My Favorite Craft Supply Shops

I always have people asking where I buy my craft supplies and what brand they are etc. Now, my craft collection has kind of just evolved and grown bigger over the years and I also get quite a lot of craft supplies as gifts - it might take a wee while to get started but I thought I would share with any of you who are interested about some cool places to buy craft supplies and grow your collection

The first and most obvious place I can think of is the craft isles in The Warehouse, there is Washi tape stickers and paper plus lots of tools and adhesives you can add to your collection. 

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If you are looking for even more Washi tape take a look in Warehouse stationary they also have a lot of awesome stickers there too.

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If you prefer online shopping I would definitely recommend Etsy because they have just about anything and its quite affordable.

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Sometimes Whitcoulls has some stuff but it usually sells out pretty quickly.

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That is the main places I know that sell craft supplies but you should keep your eye out because lots of places stock items but they are usually hard to find or they sell out quickly. You could also look at online shops and things like that because they can sometimes have really unique things, another idea is to reuse old things like packaging or wrapping paper or even the ribbons on presents.

Thank you for reading this post, if you have any questions or any other suggestions please ask in the comments section below.

bbyyyee!

My New Planner DIY

My planner will end in July so I have started to make my new one for August through to December 2016. My inspiration was bright pastel colours and kikki k personal planners. If you didn't already know kikki k planners are on the pricey side so I decided that I would create my own.

Here is what you will need to create a planner like mine or even completely different.

also you will need a lot of different coloured paper in all different patterns and textures.

This was the book that I used, it is a Typo notebook with plain lined pages and three dividers spread through the book.

The book cover is layers of card paper glued together and shaped how I liked it. I planned to make the book with a clip closure and this is how, once I had made the cover I cut a hole in the cover where I wanted the clip and then inserted the clip closure and taped it on the inside cover before covering the taped areas with patterned paper.

This is the inside cover of my planner it has some pockets and spaces to put various stickers and inserts. I then covered the front cover of the book itself in paper and added a label with my name on it and some other cute stickers.

I then started to draw in the planner pages. although this takes a long time and it is pretty frustrating it is totally worth it in the end, and you can make each page to suit you.

I then added tabs for each month so the page was easy to find. To attach the book to the cover I wrapped a piece of card paper around the back cover of the book and then glued the paper to the cover, the book can come out if I need it to but it is still very stable and it won't go anywhere.

This is all I have done so far but I will update you when I do more work on it,

thank you for reading and I hope I gave you ideas or inspiration to create your own planner.

If you have any questions on how I made something please ask in the comments section and I will try to get back to you.

Bye Bye.