They have a heating tool on amazon that you can use to dry the ink faster. I use it for painting and if i use a gelly roll pen. It's an awesome tool. Your journal is gorgeous!
I'm glad to see a blackout journal setup. I decided to use the same A&O blackout journal. I can barely draw a straight line, so I'm using stickers and pre-printed trackers. Thanks for the video and your commentary on the pens. I'm using Primrosia metallics with limited success. I'm going to try the gel pens and the acrylic paint pens.
There’s nothing wrong with that! I didn’t for my set up, but for monthly spreads you will end up seeing quite a lot of inserts and washi tape for decorations!
Adding a layer of wax paper between pages can help prevent transfer as the gel pen dries down. Thanks for sharing, I've been wanting to do a reading journal spread for a while.
I have 2 spreads left to make in my reading journal. This will be my 4th reading journal although it hasn’t been 4 consecutive years. I read all 3. E books and audiobooks primarily through my library and physical books that I own😊
@ I do a books read, genre tracker, series tracker, book bingo and this year I added 2 new spreads for Caribbean books and reading around the world. I like to keep it simple
I'm SUPER impressed with your bold choice, I would get so frustrated with the gel pen! It came out amazing! A bit of unsolicited advice: you talk super scripted!! Your voice is nice, but your tone is making me feel like I'm listening to a powerpoint or a presentation. Try loosening up a bit.
![🌼 2025 Reading Journal 🌼 [setup +: flip through]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/1kXr8jxHUPM/mqdefault.jpg)
Thank you, you spark an idea within me with a black journal. Thank you again for the idea.
They have a heating tool on amazon that you can use to dry the ink faster. I use it for painting and if i use a gelly roll pen. It's an awesome tool. Your journal is gorgeous!
I will definitely have to check that out! Is it just a heat gun?
And thank you so much 💛
Your journal is beautiful!!! I love the cover page so much!
This is going to be gorgeous at the end of the year! Honestly, I'm in awe because I find blackout journals to be very intimidating.
Thank you! ☺️
I have no idea why I wanted to do blackout, but I’ve had this urge to do it for a whole year so I went with it 😂
@rxnxxandxrson it's going to be incredible! I look forward to seeing more!
I'm glad to see a blackout journal setup. I decided to use the same A&O blackout journal. I can barely draw a straight line, so I'm using stickers and pre-printed trackers. Thanks for the video and your commentary on the pens. I'm using Primrosia metallics with limited success. I'm going to try the gel pens and the acrylic paint pens.
There’s nothing wrong with that! I didn’t for my set up, but for monthly spreads you will end up seeing quite a lot of inserts and washi tape for decorations!
Adding a layer of wax paper between pages can help prevent transfer as the gel pen dries down.
Thanks for sharing, I've been wanting to do a reading journal spread for a while.
Very magical
I really liked how you dealt with the 1st page issue. It turned out very nice.
So pretty ❤
I have 2 spreads left to make in my reading journal. This will be my 4th reading journal although it hasn’t been 4 consecutive years. I read all 3. E books and audiobooks primarily through my library and physical books that I own😊
Awesome! What kind of spreads do you do? I dropped a couple spreads this year because I didn’t use them much this year.
@ I do a books read, genre tracker, series tracker, book bingo and this year I added 2 new spreads for Caribbean books and reading around the world. I like to keep it simple
Put a piece of paper in between the pages so the pens transfer on that and your spreads stay crisp :)
I got a black out journal and I’m scared to start. I will just scared!
@@carolgorman2324 do a bit of pre planning so you know what you’re doing before putting pen to paper! It definitely helped my nerves!
I'm SUPER impressed with your bold choice, I would get so frustrated with the gel pen! It came out amazing!
A bit of unsolicited advice: you talk super scripted!! Your voice is nice, but your tone is making me feel like I'm listening to a powerpoint or a presentation. Try loosening up a bit.
@@thebloodredfern I knowwww, I’m an awkward person 😂🧍♀️