Bible Journaling - Leviticus 18

Leviticus 18 is a chapter that really calls a spade a spade. It is about forbidden sexual practices. The idea here was that God's chosen people were to conduct themselves differently from the nations around them, and be holy, just like their God is holy. I did some simple stencilling and colouring on this page, as well as to cut some die-cut lettering with my Go Cut & Emboss machine. I use a restricted colour palette and allow my own designs to be dictated by those already found in the Inspire Praise Bible.

This is what the chapter looks like in the Inspire Praise Bible.

I treat the pages with Dala Acrylic Gesso.

Once dry, the pages look like this.

I use TouchWood, Mingyun and Superior markers to colour and blend the illustrations in the Bible.

My page now looks like this.

I use Tim Holtz Distress Stain to colour the backgrounds of the pages.

I use an alphabet set of dies by Couture Creations to cut my lettering with.

I lay the letters on the paper on top of the cutting plate.

I tape the letters in place to prevent them from moving.

I have also slipped a sheet of black cardboard under the letters, so that each letter will be cut in both red and black.

I put the sandwich through the Go Cut & Emboss machine.

This is what it looks like coming out of the machine.

I use Dala Craft Glue to glue the letters into the Bible, starting with the black letters.

I use tweezers to lay the red letters on top of the black ones, but slightly off centre, so that the black letters appear like a shadow to the red ones.

I then use this set of acrylic stamps by Clear Stamps,

I use Ranger Archival Ink to ink the stamps, having mounted the stamps on a Chizzwick stamp block.

I use a Mingyun marker to colour some of the stamped images.

I then reach for this stamp set by Clear Stamps.

I use one of the border patterns under my lettering.

The page now looks like this.

The completed layout looks like this.

You can watch a short compilation video of the steps above on YouTube:
https://youtu.be/9dRCrC2VTC0

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