r/stationeryprojectpan

I am waaaay out of habit of checking in here (but I am still tracking all my empties!) so I thought I’d share a recent win.

I have a tendency to stock up on greetings cards for all occasions just in case… and then forget to send them when those occasions actually roll around. It was also one of my goals to send two cards per month this year, and I was way behind.

So, I asked friends on social media who wanted mail that wasn’t a bill or junk — and I was really surprised to see how many people took me up on it! Folks I haven’t talked to in years, or just who I never would have thought would be into getting happy mail. I also got addresses for friends with August birthdays, and remembered to send some various congratulations on a new home, an engagement and a few other life events.

All in all, I sent 23 cards. That’s also 23 forever stamps from my overflowing stash and several dozen stickers in order to decorate each envelope. I also sent some stickers in cards to friends who I thought would appreciate them. :)

i started out by decorating the remaining 15 cards in the pusheen postcard book: i used pusheen and sanrio stickers, plus a pusheen washi tape i got in a subscription box years ago. i used up almost all the washi and a bunch of stickers, finished some stamp sheets, and i used my pusheen rubber stamps too…these are all in the mail headed to penpals and folks in the random acts of cards subreddit.

i love pusheen, so i think i held onto these, but i was actually really happy to use a lot of pusheen and sanrio supplies. plus, people have sent me a few of these, so i still have a few in my snail mail collection. decorating a bunch at once was also fun.

I've been slower with my progress as of late, but I've finished 2 pens, and filled two A4 sheets, I've also made progress in my journal, I'm on page 68 of 161, so less than 100 pages left before I can switch it out.

I will also be donating a notebook to one of my youth clubs tomorrow as a dedicated place for our planning so, that's something else.

Two more washi bite the dust

These are the last of these stickers I have. I had THOUSANDS. They are part of my happy mail I send out and it had taken MONTHS and MONTHS of mail to finally get rid of them all. I was giving out about 3 per envelope. My next set of outgoing and I will officially be completely out.

So I’ve done this in the past but just decided to revisit the idea and post it. Use stickers that are largely white and on hopefully normal paper, then swatch out your pens, markers, or pencils. Then you can see at a glance what color you want. Even though I have a swatch book, I like to have the item itself also labeled. I usually add scotch tape at the tops or bottom or sides of the stickers to keep them from peeling off later, but I’m careful to not cover up the swatch cuz that changes its appearance. You’ll use up unwanted stickers in no time!

I have this super cute pen that I've been avoiding using because I love it and I was afraid of it running out of ink.

So the other day I thought "wait, maybe I can use other pens' refills for it". And it worked! I tried 4 different brands of pens with gel ink and they all fit 😍 In the third pic, the white refill is the original from the cute pen, and you can see all the refills are the same size :)

I'm now using this pen and I know I will be able to keep using it even when it runs out of ink!

This is just a reminder that, even if your pens are generic, you can try other similar refills and they may work! ✨

i’m sad that i’m done with this box of cat ramen cards! i just mailed this last one out. they are so cute. i got these at barnes and noble two years ago and slowly sent them out to penpals.

i am hate-panning a box of postcards. hate-panning is when you use something you don’t really like. i want to like these postcards—they’re photographs by new york times street photographer bill cunningham, who was really cool (there’s a great documentary about him!). but the paper these are printed on is soooo weird—almost glossy—and it’s terrible for me as a lefty! basically all my pens smudge or the pen stops working on this paper altogether. a lose lose.

i got these on facebook marketplace and i’m down to 35, but i might give them away or include them as extras in letters. are you hate-panning anything? or do you give it away/find someone who might like it?

Finally starting my journey of stationery pan.

This week, I finished one pink pen, (there's still ink left in it, but it's stopped writing) and I've been journalling. I started this journal on July 11th, and am currently on page 63 of 161 in it.

Did my usual planners on Sunday night, and finished off 3 sheets of stickers and 2 rolls of washi tape. I've been working on using up my supplies instead of buying new all year, and it's making a huge difference!

Hello!

It has been a while since I gave an update, I did give away a ton of stationery so that is why I managed to finish a ton of washi tape (turns out I do not like the thin ones!).

I am also including a roll of ribbon because why not!

Very excited for the next bingo so I can recount all my stationery and see what I need to work on!

- 1 Memo Pad
- 1 Forever Stamp Sheet (Baby Animals)
- 1 Postcard Stamp Sheet (Leaves)
- 1 Roll of Ribbon
- 1 Notecard + Envelope Set
- 1 Sheet of Cricut Sticker Paper
- 4 Pens
- 19 Washi Tape Rolls
- 157 Individual Stickers*

*As always, sticker count is an estimate! It was probably a lot more since some of them had multiple on a single sheet, but I cannot recall.