I've blogged multiple times about my planners. I'm not sure I mentioned, though, how much I love to put stickers on my pages. Mostly functional stickers, like for the gym, or blogging, or when the lawn was mowed, but I also do use some deco stickers. If you look at what planner stickers cost, you know this was getting expensive pretty fast.
Blogging stickers, for example. I blog twice a week. That's over a hundred of these stickers a year. A page of stickers will have like 30 on there. Even waiting for a sale, costs add up fast. I had to slow down or stop using the stickers all together for this reason.
Other planner and craft peeps are probably screaming Cricut or Silhouette cutter right now. :-)
I had a Silhouette cutter already and I'm not kidding when I tell you it was one of their early models. In fact, since they say they were founded in 2009, I probably have the very first model. I had it out on my desk, but didn't use it because it was so rudimentary compared to what I saw in the online tutorials available and it was hard to extrapolate what I was seeing online to my antique machine.
Then the post-Thanksgiving sales hit and there was a sale on a Silhouette Cameo 3. A bundle. I struggled to resist. After all, if I wasn't using the cutter I had now, what were the odds I'd use a new machine?
And then I caved like a house of cards on a windy day. :-)
The surprise was that (with this new, modern machine) I am using it. A lot! I bought printable stickers online and then setup my cut lines. I uploaded my logo for The Paladin League and made a giant sticker for my notebook. (This was super cool and had me geeking out! Personalized notebooks for every series is definitely in my future!)
I found clip art of people and characters online--free for personal use--and made Moana stickers. If you follow me on Facebook, you would have seen a planner page with the sticker on it that I posted in December.
The old model would still be sitting on my desk collecting dust.
Through tutorials, I also learned how to cut card stock which is what I bought the 2009 model to do. I was big into scrapbooking at the time. I also have a roll of vinyl that I'd like to learn how to use because I totally want to make my own personalized mugs. Not that I need another mug, but you know.... Oooh! Maybe I could make my own wall vinyls for the house! Not that I need to put vinyl on my walls, but you know... ;-)
But for right now, I think I'll just keep making my own stickers. It's actually turning out to be fun!
