Creating Planner DIYs: A Beginner's Journey

As I sat at my desk, surrounded by scraps of paper and craft supplies, I couldn't help but feel a sense of excitement and nervousness. My goal was to create some beautiful planner DIYs, but I had no idea where to start. I began by rummaging through my stash of paper clips, searching for the perfect one to use as the base for my first project. After trying out a few different sizes and shapes, I finally found the one that I wanted - it was a simple paper clip with a bit of flair.

Next, I decided to add some embellishments to make my paper clip more interesting. I used a hot glue gun to attach some colorful paper strips to the back of the paper clip, creating a fun and playful design. As I worked, I couldn't help but think about how easy it was to create something beautiful with just a few simple supplies. The paper clip and embellishments looked great on their own, but I wanted to take my DIY to the next level.

To add some extra flair, I decided to weave the paper clips together using a technique called "hold tight." This involved wrapping the paper clips around each other in a circular motion, holding them tight with hot glue. It was a bit tricky at first, but once I got the hang of it, I was able to create a beautiful and sturdy design. As I worked on this project, I realized that practice makes perfect, and I couldn't wait to try out my new technique.

My next DIY project involved using a tool that I had been saving for a special occasion. I decided to attach it to the paper clip, but things didn't quite go as planned. The hot glue refused to hold, and I was left with a tangled mess. However, I didn't give up - I used a ribbon instead of hot glue to tie everything together, creating a beautiful and rustic design. I learned that sometimes, things don't work out exactly as planned, but that's okay. It's all part of the creative process.

Moving on from my tool DIY, I decided to create a shaker card using some clear pocket-like goodie bags from Daiso. I filled them with sequins and rhinestones, adding a bit of sparkle and shine. However, I soon realized that this design wasn't quite working - the background paper was too plain, and I wanted something more interesting. So, I took everything out of the bag and started again, tracing the pocket around my paper to create a new background.

As I worked on my shaker card, I couldn't help but think about my inspiration for the design - a beautiful notepad that I had seen in the Target dollar spot section. The notepad was a stunning work of art, with colorful illustrations and inspiring quotes. It made me want to create something similar, using my own unique style and flair.

To add some personality to my shaker card, I used stickers from the Dollar Tree - specifically, heart-shaped rhinestone stickers that I had seen in my planner before. I added about four of them to the inside of the pocket bag, creating a sweet and sentimental design. Next, I filled the rest of the bag with sequins and rhinestones, sealing it with some washi tape.

As I finished up my shaker card, I couldn't help but feel a sense of pride and accomplishment. Creating planner DIYs is all about experimenting and having fun, even when things don't go exactly as planned. I learned that practice makes perfect, and that sometimes, the best ideas come from trying something new. My shaker card turned out to be beautiful, with a lovely mixture of sequins, rhinestones, and washi tape.

As I looked around my desk at the various supplies and materials that I had used for these DIYs, I felt grateful for the opportunity to express my creativity. Creating planner DIYs is not only fun but also rewarding, allowing me to add a personal touch to my planner pages. Whether you're a seasoned crafter or just starting out, I encourage you to give this a try - it's never too late to start exploring your creative side.

Before moving on to the next part of our journey, I want to apologize for any mistakes that may have occurred during filming. As a beginner, I'm still learning how to handle my camera and microphone, but I promise to improve with time and practice. Thank you to all of my viewers who have been watching along and supporting me every step of the way - your encouragement means the world to me!

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enokay so we are going to make these cute paperclips and I was very surprised at how easy it was to do I used most of the products from Dollar Tree and the little perfume bottles were from Michaels so let's go ahead and get started on how to put these together they were so cute I'm so excited about them now here are the cards that I got from Michaels it was in the dollar 50 bin and immediately when I saw them I knew I wanted to cut them up and make them into a paperclips and that's pretty much it you guys you just cut around it and I also used a hole puncher a one-inch hole puncher that I had on hand and you're going to need some really small precise scissors because the perfume bottles are really tiny and the little edges are you know really small spaces to cut into so smaller scissors are going to be best for this now I'm just punching out some of these little circles from the back of the card so that we can cover up the back of the paperclip so it looks nice and pretty in the end so I'm just cutting up four of those and then I am going to begin what am i doing I don't even know okay so now here I'm going to actually cut the card in half and now I am going to take my scissors and cut around the perfume bottle now be sure to not cut into the black line the black line of the perfume bottle is really pretty and makes it look really nice and it stands out so cut outside of the black line okay once I have all of those cut the next thing that I did was I picked out my paperclips which I got from the Dollar Tree there are the large kind and as you can see I'm kind of playing around with some colors and figuring out which color paper clip to choose and ultimately I just went with white and pink now these self-laminating cards also came from the Dollar Tree the I always surprised at how cheap and inexpensive that you can actually do crafts I don't know why I'm saying this because I say it all the time but as you can see I'm plate placing them facedown into the not sticky part because this part right here that I'm peeling is the sticky part so you just line them up you want to make sure that they're not too close to each other because you're going to want room to cut them apart from one another and now I'm just peeling back the sticky label and now I am going to take like a scoring thing I don't know what that's really called but you can also use like a plastic like grocery card or credit card to do this and you want to get as close as possible to the actual item that you laminated you want to get rid of any of those bubbles and any of that spacing because if there's bubbles or spacing then the salt the laminating sheets will open up so I'm just as you can see I'm kind of getting into all the grooves and making sure that I've got all the bubbles out now I am going to begin cutting it all so right here I am showing you that in these little tight corners that there are bubbles so try to really get in there and get rid of those because if you cut into that bubble the laminating sheet will open basically so I am going to give it enough room because it's not completely like flushed against the perfume bottles there is going to be some bubble around it so don't cut into the bubble cut outside of the bubble and it's trial and error so you'll see what I'm talking about if you do the same thing that I did but you want to cut outside of where you kind of see that bubble because the perfume bottles are thick and because it was self laminating it just didn't like Ceylon as tightly as it should have okay now we're going to take some hot glue and apply it to the back and you want to make sure that you are not hot gluing in the clear part where you can see the laminating sheet so and then I'm going to add some more hot glue and this is the part where you want to make sure that the backing doesn't go in the clear part because if you flipped over your perfume bottle you would be able to see the circle dot at the bottom so you don't see it here because I actually ran into this problem and I had to peel off the little circle and reposition it a little bit higher so that you couldn't see it on the other side so super simple and that's it these are some of my favorite stickers from the Dollar Tree and I thought it'd be really cute to add it to the back of my perfume bottles and give it a little bit of an extra pretty little kick and then I realized why don't I just make a paper clip out of this as well and I didn't even use hot glue gun on this I mean they were sticky enough to just pend together like this with the paper clip in between and that is it and these stickers come in different sizes as well so it works for anything and then I made another one this is a Dollar Tree heart pick red and glitter and you just add some hot glue to the back of that as well all you need is hot glue another simple idea to do your own DIY paper clips is to use any sort of ribbon now in this one I am using a Valentine's Day themed ribbon with hearts on it and I picked out a red paper clip and then you lay the ribbon on top of the paper clip centered and then you take one side of the tail and pull through and take the other side of the tail and pull through and then you pull it up and tight and then you turn it around add some hot glue to reinforce it so that it doesn't loosen up and then you let that dry turn it around and you trim it to however long you want your paper clip tails to be and that is it you can also apply the same method with multiple ribbons all-in-one it just takes a little bit of time to weave you know every little strand of ribbon through the paperclip but as you can see I'm just picking out the patterns that I want and I'm kind of going with a valentine's day pinky gold theme and then what I decide to do is stack them on top of each other in the order that I wanted them kind of to be in and you'll see me kind of make some decisions here on whether or not I want certain like ribbons to be in this one in the end I take away the one with the black I just figured I just didn't really go with this one so I took it out of the mix and then I applied the same thing that I did with the red heart paper clip so put it put your ribbons on top of the paper clip and then weave them through hold tight takes a little bit of like a little tug and pull til you get all the way up and then turn it around and add your hot glue so that it stays nice and tight and never unfold and then you can trim that as well and I did the same thing with a green patterned paper clip the next paperclip DIY that I made was using some tool and I had this on hand so I just kind of threw this together not really knowing what I was doing but I just kind of took half of the tool and fed it through the paperclip like you see here and then I tried to hog blew the two sides together but then I quickly learned that tool does not like hot glue it almost like crystallizes I don't know how to explain it so to tie it together I use a ribbon but actually I could have just used like a rubber band but a ribbon just makes it look a lot nicer because you will be able to see the back of it so I just used a white thin ribbon to hot glue around it and then I took some of this pink ribbon and like in the breast cancer sign and then you fold it kind of down to make your little bow and then I took some of that same same white thin ribbon and tied it around in a knot it doesn't really matter cause you won't be able to see it so I tied it in a double knot and then I trimmed off the excess and added a dab of hot glue to the center so that the knot wouldn't unfold and then you just take your bow and you hot glue it to your tool then as you see here I'm just kind of trimming the tails I started one way and didn't like it and trimmed it again I ended up trimming a little too short but that's okay and then I trimmed the tool at the top and I was all done now let's get started on this DIY shaker card I showed this in my plan with me and yesterday's video so go check that out if you want to see it a ton of you seem to really love this I'm super excited to share it with you now the first thing that I use are these little clear pocket like goodie bags that I got at Daiso because only the top is open which I thought I can just seal that with washi so originally I added all of my little like sequins and rhinestones and then our figure that wasn't enough so I want to add a background and that's what you see me doing here and I know this isn't the like smartest way to figure it out but I just kind of traced the pocket around my paper and then cut it and then realized I had to cut it a little bit more so that it would fit inside and then when I put that in there I felt like that was a little too plain for me as well so I took it back out and let me tell you guys I spent so much time on the shaker card because I could just not figure out what I wanted it to look like and this was actually my inspiration was this beautiful notepad that I got from the target dollar spot and she was my little theme as well in my planner so go check that out and then as you can see I'm putting I'm trying to put this sticker on here and then I just did not like it so I took it back off and then I decided to use my favorite heart film stickers from the Dollar Tree because rhinestone hearts are also from the Dollar Tree I just didn't like them that much so I did love these so I just kind of put about four of them in here slid it back into the pocket and then put all of my sequins and rhinestones in there as well and then I just sealed the top with some washi I just was blown away that I made my first shaker card and that it looked so adorable so as I'm sitting here filling this up I'm realizing that I really need to work a little bit harder on my filming angle you see half of the stuff and I'm really sorry about that I'm really going to work on that but anyway here I am using some really gorgeous washi and just sealing the top and then you'll see me like kind of fold it over and then we'll fold it over there so that the sequins nothing kind of falls out and then I trim the ends and that is your shaker card you guys from Daiso from Dollar Tree from target dollar spot and some sequins hello it's gorgeous but that's it for today's planner DIYs this is all that I have done so myself I'm just a beginner as well and I'm hoping to have even more amazing planner DIYs later in the future thank you guys so much for watching and I'll see you tomorrow byeokay so we are going to make these cute paperclips and I was very surprised at how easy it was to do I used most of the products from Dollar Tree and the little perfume bottles were from Michaels so let's go ahead and get started on how to put these together they were so cute I'm so excited about them now here are the cards that I got from Michaels it was in the dollar 50 bin and immediately when I saw them I knew I wanted to cut them up and make them into a paperclips and that's pretty much it you guys you just cut around it and I also used a hole puncher a one-inch hole puncher that I had on hand and you're going to need some really small precise scissors because the perfume bottles are really tiny and the little edges are you know really small spaces to cut into so smaller scissors are going to be best for this now I'm just punching out some of these little circles from the back of the card so that we can cover up the back of the paperclip so it looks nice and pretty in the end so I'm just cutting up four of those and then I am going to begin what am i doing I don't even know okay so now here I'm going to actually cut the card in half and now I am going to take my scissors and cut around the perfume bottle now be sure to not cut into the black line the black line of the perfume bottle is really pretty and makes it look really nice and it stands out so cut outside of the black line okay once I have all of those cut the next thing that I did was I picked out my paperclips which I got from the Dollar Tree there are the large kind and as you can see I'm kind of playing around with some colors and figuring out which color paper clip to choose and ultimately I just went with white and pink now these self-laminating cards also came from the Dollar Tree the I always surprised at how cheap and inexpensive that you can actually do crafts I don't know why I'm saying this because I say it all the time but as you can see I'm plate placing them facedown into the not sticky part because this part right here that I'm peeling is the sticky part so you just line them up you want to make sure that they're not too close to each other because you're going to want room to cut them apart from one another and now I'm just peeling back the sticky label and now I am going to take like a scoring thing I don't know what that's really called but you can also use like a plastic like grocery card or credit card to do this and you want to get as close as possible to the actual item that you laminated you want to get rid of any of those bubbles and any of that spacing because if there's bubbles or spacing then the salt the laminating sheets will open up so I'm just as you can see I'm kind of getting into all the grooves and making sure that I've got all the bubbles out now I am going to begin cutting it all so right here I am showing you that in these little tight corners that there are bubbles so try to really get in there and get rid of those because if you cut into that bubble the laminating sheet will open basically so I am going to give it enough room because it's not completely like flushed against the perfume bottles there is going to be some bubble around it so don't cut into the bubble cut outside of the bubble and it's trial and error so you'll see what I'm talking about if you do the same thing that I did but you want to cut outside of where you kind of see that bubble because the perfume bottles are thick and because it was self laminating it just didn't like Ceylon as tightly as it should have okay now we're going to take some hot glue and apply it to the back and you want to make sure that you are not hot gluing in the clear part where you can see the laminating sheet so and then I'm going to add some more hot glue and this is the part where you want to make sure that the backing doesn't go in the clear part because if you flipped over your perfume bottle you would be able to see the circle dot at the bottom so you don't see it here because I actually ran into this problem and I had to peel off the little circle and reposition it a little bit higher so that you couldn't see it on the other side so super simple and that's it these are some of my favorite stickers from the Dollar Tree and I thought it'd be really cute to add it to the back of my perfume bottles and give it a little bit of an extra pretty little kick and then I realized why don't I just make a paper clip out of this as well and I didn't even use hot glue gun on this I mean they were sticky enough to just pend together like this with the paper clip in between and that is it and these stickers come in different sizes as well so it works for anything and then I made another one this is a Dollar Tree heart pick red and glitter and you just add some hot glue to the back of that as well all you need is hot glue another simple idea to do your own DIY paper clips is to use any sort of ribbon now in this one I am using a Valentine's Day themed ribbon with hearts on it and I picked out a red paper clip and then you lay the ribbon on top of the paper clip centered and then you take one side of the tail and pull through and take the other side of the tail and pull through and then you pull it up and tight and then you turn it around add some hot glue to reinforce it so that it doesn't loosen up and then you let that dry turn it around and you trim it to however long you want your paper clip tails to be and that is it you can also apply the same method with multiple ribbons all-in-one it just takes a little bit of time to weave you know every little strand of ribbon through the paperclip but as you can see I'm just picking out the patterns that I want and I'm kind of going with a valentine's day pinky gold theme and then what I decide to do is stack them on top of each other in the order that I wanted them kind of to be in and you'll see me kind of make some decisions here on whether or not I want certain like ribbons to be in this one in the end I take away the one with the black I just figured I just didn't really go with this one so I took it out of the mix and then I applied the same thing that I did with the red heart paper clip so put it put your ribbons on top of the paper clip and then weave them through hold tight takes a little bit of like a little tug and pull til you get all the way up and then turn it around and add your hot glue so that it stays nice and tight and never unfold and then you can trim that as well and I did the same thing with a green patterned paper clip the next paperclip DIY that I made was using some tool and I had this on hand so I just kind of threw this together not really knowing what I was doing but I just kind of took half of the tool and fed it through the paperclip like you see here and then I tried to hog blew the two sides together but then I quickly learned that tool does not like hot glue it almost like crystallizes I don't know how to explain it so to tie it together I use a ribbon but actually I could have just used like a rubber band but a ribbon just makes it look a lot nicer because you will be able to see the back of it so I just used a white thin ribbon to hot glue around it and then I took some of this pink ribbon and like in the breast cancer sign and then you fold it kind of down to make your little bow and then I took some of that same same white thin ribbon and tied it around in a knot it doesn't really matter cause you won't be able to see it so I tied it in a double knot and then I trimmed off the excess and added a dab of hot glue to the center so that the knot wouldn't unfold and then you just take your bow and you hot glue it to your tool then as you see here I'm just kind of trimming the tails I started one way and didn't like it and trimmed it again I ended up trimming a little too short but that's okay and then I trimmed the tool at the top and I was all done now let's get started on this DIY shaker card I showed this in my plan with me and yesterday's video so go check that out if you want to see it a ton of you seem to really love this I'm super excited to share it with you now the first thing that I use are these little clear pocket like goodie bags that I got at Daiso because only the top is open which I thought I can just seal that with washi so originally I added all of my little like sequins and rhinestones and then our figure that wasn't enough so I want to add a background and that's what you see me doing here and I know this isn't the like smartest way to figure it out but I just kind of traced the pocket around my paper and then cut it and then realized I had to cut it a little bit more so that it would fit inside and then when I put that in there I felt like that was a little too plain for me as well so I took it back out and let me tell you guys I spent so much time on the shaker card because I could just not figure out what I wanted it to look like and this was actually my inspiration was this beautiful notepad that I got from the target dollar spot and she was my little theme as well in my planner so go check that out and then as you can see I'm putting I'm trying to put this sticker on here and then I just did not like it so I took it back off and then I decided to use my favorite heart film stickers from the Dollar Tree because rhinestone hearts are also from the Dollar Tree I just didn't like them that much so I did love these so I just kind of put about four of them in here slid it back into the pocket and then put all of my sequins and rhinestones in there as well and then I just sealed the top with some washi I just was blown away that I made my first shaker card and that it looked so adorable so as I'm sitting here filling this up I'm realizing that I really need to work a little bit harder on my filming angle you see half of the stuff and I'm really sorry about that I'm really going to work on that but anyway here I am using some really gorgeous washi and just sealing the top and then you'll see me like kind of fold it over and then we'll fold it over there so that the sequins nothing kind of falls out and then I trim the ends and that is your shaker card you guys from Daiso from Dollar Tree from target dollar spot and some sequins hello it's gorgeous but that's it for today's planner DIYs this is all that I have done so myself I'm just a beginner as well and I'm hoping to have even more amazing planner DIYs later in the future thank you guys so much for watching and I'll see you tomorrow bye\n"