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For visual examples of diary design, you should turn to scrapbooking. The art of creating unique keepsake books combines the elements of origami, design skills and artistic drawing skills. An example would be notebooks given as gifts to young mothers.

The pages have space not only for notes, but also frames for photographs and envelopes, for example, for copies of certificates from the maternity hospital. Such “unimportant” documents are often lost, but when a child grows up, he may be interested in learning as much as possible about himself.

Making beautiful bookmarks - corners for a diary

A beautiful corner bookmark will help not only mark the place of an important note, but also keep the sheets intact. A heart bookmark can also serve as a kind of paper clip into which you can put a ticket from a trip or going to a movie premiere.

This origami idea for a personal diary is easy to implement and does not require additional explanation. You just need to sequentially repeat the method of folding the paper of each stage presented in the photographs.

Internal pages

Here are a couple of interesting ideas for filling out pages in a personal diary for both boys and girls.

You can create a page about your favorite movie.

The next page could be, for example, about the music you like most.

Then we suggest making a page of sweets.

You can also create a secrets page.

Or dream up a page of wishes/plans for the next month or year.

Create a page where you write your deepest dreams.

Arranging photographs in a notebook

The easiest way to put a photo in a journal is to stick it on a piece of paper. But then the photograph can be considered spoiled, because it will forever end up on the sheets along with personal notes, which not everyone is ready to share with strangers.

Several origami diagrams for a personal diary can solve this problem. You can make a folding bed from thick sheets of cardboard and fasten them together with folded paper corners. It is necessary to make cuts in the corners of the cardboard for photos, then the photographs can be taken out of the diary along with the folding bed, and personal notes will remain secret.

Another origami option for a personal diary is to fold a frame for a photograph or letter. Following the photo instructions, completing the scheme is simple and quick. It is better to make frames from special craft paper; it is durable and comes with different patterns and ready-made inscriptions. But the ideas for decorating a diary using origami don’t end there.

You can decorate small photo cards made for documents with paper rosettes. You need to roll up several paper triangles or rhombuses and nest them nicely inside each other, securing them with glue. Photos of the baby or photo strips from vending machines in shopping centers can be folded into booklets, as in the image above. This design will help save space in the diary and looks original.

Making a picture frame

Has it ever happened to you that you made some drawings or notes outside the diary, but you still want it to remain in your personal notebook? Then we suggest you simply make a frame and place the craft in it. This frame will take you less than a minute to complete. To make it beautiful, let’s use bright, colorful paper that will create a good mood for your diary.

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Cut out a shape from the sheet like in the picture and simply make the bends of all four triangles. Then fold the corners and you will get a frame like this.

All you have to do is simply place the drawing inside and glue the corners.

Origami envelopes for a personal diary

Envelopes are an easy and simple way to decorate notebook pages. There are a huge number of simple and complex patterns for folding small paper pockets.

The origami envelope for a personal diary, shown in the photo, is completed in only 4 movements, but with the addition of a lock pin it looks very cute. It's easy to make in any size, all you need is a nice square sheet of craft paper. By combining various materials and techniques in the design of a diary, you can achieve amazing results. Envelopes can be folded not only from paper, but also from fabric. Details made of beads, rhinestones, twine as ties and transfers will significantly enliven a notebook with notes.

Other schemes are not so simple and require much more time and effort, but the result of such efforts is justified. In the public domain you can find many options for making hexagonal carpets with fasteners in the form of hearts, stars, birds and the faces of various animals.

When folded, the envelopes look truly impressive, and when unfolded they look like flowers. The cunning clasp of the paper pockets allows you to put small souvenirs from travel, pebbles, badges, buttons, magnets, small strings of beads, memorable children's friendship rings and much more.

Thematic notebooks

A diary is necessary not only for chaotic entries. You can make a themed craft from a notebook. All sheets are divided into 5-6 parts, where there will only be notes on topics. The following categories must be distinguished:

tasks for the day;
interesting events during the day;
funny about family and loved ones;
several pages are allocated for the wish list;
You can allocate some of the sheets to describe your shortcomings and ways to combat them;
The last topic is personal life, on these pages they write about the boys they like.

Among the many ideas, it’s easy to choose what you can do for your personal diary. A bad mood or an excess of positive emotions is poured out into a notebook, this helps girls experience their worries more easily. Parents can help their child with the design of his personal diary.