Personal planners are interesting things. Everyone uses them for different reasons. Perhaps it is the size and the portable nature of it. For others they do not even keep a calendar in theirs they just use them to track health and fitness. While there are others who may use it for a smaller condensed calendar, fitness, goals and motivation. I tend to fall into this last category but I also keep a journal.

The Pop Fizz Paper Journal prompts are perfect for the personal planner size because they are a smaller font, they fit the page width perfect and they give you plenty of space to answer the prompt. Another issue I find that I have when I journal is that I do not always know what to write. Pop Fizz has solved this problem for me and given me a creative set of prompts.

Everyday I have something new and exciting to write about whether it be my birthday, the cast of Friends or even what I like about the color pink! (I can’t wait to get to that one).

When I set these up in my planner for the month I like to add a little pizazz and I simply use parts of the other kits that Pop Fizz Paper makes. So here is what I did for June, I wanted something summer like and bright so I used the June Journal Prompts and the Sunrise Palette set. I set this up by using the deco sheet with the watercolor accents and dots to jazz up the dates from the Prompts set. After that for the first two days I used a checklist flag and one of the quotes from the deco sheet. These fit in perfectly with the prompts. For the first prompt I picked the one about my birthday. To highlight the date of my birthday I used a half box and a star icon. I am a huge birthday person and I wanted to highlight the date of my birthday prominently. After this was all said and done I took to the writing and reflected on my birthday this year.

I am currently using the pen that was given out in the June Pop Fizz Paper planner kit because it is a gorgeous gem pen that writes so smoothly. The inserts in my personal planner are just from Michael’s craft stores and my favorite part is at the bottom. Every day they ask me what I am grateful for. I try to tie this into the journal prompt from the set as well as my writing that happened for the day. Its a very simple and easy to set up creative activity that helps me to keep my creative juices flowing and a place to reflect.

Do you use the Journal prompts? Share them with us by tagging @popfizzpaper on instagram.

Today I bring you a fun Journal page that I put together using the Journal prompts and the April kit. I'm cannot even tell you how excited I am to be able to finally show you some things using the April kit, for the last two weeks I've had it on my desk dying to show you just a quick SOMETHING. This kit is gorgeous. 

I realised I haven't really showing you some of my journaling in a while so I sat down today to do some journaling and recorded it a bit for you. I didn't go into much detail of the process as it's my usual style. 

As always I picked out some colours from my various ephemera that I thought went well together, and using my inktense blocks watercoloured the background to give the overall page some colour. I do this to immediately conquer that blank page!

I wanted to really make that journal prompt stand out and be framed in a nice way. I decided to use one of the half boxes and cut it in half(not actually in perfect halves but you know what I mean) and lay that down like a header. Next a sticker from my stash which I believe is left over from a MAMBI set and two of our star stickers to tie it all together. 

Waste not want not and all I used the other half of the half box to be part of the date. I really like how the stamped year with the date circle look combined like this. It's an interesting way to use half boxes or even the washi strips. I decided I wanted a quote up in this corner too and loved this one from the galaxy set. all it needed now was this gold star die cut which appeared in my stash (I think it was in a pocket letter).

Along the bottom I tore a strip off one of the papers that came in the kit and glued it down. We changed paper companies with these papers and I love them. I loved the February papers but these lighter weight ones are so much more versatile. And these stickers... I just cannot even! They are far too pretty to capture on camera, they are gold, black and white with gold glitter in the center! I HAD to use some of them along the bottom. and the finishing touch was another stash die cut. 

I did do the journaling on this but it ended up rather personal so please understand why I chose not to share it. 

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.

Today I am going to share with y'all how I used the journaling cards that came in the March PopFizzPaper planner kit! 

I decided I wanted to journal with these cards. The first thing I did was print out some pictures using my polaroid zip, because I knew I wanted to use pictures as well. 

The first card was pretty easy to start with. It already had all of the prompts written down so I simply just filled them in accordingly.  And on the backside I added a picture of myself. I thought it went along well with the currently things since that is what I currently look like. 

The next card I kept fairly simple. I added a picture of my son and a caption with his name and age. The card itself is so beautiful I didn't want to take away from that by adding a lot. And I left the back of it blank. 

On the next card I journaled a little about my anniversary which was on February 24th. And on the back of the card I added a picture from our wedding day! 

On the next card I journaled about a recent visit to Florida. And I added a picture of my dog and my son. I left the back blank because it is just so pretty! 

And for the very last card I journaled about some goals that I have. I left the back on this one blank as well. 

Next I decided to hole punch my cards and tie them together with some twine. Now it can be a fun little book to look back on those memories! 

And that is my completed project! I love the way it came out and I truly hope it gave you some inspiration. Leave a comment on what you did with your journal cards! I would love to know.

Yes another Journaling post from me! I love my journals but not all the time do you need words. Sometimes just pictures are enough. With all these flip books floating around it reminded me of mini albums that used to be popular a few years back. I loved making those and using them as journals.

First I gathered my supplies around and decided to finally use the January kit which I've been hoarding.

The hardest part was deciding what to use with these cards. I have sooo many embellishments and constantly am gaining more, so in my typical fashion I decided to just wing it and use things as I remembered them or was inspired to. 

I started out by measuring the information card from each side so that I could fold it and fit the journaling cards inside. I did this so the extra space was in the middle of the card creating a spine allowing for bulk. Once that was achieved I cut down some coordinating paper and glued in inside and laid down some silver washi along the spine.

Next was to decide what cards I wanted to use and what order I wanted them in. This was actually one of the trickier parts as I can be a perfectionist - in fact I changed out a few of the cards after I took this photo. I also decided what journal prompts I was going to use off the February list. 

Once I had my finalized prompts and cards I taped them all into place with some washi. I decided to go ahead and decorate the front of the cards at this point and get them looking how I want them before scouring my photos for ones that answered the prompts I chose. 

After I had the photos all in place I decorated around them and added some more fun embellishments (I especially like the metal pyramid stickers). That back part looked a bit bare so I grabbed a smash book journaling spot pad and added a wee bit of journaling before decorating the inside and outside cover. 

I used the most recent photo of me on the cover and I just love it and the way it looks. This Instagram style frame I just love and was gifted to me by the wonderful Serena Bee. I'm overall really happy with how this turned out and is a perfect capsule of my life at this moment in photos. 

This project was so much fun to do and was put together in a few moments. I think it would be fun to do and send to a friend without the photos as a mail tag. You could also do one with photos of your self and answering their questions in response to their mail tag. I also think it would make a super cute baby book for when your tot is all grown.

I'd love to see your projects and ideas for the Journal prompts - please comment below and tell me what you use them for. 

Flip books have become the new "thing" in the crafty/pen-pal world. A flip book is created when you attach pieces of paper or card stock together with Washi tape to create flipping pages. I created one using PopFizzPaper Journal Prompt stickers. I used some left over paper that I have had in my stash for a long time.  

Using some Washi and paper, cut down to what ever size I wanted to use, I created some panels that flipped vertically and horizontally. I decorated the panels first and added bits of torn paper and some small journaling cards that I had. Then I selected some of the PopFizzpaper Journal prompts and added one or two to the panels, leaving space to write my answers. 

I also used some of the other stickers that PopFizzPaper has for even more inspirational journaling. These are a great way to write down what you are doing right at that moment. I based mine off of what I have enjoyed so far in 2016. 

I used a pink envelope ( attached with Washi tape) to create another space for a journal prompt. I used a scrap of paper to write my letter of self-love and slipped it inside the envelope. This is a great way to also store bits that you want to keep, such as tickets or other memorabilia from something you loved or did. 

Choosing which prompts to use was the hardest part. So many amazing suggestions. Some have prompts to make you think really hard. Some of the answers are easy and make you smile when you know immediately what you are going to write.  I enjoyed creating this project. Try it out and tag @popfizzpaper on IG. We would love to see your Journaling Flip-Books or any other projects you create using PopFizzPaper products!!