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.

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

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!

Hello, everyone!  It’s Jennifer here with a fun way to spice up your weekends in your planner!  Sure, weekend banners are awesome... but weekend banners with washi sticker flags are even better!  Let’s get started!  The newly reformatted Popfizzpaper weekly kits now come with washi sticker strips!  Each weekly set has three different designs of washi strips, and each design has two different sizes of washi strips: three quarter box sized strips and four narrower header sized strips.  We’re going to use these stickers to make a banner!

This design uses all three patterns of washi stickers: three quarter box sized strips of design A; two quarter box sized strips of design B; and 4 header sized strips of design C.  So go ahead and decide which design you’d like to use for A, B, and C. 

Starting with your A strips, slightly bend one end of the strips so the corners touch, and make a diagonal cut with your scissors down towards the end of the strips as illustrated in the photo.  This will give you a cute “v” shaped flag when you open the sticker back up.  Trim the strip for length, if you’d like, then place one A strip at each end where you’d like your weekend banner to go.  Add your last A strip in the middle.

Cut your pattern B strips into flags as well, trim the length as you wish, and lay the B strips down between the A strips.  One thing to note, you don’t have to worry about having the tops of the banners all even because we’re going to cover the tops with the actual weekend banner sticker at the end!  You should have a small gap in between each strip.  Cut your 4 design C strips into flags as well and use them to cover the small gaps between your wider strips.  You should end up with the pattern A C B C A C B C A.  Finally, place the actual weekend banner sticker from your kit over the tops of your washi flags.

How adorable is that, you guys?!  I used the Rio kit for this project, but all of the newly redesigned Popfizzpaper weekly kits have washi strips too!  Do you have a favorite way to use the new washi strip stickers?  I’d love to see!  Please share it on the Popfizzpaper Fans Facebook group!

Hey everyone, Sabrina here! Here to show you a quick, easy and fun way to create your own framed calendar. I don’t know about you all but during the fall my bod definitely is in a hibernation mode; hiding that food I’ve been storing from holidays or special events all the way until middle of next spring.

As a personal goal for myself I decided to start eating healthy and working out again. Because if I let myself I could eat pizza every day which is not good. So what better way than to start at the beginning of fall instead of waiting until a month or two before summer. Yes, I am one of those people who do that because I love all the delicious foods that come with the fall season. But not this time this calendar is going to help me focus!

I am going to show you how to create a calendar for… you guessed it; a workout schedule! Enough babbling let’s jump right into this…

So here are some supplies you will need:

1. A picture frame
2. A blank printable calendar
3. Washi tape
4. Stickers
5. Dry erasable markers
6. Optional: Tape runner or glue

First off, put aside your picture frame and dry easers all you need to begin is your blank calendar and some stickers. You can create your own calendar in word or excel or you can print one off the internet. In my printable collection I had a blank Day Designer calendar that I printed months ago so I’m just going to use that. I grabbed my PopFizzPaper sticker collection and pulled out some days of the week stickers, a month of the year sticker, lots of icons and some summer vibes quotes.

Start by sticking down your days of the week. Next is optional but it’s to grab some washi and decorate around the calendar. I ended up putting down my “August” month of the year sticker first before my washi and guess what… when I peeled it off I wasn’t careful so I ripped it a little. No worries though; no need to waste the sticker just grab a tape runner, put some tape on the back and you’re good to continue! If you make a mistake with a sticker gently and patiently peel it up don’t be like me and just rip it off like Band-Aid. Once you’ve gotten your washi down, either write at the top the month or use a sticker like me. Next is grab those workout icons and start pre planning your week [or entire month.]

For fun, I made each week a different color. I always end up having left over icons from my weekly kits so those are the icons that I am using in case you’re wondering why the sizing of some icons are smaller than others. Since my calendar boxes are small I could only fit one icon inside; I originally want to do two icons one related to work out and another for meals but I figured that would just be too cluttered. I actually like having this calendar just for my exercises that I plan to do for the week. I used 3 different icons:

• The shoe is for the type of exercise I plan to do that day

• The dumbbell is for cardio/ gym [if I decided to go to a gym]

• The scale is for weigh in to check how I am doing; which is a personal preference

Now that I have placed all my icons on the week days that I plan to work out I went ahead and just added a few motivational and fun quotes. Along with a couple of emoji stickers and since it’s Olympics month I’ve add a couple of Olympic symbols for extra motivation. I will be out of town one weekend this month so that little road sticker reminds me that even though I will be out of town to get that work out in and more in likely I will set a reminder alarm to get my workout in. When all your stickers are set in the perfect place you want them to be, grab a pen and write in the number of the day or feel free to use a sticker if you have the space. Once the decoration process is complete its time to place it into the picture frame.

You may have to cut down the sides if need be but make sure when you place it into the frame it’s exactly how you want it be because remember you’re going to be writing on the glass of the frame itself so line it up good and give yourself enough writing space on the sides. Now that your calendar is in the frame you’re ready to grab your dry easer marker and start filling in your week [or month.] Since I like to switch it up with different exercises I ended up categorizing what I plan to do for that specific day. Example: Mondays are leg days, Tuesdays are arm days, Wednesday is abs, Friday is cardio, etc. I also like to have at least one or two rest days a week depending on how hard I work myself. But you do you! Because you are writing on the glass you can remove, add or switch any of your work outs. Awesome, right? Well, that’s it! Go ahead and place it up on the wall behind your desk or stand it up on your desk.

I hope you enjoyed this cute idea feel free to use this for anything else like a meal plan calendar, work schedule, school schedule or for events; this idea works for all. If you create a cute picture framed calendar we want to see it so make sure you tag @PopFizzPaper on Instagram and join/ share on the PopFizzPaper Fans Facebook group!

Hello!  It’s Jennifer again!  I’m back to show all you white-space planners a quick and easy way to adapt checklist stickers to your Happy Planner!  Let’s plan!  This week I’m using the re-release of the Chasing Rainbows kit for the Happy Planner.

Of course all PopFizzPaper kits all come with full box heart checklists in either Erin Condren or Happy Planner size.  I’m more of a white space planner, and I prefer using the old-fashioned checklist stickers that are also included in the kits.  However, if you’re using a Happy Planner, you’re left with a rather unattractive gap at the bottom of the box because the checklists are sized for Erin Condren planners.

With this simple technique, you can eliminate the gap and give your planner a nice, pulled-together look at the same time.  First, I lay down the top row of headers.  Immediately under that top row of headers, I put down a strip of coordinating washi.  Don’t put your checklist sticker down just yet.  Decide what you’re going to do with the “afternoon” headers.  This week, I decided to use the gradient full boxes with rainbow kit.  Of course you can also use a second set of headers. 

Once you have the stickers down covering your second row of headers, go ahead and carefully lay down your checklist stickers in the top row of boxes.  To ensure a perfect fit, I layer the checklist sticker ever so slightly on top of the washi.  The flag shaped bottom of the checklist sticker will layer nicely on top of the stickers on the second row.  All 6 circles for your checklist should line up nicely with the white space area, leaving you with plenty of room for your to dos for the day!

Doesn’t that look much better than the big gap without the washi?  Do you have a favorite way of adapting stickers to your planner?  I’d love to see!  Please tag me on Instagram @paprikaplans or post to our Facebook group!

Hi friends- Brittany here! Over the last couple months, I’ve been trying really hard to focus on my finances. I, like a lot of people these days, have all of my bills set up for automatic payment, my income is direct deposit, even my savings are automatically transferred. That system has worked really well for my husband and I in the 7 years we’ve been married but over time it has made us careless with the rest of the money. I wanted to be more intentional with the way we are spending our “extra” money so I decided to start tracking our spending, bills, income, and savings on paper. I also started channeling small amounts of our left over money each week into savings for different projects and/or goals. This paper tracking system has been working really well for me and I want to give you a look at how I’m using stickers to aid in staying on top of our finances! (This is a real week in my finances but I have left out some dollar amounts {like account totals, pay checks, etc} that were a little too personal to share)

I already had quite a few finance related stickers but I decided to pick up the weekly savings challenge stickers as well as the new corner payday stickers. Being a planner girl I also like to decorate my pages just a little with some bright washi tape. Anything involving the use of washi is easy to make a habit so clearly I had to use it ;) And finally my favorite pen at the moment- the PaperMate InkJoy gel.

Throughout the week I break up the day into 3 sections- bills and credit card payments, spending, and then our account totals at the end of the day. Since our weekend spending goes through on Monday I only track what goes through Monday-Friday and the weekend amounts get counted on Monday. I love pulling out appointment labels from PopFizzPaper and layering them with icons- this would work with either the credit cards or the dollar signs! I love days where neither of us spend any money so I make sure that is prominent on the page. Hopefully we’ll get to a point where we can have a few of those a week!

The corner payday stickers are the perfect size- these are the larger style but there are mini ones as well if you’d prefer those. They’d be great in a monthly view or even on your weekly pages. I love using the bill due stickers because they help them stand out and remind me when something is going to go through. They also have space for me to write the amount which I like so I don’t have to squeeze it in around the sticker. In the weekend slots of these inserts I’m tracking our transfers into savings as well as totaling up our spending into categories. At the end of each week I review what I’ve written in and add up how much went to bills, necessary spending, and how much was spent on frivolous purchases. (I like putting down a few mini emojis from PopFizzPaper because it keeps it fun but obviously it isn’t necessary.) Seeing these numbers at the end of the week motivate me for the next week to see how much less I can spend and more I can save!

I hope you enjoyed taking a peek at my finance tracking and how I use stickers to keep the process functional, motivating, and fun! I mean who says it has to be all boring spreadsheets on the computer, right?!