Troubleshooting Bleed-Through in Your Bullet Journal

You worked so hard on that spread only to turn the page and realize that it bled through to the next page! What's next? Tears? Start a whole new book?

Absolutely neither! I have listed a few ways below that you can resolve the spread and make it better than before! Make it a beautiful oops!

Acrylic Paint

Take acrylic paint and paint either the page that experience bleed through or the whole spread. You can just paint it the color of the original paper, or you can be creative! You can paint the spread black and use gel pens on it for a very unique spread!

Acrylic Pens and Intentional Design Placement

You can use acrylic pens like A&O Acrylograph pens (use code letteringleah) or Posca Pens and intentionally place design elements over wherever the bleed through occurred. Some great options are flowers or greenery/leaves that can be placed a bit more flexibly!

Mixed Media

I love to use watercolor paper to paint some elements for the theme I am using and then cut them out and glue them to the spread. I can use their placement to cover up any bleed through from an earlier spread.

See my use of mixed media below to cover up some bleed through that occurred! Oops! You would never know the difference!

Watercolor

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