Hello and welcome to the fortieth edition of our fun series: Mix It Up Monday! We love to show you how easy it is to mix and match TRD collections to create something new and wonderful!

This month, we’re combining Bookish with our new Story Foundations collections. Story Foundations is designed to be super versatile, so it’s no wonder that the team had an easy time combining it with Bookish! I love the variety of projects they came up with, from layouts to punch cards to albums!

Scroll on for inspiration!

Melinda

I had so much fun mixing these collections together!!
I have wanted to find a “simple yet effective” way of documenting the books I’ve read over the course of a year so I combined the Bookish, Story Foundations AND Story Foundations: Routines collections together to create this “simpleyet effective” way to document my reads of 2026!
I kept it pretty simple, following the same pattern for each month. I worked with a front & back design & the colour of the monthly cards. Then I alternated between 4 different digital embellishments to work with each monthly page! So fun!

Penny

As a lifelong book lover, I didn’t hesitate to say yes to creating with Bookish. Pairing this well-loved collection with the newer Story Foundations release felt like the perfect opportunity to mix familiar favorites with fresh design, especially with so many versatile B-sides to balance the playful icons and elements in Bookish.
For this layout, I documented a simple reading snapshot: the last book I finished, the one I’m currently reading, and the story waiting on my Kindle to be next. I started with a PageMaps sketch, which gave me room to highlight patterned papers and feature printed book covers. Popping those cover images up on foam added dimension and helped them feel like small books resting on the page.
I mixed papers from Bookish, Story Foundations Core, and Story Foundations: Chapter One Routines, pulling in labels, tags, florals, and icons to build subtle embellishment clusters throughout the layout. The “Book Nerd” badge became a natural focal point, backed with a khaki label and die cut with a pierced-edge die before being popped up on foam for added dimension. The bookshelf strip across the top was the perfect way to anchor the title and reinforce the theme.
My final touch was a line of stitching along the plaid borders, adding texture and a sense of finish without distracting from the story. I loved how these collections worked together, and I hope this layout inspires you to document your own Previously, Currently, Up Next. It’s always fun to document any given moment in time.

Laura

I have a confession. I’m not a huge reader. It takes a really really good story for me to actually want to sit and read. However, I do like to make projects with bookish themes. So for my projects I chose to do a collage spread and the most recent viral punchcards.
I had found this stack of books cut file I had purchased and I knew I had to use it. So I filled the books with various papers from the Bookish Collection. Then I took one of the journal cards, star scatter, and little flower bits from the Story Foundations collection. I matted it the whole thing on a pattern paper from the Story Foundations Routines. I did use thin foam tape to pop up the cut file.
For my punch cards I used the memory dex stickers. I used Canva to add the text and flower stickers for the punch part.

Allie

I needed to update my kindle back cover, so I thought mixing up the newest "Story Foundations: Routines" and Bookish would be the perfect combination for a fun, slightly Valentine's Day feel for dressing up my kindle! I loved mixing up these collections because they are similar in colors, but also in "feel" -- lots of paint splashes and ripped paper/washi in both-- and they work so nicely together!