Instantly Enhance your Reading Journal Using Printables with Torey
Hi Friends!! Today I wanted to share with you how I like to use printable collections to add a little spice to my journal setups. I like to set up a few of my journals in advance of a month. So today I will be sharing how I set up my Reading Journal for August 2024 using the newest collection from Traci, Flower Child!
I started my process by choosing a few of the papers from the collection, a journaling card, and some stickers that I really liked together and printed them out on a few different types of papers!
You can easily use all one type of paper for a setup like this, but I decided to use a few to add some different textures and weights to pages. I printed on 65lb cardstock, standard matte sticker paper, and printable vellum!
Everyone sets up their journals differently. For mine, I like to keep track of monthly stats throughout the each month in the first half of my journal and have been placing all my book thoughts/reviews in the second half of my journal together. My monthly setup pages are always themed and consist of a cover spread, a visual time-to-read calendar, my reading log, monthly totals and my favorite book for the month - so we’ll have lots of opportunity to use up pieces from this collection!
My cover spread is purely used as a separation for the months. I decided to add a little bit of everything for my cover spread since it is mainly a decorative spread.
I started by ripping my grid sticker paper off-center and adding it to the left and right sides of my journal pages. This is a really easy way to add a big impact to any page in my opinion, I personally always love how it looks! After adding these, I wanted to add my two main pieces, which were the rainbow quote die cut and the journaling card I printed on sticker paper. I added the quote to the left side of my page and layered that with a vellum doily I cut in half and placed on either side of the rainbow. I then stuck the journaling card down on the right hand side of the page - I chose a journaling card for this element so I could place my Aug. title on it and add a list of hopeful reads for the month. Then I sprinkled a few rainbow die cuts around the page as well. To add a final touch and tie everything together, I took my pen and added small black sparkles across the spread.
Visual Time-To-Read & Reading Log
For the next two side-by-side pages we added my Visual Time-To-Read calendar and my Reading log. Since these two pages usually hold the most information for me, I usually like to keep the decor quite simple.
For my calendar page, I added a smaller triangle of the rainbow TN paper with a ripped edge and layered that on top a small piece of ripped vellum as well. On the top of this page, I just added a strip of the blue triangle paper to give the look of washi tape.
For the Reading log page, I mimicked the same decorative elements but placed them on the opposite sides of the page.
Totals & Favorite Book
These two pages usually end up being my favorite ones to set up. They don’t hold as much information, so I get a lot more creative freedom with how I decorate and embellish these ones. Since I had printed both of the rainbow TN papers available, I decided I would work from the inside out for these spreads and place one rainbow sticker paper on each side. Since I ripped the top and bottom off one of these papers in the previous pages, I decided to use my second vellum grid doily and place it under each ripped edge. This paper ended up being on my Totals page and I also printed 5 labels from the sticker sheet on sticker paper to hold my totals for the month.
On my Favorite Book page, I also added a rectangular piece of vellum off the side of the rainbow paper (the adhesive that I used under this will be covered with my favorite book’s cover next month). To finish off these pages, I used my black pen to add a bunch of sparkles and add some black lines inside each of my totals boxes.
That’s all I have to share today! Thank you for hanging out with me here on the Traci Reed blog and I hope this setup gave you some inspiration to try printables in your own journaling ventures!
If you’d like to visually see this setup come together, I also recorded the whole process and you can find that here:
Do you ever just want to treat your inner child to something special? I’m turning 40 this month and as a result feeling the need to give a little love to my inner child. The Flower Child collection is a little bit hippie, a little bit trippy and a whole lot of fun, whether you’re scrapping photos of you as a kid or photos of your kids in the modern day iteration of hippie culture, you’re going to find so much magic in this collection!
Check out the Blog Post to see all the Unboxing and Inspirational Layouts from the Team!
BUNDLE INCLUDES:
Flower Child Digital Kit, Cards #1 & #2, Stickers & TN Signatures!
BUNDLE DOES NOT INCLUDE:
Flower Child TN Papers or Patterned Cards