planner stickers
Didn’t I just change those batteries?
This weekend while I was working playing Facebook games, my wireless mouse popped a message on my monitor telling me that I had to change the batteries in it. Well, I could swear I just changed them! I may need to buy some rechargeable batteries to try to save some money! So I decided I needed to keep track of how often I change them and made myself some cute little battery stickers for my planner. It’s one of the benefits of operating a sticker shop. 😀 I know I can’t be the only person who wants to keep track of things like this so I made some for you too! Unfortunately the calibration was off a little bit on my cutter so the kiss cut is offset a little to the left. It doesn’t affect the stickers because the white blends in to the paper on your planner anyway, but I took 50 cents off the price anyway. This makes it a bargain price of only CAD$2.50 (US$1.90)!
I was very busy over the weekend. I added lots of new inventory to StickWithDawna! I think my favourite thing I added is the Christmas Week Planner Kit:
There are somewhere around 125 stickers plus I threw in some washi tape to coordinate. It’s a $25 value but I’m only asking CAD$16 for the entire lot! The full-square stickers will fit Erin Condren sized boxes, so they are a little small in my Happy Planner, but that’s where the washi tape comes in. Looks great! Christmas falls on a Friday so I made weekend banners that span the 3 days – one is wide enough for the Erin Condren planner, the narrower one fits the Happy Planner. I added stickers for noting when your guests are arriving and leaving, and for people who “have Christmas” at more than one home, there are 2 celebrate stickers.
All in all, I added 7 new items to my inventory this weekend, calibrated my Cricut, fought with my Cricut Design Space software, designed in Photoshop, and managed to enjoy some time for myself and my husband too!
It’s no secret to my friends that I love to paint and I go to Paint Nite every chance I get. I went to 2 Paint Nites last week — one on Thursday as a guest of the Paint Nite franchise owner where we celebrated Paint Nite’s first anniversary in Winnipeg by painting under black lights with glow in the dark paints! I decided to paint the Cheshire Cat as a sugar skull. Most of him is fluorescent, so it glows under black light, but his smile is glow in the dark, so when the black lights go off, only his smile remains! It’s so cool!!! My husband is in the photo with me and he painted the painting that was being demonstrated by the master artist and I think his looks amazing too. The next night, I went to another Paint Nite and painted a black and white awesome moonlit scene.
Saturday we went to the Winnipeg Blue Bombers football game to watch them lose to Ottawa Redblacks. Oh well. It was just the fun atmosphere of being at the stadium that we went for anyway. The Bombers were aptly named this year. (They are bombing in the standings and may not make the playoffs). FYI for non-Canadians, Winnipeg Blue Bombers are a professional football team in the Canadian Football League. They’re kind of a big deal here. 😀
Well, I have a painting in my head that needs to get out now and I think I’m finished blogging about my shop. You probably should go check out everything new that I added. Thanks, and StickWithDawna!
One of THOSE days!
Unfortunately, not the good kind! The sky is overcast and gloomy and it seems that everything electronic has taken on that attitude as well.
I’ve been working really hard, like I promised, to get more inventory into my store. But, I’ve had so many challenges today that nothing is going to end up being salvageable. I have the cutest Christmas set made. Except something happened when I tried to kiss cut it. My Cricut just randomly threw in some weird shapes and cut them out — right through the stickers I had just made!
Really cute Christmas set, waiting to be kiss cut, just before the Cricut disaster
The random cuts it put through the stickers, ruining the entire sheet.
I’ve gotten ahead of myself though… before I could take the first photo, I had to reboot my phone. I take my photos with my phone right now because my good camera needs a new memory card. I wanted to take a photo of part of the process I go through to make stickers. I thought it might be interesting for people to see how it works. Anywhoozles, when I first turned my phone’s camera on I get the message “Camera has failed”. What?!! Fortunately, shutting the phone off and then turning it on worked and I was able to get the photo. It looks blurry though. I think I need to get that memory card for my camera soon because my phone’s camera doesn’t seem to be very healthy!
Now, lets back up even more to this morning. I had to re-install my Cricut Design Space plug in, not once, not twice, not three times, but… FOUR times! I would do a little designing and then, poof! The computer couldn’t find the plug in and I would have to reinstall. I ended up on a chat with Cricut Customer Service and just as the girl was starting to try to help me, poof! The chat window disappeared! I’m not even kidding! This is how ridiculous my day has been today. So I ended up calling Cricut Customer Service and the lovely girl on the other end of the phone helped me get Design Space to recognize that my computer has the plug in. At least for now. Crossing my fingers that it stays that way tomorrow too.
Like the saying goes: “If it were easy, everybody would be doing it”. I’m too stubborn to give up because of a couple of little challenges like this, but sadly, it means no new stock in the store today. I have to try to figure out why my Cricut is randomly cutting shapes into my stickers before I can put anything else in the shop. I’ve already wasted 3 sheets of sticker paper, printer ink, and a pile of my time and have nothing to show for it today. None of that is cheap. Imagine putting in a full days’ work at the office or the restaurant or wherever you work, and working very hard. Your brain has turned to mush, you’ve been concentrating so hard on your job. And then… you don’t get paid. Yep. It’s been one of THOSE days.
Elf on a Shelf Stickers!
Can you believe it’s almost Hallowe’en? Isn’t that crazy?!! Well, after Hallowe’en, there’s a few rather big holidays coming up and one of them happens to be Christmas. As somebody who makes stickers for planners and calendars, I hope you’ll forgive me for “rushing” the holidays. I don’t like seeing Christmas stuff out before Hallowe’en either, but due to the nature of online shopping, I don’t see a way around it. If I want you to get your stickers before December 1st, I have to be on it now. So!
Here we go — Christmas before Hallowe’en.
I made them in 3 different colour ways, green tunic with red arms, red tunic with pink arms, and red tunic with red arms. There are 24 stickers per sheet and the sheet costs only $4 CAD. I will make a sheet with 8 of each elf for an additional $2.50. Shipping is $2.95 in Canada and $3.95 to the USA. So, you may as well add something else to your cart to make it worth paying for shipping, right? Well how about these?
We’ve all got to pay our bills. You might just as well remind yourself with something fun. And these are fun! The largest one is 1.5″ x 1.5″ and they get smaller to about .5″ square. There are 14 stickers on this sheet and the price is also only $4.00 CAD.
I’d like to feature one more sheet of fun stickers for you today. With cooler weather just around the corner, these cute little winter birds are sure to warm up your heart when you look at them in your planner. You get 24 stickers about 1/2″ tall and they’re only $4 CAD.
I think that’s enough selling for today. To be frank, I’ve been sitting in front of my computer all day making stickers; waiting for stickers to print; kiss cutting stickers; separating, categorizing and labelling stickers; listing stickers; and now blogging about stickers. It’s probably time for a change of location. You know. To my other job. In the kitchen, where I cook dinner for my family and then clean up. 😀
I’ll be back again soon. Until then, take care and Stick With Dawna!
StickWithDawna is ready for you!
I’m ready for you! I am still making and adding new stock to my Etsy shop every day. I’m thrilled to be getting so much action there so quickly!
Right now I’m concentrating on winter stickers and generalized stickers for catching your eye like these fantastic little corner quarter circles for CAD$4.00. They are available in 2 different sizes. The larger ones are 3/4″ and the smaller ones are 1/2″. Both are great for at demanding your attention and making sure you notice that appointment or party or whatever reason you stuck it to your planner.
Aren’t these great?!!
Make sure you check out my shop, StickWithDawna soon! While you are there, click on the favourite icon so that you can get updates whenever I add more stock. Since I’m just starting out, there will be lots of new things coming soon!
Introducing…. ME!
Wow! Hi! I’m super excited to be writing this: I am an Etsy shop! It’s been a dream of mine to open an Etsy shop for a few years now, but the time just never seemed “right”. Well, I finally quit waiting for the “right” time and decided to just jump in and do it!
I sell sticky things — planner and calendar stickers, and 24″ (60 cm) washi tape samples. Currently I only ship to Canada and the USA, but once I’m more established I hope to expand globally.
So. Who am I? I’m Dawna, the heart and soul behind StickwithDawna. I’d like to tell you a bit about myself, so I’m not just some entity in cyberspace to you. First of all, I live in Winnipeg, Canada. I’m married to my high school sweetheart. We have been together for 34 years, and we celebrated our 30th wedding anniversary last week. We have a son and a daughter, both of whom are adults. We are very fortunate to have expanded our little family to include a wonderful son-in-law .
I have an artistic, creative background. I have done floral design and managed a small flower shop for a couple of years. I have been a successful digital scrapbooking products designer called True North Scraps for several years. I also make paper blank mini scrapbook albums that you just add photos and memories for people who either don’t have the time or don’t know how to make a scrapbook. And I paint. Sometimes a photo or two of these may pop into my blog because I am very proud of what I create. In fact, the sunset banner on my home page is from a painting I just completed a couple weeks ago.
I have a few health issues. The biggest one is Fibromyalgia (which I call Fibro, FMS, or Eunice, depending on my mood). If you are unfamiliar with FMS, it basically affects everything. Your body aches like it’s the worst flu you’ve ever had. I can’t even slap a mosquito or have a blood test without it hurting for an hour afterward. You are exhausted to the point of having to take a nap, not just a 10 minute cat-nap — I’m talking about a 2-hour afternoon nap like a toddler. Stress makes everything worse and causes nasty flare-ups. (Check out the really cute flare-up stickers in my shop that I use to track my flares with.) There’s no cure and not much that actually relieves the symptoms. There are lots of other things too, but I won’t go on and on. You get the picture. It’s not nice.
Anyway, I told you about Eunice so you’d understand why my shipping policy is 1 – 3 business days. I will strive for 1 business day, but I can’t control my symptoms and flare-ups. I hope my customers will understand and be patient if it does take me 3 days to get your order in the mail. I don’t take custom orders at this time, also due to my health. I just can’t guarantee that I would be able to design, make and mail a custom order within a reasonable length of time. That said, please let me know what kind of stickers you’d like me to make and I will do my best to get it into my shop in the near future.
Customer service is my number 1 priority. I feel like it’s a dying art, except for in small business settings like my Etsy shop. That means it is my best way to entice you to shop in my store. If you like my products and are happy with your order, please favourite StickWithDawna and tell everybody you know where you got your great stickers from. If there is a problem with your order, please tell me first so I can have a chance to make it right. I am human and working alone so sometimes errors can occur. Good or bad reviews can make or break a small business, especially one that is just starting up, which is why I ask for the courtesy of letting me know about a problem first. I will work hard to satisfy you. My goal is to only have happy customers!
I live in a smoke-free home and our dog is a shed-free breed. Anybody with allergies (like me) can be assured that a package from me shouldn’t set off an allergic reaction.
I am still working on my shop as time and health permit. You should notice improvements in the appearance of my page within a week or two. I am trying to add new products to my shop every day so make sure you favourite StickWithDawna and check back often for updates and new stock.
I personally use a MAMBI Happy Planner. I am currently designing stickers for it but most of those stickers will also fit perfectly into any planner with a 1.5″ wide box, like Erin Condren Life Planners for example. The full square stickers are the only ones that won’t fit because Happy Planner makes better use of the space on the page, IMO, and has longer boxes instead of header space that everybody covers up anyway. As time goes by I hope to add ECLP-specific full size boxes to my inventory.
Ok. Well, now you’ve met me. I hope that you will favourite my shop, place an order or two, and Stick With Dawna!
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