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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October – Haunted houses
Pigma micron pens
Reeves watercolours
Winsor & Newton acrylic paints
Tombow dual brush pens
Washi tape
Fudenosuke brush pen
Stickers and rub-ons
It was October, so I just had to do a spooky theme. I wanted to do haunted houses, but really wanted to play around with pull tabs and hidden details, so I did a 3 pages with a reveal in a window of the house. Mostly the pictures are line drawings in pen with a small amount of watercolour detail, but then decided to do one painting in acrylics to try out that medium. Great stickers for my dailies.
November – Succulents and snails
Winsor & Newton acrylic paints
Staedtler markers
Metallic gelly roll pen
Stickers
Papers
Archer & Olive dot grid pastel notepad sheets
Washi tape
I’ve been meaning to use up some succulent stickers for a while now, but didn’t want to do that theme alone, so looked up animals that ate succulents and when I saw snails, I immediately thought I could play with that idea! I also wanted to make use of my Archer and Olive dot grid notepad – I’m still working on the best way to incorporate this paper into a theme.
December – Christmas winterland
Mintay Papers scrapbooking pad
Tombow dual brush pens
Washi tape
I bought the Winterland pad by Mintay Papers from a papercraft show in November, and immediately decided it would be the basis of my December theme. Because most of the theme involved only cutting and pasting papers, I decided to add some extra interest by including a popup on the title page and dutch doors and page tabs on the remaining spreads.
January – Outfoxed by a rabbit
Stamp set and ink
Tombow dual brush pens
Karst coloured pencils
Stickers
Paper by Bengt & Lotta
Gelly roll pens (Moonlight and Metallic)
Pigma micron pens
After a false start with a different theme, I decided to try a different version of a past theme using this style of dutch door that has hidden scenes behind each cut down layer. I had a stamp set with foxes and rabbits that I hadn’t used yet, so I was inspired to create a forest scene, also using a set of poorly cut stickers, papers and my new Karst coloured pencils.
February – Dog sledding
Pigma Micron pen
Winsor and Newton watercolour paints
Washi tape
Decorative papers (for the pockets)
Stickers
I was spending most of February on a trip to Canada to go dog sledding, so this month is a great resource in terms of travel spreads, because I did all my planning for the trip in my journal. Of course the theme had to be dog sledding, and initially I only managed to get the pen work done before I left for my holiday. Once I came home, I added the watercolour. This theme has an added feature in terms of a dutch door, which has a cutaway that shows me sitting on a beach dreaming of the holiday on all the spreads.