Bybel Legkaart

Friday, 6 September 2019

Bible Journaling: Leviticus 24

Leviticus 24 starts off with a passage about the use of pure oil and holy bread in the tabernacle service, reiterating the fact that God is a holy God. Then the chapter moves into a series of punishments for various offences. A number of these punishments take the form of capital punishment. I decided to keep the journaling for this chapter very muted in shades of black and grey. I then added a little bit of rose gold colour to the stamping, with die cut elements. I did not wish to detract from the seriousness of the message contained in this chapter.

Leviticus 24 looks like this in the Inspire Praise Bible.

I prepare the pages with Dala Clear Acrylic Gesso.

The pages look like this when dry.

I use watercolours to paint the background a light shade of grey.

I have to wait for the paint to dry, but my pages then look like this.

I use these alphabet Mini Dies by X-Cut to cut the words Capital Punishment.

Some letters will need to be run through again as I need more of them.

I run the letters through the Go Cut & Emboss Machine.

They come out looking like this.

These are the letters I need to run through a second time.

I also cut the letters from rose gold cardboard.

The full sets of letters look like this.

I use Dala craft glue to stick down the shadow letters.

I then use the same glue to stick down the decorative letters off-centre from the shadow letters.

I select some Mini Dies by Couture Creations to use on the page.

These are also run through the Go Cut & Emboss machine in rose gold cardboard.

I glue the die cuts to the Bible with Dala Craft Glue.

I use this set of stamps by Clear Stamps, along with VersaMagic ink in Midnight Black.

I use a Chiswick mount to stamp with.

The completed pages in my Bible.

You can watch a short compilation video of the steps above on YouTube:
https://youtu.be/hUyK02oJ-GI

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Thursday, 5 September 2019

Bible Journaling - Leviticus 23

Leviticus 23 deals with the feasts that God had appointed to be held. I opted to keep these pages very simple. I stamped the backgrounds with my Ink Stains in Christmas Colours, to link the festivals to the Christian calendar. Then I simply used stamps to embellish the borders of the pages, attempting to link the stamps to the various festivals mentioned in the chapter.

Leviticus 23 looks like this in the Inspire Praise Bible.

I prepare the pages with Dala Clear Acrylic Gesso.

Once the gesso is dry, the pages look like this.

I will be using the Tim Holtz Distress Stains on the background. These come with a sponge dauber in the top.

I dot the background in the stains.

Then I daub the pages with a serviette to tone the bright colours down.

My pages look like this when I'm done.

I now use this set of Clear Stamps with a VersaMagic stamp pad in Midnight Black.

I will also be using these stamps by Creative talents.

Here is another stamp set I will be making use of.

And I will also be using this stamp set by Chiswick.

Another stamp set I will be using, is this one by K-Craft.

I stamp the images to indicate festivities, the Sabbath, Passover and the Festival of Unleavened Bread, Celebration of the First Harvest, Festival of the Harvest, Festival of the Trumpets, the Day of Atonement, and the Festival of the Shelters.

My candles appeared to frail when compared to the other stamps and I decided to colour these stamps. I used TouchWood markers to colour the stamped image with.

The completed layout.

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

Wednesday, 4 September 2019

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