BULLET JOURNALING SUPPLIES
After a decade of bullet journaling and a lifetime of being a stationery addict, these take the top spots as my all-time favorite products! I use a lot of these daily, and I highly recommend them all. My most-used products are gel pens, micron fine lines, and brush pen, and a gray Tombow, and I firmly believe you can journal with just a pen and a notebook, but these little extras are fun to accumulate over time and have definitely contributed to my creativity in my journal over the years.
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The PIGMA Microns are a bullet journaling staple. The different sized pen tips provide excellent variety at a great price point.
The Canon Ivy is a great little inkiness printer to add your favorite images to your journal! They print 3x2 images on Zink paper and come with an app to add any extra art that you’d like to see on your prints.
You’ve probably used double sided tape before, but the Pemanent Adhesive dispenser that Tombow has added here makes it even easier! I use this on a weekly basis as well.
Faber-Castell manufactures some of the best quality art supplies on the market. I personally love this color palette of the Faber-Castell PITT Artist Brush Pens and use it frequently.
This handy little Moft tripod stand with MagSafe is new to me, but it’s a great addition as I started filming a little more of my process. It captures close up details of the drawing process quite well and also serves as a tripod stand if you’re filming yourself, watching a video, or using your phone to display a reference photo.
These Arrtx acrylic markers are my new favorite pens. They don’t have to be shaken for 20 minutes to work and are high opacity, allowing you to layer colors, but not completely opaque.
Zebra Mildliners are part highlighter and part light color. Also dual tipped, there’s a chiseled tip and a fine point tip, and they come in many lovely colors.
Most journals come with rounded pages, and it can be more difficult than you’d expect to get the corners rounded just right if you’re pasting something into your notebook. This rounded corner cutter makes super easy and is also great to round corners of photos, etc., for a little extra detail.
If you ever do a spread that has dozens of dots or bullet points on it, you’ll see the use for these quickly! Far from a necessity, the Zig Color Dot markers have lovely colors with a dot tip on one end and a fine tip on the other.
Back to Faber-Castell, these are my all-time favorite metallic pens. You’ll find plenty of options for gel pens that dry quickly and have inconsistent flow, but these opaque markers (that write beautifully over the Arrtx acrylic markers above) are the best you’ll find.
The Tombow Dual Brush Pens are some of the most popular journaling supplies. Brush Pens on one end and a fine point at another, there are also maybe hundreds of colors? So many choices.
The Tombow Fudekosuke Hard Tipped Brush Pen is my can’t-go-without brush pen. I use it on probably every single spread. There’s a slight learning curve if you don’t know how to use a brush pen, but once you get the hang of it, they’re a great addition to your stationery drawer!
I doubt you think you need a desk vacuum, but you totally do! My husband teased me when I purchased this, and he regularly asks me to borrow it. Eraser bits, crumbs, cat hair, it easily takes care of it all!
GellyRoll makes excellent gel pens, and these shades of gray, sparkly pens blend together wonderfully.
This is a definite splurge, and a large one at that. Since my full-time job is photography, the Epson EcoTank 8550 was a legitimate business expense, but I’ve loved having a high quality prints in my journal as well. It quickly made my Canon Ivy obsolete in my workflow. I highly recommend this if you’re in the market for a photo printer for other purposes but it would be difficult to justify just for my journal. :)