So it is coming up to half way through the year after June. It is crazy to think all that has happened this year so far and we are only half way. I do hope the second half will bring happier times and healthier times too. For June, I wanted to focus on happy things and the joy of summer. So I went with sunflowers! I was about to do a different theme but I am going to save that for July. I am on the last month for the navy bullet journal I am using, and I have a grey one just like out for the rest of the year. I am planing a post about that set up also.
For the cover, it ended up being my guienepig for how I wanted the sunflowers to look. The large sunflower on the left is the only one with orange in the center. I thought it would blend more, but it did not. So I decided not to add the orange to the rest, since I didn’t like how it looked. Besides that I like how the flowers turned out. On the right I made them frame the word June and I really liked how they look. I used two different yellows and greens to create depth for the flowers. I used both Steadtler and Tombow pens.
I continued the sunflowers on to the monthly layout, but I added a little stem to connect them. I also wanted to fill some of the blank spaces and so added the loose petals throughout. I did the days of the week titles in brown so that there wouldn’t be too much green or yellow on the page. I also messed up on the spacing for the boxes at one point, but I doesn’t look too bad and is still usable.
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At this point I didn’t want to do just more sunflowers on stems, so I tried to change it up a bit. I added a flower in a small vase and tried flowers at different angles. I liked how they turned out and for this page I decided not to add the lines within the flower petals and I liked them even more. Since there was not a lot of green within the design for the pages, I am going to use it to fill in my habit trackers. Brown was the original color I was going to use, but I think the green looks better.
Sunflowers are not a super hard flower to make, but by this point I was tired of making them. The goals page ended up with no flowers and just a long stem and leaves. I did do smaller flowers for the goal bullet points, but those were very simple to do. These pages need a lot of room to write on so I didn’t need to put much on them. It is a relief after decorating the other pages. I think also the colors are well balanced on these pages besides maybe brown, but that is not one of my main colors.
When the month starts on a Monday, I think it is the only time I don’t mess up on the first weekly layout. I love it. I did go back to drawing more sunflowers and added the floating petals for fillers. I think this basic layout is my favorite to do. I has plenty of space for each day to write and then space on the sides for the month glance and extra decor. I have probably used it the most of my go to layouts for weeks. I always add the drop shadows to the boxes here to finish the look of the page.