Jomelle Gomez's Blog Posts

10.18.18
Hello everyone! Jomelle here on the blog today sharing my bewitching Halloween Set Up using the Simple Vintage Halloween. One of the best month of the year is here and I couldn't be more excited. I cannot tell you how much I love Halloween. Oh how I wish I can celebrate Halloween all year long. There's just something about the costumes, candies, spooky decor, witches, ghouls and everything else.
 
I love Halloween so much that I wanted to set up my TN and my A5 planner. Here I am using the Cream Dot Traveler's Notebook and the Black Speckle A5 Planner.
 
To add that "vintage" look for my dashboard, I decided to distressed all the edges. I used a punch to add the fence.
 To create a be-witching theme, I stuffed my pockets with bits and pieces. I used washi tape to keep the pieces stay in place. I also added the orange and gold spider web from my stash. To be honest, I thought the witch with the red outfit sitting on the broom stick looks cute and creepy at the same time. It kinda freaks me out a little.
 
Here are the wicked washi tapes I used to decorate my Halloween set up.
I always want to change things up in my Traveler's Notebook. One of the easy way is by creating a Halloween theme covers for my inserts. I can keep using the same inserts throughout the year. 
For my TN set up, I wanted to only use black, white and orange colors. I picked through my bits & pieces, papers and stickers and chose those colors to decorate my TN.
Creating this insert cover was super easy. All I did was cut the "jeepers creepers" 12x12 paper to the size of my TN. Then I added chipboard stickers to decorate. I also added a washi tape on the bottom of the page. That's it. Super easy huh?
Before the Pen October Monthly Layout. Planner girls love to share this layout before they permanently write down their plans. Sometimes I also use this page as memory keeping in my planner. I love to jot my family's adventures and memories, especially our "food trips"
I used the orange number stickers to add the dates. Then I decorated with washi tapes and stickers.

 
Thank you for stopping by for a spell and I hope you enjoy viewing my bewitching Halloween Planner Set Up. See you next month.

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09.06.18
 
Rainbows, Mermaids, Fairies and Unicorns Oh My! So many magical things you can create with this collection that I decided to set up my A5 Robin's Egg planner and my Blush Speckle TN.
 
I wanted my set up to highlight the color yellow so I added the flower ribbon on the side of my TN. I used bits & pieces to decorate my pockets. I placed the "Dream" chipboard sticker vertically using washi tape therefore I can easily remove the letters.
 I always love the side view of my TN. It shows the different layers and how chunky it is.
 I printed a large size fairy (as you can see on the top left) on vellum and laminated it. It will be used as my page marker in my TN. 
I have a really old printer and I noticed that the colors are brighter when I print the images on vellums compare to regular paper.
  I decorated the page before the Month and used it as memory keeping. I added my daughter's picture where she was wearing a "Mermaid Party" T-Shirt and her pink Converse shoes when we went to the Aquarium of the Pacific. What's can be more perfect than that?
 Monthly Layout for August. I used the 4x6 stickers to create my layout.
 Let's take a closer look at my A5 Planner Set Up. I created this adorable dashboard and stuffed my planner pockets with all kinds of magical elements.
Now this is what we planner girls call "Pocket Love"
 Believe that you are something magical.
Thanks for stopping by and I hope you have a magical day. For more inspirations check out my Instagram xoxo_jomelle

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08.08.18
As much as I love the "Dream Big" Collection, I wanted to give some love and special attention to the "Lil' Dude" Collection. 
 
While everyone is going gaga over unicorns, fairies, rainbows and mermaids, I wanted to use something out of the norm. 
The "Lil' Dude" Collection is perfect since most planner girls don't use boys products in their TN's and planners.
 I decided to use my Typewriter Circles Traveler's Notebook. As always, I created covers for my inserts. I love the robots, video games, trucks, fidget spinners, rubik's cube and so much more.
 
I finally put my Stitch Happy Sewing machine to use. I wanted to add black stitching all around the border of each of my covers. I love how it adds a little bit more detail.
The inside of my covers all have pockets. I cut the length of the papers into the size of my notebook insert but I left the height alone, which is 12 inches.
Then I just folded the bottom part of paper over to create the same height of my notebook insert and voila you now have pockets. 
 
I don't plan to permanently glue my inserts so I can change the covers whenever I want to match the theme I'm going for in the future. 
I am planning to use this Monthly insert all year long. Without gluing the notebook insert to the cover, I will be able to take it out and use it in another TN with a different set up.
Having to use it this way, I can use the pockets in the front and in the back to hold stickers, bits & pieces and other elements I want to use later on.
 Carpe Diem now offer Monthly, Weekly, Daily, Dot Grid and Blank inserts. I can use these covers for each of the inserts, or I can just leave it as it is and use it as pockets when I add them inside my TN.
The front cover is so mesmerizing that all I want to do is stare at this whenever I open my TN. 
 I also wanted to add fun elements in my pockets, but at the same time I didn't want it to be too bulky. I decided to sew more black stitching on some of the elements I chose to add in my pockets.
My "Before the Pen" layout for the month of September. 

 I will be adding some journaling and photos to these pages. 
This was my first time sewing on papers. I still need to work on my stitching so it will be straight, clean and precise. 
Although the "Dream Big" Collection would've been perfect to use to create a set up for August since it's my Birthday month, the "Lil' Dude" Collection is just as sweet, if not sweeter in my TN.
Thank you for stopping by and I hope I was able to inspire you to use more boys products in your planners and TN's in the future.

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