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- Hi everyone, it's Amanda.
Welcome back to my channel.
It is time for yet another "Plan With Me" video.
July is here, we're gonna be setting up
our bullet journals for the month,
doing a little organization,
it's gonna be a fun time.
Before we get into it, this week,
I'd like to thank Storyblocks
for sponsoring this video
and supporting my channel as always
and just supporting creativity in general.
If you're ever in need of a high quality
photo, vector, or illustration,
Storyblocks should definitely be your go to.
I'm gonna be talking a little bit more
about Storyblocks and how I incorporate some of the images
into my bullet journal a bit later in the video,
but without further ado, let's get
right into showcasing your recreations,
you can see them all above me.
As usual, I love seeing your recreations,
scrolling through Instagram and my tagged photos
is one of the best parts of my day.
So be sure to send me a recreation,
whether it's this month's spread
or an old month's spread,
I can't wait to see what you guys come up with,
you can send them to me by tagging me on Instagram
in the photo and the caption @amandarachdoodles.
All right, I think we're done for the intro,
so I'm gonna hand you guys off to the voiceover.
This month's theme as highly
requested by you guys is sunflowers.
I thought it'd be perfect for summer time,
sunflowers always make me so happy,
I don't know what it is about them.
Maybe just the fact that they're
always facing towards the sun,
or the bright yellow color, I love it so much.
So I decided to draw this bundle, bunch of sunflowers,
and you know, typically I do one accent color,
but I thought that the leaves and the stems
of the sunflowers are such an important
part of what they are since the stems
always turn towards the sun,
so I thought I would include that as well.
You'll see that I used a bunch of different
yellow markers incorporated into the design.
I'll be sure to leave the exact shades
and markers that I used in the description box
in case you're curious what I used to get this look,
but I thought that the multiple yellows
would make the sunflowers look way more dynamic
and golden and you'll see that I also add in
a darker ocher color to the center
to add a bit of shadow.
And then as I mentioned, I colored in the stems
with this faded green color.
It took me so long to choose the right shade of green
because I wanted it to obviously look green,
but I didn't want it to be too bright
so that I would take away
from the vibrant yellow of the sunflowers.
So I settled on this Tombow Dual Brush Pen, again,
the exact codes are gonna be in the description box.
And then to finish it off,
I added some shadows to the leaves
as well as a thin border all around the page.
Now it's time to fill the other side
of this spread with a collage.
This has become one of my favorite
things to do during my setups,
you guys know I love using Storyblocks to find my images.
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Their member library has over 4,000 photos, vectors,
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I'm gonna leave the link to Storyblocks
in the description box below,
so if you want to learn more and start getting creative,
be sure to check that out.
Anyways, as you can see, I downloaded
a bunch of the images from Storyblocks,
printed them out and I'm gonna cut them
and kind of play with a layout
that I want to do for my collage,
this is always difficult,
but it's really fun to shuffle
things around and cut things up.
It kinda takes me back to my childhood
and reminds me of making collages in school,
maybe that's why I love it.
But I think this collage turned out really well.
The colors really match the cover page
and I think it adds something
a little different to my spread.
Something I love doing is playing with washi tapes
and doodles on top of my collages.
I think it is just an added fun, creative thing
that you can play with with your collages
and it really elevates the collage in my opinion.
Of course, there's no right or wrong way
to collage or doodle in general, so have fun with it.
Turning over the page, we're gonna be making
our monthly calendar layout for July,
and I decided to go back to the floating box layout.
I think the Last time I did this layout, it was April,
and in April, I did it like actual squares.
This time I decided to do rounded squares.
I did kind of mess up on the layout,
I think it's because July started on a Sunday,
so there's that random lone box in the corner,
which is annoying, but if I were to do it again,
I would fix the very last row
so that it only had Monday and Tuesday,
because July actually ends on a Tuesday,
so really I don't need all of those boxes in the last row.
But c'est la vie, can't fix it, we're just
gonna leave it empty and not add numbers to them.
So a couple things happening here,
I added my YouTube growth tracker,
I added the numbers, the title of July,
and then now I'm gonna go in and add a bunch of sunflowers,
like a lot of sunflowers, get used to it,
this month is going to be filled with sunflowers,
but I thought it'd be pretty cute
if these sunflowers were behind the floating boxes,
so you'll see that I draw the stems
kind of in the background.
And I'm also playing with doing some sunflowers
from a side angle, making sure that the stems
are curved in different directions,
even though I know this isn't accurate
because technically sunflowers all turn
towards the same direction, which is the sun.
But I think it just looks better
with the sunflowers are all turning every which way.
And I also add in the leaves later on,
just to add a bit more to it,
and then of course, we're gonna color everything in.
I honestly really enjoyed the coloring process.
Usually I find it tedious to color everything in,
but I think since I used multiple shades of yellow,
it almost was more artistic and ended up looking
a bit painterly and watercolor-y
even though I was using markers.
So I really enjoyed it.
Highly recommend playing around with your markers.
I already know I'm gonna say this a lot
in this video because this has become
one of my favorite themes,
but I really liked the way that this spread turned out.
Next, we're making our mood tracker,
and for this month's mood tracker,
I decided to do one large sunflower.
Every single sunflower petal
is going to represent a different day,
and then as the days go on
I will color it in depending on my mood.
And then in the center of the sunflower,
don't worry guys, I didn't actually draw
all of those circles, I just kinda did like spiral shapes
and scribbled all around the center,
but the reason why I did that is because I wanted to write
mood tracker with my white
uni POSCA paint marker in the center,
just to spice things up a little.
And I decided that it wasn't poppy enough
so I had to outline the letters
and then go over it multiple times.
In the end, you can actually read it,
which is all that I was going for.
I finished it off with a border
as well as a stem and the legend,
which showcases which colors will be what.
Next, we are doing our habit trackers.
You guys know, I've been loving
my individual habit trackers,
I feel like 2018 is the year
of the individual habit trackers for me,
that's been my biggest switch up,
but they are a pain to set up,
but so worth it, I just find
that they work so much better for me.
I did make them in the shape of the calendar
just I'd be able to visually see
what day of the week each number is.
And then if course, gotta add
those sunflowers in in the background.
Again, I played a lot with depth with this spread,
so these sunflowers are, since they're in the background,
I made the stems go behind the trackers.
Depth and size is something I really played with
during this month's set up.
Just because sunflowers are such a fun flower
and the nature of a sunflower field,
there's so many of them,
and some are taller than the others,
and you look far back and you can see sunflowers for miles,
so that's really what I was going for for this spread.
I highlighted the backgrounds of the titles
with my yellow marker just so that
it would stand out a bit more,
and that is it for my habit trackers.
Moving on to my expense tracker,
exactly the same as the past couple of months,
it's just this big chart situation
where it separates it out
by the type of spending and the weeks.
I just like this because it gives me enough space
to write down a couple of my expenses,
the important ones, and it also separates
everything else in a nice, visual chart.
For the header, I did these large sunflowers
as I just mentioned, playing around with size
was something that was really fun for me,
so I thought doing these in the corners
would be really, really cute.
Something that I've been meaning to implement
into my bullet journal for a while now
is a monthly goals page,
so you'll see I (mumbles) the title here.
I did kind of mess up, but I did a little white-out hack,
and then I added some of this cute washi tape on top.
I'm gonna link the washi tape that I used
in the description box below as well
because I think it worked perfectly for this theme.
But yeah, even though I do have my yearly goals
for 2018 at the beginning of my bullet journal,
I thought it would be helpful for me to break things down
by month just because yearly goals
are really big picture thinking
and I like to take things one step at a time,
it helps me to not stress out too much.
I think the monthly goals are a nice attainable way
to slowly make your way up to those yearly goals,
maybe throw in one yearly goal per month,
something like that, come up with a cool system.
I'm also half-making this spread
kind of like a summer bucket list spread as well,
so it's not just like self-help
and self-actualization goals,
it is stupid things like things
I wanna do this summer as well.
I added a couple lines in the center
in case I wanted to possibly separate
my goals out by category or what not.
If not, there's just some random lines on the center.
We'll see how it goes.
Anyways, my next spread is my video planner spread,
it's just a brain dump, brainstorming,
empty journaling page.
Obviously not all of you guys are gonna need
a video planner spread per se,
but you can change this up into anything you might need.
I doodled a couple of sunflower bunches in the corners
of the page and then the border around the outside,
I decided to do in the green color,
so it looks like it is the stem of the sunflowers.
Pretty cute, right?
The rest of the spread is left empty
for me to spew out all of my ideas.
Oh, and I did add a couple random extra pieces
of washi tape on the other corners,
just for fun and also because I became
immediately obsessed with these washi tapes.
And finally, we have made it
to the very first weekly spread of the month.
I decided to go back to my vertical layout,
you'll see I'm drawing a bunch of sunflowers,
and this time I colored in the whole center
and I'm gonna be using my white marker to do the numbers.
This month is a bit more chill
and relaxed for me, thankfully,
so I don't need an exessive amount of planning space
like I did last month where I did
the Dutch doors and all of that.
So I stuck with a classic layout like this
where it was quick and easy for me to set up,
there's a decent amount of planning space,
but nothing too fancy or complicated.
The more I think about it,
this truly is a very typical me spread.
There's some calligraphy going on,
of course, gotta add a drop shadow,
and then some doodles as well as a quote at the bottom,
and the quote that I decided to choose was,
"Keep your face to the sunshine
"and you cannot see the shadow.
"It's what the sunflowers do."
And this was by Helen Keller,
and of course, I just thought it was perfect for this month.
Anyways, here's the final flip through
of my happy summery sunflower-themed
July bullet journal setup,
I hope you guys like it.
You guys have been requesting and suggesting this theme
for quite a while now,
so I really hope I did it justice.
All right, everyone, so that was it for July's
"Plan With Me" and "Bullet Journal Setup,"
I really hope you guys liked this month's theme.
I really liked it and made me feel so summery and happy.
Don't forget to tag me in any of your recreations,
it's just @amandarachdoodles,
and while you're there, why don't you click that Follow?
We do weekly live streams of my weekly setups,
there's a bunch of doodles and sketches and photos,
so more artsy content for you guys to consume.
Huge thanks, again, to this week's sponsor, Storyblocks.
If you want to check them out,
the link is gonna be in the description box below.
But I think we pretty much covered everything,
so keep doodling, and I will talk to you
in my next video, bye everyone.
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