Hello there! Today I’m sharing how I customized a plain notebook with 4 tabbed sections to keep track of all of my lists! I am a list maker- to the extreme. I love making lists for everything but I have a habit of misplacing them. I’ve tried using a regular notebook to keep all of the lists together but they would get so chaotic and long term lists would get lost amongst shopping lists and daily to-dos so I decided to organize my lists!

Here's a look at the supplies I grabbed:

I’m using a full size notebook, scissors, paper trimmer, 1/8 inch hole punch, adhesive runner, and from PopFizzPaper I pulled tab stickers, washi, pens, and patterned paper.

I wanted to make sure this notebook would hold up to long-term use and travel in my purse when necessary so I didn’t want the tabs sticking out farther than the cover. Luckily all I had to do was cut off about a half inch of the paper. This was super quick with a paper trimmer.

I already knew what sections I wanted- Grocery, To Do, Packing, and Projects. You could print out the text or use alpha stickers but I wasn’t too concerned about it so I wrote mine out with a pen.

 Before I attached the tabs I wanted to reinforce the pages they were going to be on to ensure they wouldn’t accidentally rip out over time. Using my adhesive runner I glued two pages together. I washi’d over the perforated “easy tear” line of the paper on the front and back. And finally I took a strip of patterned paper and glued it along the edge to make it sturdier as I grab for the tab. Then I simply placed the tab on top of that.

Technically I could have stopped there but as I always say- I had to add some embellishment! I pulled out the metallic gold vellum sheet from the PopFizzPaper Planner Kit as well as the info card (to use the beautiful pattern on the back), quote stickers, hole punch, and the adhesive runner.

I’m sure by now most, if not all of you, have seen a tutorial about how to make your own removable cover, coil clip, or insert for a coil bound planner (or in this case notebook). You just use something from the planner as a template, mark your holes, punch, and then cut a slit into each hole. I wanted to use the metallic gold sheet as a fly leaf in the very front of the notebook so I placed it underneath the open cover and marked the holes with a pen to ensure my punches were straight.

Finally, on the inside cover I glued the info card down, embellished with glitter washi, and glued in a small stack of sticky notes in case I ever want to take away a smaller version of a list I have made in the book. And with that I was done!

The day I put this together I used it to make my shopping list and it worked out perfectly to bring with me to the store and be able to quickly find the list I needed. I love making lists and I love even more that my lists will stay organized in this notebook. Plus, it’s adorable and looks reminiscent of a planner! You could totally use this same method for a bullet journal style planner! I hope you enjoyed this little tutorial! Happy list-making!

Hello everyone!  It’s Jennifer here, and today I’d like to share a fun, quick, and easy birthday calendar insert I made for my Happy Planner!  I prefer to use checklist flag stickers instead of the full box checklists on my weekly spreads, so I love finding creative ways to use up my sticker stash!  I had a perpetual calendar from Erin Condren that I used to list important birthdays and anniversaries, but I didn’t like it very much because I didn’t have a ton of birthdays to list.  Every month I had to remember where I put the thing, and most of it looked pretty blank.  So I thought this would be a perfect use for my extra full box checklist stickers!

For this project, I used: 

• Happy Planner sized full box checklist stickers left over from the Rio kit, the Daydreams and Ice Creams kit, and the Harbor Dreams kit. 
• January thru June Monthly Header Stickers (DA20-1)
• July thru December Monthly Header Stickers (DA20-2)
• Cardstock
• Happy Planner Punch
• Washi 

First, I cut down my cardstock to fit my Happy Planner, or approximately 9 ¼ x 7 inches, and punched it with the Happy Planner punch.  Next, I put down my full box stickers, 6 on each side of the page.  I could have gone with colors that matched my cardstock better, but I thought it would be fun to try and pick colored checklists that went along with each month:  icy blue for January; pink for February; shamrock green for March; etc. 

Don’t forget to label your boxes! These monthly header labels are perfect for this project, plus you’ll have plenty left over for other things!  As a finishing touch, I added some confetti and “celebrate” washi from my stash to make things a little more festive. 

Now all you have to do is fill out the calendar!  I was able to transfer all of my important birthdays and anniversaries from my perpetual calendar to my insert, so now I’ll always have the information with me!

What is your favorite unconventional sticker use?  I’d love to see! Tag me on Instagram @paprikaplans or share it on our Popfizzpaper Fans Facebook group! Happy planning, everyone!

PopFizzPaper was one of the first orders that I ever placed and I have been obsessed with PopFizzPaper stickers ever since. In this blog, I am going to be showing you all my Top 5 PopFizzPaper stickers! This was actually not that hard even though I love all of the PFP stickers 4 out of the 5 I will be showing you have been my absolute favorites since my first order that included #1-4. And, here they are my top 5….

1. Social Media Tear Drops – Instagram

2. Footballs

3. Bill Dues- candy color and brights are my favorites

4. Small Birthday Circles

5. Appointment Labels- Brights and Neutrals

I wanted to show you up close how I use my favorites. My number 6 favorite would definitely be the half boxes because I like the way these icons look inside of the boxes. I usually stick a Happy Birthday inside of a half box or on the left side of an appointment label just so I can be able to write down whose birthday it is. Same thing with the football stickers I stick them on the left side of a half box and right in the game and time.

Appointment labels I like to use them at the bottom of my checklists for anything important and I’ve been using them a lot to keep track of my blog schedule on my monthly calender it just gives the calander a more cleaner and organized look. By usuing a sticker it just makes preplanning in my monthly calender a little easier because I can just remove the sticker and replace it with a new appointment label. If you're a student like me try using the appointment labels for scheduling due dates for assignments or even upcoming quizzes and tests.

Here is a before the pen using the Midnight Galaxy kit and my top 5 favorites. You can see I have a birthday and football stickers both in half boxes, Instagram tear drop icons for the days I plan to post photos on Instagram, there is an appointment label which I plan to use for what assignment I have due for that day, and there is also a bill due because this week was the week of the 1^st and rent is always due on the 1^st for me. That’s it these are my top 5 and how I use them!

What are your Top 5 PopFizzPaper stickers? We want see yours so make sure you share with us in the PopFizzPaper Fans Facebook group and you tag @popfizzpaper on Instragram with the hashtag #Top5PFPFaves

When I first started as part of the Pop Fizz Paper creative team I had to choose the type of planner I would get my stickers for. I currently use an Erin Condren Vertical Life Planner so all of my stickers are in that style.

When I got my Erin Condren Teacher Planner to use for this school year I wanted to figure out how to use stickers in the planner. I sat down with my leftovers from my pop fizz Midnight Galaxy kit. To explain how I used my stickers I need to explain how I teach. I work in a high school where we have 8 periods. We only have 4 periods on mondays and wednesdays and 4 periods on tuesday and thursday. I teach 3 class periods on each day so that Is all I need to plan for.

The stickers that fit the best in the planner were the checklist flags, labels, flag labels and icons. The full box checklists were a little long and narrow but they were used when I only needed to mark on box. I turned the full boxes on their side and positioned them in the the middle to take up blank space. I luckily had a day this coming week where I could decorate using quotes and deco stickers.

The great thing about using leftovers was that I just used what I absolutely needed. This was by no means a no white space spread and I am not sure you could accomplish that because these planners are so big. The best part about using the stickers though was that it made me want to work in my planner more and note more things. Even the minimal spread that I did really motivated me more as a teacher.

I used the checklist flags for my teaching days to list out my agenda for the day. I used full box checklists for the things I needed to get done during my conference periods and then I used appointment flags and half boxes for big items and meetings. Over all I absolutely love using the leftovers from the kit for my teacher planner and I can see myself doing it more often.

What else do you use your stickers for?

Hello everyone I have a fun little project here for you of how I decorate the month overview page in my Happy Planner. I feel like with the Happy Planner I have finally found planner peace, and it's disc bound. I love how easy it is to add things to it and how quick it is to expand the ring size (for a crazy period I had Dec 2015 - Dec 2017 in one planner)! But my favourite thing is the month overview pages, where I can record birthdays, important dates and a snapshot of what is happening in my life overall!

The only thing is I find them a bit boring at times and not always the look I want. Especially in September as it is my Birthday Month! Also it's a bit Pink for me, so I pulled out my Tombow water soluble crayons and painted over the currently section in blues and greens to match the gemstone papers I'm going to use.

After that was done I ran some of the glitter washi from the add on kit along the left side edge for some pzazz. Not the washi was a bit wider than I wanted so I just trimmed it roughly down the middle with my paper trimmer. The top calendar section I find redundant and the dark blue was a bit much so I covered it up with a strip of the large white gem outline paper which I just loooooooove!

One thing I knew was that the sticky notes from the September kit would look GORGEOUS in place of the standard birthday box and Important dates lines. The sticky notes were about half an inch too wide so I carefully trimmed off a quarter of an inch from both sides and the required amount from the bottom each of which were different. Using my favourite Tombow mono permanent tape runner I secured both stickey notes in place. 

Next to tidy it up some I used the other piece of glitter washi to separate the two halves and ground those sticky notes. Doesn't it just sparkle so heavenly! Finally my absolute favourite gem washi along the bottom to hide the American holidays that don't apply to me. I love how simple and stunning this washi is. 

Now I just need a few final touches to finish the look off, like holographic stickers. Creative Team member Jennifer got me the Me And My Big Ideas, Holographic sticker sheet for my birthday and I love it so two quote stickers were the first things to go down and then from there I use these tiny Holographic stars in the top left corner of each section .

It didn't really feel finished and then I remembered the glitter enamel stars from April kit! Something was bothering me about the top left of the page and in general the left side of the banner. It needed something. Out cam my 2 inch circle punch and the blue on blue gem pattern paper, ct that sucker in half an BAM on she went. I'm not sure why that was needed but it was. 

All I need to do now is fill it out! I was easily able to do the birthdays and important dates. When it cam to the Currently section, there were a few things I knew I could put down easily but the rest will have to be filled out as the month happens. If you are a Happy Planner do you decorate these pages? If so I would love to see how feel free to tag me @brooklynne_michelle or @popfizzpaper ! 

Hello everyone!  It’s Jennifer here, and I wanted to share with you some of the ways I like to use sticky notes in my planner.  Of course, sticky notes are great for pre-planning your activities in your planner until you’re ready to decorate.  Did you know that they’re also really great décor elements?  This week, I’ll be using the September Popfizzpaper kit to decorate both my Happy Planner and my personal planner.  The personal planner inserts I use are the Sew Much Crafting vertical week on 2 pages.  Grab your tape runner or glue stick and let’s get started!

First, I will walk you through the sticky notes I used for the week in my Happy Planner.  Did you know that the width of the sticky notes included with the Popfizzpaper kits are almost exactly the same size as the width of two Happy Planner boxes?  Here, I used two sheets of sticky notes to cover up the part of the Saturday and Sunday boxes. 

Two sheets placed next to each other like this cover up about two and a quarter full boxes for each day.  This gives the effect of having double box stickers on your weekend!  Don’t you just love the gems and the blue watercolor background? 

This week, I layered my usual washi strip weekend banner and the kit weekend banner over the sticky notes.  This gives your planner a very polished look.  I also trimmed down a sticky note to cover up the monthly calendar in the top left of the spread.

These sticky notes will look great in personal planner spreads too!  First, I got my super sharp craft scissors and fussy cut the gem banner out of one sheet to use as a weekend banner!  Isn’t that adorable?!  I was able to get a couple of blue watercolor half boxes out of that same sheet too.  I also made a couple of full boxes: one with the gems at the top, and one with the gems at the side.  The one with the gems at the side will look so cute paired with some of the weekly kit dot stickers to make a checklist! 

Popfizzpaper sticky notes pair perfectly with the monthly box kit weekly sticker sets!  I’m so excited that they’re a permanent addition to the monthly boxes now!  What is your favorite way to use sticky notes in your planner?  I’d love to see!  Please tag me on Instagram @paprikaplans or post in our Popfizzpaper Fans Facebook group!