This month as part of the Mrs Brimbles Creative Team I have been playing with watercolours and drawing gum again, but in a completely different way to last time. In Anna's latest Patreon tutorials, she has been showing us how to create something called 'Journal Spots', journaling cards that use drawing gum to create a resist area that we can then use to write or journal on. I love them! It's also National Scrapbook Day on Saturday, so happy scrapping!

I have created 4 different cards, each with a different purpose in mind. The one above is for my Happiness and Bloom Journals (both of which are junk journals). I have used the cards as prompts for further journaling. The one below is one of my long term goals: To move to Spain, it is something that I WILL be doing, even if takes until retirement to get there.

The Growth and Happy journaling cards are my Words of the Year, so something I have been holding dear and trying to live up to. Happy seems to be working for me at the minute. I have been much happier in my work and this has had a knock on effect in all areas of my life. I have used the card to document my weekend at Cambs Planner Con last week and you can see this in my journal below. It was such a lovely event and great to finally get to meet some of the lovely people I have spoken to online and to see friends that I have already met through the planner and journaling community. The page also uses stickers from Anna from both the ones that were sent with our ticket and ones from the latest Brimbles Box (Planner Nerds Bright's).

I've loved creating and using the Journal Spots and it is something I will be creating and making again. Do check out Anna's Patreon Page, she has updated it to include lots of new goodies and rewards including a tier where you can get the Brimbles Box included.

Take Care and I will see you soon,
​Kerry xx

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One summer in 1990 we decided that instead of a holiday we would visit places in Derbyshire every Sunday. As my mama was poorly and couldn't get to visit, I decided to create this journal for her. I saved leaflets and took lots of photographs to include in it and dedicated a page to each place we visited with a write up that I filled in each week.

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It is such a lovely journal to look back on and actually made me teary in places when looking back on lost loved ones. I also loved how it has got that vintage look about it with the browned pages (mainly from me making my own glue using flour and water!) I also love how I included drawings from my school trips as well as photographs, such lovely memories.

I highly recommend you to make a travel journal wherever you go, especially if you can do them with children, they are such lovely things to look back on. I now have several which you can see here.
How to create a Travel Journal and how to set it up
Adventure Journaling Review and Creative Journal Flip Through

At the end of my journal I added a photo gallery section, another great way of memory keeping.

Do you keep scrapbooking style journals? and do you have any hidden gems that you may have forgotten about too? If you haven't then what are you waiting for, get logging those journeys and your travels, you won't regret it I promise.

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Hello everyone, brrr, it's been so cold. In weather like this I like nothing better than watching the Winter Olympics from the comfort of my warm home. This week I made a Winter Olympics journal page using resources from Anna Brims February patreon downloads, they were just perfect for this. I used to be an ice skater myself from aged 7 to 16 and competed in many competitions and grueling training sessions from 6am, then school and back on the ice after until 9pm daily.

When I saw Anna's ice skater image that she had painted I was gobsmacked at how similar it looked to a photo of me from an ice show when I skated to Wish Upon a Star, so knew it was perfect for my page.

Firstly I printed out the girl and the photo of me, then chose a pink pastel background image from Anna's collage sheets. The pastel colours look so pretty together. Anna also included a February Hygge collage sheet of her own drawings and the Winter theme continued on these.

​For table gifts for a planner event that I was attending, I had already created some journaling cards using heavy texture paste, which I layered over with watercolour. However, due to the snow I was gutted that I couldn't attend, so used one of the pastel cards on my page instead.

Finally I added some pastel washi tape and a ticket stub that Anna had gifted me in an ephemera swap, then added a bit of journaling about the Olympics. I love the finished page, especially the bit on the right, where it looks like the pink and white icicles trickling down the page.

I love Instagram and looking through my photos. I thought it would be such a nice idea to keep these photos forever in an actual journal. Here I show you how to make a beautiful Instagram Photo Album/creative journal to store all of your Instagram photos. It's perfect for memory keeping and saving your memories in a photo book and much nicer than a regular photo album. ​

Once you have your photos you can then start adding them to your journal by mixing them with pretty papers, washi tape and embellishments/die cuts. Have a look at how I create the first 2 pages in my creative photo journal in my 'Journal With Me' process video below.

Have you ever created anything similar? Do let me know if you create your own, use the hashtag #kmmam on Twitter or Instagram, I love to see your creations and hear your comments.
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​Take Care, Kerry xx

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An unboxing of a beautiful junk journal kit to make your own stunning vintage junk journals and altered books using a kit by Queen Mabel & Doris on Facebook and on Etsy.  This is such a pretty kit and could be used in so many ways. Have a watch to see it in all of it's loveliness.

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The kit contains so many beautiful goodies including:
​Material, waxed thread, papers, stained papers, die cuts and ephemera (which fell out of the package, I found them later on), cut envelopes, ribbons, doily's, paper bags, a beautiful clip, journaling cards, patterned serviettes for decoupage and so much more.

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Hi all, I have finally fully completed my 2017 December Daily in my Christmas travelers notebook. I've documented my memory keeping in a smash book style way, using a variety of scrapbook papers, journal cards, photos, stickers and embellishments, have a watch of the video flip through below.

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Phew, I love a bit of memory keeping and have finally completed my Plannercon Europe Creative journal and my Summer adventures travelogue. I have been so inspired by Anna Brims online course on creating an 'Adventure Journal', I can highly recommend it. I will talk you through the basics of the course and how I got started on my Adventure journeys, right through to the finished product including my full creative journal flip throughs.

I don't want to waffle on too much (well I am doing a journal about Belgium!), so firstly check out Anna's link on Mrs Brimbles to read all about the course.
Mrs Brimbles Adventure Journaling Course

If you want to create a travel journal, but have no idea where to start then this is a great place to learn. Anna guides you through what an adventure is and gets you to write down what your adventure might be. There are guided videos and information as well as art tutorials if you want to draw or paint in your journal either before, during or after the trip. I have added my initial pages that I completed for the course and ideas below in both my smash book and in my Junk Journal.

The next few lessons involve getting your kit together to make the journal and what pre-prep planning you can do to your pages before you go, as well as what supplies to take with you. I always add simple backgrounds, journaling cards and stickers etc before I go and then leave space to write or stick photos in. Supplies wise I take a basic kit of pens and washi tape etc, but Anna explains this far better than me.

​I have loved the course and so much is packed in to the lessons making it great value for money.
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Have a look at my completed journal below and then be sure to have a look at my photos below the video.

So that's it, my finished insert and almost finished insert from the day. I have thoroughly enjoyed the course and completing the journals and as you know I am now a little journal obsessed. I can't wait to choose my next 'adventure'.

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Oooo 2 more weeks till Christmas, who's excited? Here I'm sharing my updated flip through of my Christmas Planner in particular the December Daily pages. I have done up to day 8 so thought I would share a small planner peek of my memory keeping and creative journal pages and spreads so far.

I've documented my memory keeping in a smash book style way, some use the UKPA December Daily prompts, but only a few as I am using this as an Instagram photo challenge and that will have a different journal insert. If you want to take part in that, it's not too late, head over to Instagram and search for the hashtag #UKPAdd17.

You can see my pages so far in the video here - ​December Daily Video

​​I am loving doing a bit of journaling every evening. I don't usually do any in the week when at work as I am usually vegged in front of the tv, I'm still doing that but with the journal on my knee - hahaha. I started the December Daily last year, but gave up after 4 days, so I AM going to see this one through. I'm in such a Christmassy mood now too, I hope you give it a go. You can share your pages over on my Facebook group -  ​​Kerrymay._.Makes a Mess

You can view the FULL flip through here over on You Tube 
December Daily Fully Completed Travelers Notebook 2017

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