hey friends elizabeth here from plant based bride back again with another video and today
i'm setting up my bullet journal with a betta fish theme for june today's video is kindly sponsored
by skillshare i'll talk about them at the end of the video but for now let's hop into getting this
setup done so this is actually the final month i'm going to be able to fit in my current bullet
journal i'll be setting up a brand new bullet journal for the second half of the year for july
so because this is the final setup in this bullet journal i had a couple fewer pages than i actually
needed for this setup so you'll see a little later in this video that i modified my weekly spread
for the final two weeks of june so that i could fit every spread into this bullet journal and
i used right up to the very final page that white end paper that's in every notebook and i actually
took an extra piece of note paper from one of my archer and olive notepads and glued it onto
that final end paper because i needed that final page so i'm really cutting it close in this bullet
journal i used every possible page available when i was thinking about what theme i wanted to
do for june i had a couple different ideas but i kept coming back to wanting to do some sort
of an underwater or fish related theme and as i started to narrow in on that more i kept thinking
about these two betta fish that i had as a kid and i thought i would create a theme inspired by them
because i was quite devastated when they passed so for the setup i'm going to start by doing all
of the inking on all of my spreads using my secure micron pen to do all of those lines and then once
all of that is dry i'm gonna go back in and add color starting with the cover page on the left
i just wanted to create some artwork inspired by my two betta fish staring at each other intensely
through the glass of their aquarium so that is kind of what this artwork on the left is meant
to represent although i tried to give more of a loving vibe than the actual vibe that they had
which was much more aggressive in reality i'm also cutting out the tabs for my weeklies at this point
i am using my faux dutch door rolling weekly as i always do for the first three weeks of
june and then for the final two weeks of june i'm doing a two-page weekly spread as i said
because i did not have enough pages so you'll see my solution to that later on in the video
i wanted to share some quick facts about betta fish with you all the first fact is that betta
is in fact pronounced betta i always thought they were betta fish but i was incorrect betta fish are
native to asia where they live in the shallow water of marshes ponds and slow-moving streams
male bettas are devoted fathers who build bubble nests for their young
with their mouths and fiercely protect their babies from predators
just like humans betta fish are diurnal meaning that they're active during the day and sleep
at night the average lifespan for a betta is approximately two to four years in captivity
although some betta fish have lived as long as nine years when cared for in ideal conditions
once i finished cutting out all the tabs i flipped back to my cover page and my calendar and started
working on that calendar spread so here i wanted to separate my benafish and have them in the
upper and lower corners sort of encircling my monthly calendar and around the fish i wanted
to have some bubbles and sparkles just to give a bit of a whimsical magical vibe betta fish are
extremely territorial and will attack each other quite easily though there is a phenomenon where
female beta fish can live together in what's known as a sorority with four to five or more females
relatively peacefully bettas in general are very independent and don't travel in schools bettas
are primarily carnivores feeding on insects on the surface of the water in the wild betta fish
have very tiny sharp teeth unfortunately betta fish are often mistreated both through breeding
farms and pet shops but also through fighting competitions which are completely unethical
for the header on my calendar page i'm using a bit more of an intricate font
the font that i'm creating is heavily inspired by the font mint soda which i found online and
i did my best to recreate that font using my ruler and my circle template
there are over 70 different species of betta fish betta fish have a variety of tail shapes including
veil tail crown tail delta tail half moon double tail comb tail rose tail spade and more
this is partially why i tried to create different looking tails for the different betta fish that i
drew throughout this setup betta fish tend to be very colorful and the colors indicate their health
generally the brighter and richer their color the healthier they are if you have a favorite type of
fish let me know what it is in the comments and if you enjoyed the better facts make sure to leave a
fish emoji down there in the comment section for the calendar itself i'm keeping it very simple
just some horizontal lines to indicate the weeks minimalist and practical flipping the page to the
first weekly here i decided to add a little more detail into my weeklies this time around i started
that trend last month and you all seemed to enjoy seeing weeklies with a little more design going on
so i thought i'd challenge myself to try something a little different this month i created rectangles
to outline each day of the week whereas usually i keep things pretty open and plain and added some
bubbles and sparkles all around i also used this font inspired by mint soda again just for
a little more visual impact if you're unfamiliar with the rolling weekly i'll link my video where
i go into great detail explaining how to set it up and how i use it so you can check that out
once i finished with my weeklies i flipped to the final spread of this setup where i wanted to have
a quote page on the left and a final piece of art on the right and for my quote this month i decided
to go with and like the waves i will fall i will rise using that same mint soda inspired font
moving on to the final page of this setup which is going to be as i said a little art piece
i am drawing a single betta fish on this page and you might notice that each spread where i've drawn
these fish i've tried to give them a little bit of variation in how they look because betta fish
can vary so much in their appearance especially in the huge number of color variations they can have
but i really wanted on this final piece of art for the betta fish's tail
to really have a lot of movement like it's flowing through the water
while betta fish can come in so many different color combinations i decided to do my usual thing
which is sticking to a very narrow color scheme so that everything feels cohesive my initial plan was
to paint these betta fish in the original colors of the fish that i had in real life one was mostly
red with some purple and the other was blue but because this is a june set up and i'm often drawn
in the summertime to warmer tones peaches and oranges and yellows i really wanted to stick in
that family so i decided to use a single color of winsor newton gouache raw sienna as a base and mix
it with different amounts of zinc white to create different tones of orange and peach and to really
stick to that single color so that everything felt as i said very cohesive you could of course
do this with any color because betta fish really do come in pretty much every color you could do
green blue purple pink red there are so many options i also decided to fill in the lettering
as per usual i'm painting the tabs on my weeklies and this time i'm painting them in a nice soft
gradient from a very very light peach all the way through to the pure raw sienna and
for my final tab i'm mixing the raw sienna with a little bit of brown to get an even darker shade
do
here you can see a preview of my solution for the two page weekly spreads trying something
very outside of my usual comfort zone but sticking of course still with a rolling weekly
with my weekly task list i couldn't function without it so it has to stay no matter what
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and now let's look at that final flip through of my june setup i'm really happy with how
my june setup looks now that i'm all finished i'm especially a big fan of how my weeklies
turned out though i will admit they took me quite a bit longer than usual to finish so i might not
be able to do this level of intricacy in my weekly designs every single month but i'm super excited
to start using them and this is just a general tip i know a lot of us have been struggling with
burnout in different areas of our lives especially creative areas in the last couple years and one of
the biggest things that's helping me not get burnt out on my bullet journal specifically
is trying different things shifting things experimenting and challenging myself so that i
don't get stuck in a rut of doing exactly the same thing over and over again that's not to say you
have to completely throw out what works for you and do something completely new you can see that
i tend to stick with very similar layouts i always use my rolling weekly spreads but even using your
tried and true spreads there are things you can do to make things exciting and different so that's it
for this video i hope you enjoyed seeing my final setup in this current bullet journal i'll have to
do a flip through soon with all of my finished spreads and keep an eye out for my new setup in
my next bullet journal for the second half of 2022 thank you as always to my patrons for your support
if you at home want to join the squad and get some printables of this month's setup 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 and i'll see you really soon in my next one bye friends you