About the Book:Spark your creativity and keep yourself organized with the beautiful pages and easy-to-follow instructions of Creative Journaling. With 52 projects, from simple tricks, like making your own washi tape, to more ambitious projects, like crafting a custom planner, you’ll soon have the best-looking to-do list around.
Author Renee Day will take you on an artistic adventure as you take on each new task and become an expert on amazing DIY ideas! You'll learn to work with watercolors, acrylic paint, brush pens, and much more as you personalize your stuff, making things uniquely you.
Going beyond basic tools, this stunning book offers tips, tricks, and creative ways to transform your notebook into a treasured life companion, including:
• Ornamental lettering
• Personalized habit trackers
• Colorful calendars
• Decorative headers
• Customized productivity lists
• Inspiring artwork
• Creative future logs
• Unique planning pages
My Thoughts:
Creative Journaling by Renee Day divides into four main sections: dot grid pages, junk journals, mixed-media projects, and travel records. I gave this book a complete read-through in a few days. Each project includes step-by-step photos of the process, plus a completed example photo. I loved this format! It makes it so much easier for me when I can see something in-process, not just the finished project. Now, about each part:
Dot grid journaling stands as the first and largest section
of Creative Journaling. I have seen beautiful dot grid pages on social
media, but they always seemed too difficult to create myself. However, the
author’s clear and easy to follow instructions made the projects feel doable. Planners
and scheduling projects dominate this section, but other projects such a reusable
meal plan layout and a gratitude log add a little variety.
Junk journaling (aka an altered book project) is new-to-me.
This section looked fun, but seemed more complicated to do and I haven’t tried
any of the projects yet.
My favorite section of Creative Journaling was the mixed-media journaling. This
section is mostly about creating page layouts and there are so many projects in
this section that I want to try: the
tissue paper layout, the hot glue layout, etc! They look so pretty!
The traveling section contained gorgeous projects with
precise and clear instructions. However, I don’t travel so it was not
applicable to me.
The last section, DIY accessories and papers, offers some
very cute and fun projects. My daughters and I tried out the Shaving Cream Paper
project and we had a blast! It was messy, but so much fun. The papers turned
out beautifully. (See photos) This section is, in my opinion, more kid
friendly. Most of the prior sections are teen or adult level, but things like
yarn tassel paper clips and stained paper towel paper are projects they can do
and enjoy!
In conclusion, I am very pleased with Creative
Journaling: A Guide to over 100 Techniques and Ideas for Amazing Dot Grid, Junk,
Mixed-Media, and Travel Pages by Renee Day! The girls and I are looking
forward to doing more projects from this book! Five stars!
Disclosure of Material Connection: I received this product
via the Amazon Vine program. All opinions in this review are my own.
