Each theme has it’s own flip-through video, below which I list the stationery used and my inspiration for the theme.
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March – Tea Party
Washi tape
Tombow dual brush pens
Djeco sticker set
Pigma micron pens
Gelly Roll pen
Tim Holtz distress ink pads
Stencil
Alphabet stamps
Inspired by the gorgeous Djeco Tea Party sticker set, I created my own princesses in vibrant washi tape dresses, using the sticker set to decorate trackers and dailies.
April – Sewer rats
Washi tape
Stencil
Alphabet stamps
Tim Holtz distress ink
Pigma micron pens
Gelly Roll pen
Tombow dual brush pens
Winsor & Newton watercolour paints
This whole theme came about because of the pipes stencil. When I think of pipes, I think of rats, so that explains them, and I find watercolour painting quicker and simpler than some other forms of media. It’s the first time in a while I’ve used weeklies and not had stickers for my dailies.
May – Berry, Jerry, Chickoo & Weirdo
Transfer Me by Dress my Craft
Decorative papers
Spare white dot grid paper
Staedtler markers
Chameleon 0.7mm Pens
Ranger ink pad
Number stamps
I bought two transfer me sets from Dress my Craft, and worked out how to use decorative papers to fill out the pages and make the most of the transfers.
June – Ladybugs
Washi tape
Winsor & Newton watercolours
Cartridge paper
Prismacolor pencils
Pigma micron pens
Rub on transfers
Stickers
I had several ladybug sticker sets, so I started out by drawing the ladybugs, and then the washi tape and painted leaves just happened as the background.
July – Abstract watercolour
Winsor & Newton watercolours
Coliro pearlcolors gold and silver
Washi tape
Fudenosuke brush marker
Pigma micron pen
Pastels Archer & Olive dot grid notepad
I really wanted to do something with blue and gold together. My original idea of doing gold flowers on a dark background didn’t work out, but I happened on these abstract shapes and loved them. Frankly the artwork was then an excuse to use a new foiled blue washi tape I had.
August – Secret doors
Planner sticker sets
Tombow dual brush pens
Gelly roll pens (moonlight and metallic)
Typo all that glitters pen
Uniball signo pens (plain and metallic)
Pentel hybrid gel pens (metallic)
I had all these sets of mini planner stickers and no idea how to use them in a theme other than in an incidental way, but then I thought of the secret doors that provided the link between the pages that wasn’t obvious if I just used the different sticker sets.
September – Autumn foilage
Tim Holtz distress inks
Stencils
Stamps
Washi tape
Tombow dual brush pens
Staedtler markers
Uniball signo metallic
Gelly roll
My inspiration started from wanting to use a ‘proper’ dutch door layout that was based on it’s namesake – the real split Dutch doors. That led me to want foilage draping downwards from the cut. My original idea was to create the foilage fully from washi tape, but I didn’t like the look of this, so ended up using a mix of stencils, stamps and washi tape and in autumn colours. This was a layout that was economical with space.