Hi all! My name is Jamie, and I’m excited to be joining the Geek Craft crew in the new year.
For my inaugural post, I thought I’d share some pics of a new planner I made for myself a few weeks ago.
My craft weapon of choice is often paper, whether that’s through journaling, stationery, or zines, so I sometimes I can be a little picky when it’s time to commit to a planner for a whole year. This year (or I should really say last year), I wasn’t finding anything I loved, so I decided to make my own.
I drew the days of the week and surrounded them with some cut-and-paste action from a crappy old kids’ joke book I found. I like the old-skool zine feel of it.
For the cover, I splurged on some fancy-pants robot fabric at my local shop. I’m really pleased with/surprised at how straight I was able to keep everything!
I learned how to do this online a few years ago, and unfortunately I can’t find the exact same website, but mothteeth.com has a similar tutorial. It’s not too difficult, it just takes a lil patience, and acceptance of the inevitable imperfections.
Love the planner, Jamie! Be sure I’ll try that tutorial, the results are great…
Happy new year! ^_^
Very nice! I took some Book as Art classes at my college, designing one’s own books is very enjoyable.