Journal March: garden planner

How to keep track of your perfect garden

Spring is in the air at last, and it’s getting a little warmer outside. For many of us, this is the start of the nicest time of the year – the gardening season. From now on, there’s nothing to stop keen gardeners from heading outdoors to tend their patch, however small it may be. To make sure all your flowers bloom at the right time and that there’ll be plenty of vegetables to harvest during the summer, it’s a good idea to plan exactly what you’re going to plant out, and when. Creating a garden planner in your journal can be really helpful for this. It lets you keep track of everything, such as the best time to sow tomato seeds, or which day you should be planting tulip bulbs. Your garden planner will make sure that nothing is forgotten, and you can tick off every task as you go along. Striking hand lettering, together with tiny drawings and doodles, can make your garden planner really eye-catching and a pleasure to look at every time you open it. With 69 carefully co-ordinated pens in an array of options, the Colour Happy Big Box by edding gives you the perfect selection of colours and pen types at your fingertips to unleash your creativity. You can give each page a unique layout and, at the same time, enjoy expressing your creative side.

Category: Journaling
Products: Fibre and felt pens
Fineliners
Materials: Paper, carton and cardboard
Difficulty: Easy peasy
Downloads: Images (ZIP)

Step-by-step

Step 1

You can see the Colour Happy Big Box and its wide range of contents in our photo. We’re confident that this box offers something for every craft lover, with something to suit every taste. The main pen you’ll be using for your garden planner is the edding 55 fineliner.

Step 2

Decide on your page layout and sketch it out lightly in pencil first. In our example, we spread the month across two pages, with columns for Monday to Sunday and little boxes underneath to represent the days of the month. You can decorate the spread however you want – with your favourite flowers, symbols or suitable garden motifs. Let your imagination take you to wherever you want to go.

Step 3

Use the edding 55 fineliner to go over all the pencil lines, colour in a few pictures or reinforce certain lines. It’s available in 16 colours, so get designing in whatever bright and cheerful colours you decide to go for.

Step 4

Thanks to the ultra-fine nib of the edding 55, even detailed motifs such as dainty flowers are no problem. With the edding 1340 brush pen, or other fibre pen, you can then add as many extra touches of colour as you want.