I don't know about you, but My monthly spreads usually are neglected when it comes to the whole decorating thing is concerned. I just jot down dates and leave it be. The new PopFizzPaper month kits have changed that though! 

I thought I would show you how I plan ahead, with my January spread. I know what you are thinking. January, Brooklynne it's only November? Well I like to have my months planned in advance so that everything that goes into the planner will go well with it.

Instead of taking a million photos and talking about stuff you all already know, I thought I would do a video instead! So please scroll down to watch my plan with me.

That's my planner all set up for January, I hope you like it and I would love to see how you use the new monthly sticker sets. Tag us on Instagram eith @popfizzpaper or @brooklynne_michelle. Have an excellent day!

Hello everyone!  It’s Jennifer here, and today I’d like to share how I used Popfizzpaper stickers in my notes pages of my EC to help me get organized for Black Friday/Cyber Monday shopping!  I’ve love good deals, and I don’t mind braving the crowds for Black Friday, but with more and more stores opening on Thanksgiving, it can be overwhelming trying to figure out where you need to be when.  Each year around the beginning of November, I start looking at the Black Friday ads online for my favorite stores.  I start jotting down where I want to go and what I want to buy on a notepad, but my scribbles aren’t very pretty or functional.  That’s where my Popfizzpaper stickers come to the rescue! 

 I used full box stickers and date covers from the Colors of the Wind kit because it matches 2016 EC November colors PERFECTLY!  The Black Friday sticker is from the Fall Bucket List sheet. 

 Looking over my notes, I decided that I wanted to divide the page by date.  The date covers were perfect for this!  Once I had the days divided up, I used full box checklist stickers to show either: a) one store’s shopping list; or b) a list of stores or websites I wanted to be sure to check out.  This is so much easier for me to refer to than my pile of notes! 

In addition to places I wanted to shop, I used other stickers to highlight reminders such as things I need to do before or on Black Friday such as double check sizes, which coupon or cash back apps to check, and things like that.  Now I have all my Black Friday shopping notes in one place AND it’s beautiful and functional!

Do you use functional stickers to stay organized during the holidays?  I’d love to see! Tag me on Instagram @paprikaplans or share your ideas in our Popfizzpaper Fans Facebook group!  Happy Planning!

What do you do with your left over design paper? Don't throw it away! I've got a cute little DIY for you that you can do in a matter of minutes. Grab your left over PopFizzPaper design paper from your planner kits, any scrap paper, or construction paper don't worry about the size whether it's an 8x7 or 12x12 or even smaller because...

I'm going to show you how to make a folder with two pockets out that paper. This little folder will be perfect to put stickers in and mail to your friends, hole punch and add to your planner, or use it to store stickers or sticky notes for on-the-go. The possibilities are endless!

Materials you will need are:

Design Paper, Scrap Paper, or Construction Paper

A ruler, adhesive tape or glue, and a pair of scissors

Decorative items such as washi, embellishments, stickers, die-cuts, etc.

First, you will need to decide what size of folder you want. I am going to be making mini folders that will end up being about 3 in x 6 in . I started with about an 8 in x 8 in sheet of paper. Measure with a ruler or use a paper cutter to cut down your sheet if you want feel free to start with a 12 in x 12 in paper or an 8 in x 11 in sheet.

Once you have your sheet fold it in half from right to left, then fold it inside out [both ways] so that you are making a deep crease down the center because you'll be needing one of the folds for later on.

Next, fold the bottom part upward about 4 to 5 inches. Whatever your size of your sheet is you want your bottom part to fold upward about half the height of your paper because that part is going to be your pockets and you want to make sure you have enough height to put items in securely once the sides are glued down.

Lay your paper flat after you've made your folds. Grab your ruler and place it on the right side of your paper and you are going to measure 1/2 inch and fold at the 1/2 inch mark. Do the same thing to the other side.

The bottom part that is going to be folded up you are going to need your scissors to cut a small incision. [See photo below where to cut] You're basically going to be cutting a 1/2 rectangular off the bottom sides so that the bottom sides don't over lap onto the pocket because it's going to make those bottom corners thicker which in my photo I kind of forgot to do that so I want to make I informed you about that before you do the same thing. It's totally fine if you do forget this step the bottom sides will just be thicker and you'll have to add some extra glue to hold that thickness together.

Now we are going to make the pockets. So, fold your paper in half from right to left again and in the middle part start at about 3/4 of an inch from the bottom and cut upward to the fold part of your pocket line. Put your scissors down and fold the bottom part up; you should have two pockets that are the same size!

And, it's time to glue the sides down so make sure you're using a stronger glue or adhesive tape because you don't want the sides to peel up. There you go; you have your folder!

You can stop here if you want to keep your folder simple or if you're like me and like to decorate things then grab those craft items you have next to you and craft away!

I added some washi to the bottom corner, some puffy heart stickers, and in the center I just got a piece of gold sheer design paper and cut it into a small square; added die-cut feathers to the corners and alpha stickers in the center. That's it go ahead an add your goodies to the inside of your new folder!  

If you made one of these folders, we want to see it! Tag @popfizzpaper on Instagram or come show us in the PopFizzPaper Fans Facebook group.

Hello everyone!  It’s Jennifer again, and today I’m going to share how I store all my leftover kit stickers!  Without good organization, sticker leftovers can get overwhelming.  Either you’ll spend a ton of time looking for the sticker you want, or you’ll forget about them entirely and waste your money.  Popfizzpaper kits have such an awesome selection of stickers that even if you’re a no-white-space planner, you’ll still have leftover stickers!  When I started planning, I used to take the leftover kit stickers and paperclip the kit together and shove the whole kit into a plastic pencil case.  Where they’d sit.  Unused. What a waste of super cute stickers!!  Then one day, when I was at Michaels, I saw plastic greeting card storage box, and this storage system was the result!

First, I went through my kit leftovers and decided what categories I wanted to sort them into.  Then, I made folders! I thought folders would be better suited for this type of sticker storage than simple dividers.  I had seen people using dividers to file their stickers in a photo storage box, but cutting up kit leftovers results in pretty little sticker pieces, and I was afraid they would get lost and unused with dividers.

To make the folders, I simply used a sheet of letter-sized cardstock folded in half.  For the tabs, I used the Popfizzpaper tab stickers.  They’re PERFECT for this project!  I made a tab for all the types of stickers I wanted to file: half boxes, icons, headers, etc. 

Now, all I have to do is cut the sheets apart at the end of the week and file the stickers away in their own little folder!  So now the next time I need a purple habit tracker to pull the whole week together, I know exactly where to look instead of having to go through all my leftovers by kit until I come across the right sticker! 

How do you store your kit leftovers?  I’d love to see!  Tag me on Instagram @paprikaplans or share your ideas in our Popfizzpaper Fans Facebook group!  Happy Planning!

Hey everyone, Sabrina here! How many of you are horizontal planners? And, how many of you are like me and have wondered if vertical stickers fit into the horizontal planners? Raise those hands up high. Well, guess what... they do indeed fit with just a little tweaking. Today’s blog, I am showing you all how you can use a vertical weekly kit in a horizontal planner!

Let’s get planning! All you need for this is a fresh week, any vertical weekly kit of your choice, a pen and of course your planner! If you are planning with Erin Condren sheets in a Kikki.K like myself, you’ll need a hole punch to just re-punch those holes you covered up with a sticker.

I am planning ahead and using the Merry and Bright full weekly kit from PopFizzPaper for the end of November/ early December. The blue and green colors in the Erin Condren colored horizontal didn’t match with this kit’s colors so I am going to be using a week from October and turning it into a different month by covering the month and dates with stickers to use it for any week I want. Then I did the left side by adding date covers and dates, a quote to the top left, a November month of the year sticker, and a decorative sticker.

I went ahead and finished covering up my October with another quote, added a December monthly sticker, and used the rest of my date covers and dates. I then placed all my decorative full boxes to the right side. I liked using the entire sticker even if it did overlap a bit but you can totally trim the top and bottom of to fit that space more precise. I got my weekend sticker down, added my payday and bill dues, another quote, and a weekly full box to the bottom notes section. As you can see, everything is fitting nicely for being a vertical kit in a horizontal layout.

Now that I kind of got the hang of placement and the imagery in my mind of where I plan to place the rest of my stickers I went ahead and just had some fun placing everything down. For me the middle section is for all my to-do’s, the right side on the decorative full boxes is for my work schedule/ anything important that has a deadline, and the left side is more to-do’s or things that I would like to do that day.

That’s it! I think it turned out super cute I cannot wait until the end of November to finish filling in this week. This kit is a perfect transition into the next holiday season. Whether you try out using a vertical kit in a horizontal spread or you use one of PopFizzPaper’s new horizontal kits we want to see it! Come share it with us over at the PopFizzPaper Fans Facebook group or tag @PopFizzPaper on Instagram!

Hey PopFizz Fanatics, today I'm showing you a recent Project Life spread I did using the Colors of the Wind kit. I have been so slack with doing project life lately but really wanted to get this big moment recorded. So I started with pulling out all the supplies needed.

• Colors of The Wind Papers
• Washi
• Tombow tape runner
• Colors of the Wind sticky notes
• Colors of the Wind diecut feathers
• Canon Selphy Printer
• Various Ephemera 

First thing to do was print off my photos, I knew from a journal lay out I wanted the main picture to be tight crop of me so I needed to print out the photo full size and cut it down, so I printed one picture 3X4 and the other 4X6. Afte rthat I needed to choose a layout type and trim down the papers.

I went with what is probably my favorite layout, the 2 3X4 over one 4X6 spread. I was really enjoying the oranges and the contrast with the purples and greens in this kit so chose papers that played with that.

Now onto my first card. I wanted to start with that nice big orange watercolor card. I knew I wanted the front facing photo there but wasn't sure what else to do there, then I remembered these cute silver glitter instax style frames I got from Freckled Fawn, the rest kind of just flowed from there. The gold foil washi from the kit was just perfect for this. Also the feather die cuts really pulled the whole look together. 

Next was the top right card, the water colour with white feather outline. This was for my other photo and I just really kinda smashed things on it. This black and white striped washi was key to this page, helping pick up the referee motif in the pictures. These gold foil puffy hearts came in a previous PFP kit and I use them way more than I ever thought I would. I really like how this card looks. 

Now for the final card, the one for the journaling. I knew when I started out with this Project Life spread that all the cards were busy. That's why I got out the sticky notes, they made a simple and perfect journaling spot that fit so well into the cards. I then dug through my big box of alpha stickers and pulled together these two for the title. After a few touches of gold and some journaling it was done. 

Now to put them all together in the pockets of the lay out. Now you'll notice some changes to each of the cards. This always happens. I'm looking at the spread and noticing things like that the bottom card is completely devoid of green so a few puffy stickers and it feels more balanced. I found this phrase sticker for the top card which I liked and added a bit more white which I felt was needed. and finally I remembered the little feather charm which was a perfect addition to the bottom of the journal card. 

Thank you for joining me on this spread, and I hope you enjoyed it. Do you do project life? how have you used PFP stuff in your spreads? Tag me in your posts on Instagram @brooklynne_michelle or @popfizzpaper ! Also join us all on our facebook group PopFizzPaper Fans.