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- Hey everyone, it's Amanda.
Welcome back to my channel.
So May is coming to a close and June
is right around the corner, so it's time
to set up our June bullet journal.
June Plan with Me's are particularly my favorite
because it's my birthday month.
So we're gonna have to find a way
to make this one really good.
I'd like to thank today's sponsor, Audible.
Anyone who knows me knows that I love
to listen to audiobooks and podcasts,
especially while I'm bullet journaling or drawing.
It can be such a great thing to throw on
and listen to and kind of keep you company.
I get through so many audiobooks while I'm drawing.
It's awesome.
Currently, I'm actually listening to "Sapiens"
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But anyways, now for my personal favorite part
of these vidoes, the part where I get to
showcase your recreations of last month's
journal spread, which was May.
I've been loving seeing all of them on Instagram.
You can see a bunch of them above me right now.
So if you do recreate any of my spreads,
this month's or any previous months,
be sure to tag me on Instagram @AmandaRachDoodles
and tag me in both the caption and the actual photo
because then I can see all of them and like them
and comment on them and stuff.
So I can't wait to see what you guys
come up with this month.
But anyways, I think that's pretty much it for the intro,
so I'm gonna pass you off to the voiceover.
All right, so for this month's theme,
I decided to go with a travel
around the world wanderlust theme.
I actually did put up a poll over on the Community tab page
of my channel and I asked you guys
to vote for which theme you wanted to see me do.
And this theme won by an overwhelming majority.
And I'm actually really glad you guys chose this theme
for me this month because I am going to be traveling
near the end of this month.
I'm going to VidCon in LA, which I'm super excited about.
And I also know that a lot of you guys
might have some future travel plans for the summer.
So I thought that doing this now would help you guys out
and hopefully give you some inspiration
for any travel-themed spreads
that you might want to do later on.
In terms of the cover page, as you can see,
I did a bunch of travel doodles.
We have suitcases, Polaroid pictures, planes.
And the accent color I chose for this month,
or colors, actually, are these two brown shades.
And I thought it made it look almost sepia-toned
and very vintage and nostalgic,
which I thought worked perfectly.
On the spread next to it, I have this little quote page
that says, "Adventure awaits you,"
which I thought was such a nice quote
to start off the summer with all of the adventures to come.
And I drew this little minivan that's off
and ready for a roadtrip.
Next up, of course we have my monthly calendar layout.
And I went back to an older layout.
I actually think I did this in both February and March.
I just really like it.
If you're curious about the grid spacing,
I think each day was five wide and seven tall.
For the font this month, I decided to go with something
a bit different than what I normally do.
I usually do like calligraphy cursive style.
But for this month, I thought my theme was a little quirky
and fun, so I went with this all caps lettering.
And I actually still use the Tombow Fudenosuke brush pen.
By the way, I'll have everything that I used
linked down in the description box, as usual,
in case you're curious about the colors
and the pens that I use.
Another thing I like about this layout
is it gives me a lot of space on the left hand side
in order to do some doodles
and to put my YouTube growth tracker.
So I'm just drawing a globe at the bottom,
and then the plane that is flying off from the globe.
And then in between the space there, that's where
I'm putting my YouTube growth tracker, as normal.
I feel like actually I think
the YouTube growth tracker is the thing
that has never changed in my bullet journal
for like the past two years almost.
So that's kind of a fun little fact there.
I'm just coloring in all the doodles
with the two brown shades.
If you'll notice, I'm actually not coloring in
any of the doodles fully.
I'm leaving a lot of space white just because I liked
that simple, minimal style.
For my mood trackers, and actually my trackers in general,
I thought that this theme was so much
and I just had to play around with it.
So I actually drew 30 little postcards.
And that's gonna be how I track my mood.
I did sketch them out with pencil beforehand
just because there was a lot of layering
and I wanted to make sure that there was enough space.
But essentially, each postcard is going to represent a day
and the color that I fill it in will represent
the mood that I was in that day.
In order to make them look like postcards,
make sure you put the little stamps
in each of the corners.
I just did a circle with three wavy lines
to make it look like it's being shipped off somewhere.
And you can also put the address lines.
But this is just kind of
a simplified version of a postcard.
At the bottom of the page, you're gonna see me draw
the legend, where I depict what colors
are gonna represent what mood.
I made sure I wait 'til the fineliner dried,
erased all the pencil marks, and oh,
I did a little test to show you guys
what it would look like once one was colored in.
For my habit trackers on the other page,
I decided to do each individual habit as a Polaroid picture.
So you'll see I'm drawing nine here,
and then within the actual picture part of the Polaroid
is a grid that has 30 spaces.
And basically, whenever I do whatever habit I'm tracking,
I'll fill in one of those boxes.
These individual habit trackers have been
one of my favorite bullet journal discoveries of 2018,
just because I keep up with it better
and I find it easier to have a nice overview
of what I've done this month.
They are a little tedious and annoying to set up,
just because there's a lot of numbers to write,
a lot of grids to create.
But in the end, I find that it's worth it.
So I labeled each Polaroid picture
with the habit that I wanted to track,
and then filled in those numbers.
Oh, I also added a little doodle
just 'cause I thought it was looking a little empty.
But yeah, just trucking along,
finishing all of those numbers.
If I were to do this spread again,
I might have changed the angle of the Polaroids a bit,
maybe made them a bit slanted and off kilter,
just to make them look a bit more Polaroidy
'cause I do think it ended up looking almost like a phone.
But anyways, I still like the way it turned out.
Next up we have my expense tracker.
And I actually did the exact same layout as last month
because I really enjoyed it and I found
it worked really well for me.
And as I explained last month, I have this chart
sectioned off by week and also by category of spending.
So I have house expenses, restaurants,
groceries, social, extra.
And then week to week, I will write down how much I spend
for each of those categories.
And it just gives me a nice overview
of what I'm spending my money on.
So as I mentioned, I'm going to be traveling
and going to LA and VidCon,
so I needed a packing list.
And this is actually one of my favorite
spreads from this month because I thought
it turned out so cute.
I doodled a bunch of these suitcases
laid out on the page and made sure
there was enough surface area for me to write in.
And essentially, each of these suitcases
is gonna represent a different category in my packing list.
So I have one for clothes and shoes, one for technology,
one for beauty stuff, one for essentials.
And then I'll just write whatever list
inside the suitcase.
So I'm actually so excited to fill this out
'cause I just love the way it turned out.
If you are traveling a lot this summer,
it can actually be really helpful to have
sort of this master packing list in your bullet journal
because every time you go to pack,
you can just refer to this same list
and not have to rewrite out a list every single time,
unless of course there's different things
you need to bring for each trip,
like if there's different weather circumstances.
So the next couple of pages are also dedicated
to my travel plans this month.
I'm making this itinerary for when I leave for LA.
So I have my departure and arrival flight information.
And I'm gonna put any other information that I need,
as well, right there, and that way I can just refer to it.
And then underneath it, I actually left a section
for Vidcon, and this is where I'm gonna write down
any scheduling stuff I have or any reminders.
By the way, if any of you guys
are going to VidCon, let me know.
I am so excited to hopefully meet a couple of you.
I don't know what to expect.
It's gonna be my first VidCon ever.
But I'm really excited.
The page next to it is my Things to Check Out
While I'm in LA page.
Basically, I asked you guys on Instagram
if you had any suggestions for stuff
that I should check out while I'm in LA.
And I got so many responses that I just knew I had to make
a separate page to write all of them down
instead of just saving them in screenshots.
So I'm excited to go through all of the Dms
and hopefully find some fun things to do in LA.
Next up, we have my Video Planner spread.
This is kind of like a brain dump page.
So it's just completely empty.
But I did add the doodles of the globes and the planes
and the suitcases at the bottom corner, just for fun
'cause I thought it was cute.
I actually had so much fun with this theme, guys.
I highly recommend it.
The final spread you're gonna see me make after this one
is the Weekly Spread for the first week of June.
And if you've been following me on Instagram
and seeing some of the pictures I've been posting
of my bullet journal, then you might have seen
that I tried out something called a Dutch door
earlier in May, and it immediately became
one of my favorite things.
I just love the functionality of it and how it looks.
Basically, you just cut a page in half
in between your spread, and this acts as a little flap
that you're able to use.
It's gonna be so hard to explain,
but you can kind of see what I made here.
On the left side, I have this side bar
with the little monthly overview, as well as some doodles.
And then on the right side, I actually did my weekly spread.
Now the reason for this Dutch door
is that it actually gives you more space for planning.
So I'm able to split these columns up in half for each day.
Things have been a little crazy and hectic in my life
right now because of all the travel plans
and I'm actually moving out soon, as well.
So having this extra planning space in my weekly spreads
has been a blessing.
So if you guys are looking for more planning space like me,
try out a Dutch door, see how it works for you.
I definitely did not come up with this idea.
I saw it a bunch on Instagram.
But I thought it was the coolest thing.
And I actually did save that little scrap of paper
that I cut off in case I made any mistakes in the future
and I want to use it to patch over any of that.
But anyways, here's the final flip through
of my June 2018 bullet journal setup with our travel
around the world wanderlust theme.
I actually really really love the way
that this set up turned out, and this whole theme.
And I also like the little extra travel-themed spreads
that I threw in there.
So hopefully you guys enjoyed that, as well.
All right everyone, so that was my June Plan with Me
and bullet journal setup.
I hope you guys liked this month's theme and the spreads.
I can't wait to see all of your recreations
and what you guys come up with.
Be sure to tag me @AmandaRachDoodles
in any of your recreations on Instagram.
And also while you're there, stick around.
We have a fun time.
I post a lot of my bullet journal spreads
throughout the month there, and I also
do weekly Sunday live streams
where I set up my weekly spread.
So I can't wait to see you guys there.
I think that's pretty much it for this video.
So I'm gonna sign off now.
Shout out to any of my fellow June babies out there.
And yeah, so I'll talk to you guys in my next video.
Bye everyone.
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