Lazy Girl Tutorial: Make an Easy Removable Page for Your Bullet Journa

Isn’t it so annoying to write down the same information over and over again even though it’ll stay the same? Especially if you’re the type to use multiple journals in the same year! And even more especially if you’re a lazy girl like me who doesn’t like to write the information like birthdays more than once.

Pinterest pin image where the background is a gif of a page sliding in and out of corners.

If you’re wondering why you would want a removeable page in your journal, I have a very straightforward reason for you.

Removable pages save you time. They make it easy to transfer over information that stays pretty consistent, like a list of birthdays, a list of doctors, or any other reference page you want to keep handy.

In order to make a removable page, we need to be able to keep our removeable page affixed to the journal but not permanently. How do we do that? We first gather some materials!

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Materials Needed

If you’re already a crafty person, chances are you already have exactly what’s needed. These exact materials below aren’t required though, swap out with what you have available!

What you’ll need is…

Your soon-to-be removeable page (make sure it fits into your journal!)
Scrap piece of paper large enough to cut some squares
Self-healing cutting mat and craft knife (affiliate links) (or a pair of scissors)
Bone folder (affiliate link) (or your hands)
Glue (affiliate link) (a glue stick is better since liquid glue might warp the journal page)
Clear tape (affiliate link)

Close up image of glue, tape, and a craft knife on top of scrap paper and a self healing mat.

How To Make Corners for a Removable Page

Step 1: Cut Squares

Using your scrap piece of paper, cut out four squares using either your self-healing cutting mat and craft knife or with your scissors.

I sized mine to be 3cm by 3cm (or 6 squares by 6 squares if you’re using dotted paper). Larger or smaller squares will make larger or smaller corners!

Step 2: Make Them Flag-Shaped

Starting from the very middle of the square, cut out a triangle where the triangle points are two corners next to each other and the third point is in the middle of the square.

Repeat for all 4 squares and and you’re left with 4 flag shapes.

You could also do this step by folding the square across both its diagonals and cutting out one triangle created by the folds.

There are three flag shapes already made. The fourth is in progress, the craft knife is positioned over the middle of the remaining square. All are on top of a self healing mat.

There are four flag shapes on top of a self healing mat.

Step 3: Fold the Flags Into Corners

Take the two pointy ends and fold them across the diagonal so that two triangles overlap the middle piece. You can use the bone folder here for crisp edges.

Repeat with all 4 flag shapes to get 4 corners where each are overlapping triangles.

There are three flag shapes off to the top. A bone holder is assisting in folding over the corners of the flag shape over on top of each other. All are on top of a self healing mat.

All four flag shapes are folded. One has a triangular flap open. All are on top of a self healing mat.

Step 4: Secure the Triangle Flaps

The next step is to take your corner and unfold one triangle. Add glue to the triangle you just opened then close it back up so it’s glued down onto the middle piece. You can use your bone folder here again to make sure the glue is adhered well.

The reason for this odd overlapping of paper is so no glue is inside of the actual corner piece. This ensures a really tight fit for our removable page. And on top of that, when we slide our removable page in and out of the corners, the removable page won’t be getting caught on any stray glue inside.

Repeat this process for all 4 corner pieces.

Take note of which side you want to be the front or back for each corner piece before you move on to the next step.

Three folded corners are off to the top. One has a triangular flap open and glue on it. All are on top of a self healing mat.

A pair of hands holds open a corner to show there is no glue inside. There are three glued down corners in the background on top of a self healing mat.

Step 5: Figure Out the Placement and Glue Down the First Corner

Grab your removeable page and insert two of the corner pieces you just made onto the bottom two corners of your removable page. Without gluing anything down yet, place it on your journal where you want it to be.

Once you’re certain of the placement for your removeable page, glue down one corner piece, carefully placing the corner piece where you want it to go.

A pair of hands positions the removable page with two corners placed on it. The page is being positioned in a journal.

Remove your removable page from the corner piece. Using a piece of tape large enough to cover about 75% of the seam, cover the seam with the tape. This helps the paper slide in and out without getting caught on the edge seam of the corner piece. This also helps as extra reinforcement!

The removeable page is slid out of the glued down corner piece.

A pair of hands tapes down the glued down corner piece.

Step 6: Glue Down Three More

For the second bottom corner piece, add some glue to the back of the piece and put it back on the appropriate corner of your removable page. Slide your removeable page into your already-glued down corner piece so that your second glued-down corner piece aligns perfectly with your removable page.

Remove your removeable page and tape down the edge seam for this corner piece too.

The second corner piece is on the removable page with glue on the back of the corner piece on top of a self healing mat.

A pair of hands tapes down the second glued down corner piece.

Grab your third corner piece, apply some glue to the back of it, and place it on your removeable page. Then slide your removable page into the bottom corner pieces and press down on the freshly-glued top corner piece to properly adhere it to the journal page.

Carefully remove your removeable page and add tape to cover the corner piece seam.

A third corner piece has glue on the back of it and is on top of a self healing mat.

The third corner piece is glued down. The removable page is in place to help determine where to glue down the third corner piece.

Repeat this same process for the fourth and last corner piece: apply glue to the back of the last corner piece, place it on your removeable page, place your removeable page carefully into the other three corner piece s, press down on the freshly-glued down corner, carefully remove your removable page, and tape down the edge seam.

A pair of hands uses a bone holder to firmly adhere the fourth corner to the journal page.

A pair of hands tapes down the fourth glued down corner piece.

Whew… We’re Done!

Now that all the corners are glued down, allow them to fully dry before leaving your removeable page in there.

An overview image of a journal page. The heading reads “Birthdays and Holidays”. There are four glued down corners and there is a removeable page placed in the corners.

I made my list of birthdays removable so I can use the list across the year, this is actually the third year I’m using this list and I won’t have to write it again next year!

Making these little corners saved me a bunch of time and I’m all about making things as efficient as possible in my bullet journal.

Are you considering a removable page? What would be a good page for you to move across your journals over the years? Let me know in the comments below, I’m really curious! If you need some ideas, feel free to check out my free PDF list of Spreads and Trackers.