Today I'm bringing you a simple little DIY/hack using half box stickers. My particular decorating style often leaves me with spares, so I have been looking for ideas on how to use them.

As I was sitting down doing my journaling in the journal I made a few blog back for my recent vacation. That's when my brain wave hit I could use half boxes as tabs marking when the individual days start. 

I decided to stick with the donut theme of the journal and grabbed my donut half boxes. It was really simple then to just put the edge of the half box on the edge of the first page I was marking and then folding it carefully in half. 

I used my ultra fine Sharpie to mark the day and date of the month. Simple enough and repeated it for the final three days. And it was all sweet.

I love the tabs and the way they look and how the coordinated together. I think it would also look cute to use the flag stickers to make tabs with also.

 What ideas do you have with your left over half boxes.

If you’re like me and like to use every piece from the PFP planner kit, I have a project for you. I am going to show you how to repurpose your information card into an adorable donut (or even Valentine’s Day) greeting card. If you don’t have the information card, or already used it, the regular paper from the kit works just fine too.

Let’s get started with our supply list. You will need:

— 1 cardstock piece measuring at 8 x 6 (folded in half to 4 x 6)
— your information card (I cut mine down to 3.5 x 5.5 with a 2.5 x 3 window cut out. I used my silhouette but I kept it a rectangle so that it could be easily done with an xacto knife or scissors
— a piece of acetate or even a plastic sleeve cut into a 3 x 3.5 square
— confetti, sequins, sprinkles, seed beads, whatever you want to put into your shaker
— some foam tape or squares
— washi, ink and sticker decorations optional

The first thing I did was glue my acetate to my window piece. I used the tombow mono liquid aqua glue because it made it easier to be able to move it around before it dried (side note, it would have been easier to ink the card before I did this part but forgot because I was too excited for sprinkles).



Because I like to ink the sides of things to give them more dimension, I inked the outside of the card as well as the inside of the frame with a purple ink (this was included with the October PFP planner kit). It didn’t dry very fast so it did get ink everywhere but it just gave it more character.

To make sure that the little shaker bits actually shake, you have to add dimension to the card. For that, I used the tombow foam tape. You can also use foam squares. For the outside of the window, I cut the tape in half to make it thinner and then put thicker strips at the bottom. Make sure that the square part is really tight though so that whatever you’re shaking in there doesn’t fall out.

 

I gathered everything I wanted to put into the shaker part into one area of the actual card. I included the sequins from the rosie_plans extra in the February kit, sequins from my personal stash and even real sprinkles. Once I have collected those, I put the top piece over it, just to make sure they will fit. Then turn it around and press firmly to secure the shakers in the window.

I decorated the front by layering some glitter washi (all from the popfizzpaper store), donut stickers, a “the sweet life” sticker and some rhinestones to add some bling.

Add a little note inside, stick it in an envelope and send it (or hand it) to your favorite person!

Today I am going to teach you all how I created a donut themed pocket letter using mainly the supplies that came in the February PopFizzPaper planner kit! 

1. Cardstock or craft paper (in this case I used the paper that came in the planner kit)
2. 9 slot baseball card holder 
3. Stickers (again I'm using the ones that came in the kit)
4. Washi tape (the purple one is from the kit and the rest are ones I thought would match)
5. Sequins 
6. Rhinestones (also from the kit)
7. Tape runner 
8. Any extra ephemera or embellishments you may want to use.

Next thing I did was draw out the size I wanted the papers to be and I measured it out with my ruler. 2.5 inches wide by 3.5 inches tall. It might be a little hard to see on the sprinkle paper, but in person I could see it just fine. After that I placed my paper on my paper trimmer and cut all of the sheets down to size.

I decided to hang onto the scraps in case I wanted to use them in the pocket letter. Next comes the hard part. Choosing which papers you want to go in what pocket. These are the ones I picked and how I decided to lay them out. 

Here is how the first pocket came out looking. I added a piece of scrap paper and cut the ends to make it look like a flag. Then I added a heart sticker from the sticker sheet that came in the kit to the corner. I also added some alpha letters to label what I was putting in that pocket.

This next pocket turned out to be one of my favorites! I did the same thing as the last one for the scrap piece but this time I only cut one end. Then I added a donut sticker on top of the flag. At the top of the card I added layers of washi tape and cut all of the ends into flag shapes. Then I took a scrap piece of a sticky note and cut it to look like a flag so I could layer some alpha letters on top and you would still be able to read it.

This next pocket I kept fairly simple with the giant sticker.  I just added a small bit of washi and cut it into a flag shape. I also added more alpha letters to label what this pocket would hold. 

I experimented with ink for this pocket. I tore off this donut checklist from a sticky note pad and inked the frayed edges so it would stand out against the background. I also layered some washi underneath to help make it stand out from the pink background. Then I added a sticker to the side that says donuts.

This next pocket I kept really simple. I just added rhinestones to the outside of the pocket inside in the donut holes of the paper. I love the paper that came in this kit so much so I thought it deserved to really stand out! Here is what it looks like inside the pocket. 

For the center pocket I made it a shaker pocket! All I did was stick the paper I wanted inside and then added sequins on top of the paper. After that I sealed it with a strip of washi tape. 

I continued the trend with this pocket by adding a scrap piece and cutting it to look like a flag. As well as the heart sticker and alpha letters. I also layered some washi tape on the side and cut them to look like flags.

For this pocket I took a long piece of the scrap paper and put it horizontally across the paper and stapled the ends to the original paper. I then cut out a circle on a sticky note pad and inked the edges. Then I adhered it to the strip of scrap paper with my adhesive roller.  And finally added some alpha letters to spell out tags.

The last pocket follows along with most of the others. Scrap paper on the bottom cut into a flag shape, heart sticker, and alpha letters for labeling. As for the sticker, it's from the sticker sheet that came with the kit. It was very large so I cut it in half and placed them crookedly on the card to make it look unique. I also added some sequins to the top left corner and added rhinestones in the center of the sequins. 

And this is what the final product ended up looking like! I really love it and I hope the recipient does as well. The PopFizzPaper planner kit had so many items to make this that I hardly had to pull from my own stash! 

In this video I show what I put behind each pocket. 

What did you do with the items from your February kit? Let me know in the comments below!