Autumn Pages: Cosy Ideas for Your Scrapbook or Journal This Season
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There’s something about autumn that makes us want to slow down and savour life’s quieter moments — steaming cups of tea, walks through golden leaves and time spent creating by candlelight. It’s the perfect season to breathe new life into your scrapbook or journal with warm tones, textured layers and stories that capture the beauty of nature.
If you’re looking for inspiration to bring a seasonal glow to your pages, here are a few autumn-inspired ideas to cosy up your journaling or scrapbooking routine.
1. Create a ‘Simple Pleasures’ Spread
Take a moment to reflect on the little joys of autumn — apple crumble, pumpkins, knitted socks, crisp air, morning fog or that first sip of spiced chai. Dedicate a spread in your journal or scrapbook to these things using warm colour palettes like ochre, burnt orange, olive or plum. Layer your page with washi tape, paper scraps, themed stickers and cosy textures like kraft paper or vellum to mirror the richness of the season.
Tip: Use a favourite autumn quote or lyric to anchor the page. “Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall” (F. Scott Fitzgerald) is always a classic.
2. Collect & Preserve Fallen Leaves
Bring the outdoors in by pressing a few small autumn leaves between the pages of your journal or scrapbook. Once dried and flattened, glue or tape them into your layout or tuck them inside a clear envelope pocket. Pair with a handwritten note about where you found them — a Sunday walk, your garden, or a trip to the local park.
You could even trace around a leaf and write your autumn goals inside the outline.
3. Autumn Bucket List Tracker
Design a mini seasonal bucket list to check off throughout the season. This could include things like visiting a pumpkin patch, baking something with cinnamon or rewatching a favourite autumn film. Use a grid or doodle format in your bullet journal and colour-code it in rusts, browns and golds for an extra seasonal touch.
Add mini illustrations, stamps or stickers to decorate as you complete each item.
4. Cosy Colour Swatch Page
If you’re someone who loves colour, create a swatch page of your favourite autumn tones using brush pens, watercolours, washi tapes or coloured pencils. This is not only a relaxing activity but also a handy reference for your autumn-themed pages. You can name each swatch something whimsical like “bonfire ember”, “wool blanket”, or “early dusk”.
Use this palette as a gentle guide for future entries throughout the season.
5. Memory Keeping with Texture
Autumn is a season full of atmosphere and you can echo that feeling in your journal by playing with tactile layers. Try stitching a piece of fabric into your spread, adding a strip of linen ribbon, or printing a photo on matte paper for that soft vintage look. A piece of an old scarf label, a ticket stub from a seasonal market or a scribbled note — these are the little things that give a page heart.
Final Thoughts
Journaling and scrapbooking in autumn is a quiet kind of magic. It invites you to slow down, reflect and celebrate the season as it unfolds. So light a candle, play some instrumental music and let your journal become a cosy space to gather memories, dreams and inspiration — one leaf, one layer, one page at a time.
Free Downloadable Print Out
To get your started with your Autumn themes, we've created a free Autumn print out for you to print, cut out and use however you wish within your journal or planner.