Each theme has it’s own flip-through video, below which I list the stationery used and my inspiration for the theme.
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2026 – New journal setup
Stickers
Washi tape
Tombow dual brush pens
Pigma Micron pen
I’ve been wanting to do a bee theme for ages. I used a mix of stickers and created honeycomb with washi tape. I drew a few of my own bees with Tombow markers.
January – Girls
Stickers
Tombow dual brush pens
Staedtler dual markers
Pitt Artist pens
Waterman Hemisphere fountain pen
I tried to think of a fancy way to use these girl stickers from a washi tape by the Washi Tape Shop, but ended up just doing a simple layout using offset boxes.
February – Bricks
Stickers
Washi tape
Pigma micron pen
Tombow dual brush pens
Pitt Artist pens
Tim Holtz distress ink
I was dying to do a theme with washi tape and was also looking forward to doing some sort of dutch door layout. It took me ages to come to a decision, and ended up deciding to use this mediterranean sticker set and finding matching washi tapes to do brick walls that I then cut around every second page.
March – Coloured nature
Stickers
Washi tape
VersaMagic dew drop chalk inks
Rubber stamps
Gelly Roll gel pens
Stabilo highlighter
I sorted through all my sticker sets and settled on this one, but then couldn’t decide how to pull it all together. I tested a few ideas and settled on full colour, using my chalk based stamping inks with a stamp from my collection, then added some washing tape dots as well.
April – Flying bugs
Reused old paper letterhead (for popups)
Prismacolor pencils
PVC bound document cover
Stickers
Pigma micron pen
Mildliner highlighter
I absolutely love pop-ups. I originally started looking into a complicated popup that would have taken ages to create, when I happened on a video explaining how to make these bugs. I was sold straight away. The bugs were a great excuse to pull out my colouring pencils, which I’ve missed using, and I got a bit carried away with the bug themed headers. I love everything about this theme.
May – Autumn woodland
Rub-on stickers
Stickers
Washi tape
Mildliner dual markers
Staedtler dual marker
Zebra Sarasa gel pen
I got this set of rub-on stickers a couple of years ago and have always been curious about how to use them. Combined with a few other sticker sets that had autumn and woodland themes, it really came together. I had washi tapes that also complemented the stickers, and not enough stickers to fill my pages, so the washi tape worked to add some colour. I roughed the edge as I’m not a huge fan of a plain strip of washi tape across a page with straight edges.
June – Piano
Washi tape
Hybrid Dual metallic gel pen
Uniball Signo metallic gel pen
Collage papers
Stickers
Pigma micron pen
Washi tape
Stamp
Versamagic Chalk stamping ink
Tombow dual brush pen
I decided it was time to do a music theme, because I had a newer sticker set (the animals with the instruments) and all sorts of other bits and bobs. I literally pulled out all sorts of stuff to do this layout, so there was no question it had to be a collage-style, because it had to combine washi tape, papers, stickers and stamps!