This month’s design is special because I have officially completed one full year of working in my bullet journal. It was a personal goal of mine to work in my journal for an entire year and I actually achieved that with this design. HOORAY FOR ME!
Anyway, my January 2022 bullet journal design is a dreamy cloud design. As usual, I was inspired by other bullet journal creators on Pinterest and Instagram. Once I settled on this idea, I pinned a variety of ideas on my boards and started creating.
Check out my design process below in order to view the results.
The Design Process
Materials
- Pencil
- Colored Pencils
- Fine liner pens
- Crayola Markers
- Gel Pen
- Ruler
- Erasers
- Circle Stencil
- Star stencil
Cover Pages
When I saw All in a Bujo’s original cloud theme set-up on Pinterest I immediately knew that I wanted to re-create it in my journal as the first spread. While I was sketching the design in pencil I had my doubts. To make matters worse, I had an issue with choosing just the right colors and supplies to make it look similar to the original design concept. I was on a wild roller coaster ride of emotions creating this design, but end the end I think it turned out ok.
The Calendar Page
This spread is my favorite design for the month. It was inspired by a design created by Len Journals on Instagram. I thought her design was so lovely and creative the moment I laid eyes on it. Even though the dark blue marker bled through the paper a bit, I was willing to take the risk to have this page in my journal. It is a nice addition to my overall theme for the month.
The Mood and Habit Trackers
I found the example of the mood tracker on Pinterest. It went perfectly with my theme for this month. I really like the soft pastel colors for this page. I am going to enjoy coloring this page for the month. I think it will look like a pastel dream once it is all filled in by the end of the month.
The habit tracker chart consists of my usual tasks and dates for the month. For the design, I created these fancy odd shaped clouds based on an example I found. I used the the same color palette from the mood tracker page to outline the clouds on the habits page. It looks like a very soft and cohesive design.
The Weekly Spreads
My weekly spread is a puffy pastel array of clouds on the top and bottom of the pages. I added a few stars and dots to round out the design. The end result looks like cloud magic.
Final Thoughts
Creating this month’s theme was bittersweet. I’m pleased with the outcome, but now I have to decide if I will move forward with my bullet journal into the new year. I haven’t made up my mind yet. I’ll just take it one month at a time. We will see how I feel in February.
Anyway, what do you think of my cloud themed design for the month of January? Let me know in the comments below.
