The much awaited event for Planner Girls happened last April 22 in the Eastwood Richmonde Hotel Grand Ballroom. It is a gathering of more than 200 creative planner girls and is one of the biggest gathering  that has ever happened yet. It;s the PlannerCon Manila 2017!

I went back to my seat and asked the names of my seatmates. We checked each other's planners and journals. I have a frustration on learning water coloring so I was really in awe when I saw Ai's journal. It's so cool!

PlannerCon is all about sharing knowledge and techniques on doing creative planning and journaling. There were scheduled talks to which they shared their techniques on designing planners. One of the interesting talks is the Bullet Journalling (BuJo) session which we are thought of the basics of BuJo. As described on bulletjournal.com, it is doing your to-do list, having your sketchbook, notebook, and diary, but most likely, it will be all of the above. This journaling style is the most personal and customized I have ever seen. Seems like you will do everything from scracth. So those who really enjoy writing, this may be the style they would want to do. 

I also learned techniques on coloring. Strokes, which pens and color pens are good to use and more. Wait, your thinking what do we color right? Oh! It's usually for the stamps. We normally do not stamp directly on the paper of our planners because it sometimes bleed on the back of the page. We do it on the sticker paper, color it and cut. I personally use Zig Scroll and Brush to color but there are also other planner girls who use color pencils like Prismacolor, Faber-Castelle and a lot more. 

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Shops were given the chance to show their products. There were booths outside the grand ballroom totally being surrounded by people who are interested and urged to buy planner items to add on their stash. Oh well, there are also some who hoard. 😝 Though I wasn't able to take a photo, there is also a workshop room which attendees can use the craft punchers and stamps for use.

A product demonstration was shown as well for Scan N Cut CM700. Scan N Cut CM700 is a product of Brother. It is a scanner and cutter in one. Creative planners like us especially those who create their own stickers and other die cuts were fascinated with the product. It has wireless connectivity that let's you send the files for printing and cutting without the use of a computer. What has made the attendees more excited though is that Brother provided 1 unit for raffle and offered a great deal of discount for thos who wish to get one for themselves.

A special guest was also invited. She is non other than Sen. Pia Cayetano who is into planning and journaling.  She said she was very inspired with the works and designs of planner girls she see posting on Instagram. Sen. Pia said that she recommends to other people to start planning and journaling as it helps a lot on scheduling and memory keeping. The designing part always come as bonus for creative hobbyist of course. She did a Facebook Live during the talk (on her page) and showed to her followers our designs and stash. 

You can check her IG for her works here - @piacayetano

Kudos to the organizers! It is fun and memorable day spent with creative planners filled with games, creative planning, crafting and informative talks.

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