Did you know that THREE is my favorite number? Did you know that using odd numbers is a design concept? It's true, a lot of home decorators use odd numbers when clustering items together. It's why candle sets usually come in sets of three.

Three is the most popular number to use and it's the number I use most often when I'm looking at the design of my projects from planner decorating to Bible journaling to scrapbooking.

It really is my favorite number, I even have three kiddos and it's the perfect size family for me and my hubby.


So, I wanted to show you what I mean by using 3s in my designs, by pointing out the threes in a planner page. I like to repeat the same concept three times around a page.

• I used the woodgrain and peach washi tapes three times
• I used woodgrain elements/stickers three times - the clipboard, "scheduled" arrow & "don't forget" arrow
• The three circle elements/stickers all have the same blue shade for the upper half of the sticker - "Don't Forget" sticker, the layering sticker that says "chiro 3:50pm", & the gumball sticker with the gray leaf

When I think in threes it makes it really easy to design a page as I grab three similar stickers and layer them around the page... usually in a visual triangle like I talked about last week. 


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Hello friends, it feels so good to be back to blogging tips and tutorials for you again. Earlier this week I had posted a photo on Instagram and mentioned working decorating in a visual triangle and a friends had asked me to tell them more about what a visual triangle is and I thought it would be perfect for the blog to share some design concepts and how I use them when creating my planner pages or Bible journaling pages.

My favorite design concept is the visual triangle. To do this I simply make my layered clusters form a triangle on the page. This is really easy to do with The Day Designer set up. First, I cover up the upper right section with washi and a cluster of stickers, then I move on to the schedule and with our busy schedule it makes another cluster of layered stickers. Lastly, I add another sticker cluster in the bottom right corner for "daily gratitude". As you can see, this forms a triangle of design which makes your eyes flow through the whole page nicely.



Now that I have a general design set up, it makes it easy for me to work through a whole week's worth of daily planner pages in a quick creative time session. Here are the pages for this week. You can see that my to-do list remains the same every day and then each morning first thing after I've completed my "lifeSAVERS" routine, I fill out my top three for the day.

Monday, uses the Free Spirit collection from The Reset Girl...

Tuesday was the start of a new month so I decided to switch to the Graceful collection from The Reset Girl for the month of March... the colors are so spring like as well as the birds, flowers and pretty feathers.

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Oh goodness, I just loved filling these pages up with goodies and memories. I pulled out my stamp sets and stickers and the Illustrated Faith Whatever Is Lovely Collection that's coming out soon. I have a feeling I'm going to need to stock up on this collection, I just LOVE it so much!!! I have fallen in love with stamping again...



What I love to do is decorate first, then go back and write in all the memories from the day. 

First, let me start off by saying... I've been waiting FOREVER to start this planner! It's a 17 month planner and it didn't start until August... I'm so in love with the 2015-2016 ban.do Florabunda Spiral Large Planner and plan on using it as our family planner. This means I will include some memories in it. One of these days I'll walk you through it and show you what I love about this planner. 

Last week, I shared on the Illustrated Faith blog, how I made dividers and decorated them with the new Illustrated Faith and Bella Blvd tabs and stickers. I had lots of requests to share the rest of it. Now that the new releases have been revealed, I can share it with you.

Have you picked up your Genesis kit? I'm actually thinking of picking up another for a gift. (I have received product from Illustrated Faith and Bella Blvd as part of the Illustrated Faith Creative and Educational Team)

I have lots of photos so I'm going to keep the chit chat quick. For each of the sections, I have used my own printables that I've double-sided printed out and then cut and punched holes. I have sections for Bible Study Notes, Sermon Notes and Prayers that use them. (studying the Fruits of the Spirit with She Reads Truth)

WOW!!! Two days in a row. I'm kind of shocked I've posted twice this week, especially during Holy Week. Since it's one of my favorite holidays, I've got more freebies coming later this week to my newsletter subscribers too, so be sure you're signed up so you don't miss it.


I am totally addicted to decorating my planners and love that I can use digital papers to create my own planner dashboards. It's like hybrid happiness for me. I love hybrid so much that I wanted to make sure everyone knows how to use these templates. I am using Photoshop, but you can do this in Photoshop Elements too.

I've had these digital papers sitting on my desktop for awhile. Every once in awhile I get the urge to play in Photoshop for a bit. I finally decided to get the in the shop. I have more on the way including a mixed media set and a gold set.



I've also converted them into planner sizes, these are fun, but for the best value I personally would grab the 12"x12" papers and then use the freebie template at the bottom of this post to convert them into planner sizes. Then you can have the papers in all the sizes. I did however make it easy if you just want to get them sized already.

HI!!! It's been far too long since I've done a mixed media tutorial. I couldn't resist sharing with you a technique that I've been using a lot recently with my planners. I love adding charms to my planners but it seems like a lot of the charms I find are silver. I'm obsessed with the gold trend and wanted to find a way to change the cute charms into gold charms.