Creative Journaling 101: Setting Up Fun & Useful Monthly Spreads

Class Description:

Transform your planning routine into a creative and inspiring activity with this fun & beginner friendly class. Whether you're a bullet journal enthusiast or looking to personalize your planner, this session will guide you through designing a monthly spread that reflects your personality and enhances your organization.

We'll start by helping you select a theme, palette, and color scheme that resonate with your goals and aesthetic preferences. From there, you'll learn how to layout your spread effectively, incorporating trackers, lists, and other elements that keep you motivated and on track.

Through hands-on activities and creative brainstorming, you'll develop a spread that's not only functional but also a joy to use every day.

What You Will Learn:

Selecting themes, palettes, and color schemes for your monthly spread
Generating seasonal and non-seasonal ideas to inspire your design
Planning and deciding on layout structures that suit your needs
Incorporating trackers, lists, and other organizational tools
Utilizing additional materials like stickers, watercolors, markers, and colored pencils to enhance your spread
Techniques for sketching and measuring elements in your journal
Executing your creative vision to produce a personalized and functional monthly spread

Supplies You'll Need:

Journal, sketchbook, or scrap paper
Pencils and sharpeners
Erasers
Ruler
Drawing pens
Additional decorative materials of your choice (stickers, watercolors, markers, colored pencils, etc.)

About Instructor

Shelby Abrahamsen (Foxsy)

Shelby is the co-founder of Foxsy and the creator at Little Coffee Fox. She is a professional watercolorist, letterer, and artist with a passion for teaching others to reintroduce creativity back into their lives. Shelby lives in Chicago, IL with her husband Jon and her pets Summer, Basil, and Korra.

191 Classes

+28 enrolled

Class Pass includes:

✓Lifetime Access To Class

Foxsy Membership includes:

✓Live Class Access To This Class & All Foxsy Live Classes
✓Access to full 200+ Class Library, The Watercolor Academy, & The Modern Lettering Academy
✓Project feedback from Foxsy Pros & Unlimited Support

Ratings and Reviews

4.7

Avg. Rating

3 Ratings

What's your experience? We'd love to know!

Ashley Loyst

Posted 7 months ago

Great general layout ideas for monthly journal

Felt very relaxed, and fun to watch. Learned some new techniques and I now want to try watercolour!

linda-f

Posted 9 months ago

Make Your Journal Yours

Shelby showed a lot of her knowledge and skills in this course. Loved seeing her previous journals, and she gave great examples of theme ideas as well as how to plan and execute other elements, like colours and layouts. She was very helpful in types of journals that are available and most of all to remind us that our choices can be flexible, malleable and lovely all in the same journal!

Suzanne Miller

Posted 10 months ago

Great ideas for simple but striking spreads

Met my expectations. A little bit chatty but I am fine with that style. Would have liked a broader set of things to include beyond events and dopamine log/gratitude journal. Tracker was mentioned but how to use for different types of habits would be usegul.

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