HOW TO FILL YOUR CREATIVE JOURNAL ~ ✨80 INSPIRING IDEAS for Wellbeing | Beginner Friendly Tips
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ก.พ. 2025
- ✨In this video I am sharing how to fill your creative art journal pages with 80 inspiring ideas & tips demonstrated straight from my current journal. I really hope you enjoy it! Don't forget to find me on Instagram and share your pages with me. (You can tag them with #createwithtug) These tips are totally suitable for everyone whether a beginner or an experienced artist. And most importantly, remember Thank you so much for watching, keeping me company in this little corner of TH-cam. Love you all to bits & see you soon, Wendy. Xxs
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I started my first journal 14 months ago and you, Wendy, are the first journal video artist I ever watched and who inspired me to do so. I had always avoided art because I was discouraged at school. I can't tell you how grateful I am for changing that. Now I draw, paint, write or collage in my 'treasure book' every day. It helps me so much on darker days as well as providing surprise and delight. Thank you for being so generous with sharing your time and knowledge. 🙏
makes me so happy to hear ! xxx big loves and happy creating xxx
"Glitter has been scientifically proven to bring joy. "❤
teeeheheheeheee!!! wahhhooo
To me 🎶
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I'm watching this as I'm creating a very glittery journal for my granddaughter, perfect timing!!
I photocopy old book pages and distress them...maybe tea or coffee dye them….and use them in my journal.
love that sounds gorgeous x
Dear Wendy. In the last days I watched A LOT of your videos. I am feeling so blessed that I found you. In this time I am admidst a deep depression....to hear your words, to see your art work is like sunshine for my soul. You light up my mood. I love your authenticity and the way you go through your struggles. That motivates me to keep on....till my light will be shine again. Thank you so much, you amazing soul!
Dear @user-bk2rv5lr9h, I am sorry to her you are amidst a deep depression. At this moment in time, I am saying a prayer for you, that you will find your way out, that you will know and feel that you are loved. Take care of yourself. From a new friend from the internet. 🤗
@@sooper109 Thank you so much for your kind words and your prayer. That means a lot to me!
@@Heikekr ❤🧡💛
Saying a prayer as well!
I started painting 18 years ago, after a postnatal depression. I still do it, and love it. I thank God for the gift. I now help teenagers. I love what you do, I will start doing it also. ❤
I just found your channel today when I was looking for art journalling ideas. You are brilliant! I love your journal and ideas! I can't wait to start. Thanks for putting this video together.
❤😢❤ people while you're watching be sure and give Wendy a thumbs up❤ as I look at the proportion between the views and the thumbs up where at 10%😢 I mean really come on now look at all the troubles she goes through to show us some really cool stuff the least you could do is tap❤
I use glitter pens when writing in my journal or going over my doodles. I love my journal it's my best friend right now. I use it for meditation answers , healing and gratitude. ❤
I’m looking for ideas on how to present things, make a book! I’m often telling my grandchildren how life was different when I was their age. Money’s tight this year, so I’m going to make a book for each of them for Christmas.
That's a lovely idea, and it should feel more of a special present because it's something you made
Peaceful greetings to you. I just found your channel. I really love this video. I’m a senior lady and made a decision a year ago to stop watching news and instead start journaling. I used to feel anxious after watching local and world news. So this has been a greeting healing tool for me. I’m not artistic like you, but all your ideas are doable and inspiring. I’m a retired calligrapher but I’m dusting off my nibs and ink pots and getting back to work! Thank you!!! 🕊️🙏🫶
Wow...how talented. So inspiring.
Wendy, l am in Journal heaven 🧡 your a fairy tale goddess 🧚🏻 you just keep giving and giving. Thank you for your artistic gift, grace and humility. Much love 🤍🩷💚🩵🧡🧚🏾
aww what a lovely comment, thankyou sooo much xxx
… I was traumatized as a child when trying to do my art. True husbands ridiculed my attempts. … I am now trying to heal and create and this is a great way to do it. I’m so happy I happened upon your channel. Thank you bright blessings to you and yours …🥰🙏🏻
I love that your journal is all handmade and has repurposed items and your own work. It's not filled with expensive stamp sets or stencils and purchased ephemera.
Aww thank you so much 😚😚😚🦋🦋🦋✨✨✨🫶🏼🫶🏼🫶🏼
So inspiring! I’ve been having a terrible awful bad day-so many situational stressors that I feel like my head is going to explode. But this video has shifted my mood. I find your very existence comforting! Those journals are seriously amazing. You are incredibly gifted at self-care and at utilizing art therapeutically. So much goes into those journals; seems to just pour out of you. Absolutely beautiful. Thank you for sharing your gifts and wisdom.
I loved watching this video of how you journal. You are so creative and interesting I was mesmerized by you. This really inspires me to try a journal with lots of different elements like yours. I do love fairies.
Helping me so much with my latest health "mishap"! I didn't think I had any energy to make art today but thanks to you... I did!
that's truly awesome xxxx so happy to hear this!
One line, one mark, one idea, is all it takes to stay creative. Sending a gentle hug and some healing energy your way. Thank you for the reminder to give it a go.
@@suev4143 Thank you 💖
I ask at charity shops for damaged books that cant be sold. I find the shops are happy with a donation and a loving new purpose for them!
That’s such a great idea!
So many brilliant ideas, you are so inspiring. Thank you for being so giving, vulnerable, and wise. With much love to you and James.
Since I am watching your channel, which is now 2 years, I'm much more comfortable to work in my own sketchbooks and am not afraid anymore to mess it up, because I can simply paint over or glue smth on top. I'm so happy I could work some of your techniques and ideas into my art and grow with it, despite going into a different artsy direction. Now my sketchbooks don't look empty anymore and that brings me so much joy. In general, I love your videos and watch them whenever I am creative myself.
makes me so happy to hear this, thankyou xx
Wendy this was delightful…your journals are magical and I love watching how you organize each page and I especially like all the pockets! You have inspiredme to start my own journal💕
ooh, happy journaling Kath xxxx
Fantastic. Thank you for sharing. Finding your channel has helped me so much through a crucial and dark time. I’m going to begin a very artsy journal and think this is key for my soul feeling alive. Thank you for you!
Lovely, just lovely Wendy!!! Loved all your tips, demos, and ideas. Very very inspirational!!!
Can't imagine life without my journal making.
10 years ago I created an art journal from a thrift-store book and it was so fun! In addition to journaling I used it for testing various media like chalk, paint, metallics, inks, crayons, pastels, etc. Your delightful video and all the ideas have rekindled my interest and I’m going to start again. Thank you for the inspiration! Edit: just remembered something cool to do, which is I exchanged journals with a friend and we each made a couple of pages in the other’s journal as a “guest artist”! 🧑🎨
Loveeeee that idea
Great ideas, thank you for sharing your journey with us.
Love this! Instead of me "wasting" or "messing up" a book, I'll copy it on my color copier and use it guilt-free!
First time watching you and just something about your voice makes you seem like the friendly little old lady library who secretly somehow knows everyone's deepest childish desires and helps them achieve them 😊
That green butterfly you drew is beautiful along with all the other journal pages you’ve made ❤❤ love it!
Wendy, you make my world a happier place ❤ 😊
'Creativity takes courage'. Thank you. Just what I needed to hear. I haven't been able to paint for a year and a half because family moved in and I no longer have the room to do big canvases. I have been desperate to get my paints and pens out. This gives me the opportunity to keep creating before the withdrawals kill me! Courage is what I need and the place my mind goes when I create is worth the risk! :D
Oh and POSCA pens are the BEST 😊
Your journal is so lovely and so very unique and personal. Thank you for sharing.
Lovely journal pages.I cannot live without my journals.
I am copying these ideas down on a paper, planning on putting it in a tuck spot or pocket in my journal, treasured and safe for those times when i need help from my muse 😉! Such a generous compilation of ideas, and the loveliest way to let us see a flip-through of your journal. We may all have visits from our personal muses, but this proves to me that you are a muse to us all. May joy, energy, and blessings envelop you, and may your muse be generous with you, and the fairies continue dance, and invite their friends. Much love, gentle hugs, and glorious light to inspire always ❤️🧡💛🩵💜
This is sooo inspiring. I have watched many, many journal and journalling videos over the years but none have inspired me as much as this one. I just love your messy, artsy style and way of doing things. I wish I was far less perfectionistic and much more free in my arts and crafts because this style is waaaaay more fun and interesting.
Wow, thankyou so much, this truly makes me blush! xxx happy onwards non-perfectionism creativity! you can do it!!
Thank you, I’m going to journal a ‘ moments’ journal for a special baby girl who lives abroad… I may never get to meet her.. but my soul does
What a treasure trove… my soul’s been in a dark place. Thank you ❤
soft hugs for the dark places xx
What a lovely way to spend a Sunday afternoon watching your journal vlog, very inspiring. I’m gonna start collecting pictures, poems and things that resonate with me………so wish I had an Art Room I could take myself away to.
Glad to see you are in a better place now after your accident. Love & Light Wendy. Looking forward to,your next vlog. 🤍📚
Perhaps put your things in a little box or basket, no need for a whole room! I did that when we lived in a van and it still felt like a 'place' if that makes sense xxxx
You are a joy. You are inspiring. You have this effervescence that is undeniable. I am enthralled by all the things you’ve shared. Thank you so much for sharing your soul with us.
Thks Wendy. I'm gonna make Angels with Vintage music 🎶 🎵 ✨️ 💕 sheets that I have found My Mom & Dad loved " Glenn Miller " band and Big bands. Oh wow just so many Journaling tips and creative Crafty ideas. Loved It. Gotta get to it. Lol. I love Journaling and spread the love ❤️ 😍 💖 You are Loved.
Very beautiful journals indeed! As far as GRACE is concerned, one of the most important meanings of the word is God's free generosity and love towards his creatures.
Tu es tellement mignonne Wendy et j'adore tes créations !❤ merci ⚘️ pour les idées 💡 toutes plus créatives les unes que les autres et merci pour la bonne humeur 😊❤ et bisous 😚
I want to find paper doll coloring books. Great ideas ..love your inspirational words & ideas.
Glorious and sacred journal. I love the little envelopes and all kinds of personality running throughout. Your journals over the years have been so lovely, intriguing and so authentic. Your photograph of yourself as a little girl and the title, 'how we talk to ourselves ' is special. You are the journal princess. Thank you for sharing your journals with us. Would be intetested in the sewing of the journals if you decide to want to video that. You're definitely an inspiration. See you in the next video. Thanks Wendy.❤
Wendy Thankyou so much for the ideas that helps my creativity!!!! Sending love!❤️
What a wealth of love and beauty! Thank you for sharing! 💙🕊️
I love this and what has inspired me from this video are the words Soul Healing. I’m an artist in the midst of an oil painting institute and I’m always putting rhinestones on things, but I can definitely find the time for soul healing.
"Second star on the right...", eh Wendy ? You show em the way 🧚🏻
Watercolors makes the best journal...you dont have to use words. You just make a memorial for those thoughts at that time. Going back years later, theyll still mean the same thing to you.
I love that sweater btw.
Thanks so much for some wonderful ideas and reminders. I guess you've recuperated well after the accident as you sound more energized and focused than you have in quite some time. That is wonderful if so.💕
Thank you for these fantastic ideas! What a beautiful, calming video. Your gorgeous artwork and tips inspire me.
yay! happy creating Betsy xx
Thank you so much wendy for your light! It inspires to journal again! Love to watch youre content🧚🏻♂️✨
This video to learn how journaling is so perfect. You are a wounderfull teacher. ✨️Tank you so much.✨️ I love your art and you are so precious. I will tell to God tonight how gratefull i am to have the chance to learn from you Wendy. 🤗
Isa from Quebec, Canada. 🙏🏻💫💜
Such great creative journaling ideas... your journal is magical
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I have been following you for awhile now but recently I feel I have reached an age and spell where I have lost my love of art and many other things. Today I checked out your new video and wow I got hit with inspiration, big time. Seriously I really got a huge wake up call. I will send a comment in the future when I see what happens in my follow through. Thank you so much!!!
makes me so happy to hear this, happy creativity! xxx
I thoroughly enjoyed watching that thank you Wendy. I rememer watching some of your processes on Patreon.
\\i feel the need to watch this at least a few more times. Soft enveloping hugs xxxx
Just doing my gratitude journalling, and wanted to say I am very grateful for you and your videos. Thank you for adding magic to our lives.❤
I am so inspired by you. Your passion oozes out of you. Thank you for sharing your fabulous ideas. Heather in South Africa
Poor, sweet baby. He melts my heart. Truly. But, I must say, this video was hysterical! That look, those eyes! How you come up with this stuff is mind boggling! Thank you for another priceless video! They are the best!
How magical your journals are! I truly love them, but the one thing that stands out in that whole lovely journal was your picture when you were a little girl, that was a light bulb moment for me. We sometimes forget to take care of her and need to cherish that little girl inside of us. How better to personalize a journal, you captured a moment in time of yourself, to bring along on your journey to where you are now and where you want to go, with your thoughts and emotions. Brilliant! You have a beautiful creative soul, and I so enjoy you sharing your world with us all! Blessings to you!!:)) Warm hugs to you!!:))
This video is absolutely stunning. Thank you for sharing these tips.
Thank you Wendy. Very inspiring.
I am literally blown away by the beauty and creativity of your journal pages. I am just getting into junk journaling and I wanted to create journals that inspired me and this is a great starting point for me. This is magical and so inspirational.
Your video popped up at just the right time. You brought me out of a big dip and stopped me losing control of my tears. There are times to and times not to. Those around you make such a difference and you pulled me back😀
Dear Wendy, You are an amazing person and I thank you so much for your art, ideas and inspiration that shows us the beauty around us and within ourselves. Thank you! You are a true soul healer. ❤❤❤
♥♥♥ your art and Faries Wendy. I love messy, torn, tabs, sewing etc and this video gave me heaps of inspiratioin. I want to do more messy journaling this year and I need to just play!! Thanks for your wonderful videos 🙂
yes, play!!! xx
I love, love, love this video, Wendy!!!! 💕 You are an inspiration!
Thank you for all these lovely journaling tips. I made notes while you shared…I think I will put them on decorated pages to look at before I journal to inspire me. Your creativity lights the world. Thank you.
Good morning Wendy from a cool but sunny part cloudy day here in Northern California. More rain to come but a nice AM and a nice cup of tea with you .
I’ve written down so much as I’ve listened to you talk about the wonderful life of journaling. As I mentioned in the past I’ve used an old book that I’ve been altering for my first journal. It’s not quite full yet and I still have the front and back to do.
Your ideas will help me along the way and my next journal will be much better but I’m actually proud of my first attempt. But I plan to make my own signatures and cover like you shared so many videos ago.
I loved every moment of this video and it’s so good seeing you feeling better and more back to yourself.
Thank you for all you’ve shared with us and the time it took to upload your videos. It is so appreciated.
We will never meet in person but I feel like you are a dear friend that I can visit and have a cuppa while you share your magical, artistry with us loyal followers. You are a special, kind soul. Sending you so much love and softest hugs. See you in the next one my dear. Hello to James too. ❤❤❤🎨🖌️🤔😘💫🌺🧚🏻♂️🧚♀️🧚🏻
Thank you Wendy for doing this and sharing all these amazing wonderful ideas🥰. Your journals are so pretty, magicial and wonderful. ✨🧚🏼♀️I’ve never journaled as I’ve never seen myself as creative but I may just write my thoughts and feeling down as a start. I hate my writing but what you said about writing made me feel like it’s ok to do it Xxx
Brakowało mi tego typu filmików u Ciebie,fajnie że wróciłaś do tematu art jurnalu ❤
Absolutely stunning art journal!❤❤
I so enjoyed your journaling .Thank you for sharing all your ideas .
Your journal is fantastic! Thank you for sharing. You have given me so much inspiration. I could explore your journal for days!
Love you generous spirit and goodness in this video. I love all of your videos. Thank you so much for shining your light.
Thank you for sharing all your ideas. I really did enjoy it. I'm fairly 😊❤ new to "visual journals" however I've been writing in journals since 14 ❤ and I just truly love this type of journalism ❤
Thanks Wendy ♥️ I'm struggling with Ptsd, and even though art journaling is my refuge and a soul healing tool, some days I can't do it as I would like. Your way of doing art journaling inspires self-compassion, something that I lack and that I would also like to do with my art journaling style without feeling the pressure of perfectionism or shame.
Thank you because you inspired me, and immediately after seeing your video, I managed to carve out a moment of writing and reflection on myself, which I hadn't been able to do for a long time. I want to join your Patreon Tier to learn from you this wonderful, compassionate and introspective way of art journaling. A big hug 🙂♥️🙏🌷✨
🧚🏼♂️Wow 🫠💕 thank you soo much Wendy! 1st. I am Soo happy to see you sitting on the floor crossed legged 🫠your knees are doing much better then, all healed up 💕🙆🏻♀️💕Yey!!!
2nd. I just started journaling again, little by little, I sit and do some until I come to a blank 🤪📝 and return a few hours later with more inspiration 🤭giggles💕
✨🫠💫Your video truly truly 🧚🏼♂️MOTIVATED ME AND INSPIRED MY 110% 💕🧚🏼♂️ I really enjoyed watching it and even wrote down notes 💁🏻♀️📝 💫🌺 Thank you for being on TH-cam 💐💗 I enjoy your videos so much, I always feel happier afterwards just so you know 💕🤗💕
✨🧚🏼🪄✨Sending you beautiful fairy love & happy dust ✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨and
✨🧸🪄✨✨✨✨big soft teddy bear hugz 🧸🤗🧸✨💐🎀🌺🍄🌻🌾🪻🌞🌜🌛🌟🌹🌷🌸
This was my favourite, so great to watch your creative process ❤
I started Junk Journalling a few years back. You gave me so many ideas. It's all my crafting in one. Thank you
I love the idea of giving fairies a focus, such as the letting go fairy, I can't draw, but I can find printables to add to my journal,
Thank you for sharing all your creative ideas. This video was so much fun to watch and has inspired me to get back into journaling again. Much love to you and James. 💖🤗🤗🤗
Thanks so much for sharing and all the lovely ideas💖 Keep shining your light so bright🥰
Thank you for sharing your magical journal, it was so enjoyable to see. I'm surprised how many of these ideas I already use in my own art journals and yet mine looks nothing like yours, how wonderful is that!? 🥰
Wow, so many wonderful tips and ideas in one video!! Thank you for sharing your journal and your process with us, Wendy. I love the gentle tone you take with yourself in your art journals and videos; it’s clear that your journaling really is a fabulous form not only of self-expression, but of self-care. Very inspiring, once again! ☺️ Sending love from Australia xo
Goodness, a year’s worth of inspiration! So enjoyed this video, thanks Wendy 👏🏻👍🏻🙂
I have journaled for most of my life and have even taught a class in basic how to journal. This video is brilliant. I will now refer my students to watch it ! I’m so inspired and now have a million ideas to use in my own practice. Thank you so much. Your light is definitely shining bright 💫
Your journal is mind-boggling creative! Kudos to you Wendy and thanks for sharing.
This is how I want to live my life too. I can see the amount of happiness you have through your face:) More power to you!
I love when I find someone with kindred spirit. I’m also an artist, and finding inspiration in what I’ve seen.❤❤❤❤
This is overwhelmingly stunning. Wow, what an inspiration!
Thank you for your wonderful video. I love looking at your artwork, it is just beautiful.😊 It’s nice to see you being your usual perky self. Hope all that was involved with your ‘ mishap’ is behind you now. Sending love to you.🥰
I came across your video today and absolutely loved it! I spend time making journals for others, but not for myself. I am preparing for a new chapter in my life and many of your entries have inspired me to create a sacred space in a journal to process everything as I move forward. I'll be watching your other videos as well. I also LOVE fairies and use them in my business logo.
I loved this 💖 and I look forward to seeing your next journal making video. 💖💖💖
Thank you so much for sharing your love and creativity ❤
There you are!?!? It's so strange you disappeared on my feed and I enjoy you so much!
Thank you so much for sharing your beautiful ideas. You are so inspiring!! 🥰
I was having breakfast while watching and as I finished I was thinking how much I would like some tea (I usually have a cup while watching your videos), but I was enjoying this one so much I didn't want to stop to make it. You turned the page and said it was time for a tea break. 🫖😆 I took that as serendipity and made the tea. Another video of pure delight. Thank you for sharing, Faerie Wendy. 🧚♀
This is a treasure of a video on journaling. 🌈🌈💜💜
So inspiring!!! Thank you, Wendy. I hope you are doing well these days following your accident. Hugs from the states!!
I find working in my art/junk journal is safe place for creative play. I collect packaging things like tags, fruit stickers, etc to stick in my pages. Going on Pinterest, most Junk journals have little way of 'junk' or every day ephemera as mostly printables or vintage style. Your style of journal is unique and I see your style flow through. A lot of early journals were mostly like scrapbooking, I stick stuff on pages with little fuss, later added stickers, samples of embroidery or beading. In last few year, I went Junk journal route and brought lots of ready made vintage ephemera. Washi stickers are nice but they produce a lot waste the clear plastic backing gets thrown in the bin so instead I'm finding a way to use them. I want to add some of drawings and abstract art into the pages but incompatible with grungy vintage style. I have wild eclectic style, doesn't matter as nothing ever matches anyway. I tend make my own journal as difficult to find blank notebook without lined paper other than Moleskine. So wonderful to see your art journal as shows you don't needs lots stencils, stamps or branded ephemera to produce lovely pages.