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June 10, 2021

Favorite brands with functional sticker books for planning and bullet journaling

If you follow this blog, you’ll know I only do functional planning. My favorite stickers are icons, checklists, colored dots (great for color coding), text labels and numbers. While I make my own planner stickers, that can end up being rather time consuming as I want to make all the stickers but don’t have the time! I have a very specific style and colors that I stick to…  and sometimes I want more variety than that. This post has my favorite brands with functional sticker books for planning and bullet journaling.

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You can find most of the stickers I mention in this post in my sister’s shop, Carefully Crafted. Some of my past weekly spreads using these stickers are here.

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1. Carpe Diem

I use the numbers and calendar sticker books from this brand all the time! So often that the glue holding the sticker books together has fallen apart.

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So many colors to choose from and a great range of icons you’ll actually use. Each icon is in each color so you can usually find one to coordinate with the rest of the colors you’ve chosen to use in your spread. There are multiple sizes and styles of number stickers if you want to use an expired planner or for bullet journaling.

Related post: 7 functional ways to use an expired planner

These stickers are (I think) the best value for money of any on this list.

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2. Recollections from Michaels

I think these are better value than the Happy Planner Sticker books. While the Recollections sticker books are thinner, they fit more stickers on the page and there’s less quotes / decorative stickers.

From left to right: fitness stickers, menu stickers, to do stickers, tracking stickers, clear trackers (hard to find stickers like these!), everyday basics (not pictured but also recommend the calendar sticker book)

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Some of my favorites – no wasted space on these sticker sheets!

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3. Happy Planner

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Happy Planner sticker books are hit and miss for me. They must have more than 100 sticker books by now and I only have a few. A lot of them have too many decorative stickers for me (e.g. giant floral stickers that would take up too much space on the page), quote stickers that are awkward sizes or stickers I just wouldn’t use. Frustratingly they combine a few really good sheets of functional stickers with a bunch of ‘fluff’ decorative stickers – I don’t want to buy an entire sticker book to use only a few sheets.

My favorite functional Happy Planner sticker books are:

  • Colorful boxes
  • Colorful boxes (594 pieces)
  • Journaling
  • Dates and holidays
  • Hand-written plans
  • Not pictured: Planner Babe

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I don’t do budgeting on paper anymore (I use Microsoft Excel instead) however if I was, the Happy Planner has plenty of budgeting sticker books (love these rainbow colors!). There’s another mini budgeting icon sticker book too.

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From left to right: Budget (1411 pieces), Household, Savvy Saver, Budget, Save Now Spend Later. Not pictured: another of their budget sticker books (earlier edition)

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While most Happy Planner sticker books are bright and colorful, if you prefer neutral black and white there are a few options:

From left to right: Hand-written plans, Journaling, Colorful Boxes, Dates & Holidays

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4. Oh Hello Sticker Co

So this brand doesn’t have an entire sticker book, but the collections of sticker sheets are functional – dates, days of the week and months of the year.

  • Monthly stickers
  • Days of the week
  • Icons with tasks
  • Fitness

There’s a mix of rainbow and black only stickers in the monthly labels and days of the week (different fonts on the sticker sheets too).

For my favorite functional date dot stickers, see this post: 10 Brands that have date dot stickers for your planner or bullet journal

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5. Life Organized

The rainbow colors of these stickers are so nice. The color printing is really good quality. The compact size of these sticker sheets makes them easy to store and they cram so many stickers on the sheets – no wasted white space between stickers.

  • Birthday
  • Fitness
  • Appointments / Business
  • Cleaning
  • Doctor
  • Travel
  • Budget
  • Grocery
  • Me Time

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6. The Paper Studio Agenda 52

While not very well known, this brand has so many sticker books to choose from (there must be about 50 different sticker books!)

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Not many of them are functional with more focus on decorative / themed sticker books.

My favorites from this brand are the:

  • Calendar, foiled
  • Home life, foiled
  • Bullet Journal
  • Chores

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Calendar and Home Life Foiled sticker books

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7. Craft Smith

In particular, this Crafting Time sticker book from KrissyAnne Designs (and the rainbow sticker book too).

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8. Bloom

Three of my favorite Bloom sticker kits are pictured below, but my all time favorite is definitely the color coding sticker pack.

  • Value sticker pack
  • Classic planner
  • Color coding

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Related Post: Weekly planning in the Erin Condren using only solid dot stickers

9. Assorted

Some other brands that have a few functional sticker sets are:

  • My Prima Planner number stickers
  • Heidi Swapp gold numbers (there’s a clear / black version too)
  • Heidi Swapp alphabet
  • anko brand from Kmart
  • Craft Smith (only a few, most of them are themed / decorative)
  • Plan It Now
  • Memory Planner Icon Stickers

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Clever Fox Planners is one of my favorite planner brands. While I don’t like the colors of their stickers (so haven’t purchased a set) they do include plenty of functional stickers in their sets.

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Clever Fox Planner stickers 14 sheets value pack on Amazon

Some other options I have in my cart on Amazon:

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Sunny Streak

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Sunny Streak have some habit tracking stickers too. I have the Sunny Streak Stencils (review coming soon)

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Savvy Bee stickers

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Mountain Daily stickers

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Maalbok stickers (the types of stickers, colors, fonts etc. remind me of the Happy Planner)

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Mirida Daily Icons . This brand has fitness icons and productivity icons too

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Homework2 – these are a bit larger than most at 0.6 x 0.6″

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Vladi Creative Store (they have other themed sticker kits too)

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Little More (see my review of the Little More notebook here)

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Papercode (love the monthly tab stickers – perfect for bullet journaling)

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