Some people would prefer to have a planner and jot down their to-do lists rather than doing it on their phones, tablets, or computers. But before you write your plans away, design or decorate your pages first; leave some space to write in.
Treat your planner like a scrapbook so that you won’t limit yourself to lines and calendars; you can do so much more than that.
Hence, you can unleash your inner artist and ready your art materials. You’d tend to grab and use your planner more when it’s eye candy.
Your planner can be beautiful and organized so,here are a few ideas you can do to design your bullet journal planner:
1. Pick a Theme
Think about the whole aesthetic of your planner; when you have a theme, it will make the planner look more put together. It includes picking out suitable colors to use and sticking with it; otherwise, it’d look out of place.
Furthermore, in choosing a theme, think about your preference: minimalist or maximalist. You can also incorporate your interests, for example, astrology,or so you include stars in your design.
2. Use Stickers to Emphasize
It will be your best friend; you can just put on stickers when you run out of design ideas. But don’t underestimate the power of stickers; it makes ideas or thoughts stand out. And so, you can easily spot it.
There are a lot of sticker designs and sticker sheets to choose from the options. You can find a sticker for everything.
3. Add Quotable Quotes
It can be a good source of inspiration and motivation to complete your tasks. It can be an excellent way to remind yourself not to give up or lose hope. You can accomplish your duties and obligations if you focus on what you can do instead of what you cannot do.
In addition, quotes can also be a good element in the theme of your bullet journal\. It can add character to these pages.
4. Make It Three Dimensional
Aside from using stickers, you can put origamis. There is a lot of ways to decorate the page utilizing origami.
Spice up the page; don’t just stick with two-dimensional drawings. You can do something simple like star origami, which symbolizes good luck.
Similarly, you can even use origamis to extend the pages of your planner.
5. Paste in Washi Tapes
You can use the plain colored ones to point out important details. If you don’t have a highlighter, you can use this and create a color-coding system and determine the urgency of the tasks.
Washi tapes can be used to divide sections of each page and decorate the edges. You can also make use of washi tapes to fill empty boxes.
6. Scribble with Watercolor or Paint
It is a good alternative if you don’t want to cut and paste so much stuff or you don’t like a bulky planner, and you’re an excellent painter. Also, it’s a good exercise and practice to paint in small spaces.
However, you’d have to wait for the page to dry up before you can start painting on a different page, and the pages have to be thick; it doesn’t get torn easily.
7. Doodle with Pen
If you’re not keen enough on using paint, you can doodle and decorate pages with a pen instead. In the same way, it has different colors to choose from, and you can use them to highlight tasks and essential details, just like the washi tape.
And the advantage of using a pen instead of paint is that you don’t need to wait for it to dry.
8. Keep Things in Place Use Binder Clips
You can use this to keep extra pages intact; you’re probably going to stack pieces of paper together eventually. Furthermore, it also can be used to separate sections of the planner. And if you’re not fond of bookmarks or ribbons, you can use binder clips. It will be a lot easier to find the page you’re looking for instead of using a bookmark.
Moreover, you can use it to keep the page open while you design or read through the contents of your planner.
9. Move Things Around With Sticky Notes
It is essential because you can easily rearrange your plans, especially if there are changes in the schedule; you can remove and transfer the sticky note to much later date. You can use sticky notes to track the progress of your tasks or a to-do list to color-coding it.
And as soon as you’ve accomplished the job, you can take it off the planner.
10. Put a Stamp on It
If you’re in a hurry and don’t want to deal with art materials, you can use stamps to decorate the planner’s pages. There is a lot to choose from variety, sizes, color, design, patterns, or prints.
Lettering stamps can be used to label pages, while doodle stamps usedto create shapes, patterns, or scribble designs. Additionally, you can use the pattern stamps on the edges of the pages or as a border.
Conclusion
Make your planner reflect your style by decorating it however you want it to be.
It can be beautiful and functional at the same time. You can also use a template or make use ofwhat you have at home, or you can start from scratch and make handmade designs.
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