alrighty team we're back with another 12 theme ideas for you this time for May but first we're
going in and just putting in the color palettes picking the palette is kind of one of my favorite
Parts about deciding on a monthly theme it's really just something I enjoy especially when the
palette has good contrast which is what I've tried to do with the majority of these but the palettes
we have here are of course just suggestions you do not have to use these specific colors if you want
to go with these themes but if you did want to use them we have all of the specific pen colors listed
in the description box I've only used tombows this time around so it's nice and easy to know which
color is a which I list all of those in order of top to bottom so for instance for our first theme
it is 606 then 603 then 062 then 158 and then 173 just like it's listed in the description box each
of the theme ideas we have here for may come from some type of holiday or day of recognition or day
of Celebration that happen in May and our first theme idea is irises as related to Iris day I'm
not super great at drawing flowers so I opted to use my faux memo thermal printer to print off the
decorative example for this one the mini printer is super helpful for printing off black and white
decorative and functional elements of my journal in particular because it prints on sticker paper
so it makes it very easy to put those pieces into my notebook I've used it for a couple of
the theme ideas in this video in particular for the ones that have elements that I find harder
to draw but you can of course draw irises in a more simplified but still pretty way while
the color palette for this one was specifically chosen because it is typical for irises it's also
kind of giving me lavender lemonade Vibes which is something that I've been enjoying recently so it's
probably just because it's on my mind but that would also be a fun theme I don't think there's
technically a lavender Day in May but it'd still be pretty cute when it comes to using flowers as
decoration in your Journal I think there are a couple of main ways that people typically like to
do it either by just focusing on the flower itself and then kind of scattering that about the page or
it could be using the flower with the stems and the leaves and using that to decorate the edges
of the page those are the most typical ways that I've seen but of course you can do a combination
of both flowers are also commonly used for wreath type designs on cover pages and I think that you
could do a really pretty specialized tracker with irises by doing different colors for different
moods or completion of something really depending on what the tracker was for our next theme idea
is another plant related one and that is a lemons or lemonade theme which I guess kind of goes with
the whole lavender lemonade mentioned from before this is because both lemon day and Lemonade Day
are celebrated in May and this one is going to be a really bright and fun theme provided you're
using a typically lemon color palette being an organic thing lemons are a quite forgiving shape
it's effectively just kind of an oval shape with a little bump on either end and then of course some
leaves to give you some contrast in your color palette lemon themes that I've previously seen
also typically include Citrus slices which are another nice and simple shape to draw because
it's effectively just a circle that you cut into segments I have previously done a citrus theme
in a giveaway Journal that we set up and while it wasn't actually colored in it might give you
some ideas of how you could use lemons and other citrus fruits to decorate your Journal that one
along with any other related videos is found in the description box below up next though we have
a turtle's theme and this isn't necessarily a color palette that you may typically associate
with turtles often times when I think of turtles that are more cartoony like the one we have here
I'm usually thinking green but I wanted a color palette that was going to kind of represent real
life sea turtles and then also the colors associated with the ocean to go with it I
will say that when coloring this one in I think my turtle's arms legs and face ended up a little bit
darker than I had initially intended but I think it would be really cute to have like a little
diverse Turtles kind of theme where you have lots of different colored Turtles with different shell
designs and all of that kind of thing of course just like we mentioned for the iris's theme you
can either do it in a more simplified way so like a cartoony kind of turtle that we've got here or
you could go a little bit more realistic in your decorations now I couldn't do a May Journal theme
ideas list without including Star Wars because of May the fourth be with you and also revenge
of the Fifth Star Wars is a theme that I've done in a previous Journal setup in fact from May last
year but this wasn't my journal it was Vogel’s my partner for the decoration on this one this
is another time where I whipped out that little faux memo printer because I didn't really want to
try and draw a scene from Star Wars myself and I found this very cute Lego Star Wars coloring page
all of the decorative elements that I've printed off on that mini printer for this video have just
been me Google searching theme coloring pages so Star Wars coloring pages irises coloring pages
it's a nice way to find simple Line work that you can just print off and stick in in terms of
the Star Wars color palette it really depends on which parts of Star Wars you're focusing on as to
which colors you're going to use the colors that I put in this color palette were just related to the
black and yellow that you have in the kind of like Star Wars opening scene you know with the yellow
text scrolling off into the distance and then a color for each of the lightsabers but of course
then when it came to coloring in Obi-Wan I really needed some Browns but hopefully you kind of get
the idea it also goes without saying that color palettes don't just have to have five colors and
they may not even have five colors for instance this month I'm using a black white and gray
color palette which is only three colors our next theme idea though I think would be a really fun
one and this is related to mini golf day or more specifically National mini golf day which is on
May 13th in the US if you're thinking of worldwide mini golf day it's technically in September but
I do think this would be a really fun theme especially because you can find a whole bunch of
different types of themed mini golf places for instance when we were over in the US vogeli did
aliens themed mini golf and we also did haunted house themed mini golf both of which were very fun
and it was actually the first time I won so you know I'm kind of proud of me too the decoration
Style on this one may seem a bit familiar especially if you've heard of the coffee monsters
Co or once more with love I do find their sticker characters to be very similar in design and I
figured for the people-based theme ideas that we have in this video or at least for the ones I was
drawing in I'd use that as inspiration I like the kind of big head and simplified body design it's
just quite easy to draw a theme that I would be very keen to do for myself one day because they
are my favorite animal is a snails theme one of the things that's held me back from doing a snail
stain though is that typically when I think of snails I think of Browns and brown isn't usually
my go-to color palette so for the color palette suggestion on this one I wanted to use some rich
Jewel colors so like a rich red a rich brown a dark teal kind of color a darker purple because
as you and I both know things don't have to be super realistic when you're putting them into your
Journal we can have stylized or more decorative versions of things so for this snail I wanted
them to have a nice rich colored shell I mean I think that you technically can find bright colored
snails in the wild so possibly when I do a snails theme maybe I'll go and look up some pictures of
those for inspiration I'd love to know though what's your favorite animal and have you done
a bullet Journal theme on it let me know in the comments our next theme idea is related to Dracula
day which is also celebrated in May but this one is a vampire's theme you could technically make
it Dracula specifically but I decided to make it a little broader and just go with vampires and
of course if you're doing a vampire's theme make sure that you get out your glitter or your glitter
pen because that's what they're supposed to look like yeah I know Twilight got a lot of hate but I
actually quite like Twilight it was just like a good time like you know going into it that it's
not a literary Masterpiece but it's just a bit of fun I'm also very much of the opinion of like
let's just let people enjoy things and if they like Twilight then we'll power to them you can
see from our little vampires here they are again very inspired by the coffee monsters co-design and
I've got a link to the coffee monsters Co in the description box too our next theme idea is very
much one that I've wanted to do for a while and I still find too intimidating which is a space or
Galaxy theme the thing with doing a Galaxy theme in particular is that I really just want to do
it justice and I don't think that at this stage I am artistically able to realize my vision yet
that kind of makes sense though I do think I did a pretty okay job of it here so just putting down a
whole bunch of the different areas of tombow and then using a little bit of water on a paintbrush
to kind of blend them together as best as you can in this kind of notebook and I do really wish that
I had gone over the top and put some stars in because I forgot to do that so it kind of just
looks like a dark abyss but that's okay that's kind of what space is in my mind space freaks
me out not as much as the ocean freaks me out but still the background was only part of this though
because as well as space day being celebrated in May we also have astronauts day so I wanted to
put an astronaut over the top so that you kind of got more of the space Vibes this is another
one where the faux memo printer came in handy because I didn't want to draw an astronaut that
was going to be a little bit too much effort on my part again I found this one just by searching
astronaut coloring in page and using one of those our next theme idea is one that feels a little bit
closer to home because I am Australian and that is a koala's theme koalas are super cute not to
be confused with drop bears which are slightly less cute and a lot more terrifying and a lot more
not real but anywho if you don't know drop bears are kind of like a mythical creature I suppose
you could say that was kind of intended to scare tourists it's essentially like a rabid koala is
the idea but they don't really exist unlike bun Yips which totally exist this is another one I
decided to draw in a little bit more cartoony in style and I also included a eucalyptus Type green
in the color palette so you could draw eucalyptus leaves as part of the setup too there'd be a good
element to use to fill in smaller spaces and kind of sprinkle around the page for some extra
decoration there seem to be a lot of animal and plant celebrations in May whether that be days
or weeks or the whole month and another one that's related to that is National strawberry month which
is celebrated in May in the US I don't really think of May as a typical strawberry time of year
mainly because strawberries for me are a summer fruit and some are for me is in December through
to February but strawberries would make a great theme these are another ones that are fairly easy
to draw it's effectively just a rounded triangle with some green on top and you could go for the
typical red for the strawberries or you could use a darker pink if you wanted to have something
a little bit different I find that a lot of artificially flavored strawberry things are
pink so I still think it fits one of the touches that I would encourage you to remember if you want
to go with a strawberry theme is putting the seeds on the outside and while the seeds of a strawberry
are kind of like a light yellow color rather than going in and putting all the light yellow dots in
first and then having to color around them with the red you could either use a gel pen to sit on
top of your coloring in or what I did was just draw some little black U shapes to represent the
seeds because that was a bit easier maybe we could again just combine it with lemonade day
and make it a strawberry lemonade theme up next though another theme that I have previously done
in my journal and that is a bee's theme now I do wish that when I did my base theme I drew them a
little bit more like this because I thought that my bees ended up looking not strange just not as
good as they could have effectively though I did very much enjoy doing the kind of yellow honeycomb
background when I did my base theme I haven't put it into this decoration space but you can go and
check out my video which is of course Linked In the description box if you're Keen bees make for
a super cute scene though and I love drawing the little dashed lines to represent their flight path
I just think it's very cute now when I was looking through the list of days of recognition and
holidays and whatever for May one in particular stood out as and that was zombie awareness month
the description said zombie awareness month is celebrated every May in the US to raise awareness
about the possibility of a zombie apocalypse and what we should do in such a situation I'm
not gonna lie like most of my nightmares that I have like when I have nightmares feature zombies
I think it's probably because I feel like it's one of the most realistic horror things that
could happen like not to say that I genuinely 100 believe that the zombie apocalypse is gonna
happen but like I could see it happening you know for the zombies in our decoration though I wanted
to keep them again a little bit fun so I just used the Plants vs Zombies kind of zombies again just
found these by looking up zombie coloring page when I think about those kind of zombies I'm
thinking more kind of like muted greens and blues kind of like that Undead color palette whereas
if you're going more gory zombies you might be thinking red other colors associated with bodily
organs yeah hopefully these 12 ideas though have given you some inspiration but if you were still
on the hunt for a theme for next month be sure to check out the playlist we have on screen here
with all of my previous theme idea videos click or tap on that one and I'll see you over there