In honor of my birthday this month, I decided to create a birthday themed bullet journal design. I wanted my August theme to have a playful party feel. Therefore, I tried to use bright colors on each page. Of course, I scoured Pinterest and Google to for inspiration and found a few ideas that tickled my fancy.
My birthday design isn’t as simple as the bubble theme I created for July, but I think I did a good job of creating a party feeling for the month of August. I chose to draw cake, confetti, balloons, and gift boxes to represent the theme. Check out my design process below for more details about the theme.
The Design Process
The Cover Pages
For the title page, I drew a three tier cake with icing and flowers. I added balloons, confetti, party garland, and party hats in order to make everything pop. The colors on the cake were not what I originally planned. The cake was suppose to be a brighter pink with the blue icing. Unfortunately, when I colored the second tier, I picked up the wrong color. So, in order to correct the mistake I colored over both tiers with a darker purple. In the end, the cake looks like some weird ombre effect that I didn’t intend to create.
Overall, the cover pages look okay. I’m a little disappointed with the cake, but I think all of the other elements make up for my mistake.
The Calendar
I really like how the calendar page turned out for this month’s theme. I drew the party garland across the top, a gift box on the side, and confetti all around. I also used various shades of pink, purple, and blue as the color scheme for the calendar. I later added various birthday elements to different dates on the calendar to represent all of the family birthdays happening this month.
The Mood and Habit Trackers
The mood tracker for this month is a large cupcake topped with candy. I saw this tracker on Pinterest and thought it would fit in nicely with this month’s theme. I added some additional confetti to round out the page.
The habit tracker page is pretty simple. I drew party garland, balloons, and cake around the chart. I chose the colors pink and blue for both pages so they would look like one cohesive design. However, in hindsight, I feel I should have chosen different colors because I used those same colors in July’s theme and I was a little bit tired of seeing them. Oh well, you live and learn.
The Weekly Spreads
For the first two weeks of the month, I chose to draw a variety of balloons across the top of the page. On the last two pages, I drew a variety of gift boxes along the side and bottom of the pages. I used multiple colors for all of the boxes and balloons. Usually, I like for my color schemes to be more complimentary, but this time I was trying to do something different. At first, I wasn’t sure I like the multicolored look, but it grew on me with time.
Final Thoughts
Overall, I like how fun and playful this birthday theme looks this month. Although this design wasn’t that difficult to draw, choosing the colors proved to be a little more challenging than I originally expected. In the end, I’m glad I had the opportunity to create this theme to represent my birthday. Each page represents a party all month long.
