Each theme has it’s own flip-through video, below which I list the stationery used and my inspiration for the theme.
Make sure you check out my review of the 100 gsm Dingbats journal that is FSC certified AND vegan certified.
2025 part 2 – New journal setup
Stickers printed from purchased graphic art set
Avarrix Premium Clear Sticker Paper
Posca glitter pen
Faber-Castell Metallic marker
Uniball Signo Noble Metal gel pens
I’d decided to once again choose a journal with lighter-weight paper, which definitely limits my art media choices. I settled on using a beautiful graphic art set I’d purchased a few years ago, printing out the images of animals and leaves on clear sticker paper so that it would blend in with the caramel-cream paper. I chose pens in colours that blended with the colours of the stickers, and when it seemed most were metallic or glitter pens, I restricted my choice to those.
July – Snowflakes
Paper
Collage papers
Stickers
Metallic watercolour paints
Pigma Micron pens
Gelly Roll pen
I decided I wanted to try cutting snowflakes from folded paper – you know, like paper doll chains? Then because they were white, I needed them to contrast with my journal page, so I placed them on top of collage papers, mostly in black and dark blues. The colours were a bit cool for the dark cream paper in the Dingbats journal, but I had so much fun creating the snowflakes and I love how they look.
August – Pirates
Washi tape
Stickers
Gelly Roll pen
Pigma Micron pens
Uniball Signo Angelic gel pen
It was time to pull out the washi tape for another go this month. I’ve been wanting to do a pirate theme for ages now, because I had this really cool set of pirate stickers from Djeco. I married the two, and created four washi tape pictures using templates to cut the shapes I needed, and use the stickers to decorate the rest of my pages.