November journal: book list

Make time for good books and teatime relaxation

This month, we’ve dedicated our journal pages to the colour blue. Many of us find blue a calming colour, one that evokes a feeling of confidence and harmony, and a sense of security. This makes it just the right colour scheme for November, which can be quite a grey month. Armed with a lovely cup of fragrant tea and a selection of fibre pens in various shades of blue, it’s nice to get cosy as you create new pages in your journal. How about writing a list of book titles that you’ve always wanted to read, or a list of your favourite books? Of course, it’s not just a case of writing a plain old list. It’s more about illustrating the spread as the mood takes you - with illustrations of books painted on. edding offers various styles of fibre pens and fineliners to help you achieve this, together with a wide choice of blue shades. The Colour Happy Big Box from edding is a comprehensive set that allows you to see everything at a glance: 69 perfectly coordinated pens and a wide range of different types of pen. Oh, and by the way: Classic Blue is also the Pantone Colour of the Year for 2020.

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

Step-by-step

Step 1

Our photo shows the Colour Happy Big Box opened up to reveal its wide array of contents. We’re confident that our box holds something for every craft lover and every taste. The most useful pens for your book list are the edding 1300 colour pen, the 1340 brush pen and the edding 55 fineliner.

Step 2

Decide how you want your page layout to look and sketch it out lightly in pencil first. In our example, we drew a steaming hot cup of tea on the left and, on the right, a variety of books that look like they’re standing on a bookshelf. Just let your imagination run wild!

Step 3

Next, use the edding 1800 profipen to draw over all the pencil lines. Make the word “November” bold and striking. With its ultra-fine tip, the profipen is also the ideal pen for writing your lists.

Step 4

Using the blue edding 55, draw your “bookshelves” on the right-hand side, arranged with all the books you might like to reread one day (some upright, some on a slant). Using an edding 1300 colour pen and a 1340 brush pen, you can get creative with the heading, the border and the motifs, embellishing them to your heart’s content.