August 2021 - Cute Beginner-Friendly Bullet Journal Theme
Welcome to the first monthly layout in my new bullet journal! One of my favourite journal decoration styles is any kind of floral, but I was also feeling super low-maintenance - and here’s the result. A very low-effort, beginner-friendly and super cute August!
How to Draw these Easy Flower Doodles
These little flowers are the easiest decorative element ever. They’re literally just the little five-petal flowers you draw when you’re a kid - pop them down in two contrasting colours in little clusters of two or three, and outline them in a black fine-liner and you’re all set. Extra points if you position them so that they hug your layout elements!
They look a little like Konpeito - the Japanese sugar candy!
Spreads & Pages in this Layout:
Calendar spread - no cover page this month - instead I’m rocking a full two-page calendar spread. The month title features large and in charge, moving vertically up the left side of the calendar. This is a big throwback to my rose-themed February spread! I forgot my goals section again this month, so I added it at the bottom of this spread - it looks like an afterthought because it was!
Gratitude, habit and sleep tracker spread - I’m returning to one of my favourite layouts for this month! I love having all my trackers in one place, and I’ve finally worked out how to get my sleep tracker working for me! Instead of a page all for itself, it’s now hanging out alongside the habit tracker, taking up much less space but somehow also allowing me to track a wider range of hours!
Spending tracker - This page ends up very busy once it’s filled in, so I like to keep my decorations minimal. I’ll write down all my expenses here, then tally up the month’s totals across each category and transfer those totals back into my overall yearly spending tracker in my initial 2021 setup.
Mood tracker - The ongoing stress of living through the “panorama” has been getting to me lately, so a mood tracker will come in handy. It’s just 31 of my little flowers, spaced somewhat evenly apart, with a very simple 3-colour scale. Each day I’ll colour in the appropriate flower with the colour that best matches my mood, and by the end of the month I’ll have a pretty page, regardless of how I was feeling.
Weekly spreads - I’m still enjoying having running to-do lists, but the goals-quote-intention system didn’t do me much good last month so I’ve switched it up. The left page is a wall-like system with a space for events on each day (even though I don’t always need that much space), and the right side is a split to-do list - one side for work and the other for home tasks.
Stationery & Supplies I Used:
I’m using a Notebook Therapy Tsuki 160GSM bullet journal in Mint Matcha for my second 2021 journal from August to December.
The bold black lines and heading lettering was done with the not-brush end of the black Tombow dual brush pen*
The two colours are also different types of brush pen - the pink is a Faber Castell Pitt Artist brush pen in pink madder lake 129 (*available as part of a set here) and the blue is the *Tombow dual brush pen navy blue 528.
I’ve used Bic Intensity fineliners* for all my fineliner needs in this layout.
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Keen on this layout? Get the printable!
If you’re not sure where to start, grab this theme as a printable on my Etsy store! You can use it in any month in any year, not just August 2021. Just fill out the numbers for the month you need and you’re ready to get planning.