Bible Journaling - Leviticus 21 & 22

Leviticus 21 and 22 gives a set of instructions and directives for the priests to follow. It is clear, when reading through these chapters, that these were a group of people set apart from the rest. They were held to a higher standard. Chapter 22 concludes with some additional information regarding offerings and sacrifices, before stating the reason for these instructions:

“You must faithfully keep all my commands by putting them into practice, for I am the Lord. 32 Do not bring shame on my holy name, for I will display my holiness among the people of Israel. I am the Lord who makes you holy. 33 It was I who rescued you from the land of Egypt, that I might be your God. I am the Lord.”

When journaling this page, I use both the Go Foil & Emboss, as well as the Go Cut & Emboss machines.

The pages look like this in the Inspire Praise Bible when I start.

I prepare my pages with Dala Clear Acrylic Gesso.

Once dry, the pages look like this.

I will be using four stamp pads by Ranger Archival Ink, to ink the backgrounds of the pages.

I simply drag the ink pads down the pages, one colour at a time.

I then gather a selection of dies to use on the pages. In the end, not all of these made it onto the pages, though. The dies are by Couture Creations.

I wish to journal the words 'Set Apart' on these pages to illustrate how the priests were to be held to a higher standard than the rest of the nation. I lay my letters on masking tape so that they won't slide around.

The I set the cutting edge of the dies to face the paper I will be cutting out, with a sheet of foil added in between.. This is placed on the metal plate.

I place everything, including some of the butterfly dies, in my Go Foil & Emboss machine. I switch it on to heat up. I use the heat activated foils by Couture Creations for this.

I then transfer everything to my Go Cut & Emboss machine and run it through the machine.

It comes out looking like this.

Finally it looks like this.

My butterflies came out looking like this, but I decided that I liked the foil that was pulled away and meant to be discarded, as much as the actual butterflies. I decided to keep these and to try to use them in my Bible as well.

I used Dala Craft Glue to glue the embellishments to my pages.

I only stuck the bodies of the butterflies down, so that their wings could lift of the page, so one could read underneath it. In a sense, these butterflies then become something akin to tip-ins.

My completed pages.

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

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