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I get a lot of questions about where I get certain things from (especially my floral paper), so I decided to put this guide together for you. I’ve broken it up into sections for general paper basics, art supplies, textiles, and even my filming/editing equipment.

This page does contain affiliate links to A Cherry on Top, Arteza, Blick, Felicity Jane, and Scrapbook.com. I earn a small commission from them when you click through and shop from my links, which helps me create and share more crafty art with you all. I appreciate all the support. Thank you.

General Info

Generally for scrapbooking supplies, my go-to brands are Crate Paper, Felicity Jane, and Cocoa Vanilla Studio. I love their usage of bright pastel colors and their floral papers. All three of these brands tend to create very beautiful feminine collections that just reflect my own personal style well. So naturally, I gravitate towards them all of the time.

ACdigitals is my go-to for all American Crafts collections but in digital form. This is where to go to get those older hard-to-get collections. I mostly use the Crate Paper lines myself, but you can find almost every line from any of the AC designers!

Suse Fish’s Etsy Shop is my newest addiction! I love Suse’s fun, girly style and her digital kits pair extremely well with Felicity Jane products.

the basics

These are the supplies that I generally use for all of my memory keeping and art journaling. They are the absolute basics like paper, tools, and adhesives.

paper

✩ American Crafts 12×12 white cardstock for layouts

✩ Michaels white 110 lbs. cardstock for printing digital elements (cards + die cuts)

✩ Michaels white 65 lbs. cardstock for printing digital paper

✩ Strathmore 400 Series Drawing Paper

✩ Arteza 100% Cotton Watercolor Paper

adhesives

✩ 1/2 inch Scor-Tape

✩  1/4 inch tape from Scrapbook.com

✩ UHU glue stick

✩ Kuretake ZIG glue pen

✩ Fabri-Fix

for cutting

✩ American Crafts Cutup Scissors

✩ Pinking Shears

✩ Hobby Lobby Guillotine Paper Trimmer

✩ Recollections Paper Trimmer

✩ Silhouette Portrait 2

other tools

✩ Tim Holtz Tiny Attacher

✩ Heidi Swapp Mini Stapler

✩ WRMK Crop-a-Dile Power Punch

✩ Canon Pixma MG 7120 Inkjet Printer

✩ Canon Ivy Mini Printer

✩ Free Prints App to get my photos printed. Use code TMEDINA109 to get 90 free 4×6 photo prints. You just pay shipping.

art supplies

I get most of my art supplies from Blick. I stock up on basics like drawing/watercolor paper from Michaels during their sales. I also sometimes use an assortment of craft paints from Martha Stewart, Craft Smart, Folk Art, Americana, and Target. My watercolor pencils and gouache are from Arteza. I also get a lot of my pens from JetPens.

Below is an in-depth overview of my most favorite art mediums, paints, pens/pencils, and pastels/crayons, including favorite brands and specific colors.

mediums

Blick white gesso

Finnabair clear gesso

blick matte medium

golden light molding paste

paints

golden heavy body acrylic paint - titanium white

golden heavy body acrylic paint - titan violet pale

golden heavy body acrylic paint - light phthalo green

golden heavy body acrylic paint - paynes gray

golden heavy body acrylic paint - Light Magenta

golden heavy body acrylic paint - titan mars pale

golden heavy body acrylic paint - titan buff

holbein acryla gouache - pale pink

holbein acryla gouache - pale aqua

holbein acryla gouache - pale lilac

holbein acryla gouache - pale lavender

holbein acryla gouache - Shell Pink

holbein acryla gouache - Cream Yellow

jane davenport bright watercolor palette

inks

liquitex acrylic ink white

liquitex acrylic ink carbon black

liquitex acrylic ink iridescent gold

pens + pencils

Holbein Artist Colored Pencils Pastel Set

jane davenport magic wands

arteza watercolor pencils

platinum carbon black pen

Tombow Fudenosuke Brush Pens

Kuretake ZIG Cartoonist Brush Pen No. 22

Uni-ball Signo White Pen - Broad

Sakura Gelly Roll Pen - White

general's charcoal pencil

pastels + crayons

Jane Davenport Aqua Pastels

caran d'ache neocolor II - aubergine

caran d'ache neocolor II - pink

caran d'ache neocolor II - payne's gray

caran d'ache neocolor II - samon pink

collage fodder

I get various different types of paper bits—wallpaper, old books pages, sheet music, vintage papers, and stickers—for collaging and junk journaling from an assortment of places. I also collect white paper doilies and various colored tissue paper from various shops and when they come in parcels.

I get all of my old books to alter and vintage sheet music in store from Strand Bookstore here in NYC. I rummage through their bargain $2 books and $1-2 sheet music down in the basement music section.

For more vintage supplies, I do also use digitals I create myself and that I get from Amity Bloom and The Graphic Fairy.

I order my floral wallpaper samples from Wallpaper Direct. This is the most affordable option for pretty floral wallpaper I could find. 

My all-time favorite sticker shop is Lace & Whimsy Studio, where you can find both physical and digital stickers. Use the code AERIALOVELY15 to get 15% off your order.

magazines

bella grace magazine

daphne's diary magazine

free people catalogue

textiles

I gravitate towards floral fabrics and get almost all my of shabby chic fabrics from online shops. Mostly, Shabby Fabrics and Fat Quarter Shop, and sometimes Fabric.com. I also get some of my fabrics and lace in store at Hobby Lobby and Joann.

I purchase my leather exclusively from The Leather Guy. Besides getting some teal leather from Michaels one time, I make all of my leather traveler’s notebooks using leather from The Leather Guy. They have a great selection of leather in all sorts of colors, thickness, and textures, and the prices are super reasonable!

equipment + applications

Below is a thorough list of the photo and video equipment I use, along with various applications and I sites I use to edit my photos and videos, and plan out my Instagram and blog.

equipment

✩ Fujifilm X-T20 Mirrorless Camera

✩ Canon G7X Mark II Camera

✩ Rode VideoMic Pro+ On-Camera Microphone

✩ Viltrox L116T LED Studio Lights

✩ Sunpak 6601UT Tripod

✩ 11″ iPad Pro w/Apple Pencil

applications

✩ Affinity Photo: a GREAT alternative to Photoshop

✩ Lightroom + Snapseed for editing/touching up photos on my iPad/iPhone

✩ Affinity Publisher: a GREAT alternative to InDesign

✩ Procreate: for drawing + designing my printables

✩ Final Cut Pro X: for video editing

blogging + social. media

✩ Planoly and PLANN for planning out my Instagram feeds

✩ Unfold for creating Instagram Stories

✩ ShareASale for earning money on my blog through affiliate marketing

✩ Buy Me a Coffee for my virtual artist tip jar

✩ Mailchimp for my newsletter

✩ Book Outlet where I get all of the books I review on my site. Get $10 off your first order of $25 or more through my link.

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Sharing another spread from my @daphnes.diary scrapbook on my Youtube channel today. This one was to get a lot of different ephemera pieces into this book. Honestly, I've been keeping this project super simple and low-key. Not stressing too much about how it looks or whether or not I'm behind. Just enjoying the process of snipping and sticking. And of course lots of journaling!

Happy Monday loves. I do hope you're all well. xx
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I shared a quick process of creating this spread in my @daphnes.diary scrapbook on my Youtube channel the other day. I haven't been very good at sharing these pages (or any journal pages) here lately. TBH, I've kind of been focusing on other things recently and doing more straight writing journaling than creative journaling. It's weird. I'm in a weird space. But I also feel like I'm supposed to be in this space, you know?
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I shared the quick process of creating this spread in my @daphnes.diary scrapbook on my Youtube channel the other day. I'm quite behind in sharing all of these pages (and to be honest quite behind in actually documenting my last few weeks) but it is what it is. I'm not stressing it...just like how I'm not stressing that I'm MONTHS behind in my 5-year journal lol. Glad I've been daily journaling in my planner! xx
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My new (small) TBR book stack for this year. I have it to hopefully read 20 books this year, but I decided to only pull out about 10 to see if I can get through that first. Y'all, I'm terrible at reading these days. I think I just need to do better at making time for it, so I started reading before bed. We'll see how it goes. Friend me on Goodreads: www.goodreads.com/aerialovely! I love seeing everyone's challenges! xx
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I absolutely adore this passage about Spring from Jeanette Winterson.

Happy Astrological New Year! xx
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Baby boy is 15 years old today! He's no little boy anymore, but a fine old senior dog (actually I think technically he's geriatric). He's definitely slowed down quite a bit with his thyroid problem and just general old age. C19 has definitely been really hard on him. He was struggling with his hyperactive thyroid all through 2020 and no one could figure out why he was so sad and blah until mid-2021 when he got properly diagnosed. But since being on his meds, he's got that puppy spirit again! He does have some separation anxiety now and literally needs to be with people constantly. But that's a given especially since there's always someone home now for him to be with. But it's getting better though! The absolute highlight of his week though is going over to our neighbor's apartment every Tuesday as I tutor one of the girls in math. He gets SO happy then because he gets to play lol. HBD Joey! xx
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