💫📕 Create Your Own Inspirational Quote Book 📕💫
Hi lovely,
I have always loved wordsmithing. Discovering a meaningful quote that hits me right in the feels, is such a simple uplifter and inspires me to remember I belong, and I’m not alone.
Having collected quotes for years, I know how instrumental they can be to bolster us through challenging times … so much so, that they’ve made it into many of my artworks and card decks over the years.
For the last couple of years I’ve been creating my own quote books, to uplift me via therapeutic art-making, and experience self-discovery in the process.
Sometimes, I’ll write or glue in quotes I find in old calendars and magazines. Other times, I’ll cut out some words I come across, and create my own poetic quotes.
It’s such a fun, freeing and nourishing experience! Here are some ways to create your own.
How to Make Your Own Inspirational Quote Books
Simply use an existing notebook, and hand-write your favourite quotes in. A notes app on your phone can become an archive for your faves!
Make a handmade stapled notebook using printer paper, index cards, or patterned papers, stapled or taped together. Decorate with collage, drawings, painting and secure a pice of string or elastic and beads.
Handmade booklets, using drawings, leaf prints, collagem watercolours and elastic with beads. By Chrissy Foreman
Index cards, in a simple handmade card, ready to be taped together with washi tape. By Chrissy Foreman
3. Try making a cool, single sheet notebook (my fave!). Using A4 or A3 page, paint or draw a pattern on the front. Fold, snip and re-fold to create a cool mini notebook to add your quotes to (Simple, quick YouTube tutorial HERE.)
Single page notebooks using old paintings and a glue stick. By Chrissy Foreman
Single page notebook. Using acrylic paint sticks, market and collage. By Chrissy Foreman
4. Make a grunge journal using offcuts, such as cardboard, coloured papers, old paintings, envelopes, printer paper, string, buttons, tape and glue.
Grunge journal cover, created using eco-printed paper, old paintings, buttons and elastic. By Chrissy Foreman
Grunge journal inside: A grungy mis-match of papers, enveloped, washi tape, string and collage. By Chrissy Foreman
If you’d love to experience a guided and inspiring workshop to create your own inspirational quote book with me, join us for:
Quote Booklets online workshop. November 19th.
Join us to craft meaningful, poetic keepsakes filled with quotes, colour, and imagery that inspire and uplift your spirit and those you work with. In this delightfully simple, yet powerful workshop, we will use magazine collage to create a small booklet of therapeutic quotes, to guide us through the rest of 2025 with intention, alignment and self-care.
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