7 Tips for Writing in a Creative Journal - Happy Planner Decorative Journaling for Beginners
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- čas přidán 22. 07. 2024
- Hey planner pals. Do you have a journal? Journaling is fantastic for our mental health and decorative journaling is a great way to use up some of your planner stash! Want to start a decorative journal? Today I am sharing 7 tips for writing and creative journaling for beginners. My biggest tip is to just start, and practice! But there are some other things to take your journaling to the next level!
0:00 Intro
0:36 Layout
2:51Pen Sizes
5:39 Pen Color
7:06 Highlight one word
9:15 Vary Text & Font
11:42 Don't censor yourself
12:42 Start & Practice!
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Wow, I am so impressed with your spreads. I have been using the Happy Planner for about 3 years, but have never seen anyone use it as a journal in such a creative way. I love how you use your different color pens- I always struggle with mines so thank you for sharing. You inspired me to look at my Happy Planner from a whole different perspective. I can't wait to put into practice a few of your tips. Keep sharing please!!! - Beatriz
Thank you so much Beatriz! Really Happy you found it helpful! I have a few flip throughs of my planners & journals so check those out too!
This was so helpful, thank you for the video! 💕
Glad it was helpful!
Great ideas! The purple/blue hydrangea page is gorgeous! Fabulous colors!
Thanks so much! Even better is that particular layout was using dollar tree wall decals and printable boxes! Super cheap!
I didn't realize this was a thing. I've just been doing basically the same thing to be active in my planner. Thanks for cluing me in!
Yep it's a thing! I started combining planning and journaling at first, but now it has its own layout each week. Much prefer having it separate.
Great info. Ty for this vid.
Glad it was helpful!
So beautiful- I can’t wait for mine to look like these - so colorful 🥰💕😍
Thank you! Good luck!! I'll be posting a yearly flip through in January because I love these spreads!
Thank you for sharing . So pretty .
Thank you! 😊
Dang Di,
Literally what I needed since I’ve attempted and abandoned a creative journal several times this year, most recently half an hour ago! After watching this I’ve realized I’m feeling restricted by the lines. 🤯
So, do you decorate in advance, and then just journal in the remaining space? Everything is so filled in.. how do you get from empty pages to completed pages?
Hey, glad I provided the light bulb moment for ya! Yep I don't like lines. When I figured that out earlier this year my journal just took on a life of it's own. I use dot grid (I just print my own). And yes I decorate in advance, you can see some of the plan with me videos on this channel. But then I just journal in the remaining spaces. Usually when I'm decorating I leave "pockets" of journaling space. My plan is to do a journal with me soon sharing my process from empty to filled in. So stay tuned!
Some fabulous ideas Di! I will be looking to journal next year when I am not working - need to use a planner somehow. I love seeing how you use your journal, and the tip about not censoring what you write is spot on, as that is really what is stopping me now. Brilliant video as usual! Thank you. 🤩😍
Thanks so much! You can do it Denise! Just get those feelings out and processed!
Great tips! Love the creativity
Thanks so much!
Fabulous ideas. I was watching some videos from about a year ago and you mentioned doing a video on ideas on how to use a vertical layout. Did you get around to making that video? I haven't been able to find one from you but might have missed it when searching. I love you out of the box thinking and ideas you share. I'd love to see some videos with your ideas for using vertical (especially), monthly (the one with the daily tasks dot pages) & horizontal layouts
Thanks! As yet I haven't done that video, but I plan too! With ALL the layouts. So it's coming!!!
@@CreativeKarmaDesign oh another idea if you haven't already done it storing/dealing with completed previous years planners.
This is already on my list for a future video, it'll be sometime this quarter! I'm doing daily videos in December for Planmas so maybe then?
I'm gonna have to start something like this! Thanks for the great ideas! Hmmm....I like the dot grid paper but I was wondering how many days is your average spread? I'm handicapped to the point of not knowing how much I will have to write about... Probably very little at times.
Hey Colleen. Re the days per spread. That's one of the reasons I switched to dot grid. Some days I write a lot, then go days with nothing. But usually I fill the whole thing in a week. Even if it ends up being gratitude or something small that happened. This week it's almost full already! lol!
Love your ideas Di...esp. the large floral pages (Reenie and I are both florals lovers!) The hydrangeas is prob. my favorite page you shared. I do some of this already...but got some good ideas for my future pages in my journal. TFS
Thanks so much 😊 Yep I love florals, I'm just more particular on the type of florals lol!
Great ideas Di! Love how full your journal is and that you encourage putting in all the things and all the feels! ❤❤
Thank you so much Ruth! Yep gotta put all the feels in there so we process it. I know sometimes I think "OMG if someone reads this...." then realize it's just for me!
@@CreativeKarmaDesign exactly! And if someone reads it, they have no business snooping.
Exactly! Hahaha!
Where did you get the huge stickers! I love them!
Which ones? I get stickers from everywhere... which spread?
Such great ideas. I love your channel…..personal question/ do you find that your vertigo is seasonal? I’ve suffered for many years with no answers.
Yes I do my vertigo is seasonal! The change in the seasons it's definitely worse. But also it just comes for a white then disappears making me think I dreamt the whole thing. I'm having it on and off right now, but it's the change of weather seasons which is a trigger for mine it seems. Also if I get stressed it gets worse. Do you find the same? Seasonal & stress makes it worse?
@@CreativeKarmaDesign absolutely. I’m having back surgery in 9 days. That makes sense now. Sometimes I too wonder, where the hell did you come from?????
Are they all stickers or have you glued magazine pictures and napkins and other stuff.?. i love all your ideas
I've used all kinds of things. I've done magazine stuff before, cards, tags, pamphlets etc
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Where I put my trash type layouts :)
I have a couple planned soon too so stay tuned!