March 11: Beginning Bible Art Journaling: Using Stickers...

Hello friends,
Today we are on to the other side of the page...and you will see a couple of reasons stickers would work well here:

I used a lot of ink on the other side (using Momento and stamping off once works much better...I'll show you later!):
But I don't worry about this because I like to incorporate different things in my Art Bible, such as stickers.

Remember, if you don't have stickers, you can continue to use the techniques in the first week of our Bible ARt Journaling posts to journal in your bible!  I had these on hand...

I have shown you how to mark key words: God, His Word, and the author (me, my, I) and make lists on what you learn about these---this is so important and even if you don't make the lists in your bible, I hope you will continue in another journal.  I want to show you other ways to art journal in your bible.
You can take a verse that you don't want to forget and put it into the margin:

I used stickers and the tape from above along with a micron marker and Inspired Stamps for this.  I highlighted the verse I took it from for easy reference.   I'll do more with this verse tomorrow...
 
Until then,
May God bless your ART...and your heart,
Antoinette

March 10: Beginning Bible Art Journaling: Doodle

Hello friends,
How are you doing in your Bible ARt Journaling?  I hope you are enjoying it!  Be sure to leave questions or comments below this post or you can email me at inspiredstamps@gmail.com if you like!  I'd love to hear from you!

Today we finish up our 2nd page:

I added to both lists on this page after marking the bottom section, so that is what you will want to do as well.  I wanted to focus today's lesson on the back of page 2.  We've marked, used micron pen, and adhered paper on this page so let's take a peek at the back:

The only area that is a potential problem is that arrow that showed up so clearly right in the middle of Scripture!  You have to use what you have, so since this isn't something I can cover without covering Scripture, I decided to use it like I meant it to go there lol.  I colored it blue and doodled a couple of hands since verse 48 says I will lift up my hands toward your commandments.  Today, I want to encourage you to doodle a little image somewhere in the section we've covered.  If you are scared to try hands or something more detailed, doodle a heart in pencil outside one of the places we've seen heart mentioned.  Then you can go over in pen or Micron or colored pencil.  To develop your drawing/doodling skills, practice on copy paper when you are on the phone or in another situation where you are sitting listening but your hands are free.  Save the doodles you like and you may be able to trace them in your Bible one day.

Have a great Tuesday and get your stickers ready for tomorrow if you have some.  If not, you will be able to write so no worries!

May God bless your ART...and your heart,
Antoinette

March 9: Beginning Bible Art Journaling: Making colorful tape to use

Hello friends,
I hope you had a wonderful weekend!  The first week of our Beginning Bible Art Journaling is complete!  You should be more comfortable with using pencils, pens, and copy paper on your Bibles.  If this is all you have or all you are comfortable with, you may continue to use the techniques and materials I have taught up until now.

Today I am going to start showing some other tools and techniques you can use in your Bible Art Journaling.  Today I would like to show you how to use washi tape.  It's just thin, patterened or colored paper that you can write on (or leave for decoration).  If you don't have washi tape handy, you can also make your own colored tape this way:

 I LOVE the non-stick pan lining paper...use it under my artwork all the time! But I use it to make my own tape too.  You can try out masking tape, clear tape, whatever you have on hand because you start out with the strips on this non-stick pan lining paper.  Anything you make that you hate, toss out!

 I drew a few designs but you can also just color the tape one color if you like.  I use regular Sharpie markers...they work best for me.

 I colored with different color Sharpies, and wanted to show you that you have to be careful not to color over a different color of Sharpie (see the center?) it will pick it up and move it into a mess!

I used Washi tape that I have been itching to use somewhere since I got it!  Here's what I did:
I tore off a few pieces of tape after figuring out the tape was too wide for the space I wanted to use it in my Bible:

I wrote out the lesson I learned from the Scripture that has just stuck with me since we have been going through Psalm 119!! 

 One note...I used my Bible Art Journaling: ARROWS with an archival ink that was way too juicy and this arrow shows up on the page behind in quite boldly (I have a clever way of dealing with it in tomorrow's post, because these things happen!).  Always test your inks on a plain page in the back of your bible or be very comfortable and improvising lol.

I chose this verse 24 because the writer says THEY (God's testimonies/His Word) ARE MY COUNSELORS.  So I looked up counselors and sure enough, it means that God's Word is to be my counselor, my adviser, the planner!!  How cool is that?  How convicting is that?  How many times do we go to others for advice instead of first going to God through prayer and His Word for guidance?  Do I pray about it as much as I talk about it, is a phrase I've heard a lot lately and boy did that ring true in my heart.  God's Word is to be my counselor.  I need to be seeking His advice, His counsel through His Word!  It's great we have fellowship to go to as well, but we are to go to Him first!

Here is how page 2 is looking...loving the pink dots on the washi tape!

Tomorrow we will finish this page and begin the next (can you believe it??  We are moving along!) On Wednesday we will be using stickers so if you have a stash, go ahead and get them out and ready!

May God bless your Art...and your HEART,
Antoinette

March 8: Beginning Bible Art Journaling: What you learn about GOD

Hello friends,

Happy Sunday to you! I have planned this post in advanced for you to see on Sunday since I am busy with church and family today!  

Today's post is a continuation of what we learn about God from our first page of Psalm 119:

We are using our big margin for our application so I used an inner section to write what I learn about God on this page after Ive gone through and marked the next section:

My prayer is that you don't just write stuff in your bible to have stuff there, that your Bible (even if you have others you primarily use to study from ) would not become background paper to your artwork, but that what you put in there is to benefit your study of God's Word in some way. 

My hope is that when you make a list like the one above you take time to think on it, chew on it (that is what to meditate is), and go to God in worship and praise over Who He is.  In just Psalm 119 I see the God of the Bible teaches and leads me in His Word...I pray for His leading and teaching when I study it.  We see He turns my eyes from looking at worthless things and has the power to incline my heart to Him and His Word...I pray for these things and thank Him for these things.  Do you want the false ways to be far from you?  This Psalm says God does this as we study His Word...how powerful is that?  Our God gives life!  How grateful we are to Him for the life we have and the life He's given those we love.  And we continue to pray for the unsaved, that God would grant to them the understanding of His precious gospel and that he would incline their hearts to Himself and have eternal life as well. 

Have a blessed Sunday meditating on these wonderful truths!  Now that you've had a week to get used to using your pencils, markers, and copy paper, I will begin introducing you to some other materials and techniques to use while Bible Art Journaling.  You can ALWAYS stick with what you've been doing, and the materials you have. Tomorrow I will show you how to make your own colorful tape and how to use washi tape.

May God bless your HEART...and your ART,

Antoinette

Beginning Bible Art Journaling: March 7: Application

Hello friends,
It's the weekend!  We don't go the weekend without food for our bodies, and we need God's Word on the weekend too.  Today we will have a shorter lesson in the work you are doing in your bible, but the chewing on the Scripture part will take you throughout your day!

If you haven't yet, go through and somehow mark the ME, MY, I in the Scripture.  This is the writer of the Psalm and one who we want to emulate in His thoughts about God and His Word. So where you see one of the pronouns (I, me, my) referring to the author, you want to have some application for yourself.  And this is how I wrote some of it down in my Bible:

What is my response to be toward the Word of God?  I am to store it in my heart...memorize it.  Why?  'that I might not sin against God'.  Did you realize that storing God's Word in your heart, memorizing Scripture and pouring over it, is forefront in your battle against sin?  What else?  As you go through where you marked the author's pronouns and see what you learn about the author, you will find Scripture that says he meditates on God's Word, fixes his eyes on it (focuses his attention there instead of other places), delights in it...do YOU DELIGHT in the Scripture?  If not, pray to God that He would 'incline your heart' more and more to it!  He says he keeps it, or obeys Scripture.  It's one thing to KNOW what God says, and an entirely different thing to obey Him.  What else do you see in the Scripture we've read thus far?  Write it down there.

Notice I have room left...we are not done on this page with our observation of the Scriptures so I left room for other ways we are to walk in His ways.

Not a lot to do today, but certainly a lot to go before your Lord with and thank Him even for the desire to want more of Him!

May God bless your ART...and your HEART,
Antoinette

March 6: Beginning Bible Art Journaling: Adding a Character

Hello friends,
Are you having fun yet?  I am thoroughly enjoying going through this month Bible Art Journaling with you!  I have been having a little bit of trouble getting my photos to upload onto blogspot, so that is why sometimes my post is running into the night before it actually posts. I will keep trying to get these up by 8pm!

Today we are moving onto the second page in my journaling Bible--woohoo!  I want to warn you we will have a LOT going on on these pages by the time Tuesday rolls around.  Do not get overwhelmed.  It is perfectly fine for you to focus on less than I am showing here or to put less on your pages. I'm showing you a LOT because I want you to get as much in the form of example (and Scripture explanation) as possible.

Today I have a simple part to show you...I will add to this tomorrow.  I used one of my HYMN GIRL stamps (HYMN GIRL: HEART TO CHEEK) and stamped her on Xpress It blending cardstock and colored her with Copic Markers.  Copic markers AND the black ink will show through on a bible page so I always stamp an image/color with Copic markers on separate paper, cut out the image, and adhere it to the bible.  I will show you the back of this page and how to handle any bleed through from stamped words when we get there.  But no Copic Markers directly on bible paper.

I used a stamp from Inspired Stamps: Bible Art Journaling: BIBLE STUDY PHRASES in the upper right hand corner of this page.  Remember, you don't NEED stamps to do this.  You can either not use a character at all, draw one of your own, or use a different image in yours.  You can write out the words, too, as we have on the previous page.  I use what I have on hand; you can too! If you use a piece of copy paper, you can use a piece along the right side like so...

 Next up I wanted to begin to get down how I am to apply what I am learning about the one saying 'I, me, my' in this psalm, because his view of Scripture is to be my view of Scripture.  I drew a heart:

 I wrote using my lined paper as a guide (see previous days for instructions on this)

 I store up God's Word in my heart!

Why do I store up God's Word in my heart?  The psalmist says 'that I might not sin against God'.  That is one reason.  I will dig out more applications of the Scripture in tomorrow's post.  I want to share one more thing with you I did:

I started marking the I, ME, MY in what we've read through so far in Psalm 119.  I circled every pronoun in purple (erasable, Frixion marker) and I underlined the verbs that went with it.  It will make it easier for tomorrow's listing as you will see.  I also added in my own handwriting with a Micron 03 black pen, '~Walk In God's Ways~v3 (from verse 3 in this psalm) which tells how I am to apply what God tells me in His Word; I am to walk, as a way of life, in God's Ways, as He's provided in Scripture. 

Tomorrow I will share what the application and attitudes I list under that heart I put on the page are concerning God's Word. I am absolutely humbled by your emails letting me know you are starting your own Bible Art Journaling, right here along with me in Psalm 119!  I pray for you to be blessed by your time of study and meditation in God's Word!  Thank you so much for sharing your hearts with me...I am so blessed by it!

Until then,
May God bless your ART...and your Heart!
Antoinette

March 5: Beginning Bible Art Journaling: Psalm 119:1-24 'GOD'

Hello friends!

How is your Bible Art Journaling coming along?  I hope you are spending some time working in your own bible or outside your bibles in your art journals!  

Today I decided to use one of my Bible Art Journaling Inspired Stamps (Bible Art Journaling: PHRASES)

for the topper.  You do not need to use a stamp for this, but can do your own lettering for this section, but being a stamp creator, I love to use my stamps when I can!

 So I am going to show you how to observe the text in Psalm 119:1-24 and see where you have marked God (your and you are also marked as pronouns for God).  I love listing what I learn about the God I love, and my Bible Art Journaling is the perfect place to make such a list.  I made 2 lines with a ruler:

 and wrote in the Psalm...

 You'll notice I redid the stamping and line making because my original list was too long to go in my bible so I started over and wrote smaller:

 I always include the verses so I can find the reference easier, but having made this list, I go over it to see what all I know about the God of the Bible, the God I love.  He has the power to keep me from wandering from His commandments and opens my understanding!  I have a cross reference in Luke that says how God reveals truth and conceals truth to some.  It is another testimony to His supreme sovereignty and all-powerfulness!  So how do we apply what we learn?  First of all, I acknowledge He has the power in these situations.  Giving glory to God is to give 'a correct estimate of WHO He is'.  Next, it shows me my need to pray for understanding for myself and those I love; that He would keep me from wandering from His Word, as I study and store them in my heart and as I live this life in light of His truth!

Here is where I put this list.  I will show you how to attach another type of list tomorrow (lists are so good!!).
Until then, I pray you are blessed in your time with your Lord in His Word!
May God bless your HEART...and your ART,
Antoinette