Finding the Type of Journal You Want to Use

1. Introduction: Have you ever had a collection of someone's art that you wanted to keep it in a journal or wanted to create one based on your favorite book, movie or TV show. Hi, I'm Katrina cats of paper pens and coffee on IG and YouTube. I'm a self-taught artists in many different mediums and lover of journals, writing and drawing in them and even creating some from scratch. I'm so happy to offer this new series of classes here on Skillshare, which I call just journaling. This first-class, I'll is sharing various journals that I've used and created in the past year from a hub and Nietzsche, different art journals, journals that I've created am I do is traveler's notebook from the traveler's company. At the end of this class, your takeaway will be able to have a better understanding of how there's so many journals out there waiting to be used. You have a better idea of what type of journal you might want to use that's in your stash or one that you might want to buy to give a try. Looking forward to sharing this journey with you and just generally see you in class. 2. Different type of journals I use: Okay, let's get started. In this segment, I will show you the variety of journals that I use on a daily, weekly, monthly, sometimes bi-weekly, bi-monthly, or even when the mood strikes me. For example, I use this yellow one for sketching. This one is one of my newest ones that I received and I'll share with you what's inside of it. This is an A5. I use this size the majority of the time. Here's another A5 used for collage journaling. Here's a large sketchbook where you can decorate on the outside. This is my hope and Nietzsche, do we have any hope in Nietzsche users in class? You'll get to see you how I use this particular hoping HE, and this is my official traveler's notebook from the traveler's company in Japan. The project for this class is to let me know which journals you've used, which ones you'd like to try. There's a PDF for you to use to keep notes on each of the sections today and leave your comments under the project section so I'll be able to read them and respond. 3. Large Art Journal: This is my art journal. I really liked this one because of the first subtotal of using it either way, left to right, right to left. It's spiral bound. So when I open it up, I always have a flat working surface. I'm going to do a flip through now. And if you're not familiar with the word flip through is when an artist or journalists will show you the finished product. Inside there journals. For example, this one is a gauche paint and I did a white gel overlay of the different decorations. I like doing free pizza, practicing things, as you can tell, rainbows. This is an infinity sign. This is in watercolor and I practice spraying on the watercolor while it was still wet to see if I can do clouds and waves. I was in a museum mood when I did these two pieces in. So you can see how you can just scribble all over the page and then go back and fill in the blank spaces with color. However you visualize those scribbles we're supposed to turn out. You can also do sampling. This was a set of pens given to me by my friend. Next few pages, I challenged myself or just using one color to doodle. And as you can tell, I was pretty successful. I wanted to do more on the blue page, but I was trying to find beauty in the blank space by not completely filling it up. In the back. I joined a Zoom class earlier this year where we only had so many minutes in a certain theme and make a collage. And this is what I came up with for my collage. And this is a collage. I did buy a printout I got from Andy Ford, which I will share one of her journals later in class. 4. A kit I used to create a journal: I'm really proud of this journal. It's one of my first journals that I created, putting on a spiral bound. It's from Andy Ford. She gave us a little booklet to journal in and to add dimension in it. But I was afraid I would run out of rooms. So what I did is I opened up that journal and added some pages from one of my favorite magazines, like this page that says notice and dream is from a magazine. And then the other pages are from her kit. And the other items that you see all over R from her kit too. Putting a journal together is a wonderful way of expressing yourself creatively because you're making the journal for yourself. Unless you have a friend or relative in mind, then you would, might, might want to focus on what their intentions would be for this journal or what they particularly like to have in it. I'm just showing you all the pages that I created. I think it tied in well with the magazine pictures that I chose to use. As you can see in this one where the peace sign is, that's kind of a shiny page. That was one of the pages in the journal and I wasn't sure if I'd be able to write on it. So I just use it like a decorative page. And then some of the other pages from the magazine I decorated and I'm may or may not write on. She also had a clear stamps set, so I use that on a variety of the pages. And this is just another way of having a journal store-bought, but then also it's homemade because you are tailoring it to your liking. I'm gonna put you on fast-forward now so you can enjoy the rest of the flip through. 5. Traveler Notebook in the style of Harry Potter/Dark Academia: Here is my Harry Potter slash dark academia travelers notebook that I created. I sewed it instead of using Staples, and I also used my sewing machine to give it a little more detail throughout the book. I really liked how this turned out. The pictures and other items that you're seeing here are from the Internet and from Canva, canva pro you, they give you a lot more choices. I typed in Harry Potter. Some of these items showed up. I printed the majority of them on a clear sticker paper, which then melts right into the paper and gives more of that dark academia look that I was looking for. You notice there's some short pieces and white pieces of paper. And that's where I was trying to do a little more junk journaling. Or there's quotes on some of the pages. Throughout. The book, has more of a dark academia layout. Quotes. The very middle of the book where I sold it is the slithering house, you guessed it. I'm part of this slithering. So i so top and bottom to kind of give it a different feel when I put that picture there and then on the slithering and she could tell I just painted the backside so it looks like a stained glass. These items are from Canva and these ones are from Canvas. Also, I will list below in the description of the type of paper I use for printing out to put in my book. There's another part I put where it was a little too much of the lighter. Showing you how I cut apart a quote to follow up on, Here's a charm I found that I thought was perfect to use as a bookmark or for this book. There's no limits when it comes to creating your own junk journal or your own journal, as I've shown you in the previous lesson. In this lesson, it's just up to you what you want to put in your journal. 6. Collage Journal: This meant Dory MD notebook was met for one project and I decided I didn't want to do that project anymore. So I took the cover off and then took the rest of the pages out. She can see the saline binding. It was easy for me to do. I created a new homepage or front page with some stickers and I wrote my intentions when I wanted to use this book for, for fun and for collaging, I have a modest stickers that I received over the last couple of years through Happy male and have gone to the dollar store. And I've never used them. So I decided this is one way to use some, there's some of that messy journaling like we saw in the other art journal. And they just stuck some stickers on there. Did a little paper weaving on this side of it, and those are from a magazine. Once again, you can use anything in your journaling, whatever you want to do. Left this picture, Viola Davis, so I had to put it in my journal. Just a plain piece of scrapbook paper. Does pineapples. I never knew what I was gonna do with it. So I just took the whole sheet down and just rub them all over the page. That's from the Dollar Store. I can't think this is from one of my artists friends, Shauna, on the left here. I was trying to find beauty in the blank space, so I didn't do anything over there. This is an envelope I received, never used it for any of my art, so I just stuck it in here. Here's some more items I received. And last but not least for right now, is a collage that I tried to do and I like how it turned out. As you can see, I have a plethora of more pages to create more collages. The sky's the limit. What type of collages will you create? 7. My A5 Stalogy: This is one of my other art journals. Yes. You're allowed to have more than one art journal. This is a state ology book. The majority of people that get these A5 use it for journaling as in just pure writing. Or they use it for planning. As you can tell, it's a fine paper. But in a couple of seconds she'll say watercolor used upon the paper and it works so well with watercolor. You could also use the very teeny tiny top where they had numbers and letters for you to circle the date if you're so inclined wanting to use it that way. I started this in January and I was going to do roughly draw a picture every single day. And as you can tell, I wasn't able to keep up with that and that is okay. That's the beauty of art journaling. You have a goal or a wish that you want to do, go for it. And if you're not able to do it at that time, that's okay to come back to it when you can. The first month I just use pencil. I wouldn't let myself use anything else. In February as you'll see the front page for February, I followed along with the ladies doodle examples that prompts that she had. I did that March, I started to do some urban sketching from my travels. I found some of my photos and I just sketched it out and use watercolors to to emphasize the picture's a little more. In April, I did some sketching of bones because I find that fascinating. And then I went back to similar urban sketching. And then also I did some messy journaling where you just scribble words out if they don't have to be perfect penmanship and then you put a photo or a sketch over it. And then I did June as c identity, go back and color it in and that's okay. I just used a black marker for that day. This day I was feeling the urge to use by gold paint again. So I did a half of a butterfly wing, midsummer, a flower from my garden. And then I just did a shadow sketch of my dog just using some Chinese black ink that I had. So I have plenty of more pages to fill and I'm looking forward to doing that. I use these tabs, these number tabs, this is from a different thing and it doesn't come with these number tabs. But what I did is each month I will put a tab in. Then I can quickly flip through it. And so I will be able to do that from July to December. That's it for this one. 8. A5 PU Leather 6 Ring Binder Notebook Cover: This is my A5 PU leather six ring binder notebook cover. I have variety of family because I love all the colors and I can't just pick one. Right now. I'm using the yellow one, but I wanted to show you the inside of the purple one so you get a better look at how the rings looked in all of the pockets. As you can see, there are six rings. There's two pen or pencil holders that you can use. Then there's a variety of pockets. One is deep and then others are about the size or the credit card and not very deep as you can see, that car doesn't go down very far. You have a little secret pocket here and here on the back, and also inside the front. When you close it, it's magnetic, which is nice. So as it gets fluffy, as we call it in the journaling community, it will still close now onto the yellow binder. Besides having fun decorating it with stickers that I received unhappy male and from my creative friends. I put in a envelope from one of my old happy planners which I use anymore. Sticky notes. Sticky Notes is a journalist's best friend. I'll explain that in a future class. These are dividers I created from pages that I made in a crafty group I belong to called fussy cutting cuties. I thought it made a great divider, so I ran it through my laminator machine, put some reinforcements on the circles, and now I use it to divide my book into sections. This particular section is my happy male. And snail mail is I like to call it letters, received a letter sense. I write down I gotten a letter from and who I've sent one out. That's a great way of wondering if did I write that letter or have I forgotten? Here's another divider I made. And then this is a writing board. Instead of spending a dollar on a writing board, you can create your own, especially if you have a lemon knitting machine. So then when you put it under the papers, they won't indent on to the next pages. This particular journal, I've been using it for roping quick journaling, as you can read from the title, My Sunshine today. Today I am pause right now. Hiatus. I just wanted to put down a quick blurb. Is not a dear Diary. Journal. It's not a laundry list is just a quick thing. And sometimes that's all we need on a daily or bi-weekly thing and just writing it down. The page on the left I used for June and July and August. I changed it up a little. I put hiatus instead of pause. And under those are the things that I don't have control of or I need to do. So I'm like, I'm not doing this today. I can't do that today. I won't worry about that. I decided I can do it tomorrow was a neat way. In cell A5, I printed it on both sides and I stuck it in here. And so far this particular style journaling has helped me out a lot. I do have other journals I'm going to show you, which I use a different form of journaling. But right now, the quick blurb is perfect for me. Then I think I have one more word that I used as a divider, which helps me keep papers that I haven't used yet. Wave for my journaling and then my happy meal planning part. There we go. There it is ready to be used. So that's it for this particular journal. 9. A5 zipper leather cover: If you're familiar with the journaling community, you will recognize this from Gallon leather company in Istanbul, Turkey. Each of them are handcrafted. I forgot to show you the fountain pen holder that slides inside this. Yet on the left you can see other items that you can put in the holders and n slots that I'm showing you. The only thing I was curious about was the key fob. I've left it in there so I do not lose it that I don't know what I will put on a key file right now, A5 notebook in there. But what's really clever is that it has a cutout. So if you don't have a notebook, but you have a pad of paper, you'll be able to use it in there as I'm going to show you right there, I can just slide it in place. This is my lit from 1917. Sorry if I butchered that name, It's an A5. I'm using it in this particular cover. A lot of times. It's for bullet journaling. Thus the end. This is some of my watercolor abstract artwork I put in there. I don't put down an index, clipped it to the top so I can flip to the first page. Now, just like in my creative journal that I am using for collages, I wrote down what I wanted. My intentions were for this journal. They might change, they might not. And then I made another writing board out of a piece of watercolor paper does laminate. It was the perfect size to fit in there. This particular journal has very thin paper, as you'll see in a second, is you'll be able to see the rainbow right through it. I like putting a writing board so it won't in debt or if something believes to the next page and won't bleed onto the following pages. So I'm looking forward to using this journal in that manner. What sets this brand apart is that it has a little pocket in the back there where you can put receipts or little mementos that you might want to put it in your journal. It also comes with stickers where you can write and put on the very front or inside the cover what that journal is about. I like how it has the elastic band. So I used some of them in the past just like that. But if you put the elastic band on, you won't be able to slip it into that clever little slot there. So this is new item for me to use, a new way of carrying journal and I'm looking forward to using it in the future. 10. Traveler's Company Notebook: I've had a few notebook covers my time, but this is right from the source travelers company in Japan. What sets them apart is that they have their elastic tie hole right in the back of the cover and they imprint on the back that it's from their company. You can change them out as I'm showing it. It's very easy to pull that out of the hole and you can put a different Alaskan elastic in there. Here are some trinkets that I decided I wanted to put on it. What I have in this as I'm showing you right here is the the salt bonus I guess, of the leather and how thin it is and how it just dispense with ease. Then I have to insert. So first one is a plastic, one has a Ziploc thing where you can put extra elastic goods are items. And then the front is, is designed for little notes or business cards if you collect it. And then before I show you the box, there's a cardboard insert which helps protect the notebooks from the leather so it doesn't rub off. Sometimes things rub off on each other. So that's nice. Dot data protection. Show you that I have two notebooks in here. Some people actually do three notebooks, but right now I only have two, which will do a flip through, you know what, a flip through his. Now, don't be class. And I'm going to remove this from the notebook because it'll be easier to do a flip through. Now once again, as I've told you, any of the other journals, it all depends on how you want to have it. Right here showing you how you have the elastic around the middle. And that's how you hold onto the notebooks so they don't slip out. I'm going to put this to the side and we're going to do a flip. This has all these stamps from the travelers company did to the fact that I went to a store that was having a display and I took advantage of using their stamps. And that's this particular one is a traveler's notebook. And you can tell from this rectangle that I just showed you, plus they have their name in the front of it. And so wonderful quality of paper if you're into fountain pens, this is the paper for you. So I'm going to proceed doing a flip through. I wrote a little blurb about how excited I was to use this for a trip that I just took it to a an event and Texas just just recently, they gave us these popcorn bags and it was a perfect fit. So what I did is I put it on the glue down on the first page and then I inserted receipts, little pieces of paper in there that may or may not want to use. This is one way of tracking your journey. I just made a little map and put some watercolor to decorate it. And there's a place that you can go to cope Bucky switch. Everyone told me to go to and I did. Here's our receipts that I got from some treats all along the way. We went to a famous craft store outside of Houston. And I took some pictures with my traveler's notebook because that's the thing that a lot of us do that how long you just document it that way. And these are some of the stickers I'm pointing out that I purchased at that particular store. We went to another famous place in Round Top tax is called the junk Gypsy, which was very interesting. The rest of these pages are things that I did, I went to die, so they have them in Texas and I took a picture of the items I wrote and then I just did a arrow pointing thing of luck. This is what this is. This is what that is. That's what you can do. That's one example you can do for your traveler's notebook. Here's that bikinis again. They have the penny machine. I love using those for as a souvenir. And I just started putting other items and photos in the book to keep track of my journey. Some of the ladies at the camp gave us journaling card holders, so I took advantage of putting those in the book. I used washy to decorate the back of the pages. Yeah. I was showing you my traveler's notebook again. I use some stamps. I use so cutouts that I received some art work. This is a piece of artwork of that lady that is in the picture with me. This is another piece of artwork from this lady that's with me in that picture. Then there's some lady said I just met for the first time and they created certain items for us to use. So I'm going to put you on fast-forward so you can enjoy the rest of this flip through the very back of the book I use for ink swatching, which will be explained in more detail in classes to come with this series, just journaling. 11. A5 Hobonichi Cousin: This is the hub of Nietzsche cousin A5 size. This is the copper out of all the covers out there. I chose I love it to protect it. I bought the plastic cover that was specifically designed. So you will be able to get into the pockets. Here's some pockets that are sizes of like business cards. Then there's a few side pockets that are big enough to slip in some treasures, like some postcards that I'm showing you here. Besides the pockets and the front there is a little slip pocket in the back of the journal cover also. This is an April start instead of a January start, so I do not have to purchase a new one until next May. The reason I did that is I do not want the pressure of starting a journal and January. And this is a great option to have if you feel that same pressure, they give you monthly fees, weeklies, and then Daly's, which is split up in each month, which I'm going to show you now. I really like how you can just decorate the inside and the outside of the covers. The sky is the limit, as I always say. If you're wanting to just have a glance of the month and the year they give you three years for that. They also give you a rundown of all 12 months where you if you have real important things to write about, then we come to the month lease. And just like any other calendar journal, it gives you the days of the week in little boxes to insert your information or to decorate. There's two sides where you can have more room to decorate or write down things. And each Sunday, as I pointed out, starts in red. And what is nice because it started in April. I have until next May before I have to purchase new ones so I can plan out all the way to May of 2023. Now we're going to get into the weeks. I'm not going to show you what I've done so far for I use the weeks for personal journaling. But here's an example. In July, each page comes with a full week of columns. It shows you the month, the year. And then one of those glands little calendars and they always say in red which week you're in. If you're one of those people that need to quickly look at what week you're in. This will help you. They give you a little column for jotting down notes, and then they start about four o'clock in the morning until four o'clock the next morning. So if you're one that has to write down things by the hour, this would be perfect for you. I personally do not have that type of schedule, so I use it just to write down personal journaling that I just kinda like a brain dump. And it goes all the way through March of next year, which is nice. So once again, with the cousin, you have the months, they have the weeks. So you don't have to purchase a new weekly calendar until March of 2023. They give you a couple pages in between, which I have used already. For example, I decided that I wanted to purchase certain pens to use just for this journal and these particular colors. So I did a sample to see if it would work for me. And as I'm showing you on the back, there's barely any bleeding that goes through. Maybe just a little ghosting, which is fine by me. And I use the other pages for when I had some purchases. I bought some PET tape from someone in Canada and then I purchased some other items from another shop. And this is something cool you can do in your journal when you purchase something just to show what you bought. Now we're going to go into the dailies and then it goes all the way through February of next year. Each page has a page. I'm showing you. I decorated the front page of the month of April and then the following pages is when I purchased something, it's really popular. And then journaling community to put down a couple of items that you have purchased. I also did some water coloring in this. When I go to a cafe, I like to draw the coffee cup that I used. Sometimes I've found some papers or stickers or artwork from other friends and I want to put it in here. As you can see on the right. That's another example of water coloring on this particular paper. Now, I know in the previous lessons I showed you about my collage journal. And now you're seeing collage in here and you're like, Why are you collaging? And here you have a collage journal. Well, the difference is in this one is on that particular day, as you saw the rainbow stickers, I got in stamps that was from a friend in the UK and I wanted to put it down the day I received it. Just like right there, it's got sick. I wrote that down. Then I was sick for a week or so. So I just stapled the papers together so I wanted to feel bad about catching up alone. Behold the day I was feeling good, I got some more happy males, so that's the day put down the happy now. And then the rest of the month, I put down some stickers because I wanted to use those stickers. Here are more examples of how I use the daily pages. The hub in HE is a great source for fountain pen ink swatching to see if you like the way that it dries on the paper in case you want to use it in your journal. At the time of this recording, I was getting ready to put down memories of a trip I was just on in Texas. I'm using my stickers keynote there that I've mentioned before. That's helpful to remind me what I'm going to put on that page. And the daily pages go all the way through February. They give you a few pages after February to do other things. I use them for fountain pen ink swatching. The rest of the pages have to do with the Japanese culture. So class that is the hope and Nietzsche A5. Looking forward to hearing what you guys think about this one and all the other journals that we went over in class today.