I’m back with another idea on how you can bless a friend or loved one with a special gift): A Mixed Media Journal. Have fun as you create something from your heart instead of purchasing a gift with your wallet.
A Mixed Media Journal is a fun way to create a memory for a friend. With this idea, they will use the journal to write their thoughts and ideas throughout the year. You can create them for very little investment if you get the journals during the back-to-school sales or clearances.
Since doing the Mixed Media Journal below, I’ve also created several Prayer Journals for friends, where I fill in the pages myself with prayers for them and then give it to them as a gift for a holiday, their birthday, or just because.
What You Will Need
- Composition book
- Scrapbooking stickers, embellishments
- Scissors
- Glue
- Tape
- Photos, quotes you like, journaling pages
- You can use anything you find inspiration from here. The idea is to create a fun cover and then decorate a few pages within the journal to surprise your friend as they go through their year.
What You Will Do
You will decorate the front and a few pages within a composition book, and then they will fill it with their words and thoughts as they journal through their month. You can do one book or a year’s worth, depending upon your ideas.
The Mixed Media Journal is a fun and inexpensive way to show you listen when friends talk about journaling or documenting their memories! Here are some of the ones I’ve done over the years for myself and others.
For this project, I like to diffuse Into the Future, Magnify Your Purpose, or Oola Friends and put on a nice WorshipMob mix to get me in the creative flow.
You have become my new creative guru!
That’s a real honor!! We love crafts and DIYs around here. Christmas is the time of year we get to do the most creating, but I’m planning to incorporate more year-round now that I’m maintaining this blog and really enjoying doing so! Thanks for stopping by!
What a fabulous idea. Very creative. Well done 👍
Thank you!