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two recent projects

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Hey, boo boos! I'm popping in today to let you know that I posted the two recent projects you see above and below to my website: www.amandarosezampelli.com.

Yes, I've been few & far in between this site and that one, sporadically posting, trying to revamp what currently is that space and get back into some sort of personal blogging routine. This has been going on since May-ish, and it's October this week. But, anyway, I digress.

Details on the October prep page in my Happy Planner can be found HERE and my Project Life 2015 |Summer| pages can be found HERE. Hope you check 'em out! thanks for stopping by! xoxo

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Monday, September 28, 2015 at 07:59 AM in PLANNER, project life, Project Life 2015 | Permalink | Comments (2)

'Song on Loop' free planner printable

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A new month, a new set of freebies I designed for me & my BIG ideas. I'm excited to share this free printable that documents the song that plays on repeat during the week. You know what I'm talking about -- sometimes it's the brand new Summer single you can't hear enough of, and sometimes it's one of your favorite oldies that your iPod brings back in shuffle (for me that song is "Dreams" by The Cranberries). Whichever song you're listening to on loop that week, you now have a design to stick in your planner and document it on!   They are available for FREE DOWNLOAD on the mambi blog HERE.

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Head over, click the link, print the page, and cut them out! It's that simple! As you can see above, they're made to especially fit a box inside of the weekly columns of The Happy Planner™, but so cute to include on any jazzed up planner page. I also made the design in a variety of different colors, so they can easily coordinate with other embellishments. Enjoy!

Monday, June 01, 2015 at 07:13 AM in free downloads, me & my BIG ideas, PLANNER | Permalink | Comments (0)

'CURRENTLY' free planner printables

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A new month, a new set of freebies I designed for me & my BIG ideas. I'm excited to share this free printable with a 'CURRENTLY' theme to use in your planner.  I imagine myself filling one of these out every month and then looking back on them at the end of the year to reflect on the different things I was up to.   They are available for FREE DOWNLOAD on the mambi blog HERE.

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Head over, click the links for each, print the pages, and cut them out! It's that simple! As you can see above, they're made to especially fit the weekly (or monthly) sidebar columns of The Happy Planner™, but so cute to include on any jazzed up planner page. I also made the design in a variety of different colors, so they can easily coordinate with other embellishments. Enjoy!

Monday, May 04, 2015 at 07:13 AM in free downloads, me & my BIG ideas, PLANNER | Permalink | Comments (2)

prepping May in my Happy Planner™

I've shared that my new planner had arrived and what I did with the first page.  I also shared the first three weeks of March in my Happy Planner™ and talked about how I'm using the planner as a mini Project Life -- documenting a week at a time by printing out pictures and journaling about the day. I've shared the green-themed pages documenting the last full week in March and the weekly spread that included the four day long trip to Florida I lovingly hashtagged #partyatGrams2015.

Today I'm share with you all how I prepped my Special Events page and my monthly pages for May.

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I kept to the seafoam green theme for the Special Events page to play off the 'May' tab when choosing which Happy Planner™ embellishments I wanted to use.

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I added seafoam colored stickers next to and underneath the titles of the different sections of the Special Events page. Season ink and a date stamp marked the birthdays and important dates.  For the 'goals' section, I stuck three mambiSTICKS that made for good monthly goals (and kept my color scheme).  I filled the 'Don't Forget' section with Happy Planner™ sticky notes of three assignments due this month. Lastly, I added the 'TOAST' jumbo mambiSTICK sticker tot it perfectly in the strip at the top of the page, and I like the celebratory vibe about it being May that it gives off.

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For my monthly spread, I embellished the left hand column with some inspirational quotes stickers I want to read every day this month.  I also continued the use of my seafoam date stamp. The "my life is rich & full" inspirational card is the attitude with which I'm entering next month, and on the back (since it's blank) I'll probably adhere a favorite photo I take in May at some point.

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See my past planner posts HERE.

Wednesday, April 29, 2015 at 06:36 AM in me & my BIG ideas, PLANNER | Permalink | Comments (0)

#partyatGrams2015 week in my Happy Planner™

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I've shared that my new planner had arrived and what I did with the first page.  I also shared the first three weeks of Marchin my Happy Planner™ and talked about how I'm using the planner as a mini Project Life -- documenting a week at a time by printing out pictures and journaling about the day, and the green-themed pages documenting the last full week in March. Today I'm sharing the weekly spread that included the four day long trip to Florida I lovingly hashtagged #partyatGrams2015.

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I use my Happy Planner ™ as a memory keeping album, so the photos are the first things I set down on the page.  In this case, most of my photos from Florida contained bright blue sky or turquoise ocean. Blue and turquoise became my color palette, and I chose to add embellishments of the same or complimentary colors throughout the spread.

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Some travel-themed mambiSTICKS and beach photos give these pages a relaxed, vacation vibe.

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You can see the supplies I used for these pages and click through to purchase them for yourself on the me & my BIG ideas website here.

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I plan to create a video tutorial of how I upload, resize, and print photos for my Happy Planner™ soon. Thanks, as always, for visiting!

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See my past planner posts HERE.

Tuesday, April 21, 2015 at 06:59 AM in PLANNER | Permalink | Comments (0)

'COUNTDOWN' free planner printables

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A new month, a new set of freebies I designed for me & my BIG ideas. I'm excited to share these free printables with a 'COUNTDOWN' theme to use in your planner when you have something great coming up that you're looking forward to. They are available for FREE DOWNLOAD on the mambi blog HERE.

Head over, click the links for each, print the pages, and cut them out! It's that simple! As you can see above, they're made to especially fit the weekly columns of The Happy Planner™, but so cute to include on any jazzed up planner page. I also made each of the four designs in a variety of different colors, so they can easily coordinate with other embellishments. Enjoy!

Thursday, April 02, 2015 at 09:17 AM in free downloads, PLANNER | Permalink | Comments (0)

three weeks of March 2015 in my Happy Planner

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I recently shared that my new planner had arrived and what I did with the first page. If you remember back when I had my Erin Condren Life Planner, I used it as a mini Project Life - documenting a week at a time by printing out pictures and journaling about the day. So far, I've used this planner the same way.

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Compared to some of the beautiful minimalist weekly spreads I've seen with plenty of gorgeous white space, I tend to fill as much of the two pages a week as possible. I fill it like I would a collage and art journal hybrid, mixing images and journalling, and finishing with stickers and washi.

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If I have a blank space I need to fill, I fill it with plants. I fill it with fun, quirky pretty little paper cut images. I fill it with recent things I've been wondering...

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Sometimes a whole column is blank and it's nothing a couple of thick washi tapes can't handle. I love the look of the double washi tap in the left column of the below spread. I try to keep my colors as coordinated, and I like how the mint washi matches the mint striped note paper below.

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I fill this planner after the fact. I have a bunch of other planners and listing pads that I use to keep myself organized in the present moment and to jot down future endeavors. My Happy Planner™, however, is a memory keeping tool.  

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At the beginning of this weekly spread, I jotted down a pep talk to myself in the left side column because I was starting a design assignment for the company I work for, and it needed to be done by Friday.  I layered over the jotted down pep talk a trimmed to size transparency sheet and stuck three mambiSTICKS from this pack on it that summed up my pep talk: "do what you can, with what you have, where you are." I swear this job working for me & my BIG ideas came to me for a reason: because I so need all the positive reminders I get each time I use their products - at this point in my life more than ever. ;)

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Another great thing about the planner is that you can remove the pages from the planner that your working on. That allows you to jot notes all the way to the edge of the seam without contorting your hand or double-jointing your finger and writing tool. You can see below that I was able to jot about my walk that evening in between the rings.

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I mentioned above that I fill this planner after the fact. Every Sunday, I take time in the morning to gather my photos from the previous Sunday to Saturday and fill those days' columns. Below you can see the Sunday I've yet to fill. I'll jot in pencil quickly what photos I imagine I'll include, and I go from there.

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Wednesday, March 25, 2015 at 08:02 AM in me & my BIG ideas, PLANNER | Permalink | Comments (6)

first page in my happy planner

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I recently shared that my new planner had arrived, and today I'm sharing what I did with the first page. If you remember back when I had my Erin Condren Life Planner, I used it as a mini Project Life - documenting a week at a time by printing out pictures and journaling about the day. I plan to use this planner the same way.

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Fun part about The Happy Planner™ system that I'm using is that it comes with all kinds of fun extension packs, sticky notes, and planner stickers.  This allows for the planner to meet each person's individual needs. 

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As of right now, I plan to use mine as a small scale memory keeping system. Printing photos from the week on the following Monday, and filling the pages after-the-fact, as opposed to day by day or beforehand. I'm not quite sure what I plan to do with the monthly spreads, but I supposed we'll see. New planner, new adventure!

Friday, March 06, 2015 at 07:29 AM in me & my BIG ideas, PLANNER | Permalink | Comments (0)

my new planner has arrived

I wrote a while ago about my thoughts on planning in 2015, and at the end of that post I hinted to what would be my new planner for this year. Last week a big ol' box from me & my BIG ideas landed on my doorstep, and inside I found my new gold foil polka dot planner, along with other stickers and add-ons from mambi's new planner system: Create 365™ The Happy Planner™.

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I created the following five-minute video going through all of the products in the first generation of Create 365™ The Happy Planner™ system as I took them out the box. (head to vimeo.com to watch the video in HD)

Since the planner is set up to run from July 2015 through December 2016, I used the blank calendar extension pack to add March, April, May, and June and start today!

It feels good to have a legit planner back on my desk. I'm looking forward to sharing the pages I create with you fellow planner nerds! Cheers!

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See my past planner posts HERE.

Sunday, March 01, 2015 at 09:45 AM in me & my BIG ideas, PLANNER | Permalink | Comments (4)

my new planner & the video from CHA 2015 by scrapbook.com

At the end of this post I left you in suspense about a planner that was hitting the market and would be my new planner now that my Erin Condren Life Planner has come to its end. Working for me & my BIG ideas, I knew they were developing a planner system that would be hitting store shelves this spring, but hadn't seen the planner until this past weekend at the show, and man! am I excited to start crafting in it (as I know all of you are as well).

The video above (featuring me - so funny!) gives an overview of the planner, add-ons, and embellishments mambi has created for their system. Thanks for watching! ♥ Amanda

Wednesday, January 14, 2015 at 05:00 AM in CHA, me & my BIG ideas, PLANNER | Permalink | Comments (2)

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