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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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