15 Beautiful Watercolor Bullet Journal Ideas
Bullet Journal ideas can be as limitless as your imagination, and adding watercolor to your pages takes creativity to a whole new level.
Whether it’s soft pastel washes, bold rainbow splashes, or delicate floral motifs, watercolor can transform your journal into a stunning expression of your creativity.
These watercolor Bullet Journal ideas aren’t just about making things pretty—they’re about infusing your planning process with creativity and personal flair.
From dreamy monthly spreads to expressive mood trackers, watercolor can bring life and personality to each page. Grab your brush, get inspired, and let’s explore some truly beautiful ways to brighten your Bullet Journal!
Watercolor has a lot of water, so you might actually think that it’s not a good technique to use in your Bullet Journal. But actually, it is absolutely possible to do so as long as you have a good paper.
I would definitely recommend getting at least 160 GSM paper since the thicker the paper, the better it would work with watercolor, but with a few special techniques, you can also do watercolor on 120 GSM paper.
Plus, of course, there are separate watercolor journals that use special watercolor paper for their pages.
Let me know if you’d like a separate blog post about tricks on using watercolor in your Bullet Journal. I don’t use watercolor a lot, but I will be happy to research and experiment if you want to learn more about it.
In this blog post, I gathered ideas and inspirations from creators who absolutely rock in using watercolor in their Bullet Journal pages to show you just a few ideas on how you can add your favorite medium to your pages.
But first, supplies.
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Watercolor Stationery Recommendations
Getting the right supplies is especially important when it comes to using watercolor in your Bullet Journal.
So here are a few recommendations from me and all the people I talked to who extensively use watercolor in their journals.
- High-quality notebook. Having a journal with a good paper is the key to using watercolor on your pages. My top recommendations are Archer and Olive notebooks (you can get 10% OFF with my code MASHA10) and Scribbles That Matter (be sure to choose 160 GSM one and also get 10% OFF with code SAVE10).
- Watercolors. There are plenty available. I think Prang is a good one to start with since it is pretty affordable. Windsor And Newton in tubes are high-quality quality, expensive options, but the benefit apart from everything else is that with tubes, you get better control of how much water you use, or maybe it’s just how it feels to me.
- Water Based Pens. You can actually use your water-based markers as watercolor, something like Tombow Dual Brush Pens. But the best pens that I think work as watercolor are Karin Brushmarker Pro.
- Brushes. You can use normal brushes, like round brushes or something like aqua brushes that already come with water inside.
- Metallic Watercolors. This is something I wanted to mention separately since they are very special and popular to bring ab it extra to your pages. You could get something like Kuretake Gansai watercolors.
- Fineliners. Black pens that you can use on watercolor to add doodles or headers, and Sakura Pigma Micron pens are probably the best for that.
That’s probably enough; just talking about watercoloring supplies can take too long, and this post is not about that, so let’s dive in and look at the ways to incorporate watercolor into your Bullet Journal.
Beautiful Watercolor Bullet Journal Ideas
There are many ways to use watercolor in your Bullet Journal, from something basic to something that takes hours. Whatever you want from your watercolors, I'm sure you'll find inspiration here.
Let's dive into these pages and see what kind of creative ideas these people came up with.
Let's start with this layout and its subtle use of watercolor. As you can see, the creator just used watercolor instead of how she usually uses markers and brush pens, just trading a bit of color to the layout.
I really love the little watercolor florals the creator made; I think without using a black pen, they really have a completely different look.
Speaking of flowers, these are some of the most popular things to draw with watercolor. Watercolors really create such a soft and unique look to the floral drawings.
This layout is a list of hobbies the creator had in May, but I can totally imagine the same format for a circle weekly spread, for example.
Watercolor is a really cool medium to create large pieces like this monthly .og. Using watercolor, it is pretty easy to fill out all the background with color, while it would've taken forever to do it with markers. And because. Watercolor blends so well that it's perfect for creating those multi-color pieces like the ocean feel that I think this creator was going for.
You can definitely use watercolor in a normal way by just coloring your drawings. I love that you can actually create any color you want with your watercolors, so it's a good thing to have in mind if you want to get very specific colors on your page.
If you love watercolor, you can definitely turn your Bulelt Journla into more of a watercolor journal where you add your tasks. You can turn any page or any element on your page into a watercolor illustration, As you see, this creator ruined daily boxes for the weekly spread into small works of watercolor art.
Florals are beautiful and perfect ideas for using watercolor, and here is another idea on how you can incorporate them into your Bulelt Journal: just create corners and borders made of beautiful floral illustrations.
It's a gentle and beautiful way to decorate your Bullet Journal pages, like this self-care checklist layout.
Here is a subtle and pretty simple way to add watercolor to your Bullet Journal pages - add splashes of color as a background for your setup. The good thing is that you can control how bright and strong the colors are so you can make it exactly the way you want it to be able to easily plan on top of them.
Following the same idea of using watercolor as a background color, here is how you can do it for a cover page. The little illustration and the word "May" are obviously the main focus here, but the watercolor on the background helps to make it more interesting and stand out more.
Here is another beautiful way you can fill out large areas of your page with some watercolor illustrations. It's also the first example on this list of using water-based brush pens as a watercolor.
This illustration looks stunning, and the colors the creator managed to add here simply jump out of the page. The little black dragons flying contrast very well with the bright yellow and orange background.
Word of the year is a powerful and impactful practice, and for you, it's also a chance to be extra creative. Since your work of the year page is just a word, you get a chance to add other illustrations and decorations to your layout.
I love that here, the creator made this decorated word but also added an illustration for what this word means. Love the visuality of it all!
This is a cover page for the journal, or maybe just a quote. Either way, this is a beautiful use of watercolor, and again, this was created with water-based brush pens.
This is a simple page with a simple design, but those beautiful splashes of watercolor on the background really make it stand out and create a bit of excitement it.
I love creating geometric patterns, and it's pretty easy as well - you can just use washi tape first to have the strict like and go from there.
Watercolor is definitely a fun medium to use here, especially since, with watercolors, you can mix a lot and create a lot of beautiful, diverse, but still matching colors.
Last but not least is using your watercolor for lettering, be it brush lettering or just creating colorful headers for your pages.
Free Bullet Journal Printables
I don’t have any freebies specifically for watercolor, but already in the Resources Vault, you can find plenty of pages and designs to help you level up your Bullet Journal game.
A lot of the pages are in black and white, so you can take the liberty of customizing them however you want, including using watercolors.
If you don’t have access yet, you can always sign up in the form below.
Once you confirm your subscription, you’ll get the password to get 50+ free Bullet Journal printables, stickers, and worksheets to use right away.
If you’ve never used printables before, be sure to check my post How To Use Printables In Your Bullet Journal.
It’s pretty basic, and you can find all the supplies you need in my post Supplies For Using Bullet Journal Printables.
More Resources
Are you looking for more ideas and inspirations for your Bullet Journal? I’ve got you covered since I created and shared plenty of ideas on this blog to help you create a custom journal you love using every day.
Check out these blog posts next:
- Green Aesthetic Bullet Journal Ideas
- Bullet Journal Space Theme Inspirations
- Foxsy: Learn lettering, Watercolors, Doodling, And More
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