For this school year I got an Erin Condren Teacher Planner and I was so excited. Once I got it I quickly realized I had no idea how I was going to plan in my new planner. I had to completely forget about even trying to planner decorate until I could figure out how to plan. The following are my teaching stats you need to know to understand how I use my planner.

High School Teacher

6 classes of one prep (one type of class, Health)

Two conference periods

Sponsor of a club

Teach on an A Day/B Day block schedule

After I figured out how to plan my days I began experimenting with washi and then it was time to take on STICKERS! Which stickers did I have to use first? Of course Pop Fizz Paper

The first thing I need to do is block off the days under each section. I plan one side of my planner with my A day classes and the other side with my B day classes. So the first thing to do was to figure out how I was going to block out the days I did not need. I chose to re purpose the washi strips and the decor to use as block outs.

I used the checklist flags for all of my actual classes so I can make my lesson plans in a bullet point format. I then used the small checklist flags to mark the club I sponsor and my to do lists for club activities.

Overall the pop fizz paper stickers are amazing for this planner because I have so many options on how I need to plan depending on my lesson plans for the week. One of my favorite stickers to use are the 3 heart check boxes I wish I had more of those. I could use those all over the place in this planner

This is the thing I love about Pop Fizz Paper stickers they can be used with any planner and you don’t even need a planner of a specific size to use them because they look great in EVERY planner. If you want the stickers to fit perfect in the boxes they won’t do that because my stickers are made for the ECLP vertical but that does not matter because they look great. I think the sizing is pretty darn close and with the colors already on the page of the ECTP the stickers go great with it.

I plan to use Pop Fizz Paper stickers and Washi for almost every week in my ECTP!

Do you use a teacher planner? Have you tried Pop Fizz in it? Do it! It will make your lessons much more fun.

If you follow me on Instagram then you probably know that I have been on the hunt for a good solid travel planner. I recently started using the DIYfish inserts for a Traveler's Notebook and I'm really happy with them, they are the perfect combination of Weekly and Daily format.

One of my favourite things about these inserts is that I can easily decorate the week to match my Happy Planner spread. As you can see here I used the lush and stunning Beauty Babe kit which I just looooooove. This was a great kit to use as it came with so many extra stickers!

The first thing I do is decorate the weekly overview page and the notes sections to jazz the whole thing up. Each week I use this section differently, I jot down notes from phone calls or meetings, todo lists, mood tracking, etc. I love that these habit trackers work soooo well for my dog's meals for the week, this way when I'm out of the house I can tell my flatmate what to feed him.

I love the way these pages came out, and they feel so happy and friendly! They are ready to document my week! 

I decided to show you just the Saturday as it has both the weekly look and what I do for marking the weekend. I use the same washi that I used in my planner along the sides of the pages, using my paper trimmer to remove any excess. Next I cover the bottom line with a thin washi, luckily I have this thin gold washi that matches the one from the kit. If I don't have a matching thin washi I just use a paper trimmer to trim the washi down to size.

Lastly for a normal weekday I add a today sticker and cover up the check boxes with some great check flags. Simple, fun but productive. The weekend scriptbanners look amazing and fit perfectly under the chronodex. I only mark Saturday, but you could use on on Sunday too!!!

So that's how it all goes together, simple really! Do you use and DIYfish Traveler's Notebook inserts? I'd love to see how, tage me on instagram @brooklynne_michelle

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!

If you have not gotten caught up in the Pokemon Go fad then you are super lucky. If you have gotten caught up in it then you are just like me. Perhaps you are reliving your childhood doing something you wished you could do years and years ago. Today with the age of smartphones we can all finally be Pokemon Trainers!

For those of us that like to track all the things we do I decided to make a Pokemon Go! Record keeper. It allows me to note the bigger pokemon I catch on a day. I can track my steps and of course what I ate and drank (because this is important)!

To do this I utilized leftover stickers from previous pop fizz paper kits. For this particular week I chose my leftovers from my Team USA kit and the new Pokemon Go! Stickers. First I wanted to make sure I noted where I went so I just used a appointment flag. Then I wanted to track steps and nutrition. For this I just used the icons and put them under the flag. The most important part was keeping track of the Pokemon I caught on the trip. In order to do this I used the half box heart checklists.

I also wanted to make sure that I wrote on the stickers with a pen that would be bold and visible. For this kind of thing I like to use a black PaperMate Flair. I also wanted to track where I plan to go each day of the week. I like to go pokemon hunting for a little trip each day and make sure I work this into my daily plans. This Pokemon Go tracker is really helping me keep track especially since my nephew likes to check in and see what new Pokemon I have every day!

How do you track the pokemon you catch? What team are you on? Let us know by joining the PopFizzPaper Fans facebook group.

I still need a Pikachu!

Lately I have started to have a bit more of a busy day than usual with a few new courses, and my Roller Derby training kicking into higher gear. My life is a madhouse and unfortunately some important things are starting to slip my mind. So on top of my weekly Planning I have thought about starting to use daily pages ie. a Day Designer. Luckily for me before I lay out any major money on a Day Designer they have pages that I can download easily for free.

So armed with those I've been keeping more on track of my to do's and working in all the important things for the day. Now I am one of those planners who have to decorate their planner in order to even look at it. So I've been thinking about how I can decorate the Day Designer pages with what I have. Then it struck me, I could use the left over weekly kits I have (which are many) to decorate daily pages.

My first step is Laying down all the washi strips including framing washi along the top and bottom. The left over washi strip I have left over from doing my sidebar in my Happy Planner fit perfectly in the Daily Gratitude space. If they are easy to write over I like filling the top four boxes with Washi too. This covers up the printed headers but that's fine I plan on covering them up anyway. Now on to the Headers and Stickers.

I replace the most of the headers with headers from the kit, especially the "today" and "to do" sections. I also like to add a "to clean" header sectioning off the last four line (three check boxes) where I can add what is on my cleaning schedule this week. Next I like to use icon stickers anywhere that I have something significant, like when my alarm goes off, when training starts, and what I plan on watching to unwind in the evening (I'm working my way through the Gilmore Girls in order to be prepared for the reunion show). I don't really need the notes section so I use a check list and film icon. 

Last thing to do is fill in all the info on what I'm hoping to achieve and what I have scheduled. I put a dot at the end of a task that has been carried over from the day before and two dots if it was the day before that. Almost always two dot items get moved to the Top Three section. I decided to use the former notes section to tick off the course subjects I wanted to complete "today". All I have to do now is start ticking off things that need to be done. 

I'm enjoying the Daily page, I just wish that it had a night owl version ;-) Do any of you use Daily pages How do you decorate them?