Hello! I’m delighted to share with you today, the brand new Mama Makers Box from Mama Makes. Every year, to celebrate Mama Makes’ birthday, Loti releases a Makers Box full of crafty goodies, and this year, she asked me if I would design the contents. How could I say no?! So check out the video below to see all the bits and bobs I designed.

The box and washi tapes are available to buy on the Mama Makes website right now, so hurry while they’re still in stock! x

Hello, lovely friends!

Just to let you know that I am taking a break from Instagram and YouTube for a little while. Life is pretty demanding at the moment, so I’m creating a little extra headspace. My Etsy shop is still open and orders are still being shipped out on time.

with love

Natalie x

Hello! It’s me, Natalie, here with a question to ask you: what do you do with your leftover stickers? I don’t know about you, but I really dislike having a few stickers left on a sheet. It feels untidy, and they look so lonely and left out! So, I was delighted to find, when I opened one of the Advent Experience packets, a beautiful EBDUK sticker album.

I confess, when I first saw sticker albums come on the scene, I was rather dubious about them. Why keep leftover stickers at all? Why not just stick them on a page? But over time, I’ve come to see how useful such albums are. You can remove those leftover stickers from their sheets thus eliminating their untidiness, and then you can gather and organise them in a way that suits the way you stickerate, plus you can store them for just the right moment to use them.

My brain works in colours. I organise all my arts and craft supplies in colour groups, usually in rainbow(ish) order. When starting a project, whether it’s planning, painting or memory-keeping, colour is how I initially select media and materials. It seemed natural, therefore, to organise my EBDUK sticker album according to rainbow order, plus a few extras. So, I’ve got red, pink, orange, yellow, green, blue, violet, brown, black, white, grey and rainbow/multicolour.

To help me easily find the colour I want, I added coloured tabs every few pages. Until I knew how my album would work for me, I stuck these tabs down with double-sided tape, but now I know how many pages I actually need for each section, I think I’ll attach the tabs more permanently, maybe with a mini stapler.

Now that I can readily see all my leftover stickers, I’m thinking of doing a leftover sticker week in my bullet journal, maybe mixing them with some of the rainbow washi strips from the A5 functional sticker sheets.

So how does your brain stickerate? Do you organise your stickers by colour, by shape, by size, by function? Whatever way you sort, I think an album would be a good way of grouping your leftover stickers, because they’ll be there waiting for you, ready for when you want to use them.

Until next time … happy stickerating!

With love

Natalie x

I am on the EllieBeth Designs UK Creative Planning Team! Use my code NATALIE10 during checkout. You’ll get 10% off your order, and I’ll receive a few rainbow rewards to spend on stickers (at no additional cost to you). Win win!

 

Hello, lovely friends! In today’s video, I create two quick and easy A5 scrapbook pages to go in my journal. For both of the pages, I used Kaisercraft’s ‘Oh Happy Day’ sticker book because both pages were about celebration. The first page features photos of my son in his first car – something of a right of passage – and the second, features photos of my son on his 19th birthday. Both of these events took place in the same week, so I created them back-to-back on one sheet of white card.

Before I began sticking things down though, I looked through the sticker book and created a couple of sketches to follow while creating. I like working from sketches as they take a lot of the indecision out of the process of actually creating. If you’d like to download a copy of the sketches to print and follow, you can find them here.

Thanks for stopping by! xxx