Bible journaling has become a very popular part of Bible study in recent years. What it means to Bible journal is to use markers, stickers, pencils, and such to artistically illustrate what is learned from a Bible passage. Below you will find a variety of products that will be useful in this endeavor, whether you are just starting or whether you have been Bible journaling for a long time.
Guides
If you are just starting, or if you feel a need for new ideas to help keep your journaling fresh, you might consider a “how-to” book. They often offer sample pages, techniques, and other ideas.
1. The Art of Bible Journaling
This book contains more than 60 suggestions for ways to express your faith with creativity. It shows step by step how to creatively customize the pages to reinforce what you are learning.
2. Bible Journaling: A Life-Changing Journey Along the Pages of God’s Word (Kindle Edition)
This Kindle book offers a look at how and why Bible journaling can be a way for you to interact with God’s word and how and why it can be a good addition to your Bible study routine.
3. Bible Journaling and Creative Worship
Learn the basics of creative worship in your Bible study time. This journal guide also contains pages for practice and further designing.
4. Bible Journaling and Hand Lettering Beginner’s Guide Workbook
This workbook has pages for practicing, elements to trace for learning, embellishment samples, and a lot more.
5. Bible Journaling – Everlasting Hope
Including traceables, stickers, vellums, and other items in Dormacher’s signature style, this book encourages using art to build a deeper connection with God.
6. Bible Journaling for the Fine Artist
Explore the possibilities of differing media options, such as watercolors, colored pencils, ink, and more. It also includes tips for integrating your own style.
7. Bible Journaling Made Simple
This art-filled book is meant to lead you through your journey in creative worship. It encourages engagement with the text with visual interpretation, through techniques with pencils and paints. Tutorials aid in drawing different themes.
8. Bible Journaling – Trusting in God
This 8.5”x11” book is full of examples and images to inspire you in your own Bible Journaling.
9. A Workbook Guide to Bible Journaling
This is essentially Bible Journaling 101 – it is interactive and shows ways to connect faith and creativeness.
Kits
If you are new to Bible journaling, you might find it easier to begin with a kit. Kits include guides and all kinds of products, all in one convenient box, along with ideas to get your started.
1. Complete Guide to Bible Journaling: Creative Techniques to Express Your Faith
This beginner-friendly guide comes with stickers, ideas, and designs to get you started. Included are tips for how to use the different media available and the gallery of colorful examples will keep you inspired.
2. Created to Create Starter Kit
This kit from Dayspring includes a devotional booklet, stickers and die-cuts, and a mat with ruler marks, among other things.
3. Deluxe Bible Journaling Kit
This deluxe kit includes wooden alphabet stamps and ink, a tracing pack, colored pencils and acrylic paints and more, with a kit box with handle to make it portable.
4. Faber Castell Bible Journaling Kit
This complete journaling kit consists of 47 pieces which include die cuts, design guide, stickers, highlighters, pens, and stencils.
5. Foundations Bible Journaling Kit
The supplies in this kit are carefully chosen to help you make beautiful pages. Some of the tools in this kit include pencils, pens, watercolors, tracing pad, and paper.
6. Gratitude Documented
This Dayspring journaling kit includes stickers, die-cuts, and washi tape meant to foster journaling gratitude.
7. Illustrated Faith
This journaling kit from Dayspring includes a variety of media, stickers, and such to facilitate your Bible journaling efforts.
8. Inspired Bible Journaling Supplies Kit (+ Free eBooklet Download)
Bullet journaling with color and creativity is made easy with the items in this kit. Some items include washi tape, pens and pencils, plastic mat, eraser, and storage case. The free ebooklet contains traceable designs and a sample.
9. Pink Bible Journaling Kit
This kit is made to inspire you and help you to fulfill your inspiration in your journaling Bible. Some of the items included in this kit are washi tape, stamps and ink, stickers, pens, and a journaling template.
Purple option: Purple Bible Journaling Kit
Bibles
Bibles come in all translations. The best ones for journaling have wide margins; some have other whitespace left purposely to allow you space for your creativity. These are arranged by translation, alphabetically.
1. CPDV – Catholic Bible for Journaling – Floral
This Catholic New Testament with Psalms and Proverbs has single column text and very wide margins – over three inches – for journaling, lettering, and whatever you desire. The paper is much thicker than standard Bible paper – it uses 60-pound card stock, so it is unlikely mediums will bleed through.
2. ESV – Journaling Bible – Black
This single-column Bible has 2” margins on cream-colored paper. There is plenty of space for creative journaling inside this book.
3. ESV – Journaling Bible – Flowers
This hardcover has a cloth cover with a flowered pattern on the outside, and a wide-ruled margin for journaling.
4. ESV – Journaling Bible – Teal (with Replendent Cross Design)
The interior of this Bible is like the two above, but has a teal cover.
5. KJV – Praise – White (With Line Drawings)
This book has oversized margins – some with line drawings awaiting your coloring – encased in a hardcover binding.
6. KJV – My Creative Bible – Aqua
This single-column, wide margin Bible has almost 400 hand-drawn illustrations for you to color, plus lined margins for note-taking or other journaling.
Pink : Pink Hardcover Bible
7. KJV – My Creative Bible – Flexcover Multicolored
The flex and lay-flat binding on this single-column wide margin Bible makes it easier to color and write on the cream-colored thicker paper.
8. KJV – My Promise Bible – Pink
This Bible has an emphasis on God’s Promises. With almost 400 illustrations, the remainder of the wide margin, single-column text leaves plenty of space for creativity.
9. NIV – Beautiful Word – Brown/Purple (Set)
This Bible also comes with a set of 8 colored pencils to journal artistically on the thicker pages of this Bible with a ribbon marker to keep up with where you are.
10. NIV – Beautiful Word Coloring Bible – White (With Line Drawings)
Hundreds of verses are illustrated throughout this beautiful book and ready for you to fill in with your favorite colors. Wide margins on thicker paper allow for creativity or note-taking.
11. NIV – Journal the Word – Pink Floral
This single-column Bible is a red letter edition with thick cream paper and extra wide margins.
12. NLT – Catholic Bible – Rose Gold
This Catholic coloring Bible has over 450 line art illustrations of Scripture and wide margins for your own notes and journaling. This text has been approved by the Catholic church.
13. NLT – Inspire Large Print – Tranquil Blue
This large print Bible makes reading more comfortable while still offering plenty of space for creativity. The line-art illustrations are also larger.
14. NLT – Inspire Praise – Purple
This single-column, wide margin Bible in the New Living Translation has almost 500 line art illustrations for readers to color in, as well as blank areas for personal creativity. Thicker paper helps to limit bleed-through.
15. NLT – Reflections – Ocean Blue
This Bible’s margins are extra-wide to allow for creative expression. The lay-flat binding makes it easy to work on the pages.
16. NLT – THRIVE – Blue/Cream
The THRIVE journaling Bible is meant for woman who want a deeper relationship with God.
Pencils, Pens & Markers
1. 5-piece Set Accu-Gel/Pigma Micron
This set includes four Accu-Gel highlighters in yellow, blue, pink, and green, that are made to keep from smearing other inks they highlight over, and one Pigma Micron Fine Point pen.
2. 17 -piece Pigma Micron/Gelly Roll Pen Set
These archival quality pens are packaged in a cube and all are made my Sakura. The set includes a variety of point sizes in black, as well as different gel pens from the Gelly Roll collections.
3. Brush Marker Pens – Dual Tip – Set of 24 Colors
These double-sided pens have a .4mm point on one end and brush tips on the other. They come in 24 colors to help your journaling be beautiful.
4. Calligraphy Brush Marker Pens – 60 Colors
This set of sixty pens have dual tips – one fine tip for detail and one brush tip for calligraphy.
5. Dayspring Bible Journaling Pen Pack – Set of 5
This set of five pens are medium point (.65mm) and come in five colors – yellow, green, blue, pink, and peach.
6. Gel Highlighters – Mr. Pen – Pack of 8
8 Gel highlighters, made for no bleed-through, come in 8 colors – yellow, dark and light pink, green, blue, dark and light orange, and purple. Color in verses or color in the line drawings in your journaling Bible without worrying about bleeding through.
7. iStudy Kit
This set of five writing implements come with a compact storage case made to mimic an iPhone product. Three highlighters with chisel tips (pink, yellow, and blue), one black
8. Micro-Line Ultra Fine Point Ink Pens (Set of 16)
Five black felt-tip markers with varying tip sizes (from .25mm to .5mm) and eleven assorted colors with .3mm tips make drawing and coloring beautiful on the pages of your journaling Bible.
9. Multicolor Pens
These pens combine six colors into one convenient pen. Since they come in a 12-pack, you have enough to share – or to last you a long time!
10. Pigma Micron Fine & Medium Point Pen Set
Six pen set includes five medium (05) point colors – yellow, pink, violet, blue, and light green – and one 01 fine point (.25mm) black pen.
11. Precision Bible Pen
This value pack contains two pens. One is .25mm and the other is .65mm – perfect for taking notes or drawing in your journaling Bible.
Stickers
1. 48 Piece Edgy Stickers
This set of 48 stickers from American Crafts are made to suit Bible study. It includes opaque, clear, and coloring stickers.
2. Faith Sticker Book
These full color and foil stickers are a great addition to your journaling. Over 900 stickers are on the 17 pages of this sticker book.
3. Let Your Faith Stick
Peel and stick these adorable faith-based stickers.
4. Watercolor Stickers
These 44 stickers include coloring stickers and clear stickers for use with your Bible journaling.
5. Who I Am in Christ
These stickers are clear, to add flourishing text to your Bible journaling.
Stencils
1. Believe Stencils
These six stencils include “Believe,” an outline, a dove, an anchor, a sermon notes box, and more.
2. Butterflies
These butterflies and dragonflies are a sweet way to add beauty to your Bible journaling.
3. Count Your Blessings
This six piece set includes symbols, “Today’s blessings” and “Today’s prayers,” and some other text sections.
4. Dreamsicle Letters
This 8.5”x11” page of fun alphabet – both lower and uppercase – also includes numerals and punctuation. These 1” letters can be used for a variety of purposes, of which Bible journaling is one.
5. Essentials Faith Stencil Set
This stencil set has over 350 designs, including symbols, alphabet, banners, and other shapes and dividers.
6. Planner Journal Stencils
Originally created and marketed for bullet journals, this set of 36 plastic stencils ranges from shapes and dividers to symbols and letters.
7. Plastic Stencils
This set of stencils is a secular set, but most of the shapes and designs work well in a Bible journaling situation. Flora and fauna are included, as well as a script-type alphabet.
8. Zenspirations Inspired Bible Journaling Set
This set includes three different stencils. One is based on “This is the day the Lord has made” with butterfly and flower. The second is based on “we will serve the Lord” and has a birdhouse and bird. The third is based on “sing a new song” and features a bird and a musical-note background-type block.
Now that you have a place to start, it is a good time to get out your Bible and supplies and begin your own keepsake Bible journal!