Journaling January: New Year’s resolutions

A good way to get your resolutions to stick!

Journals are becoming increasingly popular. And it’s no wonder, because they’re such a brilliant way of tracking ideas and appointments, planning activities, drawing up weekly schedules and much, much more. In response to this trend, every month we’re going to show you how to create a journal on a set theme. We’re starting at the beginning of the New Year, and it’s all about making resolutions. With the help of sketchnotes, text entries, photos, stickers and bright motifs, you can turn a plain notebook into a custom-designed planner that will help you in your efforts to stick to your goals. What’s really nice is that you can plan out all the pages so they look exactly the way you want, whilst at the same time expressing yourself creatively. Naturally, you’ll need the right type of pens, and the Colour Happy Big Box from edding gives you the perfect selection of colours and pen types at your fingertips, enabling you to unlock your creativity – 69 carefully co-ordinated pens plus the brush pen colour mixer for colour blending.

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

Step-by-step

Step 1

In our photo, you can see the Colour Happy Big Box and its comprehensive contents. We’re confident that this box offers something for every craft enthusiast and every taste.

Step 2

Think about how you want your page spread to look and sketch it out in pencil first. All ideas can be illustrated with simple images, e.g. a phone handset to remind you to ring someone more often. Alternatively, to symbolise healthier eating you could draw a vegetable or a saucepan. Look on our website under “Templates - sketchnotes” and you’ll find an array of possible templates.

Step 3

Customise your journal with borders, decorative details and little pictures. Using the edding 1800 profipen, go over the pictures and emphasise individual lines.

Step 4

Colour in the little pictures using the edding 1340 brush pen or other edding fibre pen. Gel rollers are great for adding colourful touches. Anything that’s really important should be written in bold, underlined or coloured in to make it stand out. This gives you a better overview at a glance.