Faith on Friday

Good morning friends and welcome to a new feature day here on my blog called "Faith on Friday"...it's a pretty good description of what I'll be sharing with you.  Mostly I'll share with you the Bible jounaling I've done that week, which will most likely just consist of the memory verse of whichever study I'm doing at the time.  Let's jump right in shall we?

 This week the study that I'm doing actually took the week off due to a lot of people having spring break this week (mine was last week) and, I guess, a lot of people were behind so they wanted to allow time to catch up.  Anyway, I'm doing the study of the book I Know His Name by Wendy Blight.  It is an online lead study and through Proverbs 31 Ministries.  This book studies five of the names of God and two weeks ago we studied about El Roi, the God who sees me as Hagar pronounces him in Genesis 17:13. 

 This Bible journaling is a new process for me and, if you look at the photo above you can see I have been making mistakes...from highlighting the wrong verse (palm face plant!) to not being patient enough for the ink to dry. I'm still very much in the learning process but that is okay, right?  We all are constantly learning about our Lord and this is just another way to work on my personal relationship with him!

I also wanted to share with you some fun things I got from the Illustrated Faith section of the Dayspring Store.  In the box is the Beautiful devotional kit.  I tried to resist the kit but the colors and roses just did me in!  I also wanted to get some paint and paint 'cards' so they have a kit in the store that I thought would be a good place to start.  Finally some black pens 'cuz really...who has enough of those?  ;)

So...do you guys just want to see the pages I've completed or would you like to know where I got my creative tools from as well?  Do you want links?  Let me know and I'll do what you would like!  The stamps I've used here are from Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps, SU! and Jaded Blossom (the glasses). 

Well, that is it for this week!  I hope you have a fabulous weekend!

Creative Bible Journaling

I've started a new creative process called Creative Bible Journaling.  I purchased a Bible that is specifically for journaling and will be creating in the margins (though some create on the entire page).  I've just finished my first, very simple, page and I really like it.  I've made some rookie mistakes that I'm really okay with making simple because I'm full of flaws and this process will be full of flaws too so I'm just going with it!  I thought the beginning would be a great place to start so presenting my first creative page on the first page of scripture in my journaling Bible!

 First thing I did was purchase a journaling Bible.  You can see that they pages are only one column and leave much room on the side to journal.  After a little research I decided to go with Prismacolor Premier colored pencils for my coloring as I didn't want it to bleed though.  Well, the no bleed through went right on out the window when I stamped the globe in back and it bled though...flaw #1 (and that is the last one I numbered...lol).  I didn't want to have to use a prep material of any sort as i don't really create with a ton of forethought and most preparation materials require time to dry (or a dryer of some sort) but I guess I'll have to change that plan.  I ordered clear gesso for the meantime and will see how that works on the next try.

 The stamps I used for this page are from Jaded Blossom (the world) and from Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps (they have a whole new line just for Creative Bible Journaling!).  I've used Dew Drop inks and colored with the Prismacolor pencils and then blended the colors with their blender pencil.  I'm pretty unfamiliar with the pencils so they will take a bit to get used to but hey...we all learn new stuff everyday, right?

And here it is 'finished' (not really because I didn't like how the green flowered looked so I just took an eraser that I got with a prismacolor kit and erased it a bit and it doesn't look so out of place now).  I'm actually super pleased at my first try and it has really encouraged me to continue on. 

I think I'll be doing a page a week based on the Bible Study memory verse that I'm learning for the week.  I'm also going to be dating all the creative journaling that I'll be doing so that I can see how my art changes over time. 

I would love to hear your constructive feedback if you'd like to leave a comment!