PLAN WITH ME | June 2021 Bullet Journal Setup

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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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