This book has some wonderful and creative ideas for journaling. The author gives step-by-step easy to follow instructions to create new and fun pages for your journal. Very beautiful and Inspirational book. I will be adding this to my library.


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Creative Journaling was a great deal of fun and full of wonderful ideas on how to take your journal to the next level. Completely accessible, fully-illustrated (for those of us who don't want to destroy a perfectly nice blank page). The sections on junk journaling, travel journaling and mixed media journaling opened up further possibilities to explore. And you can work with whatever you have lying around the house. We all have pretty scraps of paper and hoards of stationary to work from.

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Creative Journaling was such a fun and creative book. All the projects in here are very creative and can be a good way for people to find creativity in their everyday life without feeling the pressure of being perfect.

I was especially interested in the dot grid journaling section as that is something I would like to take up again in the new year. I did bullet journaling for a while in 2017 but had never found templates that I liked. Day included so many amazing and simple ideas for templates that I can't wait to try. The lettering and border ideas were also incredible and I practised them while reading the book.

The latter part of the book with the 'junk' journaling, travel journaling, and mixed media journaling was so interesting. The instructions - throughout the whole book - were clear and the photos helped the descriptions. A lot of the items used in each project were things a majority of people would have access to around their home and I appreciated that that was in mind when Day wrote the book.

I would highly recommend this to anyone interested in journaling in different formats. The projects look beautiful, are customisable, and come with descriptive instructions to help the reader as much as possible. It's perfect for the end of a long, stressful day and sparks the creativity some people may not have in their work.

This book has some great ideas for journaling as I was hoping it would. I enjoy journaling using a dot grid book where I keep a calendar with events, appointments, special occasions, and important notes along with general ideas and happenings. I also use it for keeping up with my Goodreads book challenge. I wanted some ideas to spruce it up. It is a fun thing just for me, a way to create. Creative Journaling has some ideas for creating calendars, special events pages with dates including birthdays and anniversaries, etc. Renee Day has given not only ideas but step by step instructions to achieve your own special creation. She gives a list of different supplies to use, including a lot of ideas for on hand materials. She has included sections for creating junk, mixed media books, and travel pages using old books or other options of materials. While I mainly focused on the ideas for dot grid journaling, there are lots of great ideas that can be used for different projects. I am considering buying this book so that I will have it on hand for future creations.
I received a complimentary ARC from Rock Point and Quarto Publishing Group through NetGalley. All thoughts and opinions are mine only.

I loved this book so much! The pictures were so gorgeous and eye-catching and most importantly, very inspirational and informative. Filled with great and creative ideas, and very clear instructions, I will definitely be suggesting this for my library to purchase and I can not wait to share this with my customers.

This was a very fun book. I'm really into bullet journaling so when I saw a copy of this book I decided to give it a go. This book is full of ideas but not only it focuses on the dot grid notebook but it also includes different spreads for different types of journals. I believe this is a great book for people looking to create new pages in their journals or that want to try creating a junk journal, travel journal, etc. The ideas are presented step by step with full explanations and they are really easy to follow.
I would totally recommend this book for anyone looking to be more creative in their journey of journalin

This is a great book bursting with inspiration and great ideas for spicing up your journal. It is full of wonderful pictures and will have you reaching for your supplies so you can get going. There are a lot of instructions for designing your page layout, and for different types of lettering and borders. It is definitely one to keep on your shelf and to keep referring back to.

This books is amazing! I have read other journaling how to books and so far this is the best! Its clear, gives a lot of examples, break down the basics, but then how to make journals!
If you want to or are into journals you really should get this book!
The pictures are also clear and the directions seem easy to follow.
I really liked the meal planing one!

What a great little book, so inspiring. The book starts with chapters on materials and techniques, then goes through four different styles of journaling - Dot grid; junk; mixed-media and travel. Throughout the book there are tips and suggestions. There are ideas for layouts, cover pages, styles and constructions. It doesn't go into in-depth detail but does act as a starting point for your own ideas.
A fun book that makes you want to reach for your art supplies and get started.

This book is filled with so many wonderful resources for lettering! I love how the author goes down to the basics and starts with simple vocabulary. Her projects shown go step by step and are easy to follow. This is a great resource for anyone looking to get into bullet journaling!

As someone who loves bullet journaling and making altered books, I really enjoyed this book of creative journaling ideas. The first half are all bullet journal ideas, with some wonderfully creative spreads that are fairly simple with a nice impact. For each one, Day goes into step by step directions on how to do them yourself. Most require only simple tools, though she does use quite a few stencils (you can also freehand those, but they won't be as precise). You can easily replicate most of her bullet journal designs with a ruler, stencils, a pencil and some colorful pens, washi tape and a brief amount of time. I would have liked even more of these, as my favorite part of any bullet journal book is seeing as many examples of creative spreads as possible. I tend to do all of my drawing freehand and would have loved some examples of simple freehand spreads to try, too. That said, stencils do make it easy to do great spreads with any artistic level.

The second half of the book is what she calls junk journaling but she also calls altered books. I've been doing altered books for about 14 years and her version is far more fiddly than mine. She has you remove all the pages and just use the hardcover spine as a sort of holder, and then glue in inserted pages that you've bound. I have always just used unloved/ruined old hardcover books as the materials themselves and done designs right over the pages (usually removing some of the pages since the added things glued in and such add a lot of thickness to the book). I like doing it this way as it reminds me of my favorite Native American art style, ledger art, where people on the reservations would use old pages from ledgers that they bartered for as canvas since they had no access to paper or any other type of canvas. The ledger pages underneath become part of the finished work, just as with altered books you can use the text, photos or other elements of the original page to create the finished page.

In any case, her junk journal ideas were mostly very complicated with a lot of supplies and time needed. Some were quite nice, but I prefer doing a simpler, cheaper, faster kind of art for altered books. I didn't end up caring much for that half of the book.

Despite that, I still highly recommend the book for those who love creative journaling. If you like making your journals artistic, this will give you some great inspiration.

I read a temporary digital ARC of this book for the purpose of review.

This is a book full of colorful and fun journaling ideas and beautiful photos. The layouts for dot grid journaling are easy to replicate and for most of them, you need minimal supplies witch is perfect for beginners. For the mix-media part, you need more supplies and the techniques are more advanced. A great book to get the creativity flowing.

While I’m not into mixed media in my bullet journal there were some really great ideas for dot journaling included in the book, a few of which I plan to copy into my own journal.

This is a really brightly colored, fun introduction to the more artistic side of bullet/art journaling. This is the kind of bullet journaling I want to do, but don't have the time for, so looking at the pictures was entertaining. I would definately recommend it for beginners and people who want tips on how to achieve drool-worthy layouts.

I got this ARC from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.

LOVE this!! Can't wait to get it for my library. So many ideas! Especially for my teen group to make journals for themselves. Fantastic instructions for all the projects.

3.5/5 Stars.

This is a great book about different mediums that can be used while bullet journaling. It is a great overview for someone who may already have an idea in mind when it comes to using and creating a bullet journal. However, I didn't find it too practical for a beginner or someone new to bullet journaling as the format and style of this book was kind of all over the place. It would have been easier to follow if it had more of a "where to start" section. I would recommend this to anyone interested in seeing different creative ideas with step by step instructions.

This book is incredible. I love looking at bullet journals and always think I'm not artistic enough to make them myself. This book has changed that for me! Every page is filled with the most beautiful images and ideas to create your own journals. Renee gives create tips about materials, how to create beautiful effects and unleash your creativity on the page. I am so inspired after reviewing this book to get started. This book would be ideal for those new to or that already love journalling to give new inspiration and techniques. It is also so aesthetically pleasing that even if you never journalled, flicking through the pages of gorgeous colours would brighten anyone's day.

I've read several books about journaling and I know what I like and don't like in a good book on the subject. This book had plenty of good in it.

1) It was well-organized. I loved how the book is organized in categories for bullet journals (dot grid), found object journals (junk journaling), mixed media, and travel.

2) Each section gave a brief description of the type of journal before diving into tips and tricks and different ideas for the pages and embellishments of that journal.

3) Pictures. The book has a ton of good, step by step photography on each idea that makes it good for advanced beginners and intermediate journalers.

This is absolutely going on my Amazon wishlist and I will be recommending it to people.

A well presented craft book on the popular journaling craft. It includes layout ideas and ways to make your own journals and include items. Useful for multimedia artists. I may purchase this book as craft books are better in physical form for reference and to view while crafting

I enjoyed this book because the information is practical, innovative, and easy-to-follow. I've read my fair share of books about crafts and DIY and sometimes walk away uninspired. This book gave me a lot of ideas that I can't wait to implement. I also enjoyed that the photos are beautiful and instructive.

Thanks to the publisher and netgalley for the ARC.