written by marieann

I designed these journals from scratch — literally. I made the image in Photoshop then added the journal prompts (50 in all) to the pages. I think the idea of a pre-printed prompt journal is stellar because sometimes you want to write but you don’t know what to write about. These pages are highly customizable and you can add additional images or your own prompts like I did to make these pages.

Materials:
Paper — both pretty scrapbook paper and typing paper
Cardboard scraps

Tools:
Printer
Photoshop
Scissors (paper cutter would really help)

Instructions:
1. Choose which pages you like best. If you don’t like my final product, then you can choose one of the other images and customize as you’d like. Click on the images to get the full size for downloading.

2. Personalize the pages as you wish in Photoshop. Here’s a couple of examples of what I did.

3. Print them. Be sure you print the full size as I made them fit the pages perfectly. Also, you need to print them landscape style.

4. Trim the pages. I trimmed the pages so that there was 1/8″ to the right of both pages. This leaves you with a thick enough white space to the left of the right page that prints so that you can bind it. This definitely takes awhile if you want to do it nicely.

5. Use the cardboard scraps to make a front and back cover. Wrap the cardboard in pretty scrapbook paper.

6. Take the journal to your local office supply store to get it coil bound. At Kinko’s it’s about $6.

7. Write in your own personalized journal!

Alternatives! I made one of these for my mom too and I made her planner pages — like calendars, lists, etc. I would post them but I made them too low of resolution so they printed up kind of blurry.

More images of my finished journals –