seven columns.
I put the numbers in the top left corner,
really small so I can maximize the amount of space
I have to write down events
and then for the title I used
my Tombow Dual Brush Pen again.
This time I did the lettering with that brush pen
instead of using the Tombow Fudenosuke Brush Pen.
I still don't know how to pronounce that.
Basically I'm just saying that I have the green lettering
as the heading and I added a black drop shadow.
If you guys watched my "25 Bullet Journal Hand Lettering"
video then you would know that I love
adding drop shadows to my lettering
because it just makes your lettering stand out.
As usual I had to do my YouTube growth tracker
in the bottom left corner.
There was just an empty space
waiting for me to fill it with this.
But if you don't do YouTube you can always
just fill this space with a goal section
or a motivational quote.
And then of course I added the succulents
growing from the corners.
I love the way that this looks.
It kind of frames the calendar really well.
Moving on to my trackers.
For my mood tracker, I'm so excited about this,
I wanted to try out something a little bit different.
I've been seeing a ton of people on Instagram
do their own unique style of trackers.
And I wanted to put my own spin on it
so I made a wheel with 30 sections
because that's how many days there are in September.
I wrote mood tracker in the center, of course
and then basically what is gonna happen
is that on every single day starting from the top
I'm gonna fill it in with a color
that coincides with my mood.
At the bottom I'm gonna be making a legend
that shows me what color means what mood
so like the darker color is more upset
and then the lighter color is more happy.
And then at the end of the month
you'll be able to see the full wheel of your mood.
Hopefully it'll be happier than sad.
But I thought this was a fun way to show your mood tracker
and also add a little bit of creativity into your trackers
because I was getting a little tired of the chart method.
It just looked a little boring to me
so this was my way of spicing things up
so that I can stay motivated
to actually fill in my bullet journal.
You guys know I always preach that.
If you're bored of your bullet journal
or if you're finding it hard to keep up with
then try switching things up.
But yeah, so you can see that I added the succulents
growing from the background of the mood tracker.
They ended up kind of looking like flowers.
Succulents are just very hard to draw.
You have to get them perfectly right
or else they'll look like flowers.
But I still like the way this mood tracker looks
and I'm not gonna start over or anything.
On the other page I did my habit trackers.
For my habit tracker I didn't do anything crazy.
I just did what I normally do which was
kind of the chart graph method where you fill in the box.
So I just drew a line and wrote the numbers all the way down
and then wrote the habits that I wanted to track
down the side of it.
As you will see shortly, I added succulents
coming out from the bottom of the tracker.
I know I drew a lot of the same style of succulents
for this theme and you guys voted on succulents/cacti.
I didn't really draw a lot of cacti
but hopefully I will incorporate those
into my future weekly spreads for this month.
Maybe I'll do a mini "Plan With Me" video
where I set up a spread for the week
and I do actual cactuses, cacti sorry.
But it's just because this theme is kind of broad
and there's a lot of different things that you can do
but I wanted to keep things cohesive for this video.
Moving on to my next tracker which is my expense tracker.
I just have my regular chart layout
but then on the other side I decided to do a budget tracker
which is something that I took from
my "Bullet Journaling For Students" video
if you haven't seen that.
It explains everything about how to use this tracker
but I just did a mini version of that on this page
because the one that I did over on that video
was a double page spread.
But I just wanted to do a single page one
and kind of simplify it.
I still have my different sections.
I have grocery, school, entertainment and miscellaneous
and then I have my ideal spending total budget
over at the top.
And then as you can see, I have outlined
all of the different weeks so I can keep track
of how much I spend on what category.
Finally, we have my weekly spread.
Again, since I'm going back to school,
I know I keep mentioning it but it's fresh in my mind,
the spread layout that I like to do for the week
is a horizontal layout where I have
my events at the top and then my tasks at the bottom.
It gives me a ton of space to write out
all of my to do list tasks as well as my events
and I just find it the most efficient for school,
for me personally.
Again, everything is personal
but really this works so well for me
and I highly recommend it if you're a student
or even if you are just a busy human being in general.
Maybe you're a mom and you wanna plan out
your meals or something.
I'm not a parent so I don't really know what's necessary,
but you guys get what I'm trying to say.
This layout is just very flexible
because you can divide the sections up
into different categories depending on your lifestyle.
Just like my monthly log, I added the succulents
growing from the corners of the spread
in order to frame it and add a little pop of color.
And at the bottom I added a goal section
and a next week section.
So here is the final flip-through
of my bullet journal for September
with the theme of succulents which you guys chose for me.
Hope this lived up to your expectations.
I'll be posting more of my weekly spreads
over on my Instagram.
All right guys, so that's all
for my September "Plan With Me"
and bullet journal set up.
I hope you guys enjoyed.
If you did, you already know what to do.
Give this video a thumbs up
and subscribe down below.
But now for the quick little giveaway
I wanted to just do a little something special,
especially since school is coming up
and I don't know, I wanted to treat y'all a little bit.
So all of the rules will be down
in the description box below
and the prize pack will be a bunch of different supplies
that I personally love.
These are some of my personal favorites.
This video's not sponsored by the way,
this is just some of my favorite products
that I wanted to share with you guys.
So the winner is going to be getting
a bunch of fine liners.
These are the Sakura Pigma Micron Fineliners.
These ones are the felt tip ones
which I used in this video actually.
I love these so much, they're some of my favorites.
And then these are the plastic nib version
which are a little bit more durable.
And we also have some fun funky supplies.
These are the Gelly Roll Moonlight 10 gel pens
and then finally the winner's gonna be getting
some Coy Watercolor Brush Pens.
They're perfect for calligraphy and hand lettering.
So if you want a chance to win
this little mini prize pack,
again all of the details'll be
in the description box below.
It is international, so my international friends
you do not need to worry.
But yeah, I think that's everything.
So I hope you guys have an awesome day
and I will talk to you in my next video, bye guys.
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