Journal August: weekly spread

Ice Ice Baby

Here’s a planner that’s enough to make your mouth water.... We’d like to show you our idea for designing a creative journal weekly layout for the month of August. When the temperatures soar, what could be nicer than cooling off with a refreshing ice lolly? That’s why we chose it as a fitting motif for our weekly spread. And the added benefit is that it may also help you keep a cool head when planning! The individual days of the month are displayed inside the delicious-looking lollies, which you then colour in using the edding 1340 brush pens (thanks to their extremely flexible tip, they’re ideal for filling in coloured areas). And because drawing is such fun, we decorated the left-hand page in similar style, with lollies and ice creams in all shapes and sizes. The edding 1800 profipen is ideal for outlining, lettering and detailed drawing.

Categories: Bullet Journals
Hand lettering
Colouring and Zendoodle
Products: Fibre and felt pens
Fineliners
Materials: Paper, carton and cardboard
Difficulty: Easy peasy
Downloads: Images (ZIP)

Step-by-step

Step 1

To design your weekly spread, you’ll need the edding 1800 profipen and the edding 1340 brush pens in a selection of colours.

Step 2

Decide on your page layout and sketch it out lightly in pencil. In our example we drew a variety of different ice-cream cones and lollies. The weekly planner itself is on the right, so you’ll need to leave enough space inside your drawings for writing in your entries. If you want to play it safe, you can prepare a template in advance and then trace over the motifs.

Step 3

Use the fine-tipped edding 1800 to go over all the pencil lines, draw motifs or emphasise individual strokes. It’s best to make the headings (such as “August” and the days of the week) bold and striking and use black to fill them in.

Step 4

Now use the edding 1340 brush pens to colour in the lollies in whatever way you wish. You could keep it bright by giving each motif a different colour. With 20 colours in the selection, you’ll be spoilt for choice! But if the colour palette isn’t as big as you’d like, you can even blend your own colours.