My Story — Create Your Own Interactive Journal

A NEW COLLECTION FROM NORTHERN SIMPLICITIES

Your choices. Your pages. My Story.

Build a journal that feels like you, one piece at a time.

Love watching a journal unfold to reveal pockets, hidden spaces and little surprises? My Story invites you to create your own.

Coming soon · Release dates will be announced here.

Start your story with six free artwork pages

Enjoy My Story — A Little Inspiration, a complimentary sampler of six coordinating 12 × 12-inch printable papers from the My Story Collection.

Add the sampler to your cart and complete checkout for $0 to receive your download. No purchase required.

Get your six free papers

A collection you can make your own

Across 11 separately available digital products, choose a journal base, hinge inserts and interactive page elements to create your own combination. Build the full journal, select a few favourite pieces, or add an individual element to a journal you already love.

Cover options, additional page designs and coordinating choices within each element let you decide how your story comes together. Choose what you use, where it goes and what you keep inside.

  • Approximately 6 × 9-inch journal with 20 main page faces.
  • Accordion binding with no sewing required.
  • Spine-width options for different paper choices and journal fullness.
  • Pockets, flip-outs, writing spaces and interactive reveals.
  • At least two creative choices within each element, through its main artwork or coordinating cards and ephemera.

A first look inside

The first preview shows my blank working prototype, made from test templates. The finished artwork is still to come. This test build explores how the pages and interactive pieces fit and move together.

What is coming?

The collection begins with the journal base and a set of five hinge inserts, followed by nine individual page elements:

  • Pop-Up Bag Pocket
  • Flip-Out Notepad
  • Waterfall Pockets
  • Envelope with Journaling Card
  • Flip-Out Pocket
  • Tag Belly Band Notebook
  • Pop-Up Card
  • Hidden Pocket and Card
  • Flip-Out Folio

Use the spaces for goals, gratitude, photographs, letters, everyday memories or the little things you want to keep. Their purpose is yours to choose.

Choose your My Story pieces

Build the full journal or choose individual pieces for your own project. Each product will be available separately, and links will be added here as it is released.

The journal base

Start with the covers, main pages and accordion binding.

Coming soon

Hinge inserts

Add the set of five interactive hinge inserts.

Coming soon

Page elements

Choose from nine individual pockets, flip-outs and interactive additions.

Coming soon

Share your story

Each of the nine interactive page elements will have a coordinating bonus page. Share each completed element on Facebook with #MyStoryNS, then message the Northern Simplicities Facebook page with your post or a screenshot to receive the matching bonus page for that element.

Collect up to nine free bonus pages—one for each different element you complete and share. You can take part with just one element; you do not need to purchase or complete the full collection.

Follow the story as it unfolds

Return here for release dates, new pieces and sneak peeks as My Story takes shape.

Your choices. Your layout. Your story.

My Story is a collection of digital printables to download, print and assemble. No physical journal will be shipped.