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Bible Journaling Process- Matthew 8 verses 1-15

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Weeks ago I ordered the rather lovely Illustrated Faith "Heart that Receives" bible journal kit from Ellie Beth Designs.

I was following the devotional for a while, doing a few bible-art-journaling, but then my church began a short series of 1 John and I studied this quite deeply and instead I used parts of the kit - plus some Illustrated Faith "Fruit Punch" alpha stickers for this.

My church is currently doing a series in Matthew and this week's teaching was surrounding the three accounts of healing at the beginning of Matthew 8.

I was inspired by bible journaling process videos I have been watching to do a journal using elements from the "Heart that Receives" kit which I thought would fit quite well with my notes.

Liquitex acrylic paints
Colours: Primary Red, Cadmium Orange Hue,  Dioxazine Purple, Phthalocyanine Green, Titanium White
 So to start with, I picked some colours from my Liquitex Basics acrylic paint set and added the white because these colours can be quite intense. I had an idea to put three "sets" of these colours on my page.

Alpha stickers Illustrated Faith
A rather decimated set of stickers
 Here is what is left of the alphas and stickers from the kit.

Illustrated Faith Cling stamps
StazOn Ink in Jet Black - works great over acrylic and is a permanent water-resistant ink
I used the stamps from the kit that read yes, Lord and Receive

Sentiment
Cut-outs and stickers
I tend to start with putting my ideas on a piece of clear acetate so I can figure out if it will fit or if in fact I like it. I cut out the receive tab from the card of cut-outs (stamp backer) as well as punching out the centre of the main cover of the card that has the title in that beautiful script.

A hole where the title once was!



So normally, I prep the page with clear gesso, but this was fairly spur of the moment so I simply took a couple of wet-wipes, squirted my paints onto a plastic party plate that I found in the cupboard and made a few swipes.
I use the Inspire journaling/colouring bible for my journaling and there was a colour-in verse on one side which I didn't want to use so I covered it with the white acrylic and laid my main feature over it - I'd decided at this point that I would journal on the lined side.

Covering the left side of the page as this had the colour-in verse on it
I spontaneously decided to paint three abstract flowers on the page for no real reason - I just liked the idea of using them a bit like bullet points. I left them to dry overnight because I did this before going out to the cinema!
Decided to do this as a double page as it covered a large part of Matthew 8

A close up of the colour "sets"

Illustrated Faith bible journal page
Stamped the yes, Lord and Receive at the top and bottom
 I'd already decided what I wanted to put on the page, as I'd wanted to pick out some specific points. I couldn't put Will, Love, Faith all on the page (mainly because I have run out of the letter E) so realising that the heart and plus sign were a great pairing I put these on instead. To finish off, I added the Receive tab on top of the page, and had this banner sticker with the same kind of print which I added behind the tab on the previous page which has Matthew 7 on, which talks about receiving so I thought it was quite appropriate here too.

Matthew 7: Ask, Seek, Knock - receiving

Finally journaling notes
 I still wanted to use the Heart that Receives title circle I punched out and decided to put it onto the right hand side, covering up the top set of colours, I journaled on the rest of this side.


So that's it. Spontaneous bible-art-journaling from doing a study in Matthew 8


Links (if you want to go and take a peek elsewhere) : www.elliebethdesignsuk.com (planner girl, creator, lover of all things sticker-y), www.illustratedfaith.com (all things to illustrate and document your Christian faith), Hello Jillsky Youtube www.youtube.com/channel/UCU26AryCGw34vxdEOnSEfbA (some great process videos here and a large part of my inspiration), Lindsey Decor Youtube www.youtube.com/channel/UC8blNCxkr-dO9mv0trdFjdw (ditto)




Coming Next Week... Creating Designs for a large Cabochon and tapping into long-neglected art skills.

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