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.

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.

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.

Guest post for Mrs Brimbles Creative Team.

Hello everyone. Wow, November is here and Bonfire Night has been and gone...crazy! Today I am creating a Bonfire Night themed memory keeping page in my creative journal. I have used the October collage sheets and printables from Mrs Brimbles Patreon page and wow we were spoiled for choice with last months goodies. As part of the layout, I have turned some of the printables in to die cut pieces.

Guest post for Mrs Brimbles Art Creative Team

I see a lot of posts in the planner and creative journal groups asking for ideas on using their printables, papers and creative kits. For this post I am using Anna's patreon resources (workshops, videos and printables) to give you some inspiration on how you might use them in your own planners, creative journals, art journals and on memory keeping pages.

Phew, I have finally fully completed my first Creative Journal / Smash book which I started over Easter in 2016. It has quite a lot of pages as it is in one of the Moleskine Notebooks. The end of the book has my Adventure Journaling Course pages that I have just completed from a course over at Mrs Brimbles I thoroughly enjoyed the course and hope that it is going to continue pushing my journaling forwards. Plannercon Europe news at the bottom of the post.

Over in my Facebook Art Journaling group we have just completed a junk journal challenge which ran through the month of August. I have had an overwhelming amount of people taking part and loved every minute of it. Such beautiful books and journals were created. I for one will most definitely be making many more, they are so pretty and it has been so therapeutic. I will be using mine as a Happiness and Inspiration journal to log my moments of happiness and likes as well as adding mood boards and inspirational quotes.

​The images from my journal are below as well as a video flip through of the completed journal. You can check out the pages participants have made using the hashtag #kmmamjunkjournal on Instagram, there are some stunning pages. People have taken part across a range of platforms; on their blog, in the group, You Tube, on Instagram and on Google Plus.

This week I have been making my first real flip book for a pen pals 'Happy Mail' / 'Snail Mail' in America. I have documented the plan with me / make with me process in the video below. It's so easy and would also make a great gift for your child's teacher or as a Mothers Day gift, just adapt what you fill the envelopes with (reward stickers, pens, herbal tea), the possibilities are endless.  I will be making my next one this week as a leaving gift for a work colleague.

Disclaimer: This post uses affiliate links, but they are all for products that I use myself.

• 12x12 scrapbook paper
• Ideally a paper trimmer, but scissors will be fine
• Washi Tape
• Two small pretty envelopes
• Pritt Stick
• Goodies to fill the envelopes​ (ephemera, washi tape, sticky notes etc)

Method:

• Trim down the paper to around the same height as regular tn by drawing around your travelers notebook.  Cut out and fold down the centre. Use the extra bits and stick these to the sides to create flaps (the flip part).
• Stick on two mini envelopes and then fill the envelopes with planner and stationery goodies. I used stickers, sticky notepads, ephemera and pretty papers.
• You can then add further decoration and writing as you wish.  You may use one of the envelopes to house a letter.
• Decorate and pin things to the flaps/wings. I added sticky notes and a washi tape sampler which I held on with a cute handmade paperclip.
  
  

I hope you enjoy watching the process. You can watch the video directly in You Tube by clicking the link  - Flip Book Tutorial or you can watch below.

I hope that you have enjoyed the tutorial, I would love to see what you create, remember to tag me on Instagram or Twitter using the hashtag #kmmam

​Happy Happy Mail creating 
​Kerry xx​

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As well as the front cover of the notebook, I also decorated the inside cover and added a functional pocket to house some of my lovely Planner Society stickers that were sent as part of the happy mail. Have a look below at my PWM process video. If you are viewing this from a reader or email please click the following link:
Creative Journaling - The Planner Society April Kit

I really love the finished product and managed to decorate the cover and inside cover and still managed to save the lovely flip book and have goodies left over. I'm going to use it as a journal, not daily, but a place to write down my thoughts when I need to or feel the urge. I'm ​just waiting for my new Jane Davenport Travelers Notebook to arrive now which will be it's new home ._.

Hopefully this post has inspired you to use your Planner Society and ephemera/papers for something other than your planner and to help you if you have been hoarding the pretties. Do pop me a comment below to let me know what you think or over on the You Tube video.
Have a great week,
Kerry xxx

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