Planner Friday - Halloween special

It's been absolutely ages since I've done a Planner Friday post so hop on over to the Trendy Twine blog to check it out!

Hi!  I'm Amanda from She's Eclectic and I'm the resident planner girl here on the Trendy Twine blog.  If, like me, you're a fan of paper planning then you will love the range of stamps Annie's Paper Boutique have created over the years!  There are practical everyday sets, school life stamps, journalling and scrapbooking kits, special occasion and holiday sets and some really cute image stamps too. 

As it is almost Halloween I wanted to show you my spooky themed week I have created using APB stamps, I have listed the sets I used below.

Products used: Happy Halloween stamp set
Foodies planner stamps
Drinks & More planner stamps

At Home planner stamps
Hello Fall planner stamps
Weekend banner planner stamps

Halloween Trendy Page Dots reinforcements

Round stamp block with gridlines
Used but not pictured: More At Home planner stamps

Check It Off Planner stamp set

Washi tape

If I can, I like to pair my pages's theme with a matching set of Trendy Page Dots reinforcements as they strengthen the paper around the holes and add an extra pop of colour to my spread.  For Halloween I had these awesome skull and pumpkin designs to work with!

Halloween Trendy Page Dots

As usual I started my decoration by adding strips of washi tape to the top and bottom of my pages, followed by the Trendy Page Dots.  

I have daily to do lists and reminders so I used the Check It Off set to print some tick boxes (or circles in this case!) and then added what I need to do and remember with the At Home and More At Home stamps.  Anything I don't have a stamp for I fill in with a pen.  

Any space I have left over afterwards I use for fun!

My Halloween themed week

You can read the rest of my post here, thanks for stopping by!

World Calligraphy Day 2019 - Get involved!

Tomorrow is World Calligraphy Day!  To give you a little history, it was started by Manuscript back in 2017 and it is a great way to meet people who share your interest, learn some new skills and have fun!

World Calligraphy Day art

The Pen Museum will be hosting their third annual event to mark the occasion and there are still tickets available (here) but if Birmingham is too far away then you can join in online with the tags #worldcalligraphyday and #saysomethingspecial.  There are also some craft projects you can try on the Manuscript website ranging from card making to storybooks for children which you can find here as well as some templates and worksheets to help you with your penmanship.

To get you in the mood here are some photos from the last two World Calligraphy Day celebrations at the Pen Museum!

2017

Some lovely writing by one of the guests

Calligraphy & card making workshop with Stephen Duckett

My Celtic letter D for my card

My 1st wax seal

Letters for the say something special campaign

2018

Gift bags from Manuscript for workshop attendees 

The worksheets we used

Practising modern calligraphy

Make sure you are following Manuscript on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram to get involved online and my social media links are on the top left hand side of this page (in desktop view) and on the contact me page if you're not following already.

I'm so excited for tomorrow, I can't wait to see what everyone gets up to!

(Sorry I've been absent, my trusty old laptop died and I was unable to post anything until I got a replacement!) 

Little update and some changes

Okay, so I wanted to let you know about a few changes that are going on with the blog right now....

You might have noticed that there hasn’t been any Artline Monday posts for a few weeks, that is because my time as their resident blogger has come to an end.  I have really enjoyed working with them for the past couple of years and I am proud of the things we created.  You will still be able to read all of these posts here so if there was something you wanted to try but haven’t got around to yet don’t worry, I won’t be deleting anything!

Sticking with stationery

Going forward I will be concentrating on planning, stationery and lettering posts for a while.  They are what I enjoy doing the most and I want to do more of those things right now.  I also have quite a few reviews lined up so keep an eye out for those.  If you want a little preview then check out Paper High and Pigeon for some super lovely stationery!

Notebook and pencils from Paper High

Let me know if there is anything else you would like me to do, explore or review and I'll look into it!

Thanks for sticking around!