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Hello little doodles, it's
me, Amanda, welcome back.
I'm feeling very, very
hyper today because I am so
so excited about today's plan with me.
You guys will see why,
so I suggest you stick
to the end to find out, no skipping ahead.
I literally cannot compute
the fact that it is June,
my birthday's in June, June
16th if you guys didn't know
so it's right at the middle of the year.
So the fact that we're
halfway done in 2021
is kind of crazy to me.
I have a really, really fun idea
for this month's bullet journal theme.
So I want you guys to
have fun with it as well
and I can't wait to see
all your recreations.
Oh I also have one quick
little notice before
we get started in today's video.
As you guys may or may not know
usually I do my bullet
journal weekly spreads
live streamed on Twitch every
single Saturday morning.
However, for the month
of June, I don't know
whether I will be able to
do them live on Twitch.
I'll be explaining why in an
upcoming video so don't worry.
It just mostly has to do with
the tech setup and everything
but I think I'll be able to do them
with just my phone and I
am going to be doing them
on both Instagram and
TikTok Live simultaneously.
So whichever works for you,
whether you want to be live
on Instagram or live on a TikTok.
I borrowed a phone so I'll
be able to stream from both
on the same time, Saturdays
at 11:00 AM Eastern time.
So yeah, unfortunately it won't
be on Twitch, but it'll be
on those other platforms
just for the month of June.
Hopefully things will go back to normal
and then I'll be able to
go back to Twitch later.
So without further ado, as
you can see I'm very hyped up
because I just want to get into it.
So grab your bullet journal,
your pens, your snacks.
I don't know what else you need
but if you're just watching
you can also just hang out
with us and let's get started.
All right so it's already June 2021.
It feels like the months and weeks
are just speeding by these days.
Not sure if it's just me.
I kind of wanted to use
this voiceover to catch up
with you guys 'cause there's
been so much going on
in the past month and so
much coming up as well.
So I'll do that and obviously talk about
what I'm doing in my bullet journal.
So for my June bullet
journal theme this month
I wanted to do something really fun
and bright to reflect the summer mood.
My birthday actually is in June.
So June always represents happiness,
start of the summer, also
midway through the year.
And I wanted to do that
in my bullet journal.
So I decided to do a 70s
psychedelic-art inspired design
except with a bit of a modern twist on it.
I feel like a lot of
trends kind of come and go
in 20 to 30 year cycles.
And this goes for art design,
fashion music, whatever,
a lot of the 70s design
art influence can be seen.
Now also, I feel like a lot
of it was seen 30 years later
in like the Y2K early 2000s
trends with the fun colors
and floral graphics and tie dye.
And, you know, nowadays
Y2K trends have come back
in style again, kind of hand-in-hand
with the 70s I've been seeing so much
of that influence on TikTok
and in people's fashion
which is so funny but it
also feels kind of weird
because it's the first time
where things that I grew up with
have come back into the trend cycles.
Anyway, that was just kind of a rant.
If you've seen any of my
posts on Instagram so far
we've been doing a Y2K-inspired
shoot for the upcoming
shop AmandaRachLee launch
and it's been so much fun.
I think everyone just
kind of loves nostalgia
and throwback vibes
because it just reminds us
of simpler times and
this bullet-journal theme
as well as the shop AmandaRachLee shoot
was just fully inspired by
things that I grew up with
like Lizzie McGuire, you
know, Brittany Spears,
J14 magazines and most of
the props from that shoot
were from my actual childhood bedroom.
Like growing up in the
early 2000s was when my love
for stationary begun and I
can remember some of my old
notebooks and journals with
the fluffy pens and of course
my sticker collection.
So that was really fun I'll
get more to that later.
But back to the cover page.
I went for this sort of funky
floral pattern diagonally
across the page.
And I feel like simple, bright flowers.
like these were definitely a big motif
from both the 70s and that early Y2K era.
I remember it on a lot of
my own clothes growing up
and on those bright tween magazines
or on shows like Lizzie McGuire.
So I guess I kind of
combined the psychedelic 70s
and the tweeny Y2K vibes
for this month's theme.
And a lot of designs from
this era have this, like,
I don't know what to describe it
but I guess it's kind of like
concentric outline shapes.
So I achieved this design by
outlining any shape that I did
whether it was a heart or a
flower with multiple colors,
you see that I do this throughout.
It was actually kind of really meditative
and relaxing just to outline
something over and over again
in these kind of bright trippy colors.
I can definitely see why
art like this was used
during the psychedelics era in the 70s.
In terms of the color
palette and the supplies
I actually only used
colored markers for this,
no black line liners at
all to outline anything
on the cover page like I normally would.
The design was just so bold
and bright enough as it is.
So I pretty much just
used Crayola super tips
and mild liners.
I used a fuchsia color, a
light orange, a darker orange,
a lime green, a darker green and a pink
and I'll link all these colors.
I'll try to find the exact
color codes for the mod liners.
But as you guys know,
the Carrillo super tips
don't really have like specific
color names or numbers.
So unfortunately I won't be
able to differentiate those
for you but I will link
those down below as usual.
I feel like this color palette
was super popular back then
just like this pink, orange, green thing.
I don't know why it was
such a big color palette
but I can clearly remember a lot of things
with this type of color palette.
For the cover page. I
just started by placing
the main elements like the
larger flowers and hearts
and peace signs and then
I just outlined everything
with the same color, adding
smaller elements to fill in
any spaces and then once
I had the main shape
of the cover page with everything placed
on that diagonal falling
kind of layout, I outlined
all of that multiple times
with the different colors.
And that's why you see
the edges of this design
end up with orange and pink and green
which gives it that very
psychedelic funky look.
I really, really love how this turned out.
I think it's definitely different
from anything else that I've done.
You guys know I usually
do like smaller doodles
aligned with blacks.
So this was a fun
experiment for me and also
just very relaxing to create.
Anyway, on the other
page I did a quote page
in a very similar style.
The quote just says just vibing
which is the energy that I want to channel
for this month in June.
I just want a vibe.
For the lettering I used in that same kind
of chunky bubble Sarah font
that I used for the cover page
which I feel like was very
commonly seen in those eras.
And I did the quote in this circular shape
with the flowers kind
of spreading all around
the main quote in the
center which I feel like
turned out really, really well.
I don't know if it was the colors
or maybe it was just the
flowers with the green.
It also kind of reminded me
of the van from Scooby Doo.
I don't know if it's
just me, but that's just
what it gave off, which I
guess kind of makes sense
'cause Scooby Doo was
actually made in the 70s.
So it's very on point with the theme.
Normally for my bullet journal cover pages
I do a bit more sketching before going in
with like markers and fine liners.
Like I'll sketch out the main elements
or at least placeholders
where I can like block out
the the layout of everything.
But for this theme, I
really wanted to go along
with that psychedelic natural
vibe of the art from that era
which I feel like was a lot about going
with your instincts and
kind of really just vibing.
So if anything, I just sketched out where
I wanted the lettering to go.
But after that, as you'll see,
I never really sketched out
where I wanted the flowers
to go or any other elements.
I just kind went straight
in with my markers.
And if I felt like it needed
another extra little thing
I threw in a flower in
there then I outlined it
and kind of built it out
from there which I feel like
gave it a more authentic
instinctive look to the,
to the cover page and the quote page.
So next step we have my monthly
calendar spread, of course.
And in keeping with the
theme I drew with the lines
of my calendar with my orange
marker actually instead
of a black fine liner,
you'll see that I use
a black fine liner very minimally
throughout this entire setup.
So above the actual
calendar boxes of the days
I wrote the days of the week
in that same lettering style
that I had been using.
And I also used circles in the corner
of the boxes for the numbers of the day.
I did it in kind of like
a random color pattern.
Whenever I do this it always
ends up looking like Skittles
to me which I don't hate.
Once I had the base
layout for the calendar
I outlined everything, the
calendars and the letters
together included and kept outlining it
in like that concentric
pattern so that it ended up
looking more funky and psychedelic.
Oh, by the way the grid spacing
for these calendar boxes
are six by six just in case
any of you guys are wondering.
I know I get a lot of
questions about grid spacing.
What next?
Oh yes, so after I did that on
the right side of the spread
I drew all of the flower
doodles around the border
of the calendar.
I really focused them on that right side.
I wrote out June actually
on that right side as well
because there was space.
And once I did that, I
just focused on filling in
any empty spaces with my flower doodles,
peace signs, hearts, all of
the, all of the hippie stuff.
And again, really not planning out exactly
where I'm placing everything.
If I felt like drawing a flower
I just added one and I switched
out the markers accordingly.
I found that it really turned
out well with this theme
if you switched out the
colors really often.
So you'll see that I did a different color
for the center of the
flowers, a different color
for the pedals and then a
different color for the outline.
And that's consistent
for all of the flowers.
And then once you add a couple of them
you can kind of merge them all together
into one shape and
outline them all together,
fill in any blank spaces and all of that.
If you are gonna recreate
this theme or set up,
and I really really encourage you guys
to try something new, experiment.
You don't need to make this
setup look exactly like mine.
I feel like there's so much
freedom with this theme.
You can place different
flowers, shapes everywhere,
and just have fun with
like outlining things
in multiple colors and going crazy
with it because I feel
like that's, that's what
the whole 70s psychedelics
era was all about.
So I can't wait to see your
guys' versions of this theme.
So once I had filled in
most of the right side
of this spread I actually
decided to cut the edge
of the right side,
right along the outlines
of the flowers and of the June title.
And I feel like this
really gave it a unique,
cool kind of design to
the edge of the calendar.
If you really wanted to
you could also do the same
on the other side of the spread
but you just have to kind of be cognizant
of whatever's on the
other side of the page.
So since the cover page
was on the other side
of the left page, I decided not
to cut out the edge for that
and just stick to the right
side of the calendar spread.
But I still added some
other like floral doodles
on the left side as well.
And I love this calendar so much
it just makes me so happy
looking at it, like,
look at this guys.
How could you not be
happy looking at this?
This is like summer in a spread
and it just really reminds
me of like a calendar
that I would have loved doodling all over
when I was a tween.
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Next step we have my trackers.
I will say right off the bat
that I know I made a mistake.
I accidentally wrote
habit for my mood tracker.
I think I was just in the
zone and really didn't clue
into what I was doing, but you'll see,
you'll see how I fix it
later once I realize.
But anyway, for the mood tracker
that currently says habit
above it I did the same
font that I've been doing,
that sort of bolder groovy-looking font.
And I drew this large
flower shape in the center
of the page and I decided to make it
so that each pedal and
shape can be colored in
depending on my mood,
like a coloring book.
I also did the same for some
smaller flowers around it
in a kind of round
gathered shape altogether.
And I'm really excited to fill
this in because I feel like
by the end of it it'll look
so colorful and psychedelic,
perfectly on theme.
So that'll be really fun.
I made sure to have 30 different
spaces out, numbered out.
And I even integrated the little legend
that I would normally just
put on the bottom corner
but I integrated it into the overall shape
and design of the spreads.
So those little circles
that you see, I actually
colored them in depending
on what I want each color,
like which mood I want
each color to represent.
So that's kind of a fun thing.
And once I had all of the main shapes down
then I outlined everything
all together to merge it all
with those, those outlines all forming
this one large shape in the center.
So that was really cute.
And now to fix my mistake
I just wrote out mood
on a separate piece of
paper in that same font
and cut it out.
And I had to patch over the habit title
with a blank piece of
paper over the mistake
and then put the mood on
top of that blank paper.
Once I had attached it all,
if there were any blank spaces
I just fill it in with my markers
and connected any of the
outlines that I already had.
Honestly, I think it was
a pretty seamless fix
if you ask me, I'm kind of
proud of myself for this one
but it just shows you
that I make mistakes too.
And there's always ways to fix things.
I feel like art, I always say this
but art is just really
creative problem solving.
And like Bob Ross says,
there's no mistakes,
just happy accidents.
I do have a really old
video up on my channel
about fixing bullet
journal mistakes though.
If you haven't seen it yet,
I recommend you check it out
because a lot of times there's quick fixes
that you can do that are super easy.
On to the right side of the spread
which is my habit tracker,
my real habit tracker.
Luckily I didn't make a mistake
for the spread for this month.
I wrote out the habit title
at the bottom of the spread.
And then I wrote out the
numbers one through 30
vertically up the side
of the page and outlined
a rounded box above it.
At the top of the box, I
drew all of the little icons
that represent the
different themes, or sorry,
the different habits
that I wanted to track.
I have working out.
I have taking my vitamins,
vocal practice, going on walks,
working on shop stuff, all of that.
Once I had the main layout
of the habit-tracker chart
I just outlined the rounded
rectangle multiple times
in different colors and merged it
with the habit-tracker lettering.
And then I worked on adding
all of the floral heart sign
peace doodles along the right
side of the habit tracker
where there was all that empty space.
Like all of the other spreads
I didn't really have a plan
going into this spread.
I actually initially thought
that the habit tracker
was going to be in the
center and I would have
all the doodles around it on both sides
but I kind of accidentally
did it on the left side.
So the flower doodles ended up
only being on the right side
but I kind of liked how it looked.
It gave it a nice cool edge that matched
the calendar spread.
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Back to the bullet journal set up.
The next spread that I'm
doing is my playlist spread.
For this I was listening to
pretty summery happy music
while I was creating the spread.
So I think I was feeling extra bold.
So I decided to draw
these large wavy lines
around the outlines
and edges of the pages.
And I think this really, really adds
to the psychedelic look.
I did it in multiple different colors,
kind of followed along
with the wavy design.
Didn't really sketch it out too, too much.
And then once I had that wavy design done
I just added some random
flowers scattered around
on top of that design.
So as you'll see later
that it kind of builds up
and makes it look very
dynamic, free flowing,
a lot of movement which
I think is really fun
especially for a spread
that's all about music.
You can see, I wrote out
playlist pretty large
in that same lettering style
and I actually did it kind of diagonally
and not super straight
just to again, follow along
with those wavy lines and
that more natural look to it.
Okay year here you'll see I'm
drawing all those flowers,
pretty much in any spaces that
I felt like were a bit empty
or kind of making the waves go in between
all of the flowers.
So kind of in what is it the concaves,
con, concave, convex, convects areas
of the wavy lines.
I don't know which one it is.
You guys can see what I'm doing, honestly.
Actually my orange marker ended up
running out by the end of this.
So luckily I had a backup
Crayola Super Tips marker set.
So we're good to go, but
definitely used as you can see,
used the markers quite a lot
for this spread in particular.
In terms of the actual songs
that you guys know as usual
I love sharing my favorite
songs that I've been
jamming out to recently.
I'm gonna link a whole Spotify playlist
down below with all of these songs
in case you want to check any of them out.
I mostly included upbeat summery songs
but also some of my favorite 70s songs
and early Y2K songs to
go along with the theme.
But on the spread, I had just written out
some of my favorite songs recently.
We of course have BTS Butter,
Olivia Rodriguez's new song
which everyone has been
loving and a bunch of others.
Again, the full playlist
will be linked down below,
but all of these songs were just written
in rounded rectangles, also
scattered pretty naturally
in the center of these
wavy shapes and the flowers
all around it.
I really love this spread.
I think it couldn't
have turned out better.
I think it's just so fun,
especially for such a fun theme.
I definitely wanted to
make sure that I had
a less-structured layout
somewhere in this setup.
And this was just perfect.
Finally we have the first
weekly spread of June.
This is the perfect time
to mention, like I said
at the intro of the video, I unfortunately
don't think I'll be able
to stream my weekly spreads
like I normally do
every Saturday on Twitch
just because I won't have access
to my full large PC streaming setup
but I will try to do them on Instagram
and TikTok Live simultaneously.
So whether you have Instagram or TikTok
I'll try to do it at the same time.
Instead just because
it's just a little bit
of a quicker setup than my full PC.
It'll be at the same time.
Saturday at 11:00 AM Eastern time.
So yeah, just a reminder
while we're on the topic
of weekly spreads, I
am not ditching Twitch.
It's only for this month,
you guys will see why.
I wish I could tell you more
but you guys will see why.
Anyway, back to this weekly spread
I did the layout that has four boxes
on both sides of the page.
The spacing for this is 12 by 18.
And for the spread I drew
flowers in the corner
of each quadrant which is where
I put the number of the day.
And then I outlined the
box and flower together
with this rounded rectangle shape.
I made the header of each
day a little bit thicker
with rounded corners and
wrote out the day of the week.
And I did different color
combinations of the flower styles
and the boxes to just kind of
make it look a bit more fun.
And then on the empty
space in the top left
I just filled it in that wavy
psychedelic pattern that I did
on the playlist spread which
I think added something
and brought this whole spread together.
It really reminded me of
something that I would have loved
to have as a kid.
Especially with the flowers,
it's just very, I feel like
Lizzie McGuire tween E.
If you guys couldn't
tell I was a very big fan
of Lizzie McGuire.
By the way, before I show
you guys the flip through
of this setup I'm actually
going to be switching notebooks
after June is over because I
only have a few pages left.
So I will be in a new notebook for July.
I wanted to ask you which
color you think I should use.
We're launching five new colors
of the dotted notebooks
on Shop Amanda actually
this Sunday May 30th at
12:00 PM Eastern time.
But my favorite part of
these notebooks is that
we added edge printing to the page edges
as you can see, the edge
of the notebook matches
the color of the front cover which I think
makes it look so luxurious and cute,
especially with the cute new charm.
We're also launching undated
versions of the doodle planner
which I'm so excited for.
It's perfect for any of you guys who don't
start your planners on January.
So any of you people who follow
the academic year format,
not everyone starts
school on the same month.
Some people start
January, July, September,
all of the above.
So with the undated versions you just have
added customization.
It also is great because you
can skip months if you need to
and just pick right back up
and you won't have any wasted pages.
I think this is the coolest part.
Every undated doodle lanner
planner is going to come
with a sticker set of
handwritten months for you to use
on whatever cover page or calendar page
that you're using for that month.
I've been working so
hard and the whole team
has been working so hard on
this and the fun photo shoots
that you've been seeing on Instagram.
So it's been really fun.
Hope you guys want to
twin with me May 30th,
12:00 PM eastern time, go grab yours.
So let me know which color
you think I should use
for the second half of
the year in the comments.
I'm stuck between the sky
blue and the slate gray.
So vote down below.
And I guess you'll find out
which one I end up switching to
in the next pen with me.
All right so here is the full flip through
of my June, 2021 psychedelic
70s mixed with Y2K tween vibes.
This one was extra fun
to make and it might be
in the ranks with some of
my other top tier faves
because I just love how it turned out.
So that was fun, wasn't it?
We set up bullet journals, we chatted.
Make sure you guys mark
the date for the launch
in your calendar 'cause
I'm really excited.
As usual I wanted to showcase
some of your recreations from last month.
You guys had so much fun
with last month's theme.
I'm so glad because that was also one
of my favorite themes to do as well.
So here you go.
If you do recreate any of
my bullet journal spreads
whether it be this month's theme
or previous month's theme, be
sure to tag me on Instagram
and you can also use our
hashtag, hashtag little doodles.
Yeah, that's pretty much it.
I love you.
Hope you have a great day and
keep doodling, bye everyone.
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