10 Pages with Little to No Words

Kick off 2025 by learning how Your Story Matters

Hi friends, sometimes, the best pages don’t need words at all.

This week, I’m sharing ten of my favorite quiet pages—spreads that use color, composition, and scraps to tell the story. These are pages that helped me stay connected to my creativity when I didn’t have the energy (or the words) for full journaling. And as someone with a chronic illness, these types of pages are absolutely essential to keeping up with a creative habit.

Below, you’ll find a mix of stickers, collage, paint, tissue paper, and texture—it’s all about how a creative moment doesn’t need to be complicated to mean something. And it absolutely doesn’t need to “say” something in order to say something.

Let’s take a look.

1. Let Easy Be Enough

I added adhesive to the back of a postcard, cut it apart, and rearranged the pieces in a pretty way. Nothing groundbreaking, just paper, glue, and a few quiet minutes at my desk — and that was exactly what I needed that day.

2. Stay Open: Interactive Doors Page

This one might be my favorite from the bunch. I cut out a Brandi Kincaid card and used Scotch tape to create little hinges so the doors actually open—just like real ones. It’s a tiny moment of interactivity that makes me so excited every time I flip through this notebook.

3. Tissue Paper Color Collage

A bright, messy tissue-paper collage that helped me through an overwhelming week. I made my own self-adhesive tissue paper and just started cutting shapes and layering color. No plan, no words, just color therapy in motion.

4. Playing Around with Foam Stamps

Sometimes play is the whole point. I pulled out a foam stamp, some paint, and my gel plate, experimenting to see what kinds of patterns I could make. It turned into a page that reminded me that experimentation is progress.

5. Simple Shapes & Sharpie Markers

A bold color moment — testing Sharpie Creative Markers on a black gel print background. I love the contrast and how the imperfect lines feel energetic. It’s one of those “let’s see what happens” pages that makes me want to grab my markers again.

6. Monochromatic Collage (Red Edition)

I dumped out my bin of red embellishments and started sticking things down. Used stamps, clear frames, tiny stickers — all living together on one vibrant page. Sometimes a single color story is all the narrative you need.

7. Color Is My Happy Place

Using Japanese calligraphy paper from Daiso, I tested watercolors and stamping. The texture held up beautifully, the colors stayed bright, and I loved how meditative it felt to layer washes of color.

8. The Tiniest Stickers

I was dealing with a headache that day, so I kept it simple: two coordinating sticker sheets, a page layout that didn’t require thinking, and a quiet few minutes of sticking things down. Low effort, high comfort.

9. Precision Cutting

Even when I’m sick, I can cut things out. I grabbed my precision scissors and trimmed a floral illustration from Brandi Kincaid’s Extravagant Hope mailing, surrounded it with a few stickers, and called it done. Sometimes creative care looks like this.

10. Full-Photo Simplicity

How easy can you make it?
I printed a single photo, added a small numbered ticket, and stopped there. No journaling, no embellishments—just the photo doing all the talking.

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Here’s what we covered today:

• Ten creative page ideas that tell a story without words

• How color, shape, and texture can speak louder than journaling

• The value of low-effort creative play when you’re tired or overwhelmed

• Why sometimes, showing up quietly is enough

Action step: Try making a page this weekend that uses little to no words. Let texture, shape, or color carry the story. You might be surprised how much you can say without saying anything at all.

Hit reply and let me know how your creative week went!

Talk to you next week!

xoxo,

Kristin

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