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- Hey everyone, it's Amanda, welcome back to my channel.
You guys already know what today's video is.
I've been doing these videos for like 2 1/2 years now
so I feel like we can skip the formalities
and just cut straight to the chase.
But yes, I am doing my August 2019 bullet journal setup.
Even though I'm a little stressed out
that it's August already,
like 2019 just needs to slow its roll a little,
I am excited to sit down and plan a little
and just organize my chaotic brain a little bit.
I feel like my mind has just been
all over the place recently so it's gonna be nice
to sit down and have some planning time,
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Grab your notebooks and pencil case whatever you need
to plan along with me.
And if you're not planning with me
and you're just hanging out, that's totally cool as well.
Let's go.
Oh, I feel like I totally skipped over my new hair.
Some of you guys might not have seen it yet
if you don't follow me on any other social media,
but yes, this is my new hair.
Sorry, it feels a little bit of a shock.
Anyway, now, let's get started.
For this month's theme, when I asked you guys
what you want to see on my YouTube community tab page,
the top suggestion was an '80s retro vibe type of theme
and I thought it was a really fun and unique idea
so that's exactly what I did.
I'm not sure if it's specifically '80s,
maybe a little bit of early '90s thrown in there as well
but for the design, I took a lot of inspiration
from the Memphis style design, which has been seen in a ton
of different '90s and '80s TV shows,
I'm sure you guys know the exact aesthetic
that I'm talking about.
I feel like this aesthetic and design
is just synonymous with that era.
The style of hand lettering that I decided to go for
for the cover page is a bit more angular
and handwritten than I would normally do.
It's not necessarily like a cursive.
And actually, my brush pen was running out of ink
as I was writing this but it worked out perfectly
because it gave it this dry brush sort of look
which was actually used very frequently
in a lot of the fonts and the designs for this time period.
So I really like the way this turned out.
And, oh, now you're gonna see me doodling
a bunch of different '80s, '90s type of things.
I did wanna focus more so on like the music aspect
which is why you see me doodling like cassette tapes
and headphones and LPs, but I also threw in
a couple other fun things like four-wheeled rollerblades
and Rubik's cubes and like those hand phones
that have the coil wire on it
which I just always imagined like '80s and '90s movies
with with like the girl on the phone, I don't know.
That's just what I think of.
For the accent colors, you're gonna see me
using four colors and I've noticed that these colors
are used a lot in this style of design.
It's typically a yellow, a teal, pink, and purple
so that's exactly what I did.
The markers that I used were actually
mostly Zebra Mildliners.
The only one that wasn't was the pink one
which was a Crayola Supertips, but as usual,
I'm going to link all of the supplies and the markers
that I use in description box below
so if you're ever curious, be sure to check that out.
But I used that to create
all of the various geometric shapes
like the triangles and the rectangles,
and even some zigzags and random wavy lines
all around the background of the doodles
and I also used them to color in the doodles as well.
And then, to tie everything in together,
I think this is what really makes it look complete,
I used my black marker to add in
some final geometric shapes, as well as some drop shadows.
Yes guys, the drop shadows are back for this month.
I know it's been a long month.
Last month, I didn't really do that many,
but this month, we're bringing them back.
On the other side of this spread,
I did a quote page that says, "Stay rad".
I just kinda looked up '80s sayings
and this one was one of the top ones.
Don't necessarily use this in my everyday life
but maybe I will start saying this more.
But anyways, another thing that I noticed
about this sort of aesthetic and design
is that they use a lot of this grid pattern
so you'll see me drawing that a lot in the background
and I also happened to have washi tape
that had this exact grid pattern on it
so I used this on the quote page.
I finished off the spread
with some smaller scattered shapes and wavy lines
and that was it for that spread.
I really, really loved the way that
that cover page turned out, I think it's so fun.
But now onto my monthly calendar layout.
For the actual calendar grid,
I decided to play off of that grid pattern that I mentioned
was used very frequently in this style of design
so you'll see that I left the edges
of the calendar unfinished like the lines
kinda go off of the border,
just so that it mimics that sort of grid pattern
and then I used geometric shapes for the background
of the numbers as well as the background of the actual days.
For the lettering style of the days of the week,
I used this skinny all caps font,
but I also scattered the letters
so that they weren't all on the same line.
You'll see that I do some letters higher and lower
than others and it gives it that sort of quirky feel
that really matches the aesthetic.
On the left side of the spread,
I did my usual YouTube growth tracker and monthly goals,
little section box thing.
To finish off the spread, I filled in all the blank spaces
with the washi tape and the various shapes and patterns
that I used in my cover page as well,
and honestly there's really no pattern at all to this.
I was doing completely random shapes
and that's kind of the beauty of this.
It's a really easy theme to do.
I think you can't really mess it up.
Some of the shapes I added drop shadows to,
some of them I didn't, and I think the more random,
honestly, the better 'cause that's exactly what
the design style looks like.
Okay, so for my trackers,
I decided to do a really fun header style.
The lettering that I did
is this angular block letter type of thing
that I've noticed was used a lot in '80s and '90s TV shows
and I actually outlined it in my fine liner
and then included patterns within the letters,
and again, drop shadows as well.
I think I was really, really missing
the drop shadows last month so I did go a little crazy
with the drop shadows this month,
but are we really surprised?
But anyway, yes, on the inside of the letters,
I did various patterns, I did some dots,
some confetti shapes, stripes, and also this signature '90s,
I like to call it like confetti macaroni style.
There's like wavy lines and curved lines inside it.
You see this a lot in the '90s, '80s type of design.
I decided to do the same unfinished grid style calendar
that I did in my big monthly calendar layout
for these mini habit tracker calendars.
I made sure to sketch out the shape
of the August calendar beforehand.
And then I just drew the grid lines,
and you don't have to worry about making sure
that the lines all hit perfectly
because the whole point is for it to go off the edge
and to look like a grid.
For the actual headers, I used the same geometric shapes
and wrote with my thick black fineliner on top.
Actually, that's something I wanted to note
for this entire theme.
I actually used a thicker fineliner
for all of the doodles than I normally would.
Typically, I use like a 0.3 fineliner but for this month,
I used 0.5 and 0.8 a lot.
And that just adds to the whole bold graphic feel
that I noticed a lot of this style has
and the thicker outlines
definitely make things pop a lot more.
Oh, and in the background of, you just saw me doing this,
but in the background and the empty spaces,
I added the macaroni confetti that I mentioned earlier
in all black and I really think that that adds
and ties the whole spread together,
and I did the same thing for my mood tracker header.
So, the same geometric, angular lettering
with the patterns on the inside of the letters
and the drop shadows.
For the actual tracker,
I drew out 31 different geometric shapes.
I did triangles, circles, rectangles, zigzags,
and I overlapped them and stuff,
but these are the shapes that I'm going to color in
to track my mood so I've numbered them off,
and then at the very bottom I have a legend
that tells you what color signifies what mood,
and then throughout the month,
I'm gonna be coloring it in depending on how I feel.
So I'm very excited to see how
this all turns out at the end.
I'm sure it's going to be very colorful.
Hopefully, it's very colorful
because that means that my mood was good.
Oh yes, gotta add the drop shadows, of course,
and also the black macaroni confetti in the empty spaces.
I need to find a better term for this.
It's definitely not called macaroni confetti.
Maybe just confetti.
So those were my trackers for the month,
I think they turned out great.
But now, moving on to the next spread
which is my playlist music spread.
I know I do this every single month
but I knew I had to do one specifically for this month
because even though the theme was '80s,
I did want it to be heard of like '80s music,
'80s TV shows and stuff so the playlist spread
was essential for sure.
For the header, I drew out this big cassette tape
and then on the label of the cassette tape,
I wrote out playlist,
and then I have the actual tape running all around
as a border of this spread,
and I think it turned out so cute.
I colored in the actual cassette tape as well,
and added patterns around it and inside the patterns.
And then within this border,
this is where I've written out my playlist.
So for this month, I've actually chosen songs
that really give me that nostalgic vibe.
They're not necessarily only from the '80s or the '90s,
there are some recent songs but even the recent songs
have a sort of '80s sort of vibe or '90s vibe
and it just gives me a lot of nostalgia.
So some of the highlights of this playlist
includes some Elton John, Prince,
gotta go with the classics.
We have some Blondie, "Come on Eileen"
which is like my favorite bop to hype me up.
And, yeah, I mean, I'm going to link
an actual Spotify playlist,
I'll add these all into one playlist
so you can check it out and listen to it,
and I'll link it down below but '80s songs,
I love so, so much they pump me up.
I don't know what it is about this era in music
but it's so fun, like, Abba, how can you not dance to Abba?
We also have Destiny's Child which is more '90s,
Mariah Carey, again, '90s.
Anyway, in general, all you have to know
is that there are some bops on this playlist
and usually, I would only choose like nine,
but for this theme I had to go all out
because I just love this era of music.
So yes, I listed them all out
and I used the geometric shapes as the bullet points
and I think this spread turned out super fun.
Next to it, we have my brain dump page.
I wanted the header to match the playlist spread
so I did the same geometric shapes
with drop shadows and the patterns on the inside,
and the spread is just empty,
it's just place for me to spew out
whatever's going on in my brain.
Typically, I'll just write out like either shopping lists
or video ideas for that specific month.
Oh, I also added the grid washi tape.
All right, so we've made it to the final spread
for this video which is my first weekly spread of August.
I already know that there are gonna be
so many fun weekly spreads.
I can't wait to do them
on livestream with you guys on Instagram.
Just 'cause this theme is so versatile,
there's so many possibilities.
So as you can see, I did try something
a little bit different for this month.
I did a vertical layout spread,
but the actual boxes are geometric and not rectangular,
and they're also scattered like some are higher
and some are lower.
And then I used the same shapes as the background
for the numbers of the day,
I used that handwritten, sort of angular type of font
for the days of the week.
And for every single day, I assigned a color.
So that's the drop shadow that you see
and the shapes around it are the same color.
To complete this '80s/'90s weekly spread,
I, of course, you guessed it added the grid washi tape
as well as the block geometric shapes and drop shadows.
I really do think that adding the block shapes
and drop shadows at the end are the key
to this whole thing working.
It really does make it pop.
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of my bullet journal setup,
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All right everyone, here is the final flip through
of my '80s/'90s retro style bullet journal setup for August.
I am obsessed with this theme.
I think it turned out so well and I definitely had
a lot of fun making it so I hope you guys do as well.
So that just about wraps up this month plan with me video.
I hope you enjoyed August's bullet journal setup.
But now, for my favorite part of the video,
the part where I get to showcase
some of your recreations from last month, which was July.
You guys killed it.
I always love seeing your recreations,
so as usual, if you do recreate any of my spreads,
whether it be for this month or previous month,
feel free to tag me on Instagram,
make sure you tag me in the caption and in the actual photo
so I can see them.
You can also use our hashtag, #littledoodles.
You guys are the best, the little doodles fam
always comes through.
I can't wait to see what you guys come up with this month.
I'm sure the recreations are gonna be amazing as usual.
So yes, @amandarachlee on Instagram.
We have a fun time there.
I also do weekly live streams of the rest
of my weekly spreads over there.
I think that's just about everything so be sure to click
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if you don't wanna miss any video from me and keep doodling.
I'll talk to you guys in the next one, bye everyone.
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