Bible Journaling

I just discovered a whole new world.  Bible Journaling!!! There is even a community of journalers on Facebook.  I found this randomly on Tuesday.  I was so excited I immediately ordered my journaling Bible from Amazon here.  I'm holding out for the NKJV which is my favorite version but it isn't going to be shipped until July 2015.  That's OK because I told my husband that it was going to be my birthday present from him.

But, I can't wait that long to start so I pulled out another of my Bibles that I don't use because the print is way to small for these old eyes.  And started a study of Psalms on Merri Dennis' website.  The study is called 52 Weeks of Psalms.  I don't think it will take me 52 weeks since I've already done 3 weeks in 2 days.  I am journaling directly into this Bible.  This at first seemed very wrong but I really don't use this Bible for study as I said because the print is too small so instead of it just sitting on the bookshelf why not use it for a good purpose.  I am also making something that is uniquely mine and I plan to give it to my granddaughter Lydia when she is old enough.  I am really trying to keep the art light so that the text can still be seen.  You will see in another picture that I had a little mishap and covered some of the text.  Also, I have studied more on my own in the last 3 days than in the last year.  This can only be a good thing and I believe in it.

Here is my first work:

 

For Psalms 1 I chose the passage Psalms 1:3

And he will be like a tree firmly planted by streams of water,

Which yields its fruit in its season,

And its leaf does not wither. 

I drew a tree and a leaf and colored them with colored pencil.

 

Psalms 3: 3

But Thou, O Lord, art a shield about me,

My glory, and the one who lifts my head.

I drew a shield and wrote "Shield me Oh God."

 

Psalms 7: 17

I will give thanks to the Lord according to His righteousness,

And will sing praise to the name of the Lord Most High.

I wrote "Sing for Joy" and drew notes to represent singing.  We sing accapela in our Church during services and I love how all the voices blend in harmony.  I love to sing Hymns.  I feel like I am worshiping God this way.

 

Psalms 8:3

When I consider Thy heavens, the work of Thy fingers,

The moon and the stars, which Thou hast ordained;

This is where the journaling went a little wrong.  I used my Twinkling H2Os to paint a dark sky through a mask.  They weren't quite as see through as I though it would be.  But I love it.  I used some glitter glue to make the stars. 

 

Even though it is a little dark, you can still read almost the entire text through it. 

 

Thank you to the Admins of the Journaling Bible Community for adding me.  I am loving all the beautiful artwork and lettering that the others are doing.  To a Christian and artist this is the perfect marriage of the two things I love.

 

Thanks for stopping by.

~pam

 



 





New Year, New Journal

The Art to the 5th ladies have started the new year with new challenges and a new journal.

The first two challenges are complete.

January's theme is "The blank page and how to face it".

Week 1:  Book Paper
Journal prompt:  Be your own goal keeper.

I used many different pieces of text pages, book paper, etc as the base of my page.  I then used some watered down gesso over that so that you could still see the text through the layer.  Several different colors of paints and inks and lots random ink marks with a black fine point marker and white gel pen completed the background.
I used black gesso to pull out an area on the side of the spread to write my goals for the year.  I really liked the idea of using goals instead of resolutions.  Resolutions, at least in my life, tend to go by the wayside fairly soon after the new year.  Goals are more fluid. 

I used the word "begin" because this is the beginning of the year, the beginning of the DLP prompts and the beginnin of my new journal.



Week 2: Gesso

Journal prompt:  "The beginning is always today."  ~Mary Shelley

I used Dylusions spray inks for the background after prepping the page with gesso.  I decided to use one page for this prompt.  I used Tim Holtz Black Soot Distress ink through two different stencils. Over all this I added clear gesso.  Then I tried to use gesso through a stencil with limited success.  I tried to put the gesso on using a brush and I think I would have been a little more successful had I just used my fingers.  Oh, well live and learn.

Thanks for visiting.

~pam

DLP Week 44

Challenge:  Incorporate leaves (real or drawn/painted) onto your page in a creative way.

I wanted to have a lot of texture on my page by creating a tree.  I started by tearing masking tape into small pieces and placing it in my page in a rough tree pattern.

Once I had my tree defined I added modeling paste using a pallet knife.

I used a fairly thick coat with lots of lovely texture.  This was left to dry which took two days Then I added acrylic paint in sable brown to the tree adding thicker coats in some places and lighter in others to highlight all that great texture.

I then stamped lots of leaves at the base of the tree in pretty fall colors of orange, rust and yellow.

I cut a banner with my Big Shot and stamped a Fall saying and added some twine to make it look like it was hanging from one of the branches.

Hope you like my creation.  Thanks for stopping by.

Pam

DLP Flip Through Video

I've created a short video called a flip video where I flip through my DLP Planner to catch you up with my book .  I've never done this before so hope it works.

Thanks for stopping by.
Pam

Catching Up

What?  It's the end of October?  Really?

I just logged into my blog only to realize I haven't posted anything since May.  Life has been really busy since then.

My only son graduated with his Masters Degree from Marshall University.

My husband and I went on a cruise for my 60th birthday in July.  

We had a wonderful family get together where my 83 year old mother met her great granddaughter for the first time.

My sister-in-law and brother-in-law made a trip to our weekend cottage and we had a lovely visit.

I became the X-Ray tech for the Marshall University football team at home games.

Now it's time for trick or treat and I have a little Lydia bug to snuggle.

So now we are all caught up.  Thanks for visiting.

Pam

  

The Document Life Project - Week 21

Wow we are already in week 21 of 52 week of 2014.  Where does the time go?  During this terrible winter with all the cold snowy weather I couldn't wait until Spring.  Now it has come and almost gone before I realized it.  Seems like Winter was forever and Spring was just a couple of weeks.

The challenge for Week 21:  Add embroidery or embroidery floss to your page.

I don't have embroidery floss in my stash.  I didn't really want to buy it either so I used some Baker's twine that I had.  I cut out some wings with my new Sizzix Big Shot machine.  I stamped the girl image with Stayz- On black ink and "sewed" the wings on after I colored her with colored pencils.

I made the circles using the tutorial from one of the other lovely ladies on the Facebook page for DLP. If I can find it I will add it to my next post.   The little flowers came in some extra bits I got with the new stamps in the mail.  The word Love was also from the extra bits and I added two stitched love knots to it after gluing it to the page.

Thanks for stopping by.

~Pam

Documented Life Project Weeks 19 and 20

DLP Week 19

Challenge: Document a Random Acts of Kindness from you.

I chose not to document a specific act but to work with the words Random-Act-Kindness

I cut those specific words with their definition out of an old dictionary.

DLP Week 20

Challenge: Use a rubber stamp in a new way.

This week my son, Joe, graduated from Marshall University with his Master of Science degree in Information Management.  I am so very proud of him.  So I wanted to incorporate a photo of him in his cap and gown.  I cut a heart from a piece of paper and used a rubber stamp of wood grain to stamp into the negative space.  Then I used Dylusions inks around the heart to color my background.  I added his photo into the heart.

I thought the stamped sentiment appropriate because he took all his classes for this degree while getting married, buying a new home and having a new baby.  

Sometimes he would ask me if it would be worth the pain of taking classes during all this and I told him to just keep going it definitely would be worth it in the end.

Here is the graduation card I made him:

Again, I am a proud mamma.

Thanks for stopping by.

~Pam