Journaling 101 part3

Today's showing is my artist drawing book. I had started this years ago and had glued in some sayings and things I wanted to save. I decoupaged the cover then, not realizing I would be using it for my study in Ecclesiastes but somehow God worked in a way that it all tied together. I still have lots of room in the book to add to it as I do other studies. By the way, Ecclesiastes is one of my favorite Old Testament books. 

This is the cover. (click on photos to enlarge)

I decoupaged a page from an old encyclopedia. (Later on I will show you what I did with the old books that were too old to salvage)

I added clip art sayings and then smudged things with ink pads.

You just take the ink pad that is pre-inked and rub it across or dab it. You can use a dry brush technique using water based paints the same way, The first layer was just torn paper from tissue to used coffee filters. This give an aged effect.

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First page....

I used water color pencils for the sunburst effect and basically colored in the colors and then dabbed with a damp brush to add strokes fanning out. I used a scanned copy from the Inspire Bible for the title page for Ecclesiastes. I cut out and glued to bottom of water color picture. I wrote out a verse in Ecclesiastes 1 at the top. 

The printed sayings and Scriptures were the ones I added years ago that went along with my study. I glued in clip art and washi tap. The vertical strip on the left is a tip in. There are lots of these type scripture strips online just made to fit the jounaling Bible sides. The tip in is taped using washi tape. Washi tape can be found in any scrapbooking aisle. I find mine at Walmarts, Michaels and Hobby Lobby. There are a lot online as well. 

 These next 2 photos are from a study on Ezekiel. I dry brushed red and blue streaks across the left page and wrote out my Scripture and then glued in clipart around it. I found these cute kits on DaySpring (they no longer carry them) and bought a few on sale. I love them as they have the clip art already cut for you and you only have to glue it in. 

The right side shows Scripture I typed and glued in along with pictures I got from Google Images. I have Corel and can put several photos onto one page so I compiled them and then printed to the tissue paper and glued in using ModgePodge.

On my study of Ezekiel, instead of writing out the Scriptures each time, I added some but mainly just wrote out my thoughts on the Scriptures I was studying at the time. I added the Google Image photos as clip art. The arrow is from colored paper that I cut with a die in my Sizzix machine. The arrows are terrific for pointing out a picture of thoughts I might want as a reminder later on. 

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This is a new lesson showing a yearly planner journal I used instead of as a planner. I love this one and not even sure where I got it. I may have ordered it online or someone gave to me as a gift. 

But this is the cover. 

It came with some cute Bible coloring pages. I love this one as it is a small ring binder and I can punch holes in my own paper or cardstock to add to it as I go along. I basically use this one and another as my main journals. I can take out some sections as it gets too full and then just bind these sections separately as I go along. 

You can see from the above photo that this was a monthly section from the planner. I just glued and wrote over it adding some of the techniques I have shown. Since I began journaling, I have since bought white sticker paper that is plain. They also have clear. I can combine my prints using Corel and then print onto the sticker paper and cut out and have my own sticker. It eliminates having to use glue all the time. I bought my pretty cheap on Amazon in a 100 page pack. 

I added tip-ins and tags. 

This was using a column page from the planner. The word complete was a bought package of letter stickers. The pumpkin looking thing on the top left side is supposed to be an onion. You can see my drawing is not that good but doing journaling is for me to enjoy and learn from my studies not for perfection.

The butterfly is another pattern paper cut with my Szzix.

This is printed cardstock I bought that I punched holes and added. The right side has a narrow cardstock strip added with t Scripture column strip I glued on. It is like another narrow paged added. 

Sometimes to reinforce a lesson, I type out my thoughts and also some of the reading on the lesson itself and then print on plain printer paper and punch holes and add to the notebook.

I add little treasures to the notebook using an envelope cut down to size and punch holes and add to binder. I also add 3D objects by punching hole in one of the card stock pages I've already added and tie on object with ribbon. I label the envelope with Scripture link. 

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Bible Journaling 101 part2

Here are a couple of journaling Bibles I own. One has the blank sides but also some pages have a picture strip to color on your own with colored pencils.

This other is just plain but I probably use it more than the pretty one.

I used this brown journaling Bible teaching some techniques to my class. We did a study on Ecclesiastes. First I showed how to just cut and paste things into the Bible. 

I first rubbed a red rubber stamp pad over the page to give it color. I cut out the scripture that went along with this page in Ecclesiastes. And added some clipart to the top. The strip down the center is washi tape. I also glued a tab at the top. Stick glue works the best for me but I did try the roll on glue strip but could never get it to work well for me. You can use plain glue and then dry the page with a blow dryer. Heat guns are too hot to do this so just word of caution. 

This is more cut and glue clipart. There are tons of clipart for free online. I mainly use google images to find what Scripture I need. The strip in the center is no glued down but is used as a bookmark.

I think my photos are upside down but you get the idea of just cutting out clipart and gluing down. 

The 2nd lesson I taught was to take tissue paper cut to size of printer paper. I also cut freezer paper to same size. I ironed the tissue paper to the freezer paper and then would copy the clip art to the tissue paper side of the stack. Once printed, I carefully peeled off the tissue paper and cut out the printed clipart and using collage medium like ModgePodge Glued them down. I dried with blow dryer. This is shown on the right side of the page. On the left side I showed how to add a tip-in. 

This is the same page with the tip-in folded back. You take a printed cardstock. (I print mine out myself.) and cut to fit to inside page. Using washi tape, you tape the card in at the side. If you ever get magazines with the little cards they stick in that you have to tear out to as they become bothersome. It is the same idea. But the back of the card is blank so allows room for jounaling. Under the tip-in, I have more tissue paper prints glued in. Also the darker blue-green is part of a paper napkin I decoupaged onto the page. Many printed napkins are thin like tissue paper and make great prints to use. 

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In the next lesson, I will show some of my work I did in the drawing pad. I also used the drawing pad when teaching the class. 

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And as always......

BIBLE JOURNALING 101-BARBARA STYLE

Back a year ago, I taught a Bible journaling class at church for the ladies' group. I'm basically going to show some of the things I taught and ideas. The one thing I stressed over and over is that there are no mistakes. Like in any art, you take those mistakes and just change it a little and they become works of art. Same with Bible Journaling. I can draw somewhat and can paint somewhat but basically I try my hand a other things in journaling. To start out there is no right or wrong way to Bible journal. It may be as simple as just underlining and writing in the margins of your Bible or using note books and writing out your thoughts. I started my walk with Christ doing just that. Writing. Since then I've expanded to adding things. I did purchase a journaling Bible that had large margins. They have them with now with everyother page blank. I still am more comfortable using a journal of some kind so I can cut and paste things into the journal. I also tend to scribble at times and never try to focus on my handwriting. 

Ok starting out think about what Bible Journaling is...it is writing and posting pictures of your thoughts as you read and study your Bible...that is all it is...you can write the Scriptures, or paraphrase them. You can draw, paint, glue, ....just whatever comes to mind. Lets start out with what we use for a journal.

Since I like a separate notebook for mine instead of using my Bible itself. Here are some I use.

These are just a composition notebook and an artist drawing pad

These are bought journals. I try to find them on sale and even Dollar Tree has them. Just be on the lookout for them. Also my kids know I like them so I am gifted many

These are some other ideas. An old hymnal. Our church got new ones and I was lucky to snag a few of the old ones. Then other top one is made using my sizzix cutter and greeting cards. I save all my cards just for this. I added plain colored paper for inside. The pink one is one I found with blank recycled paper (brown) inside. The other I did buy on Amazon as I wanted a smaller one. I've since bought a sizzix die to make the cover of one like this. I hope to get a binder next. 

This is my favorite and is the artist drawing pad. I used it in teaching my class along with my journaling Bible. 

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Just a little tidbit here....I use clips and paper clips for mark pages. I tie one ribbon or use washi tape to decorate the clips.

I hope you enjoyed this first in my Bible Journaling 101 series. I plan to show you other books to use for journaling and also show some of my work in mine and try to explain it as I go along. 

COMING SOON......BIBLE JOURNALING TUTORIAL

NEXT POST:

BIBLE JOURNALING-BARBARA STYLE

Around Bowenburg

Much has been going on around the homeplace. We are still staying home mostly. We did make a trip to Hot Springs to Walmarts and Sams. I guess we are turning into preppers though we aren't hoarding and buying food in bulk like MRE, etc. But we do plan to buy what we can in bulk at Sams. With hints coming from the media that we may be facing another round of this plague, we decided we wanted to be more ready. Thankfully the week before the quarantine in March, we had bought paper goods at Sams. We found out then there was a shortage of alcohol and bleach but we found both cheaper at Atwoods and the Dollar store. Now it seems there is going to be a shortage of meats. They are limiting purchase of meat to 1 package per shopper and to tell you that shopping at both stores was an experience. But it must be done.

Well enough of that...on to the photos. 

I've made 14 aprons since March. These will be Christmas presents. I've also made almost 1000 face masks and given away most. Elastic is not available anywhere...even online. so most I've made have ties. 

I made 4 of the cow print fabric. This yellow one has birdhouses on and think I placed the pockets too high.

Egg print

Grape vine and chickens

tomatoes and fall leaves

chickens and fall leaves

birdhouses and scissors

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Both of the younger sons finally got to leave for their hitches on their ships. One is off coast of Mexico and other is in Alaska. The one in Alaska won't be home until autumn. But they came out for a visit. We ate our first outside meal under the patio area.

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Our hawk babies have hatched. I've been trying to get a good photo and so far this is all I've gotten. They are the fuzzy blobs in the center top of the nest.

This shows the momma hawk

There are 2 babies.

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Our garden is finally growing. We have had very cool mornings so it has been slow growing.

Our semi-raised lettuce, spinach and onion bed. The fuzzy plant at the bottom left corner is mint and it never dies but will spread so we try to keep it contained. We have garlic planted with the mint. 

Hubby and the tomato and pepper plants in pots.

Our green peas and corn. The asparagus bed is in bottom right corner of photo. We are going to replant it next spring as it is over 20 years old and not producing like it should. 

This is 2 rosemary bushes. I even cut it back early spring. 

The herb bed. The middle plants are oregano and bottom 2 are sage. The rosemary is on the right. They are all perennials so will 

continue to grow year round. The spots between them have basil and Italian parley which are annuals. I hope to expand this bed later. 

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Since we dug up our iris bed, the only ones I have now are planted beside the driveway. The big bed was just too hard to keep up with us again. I gave all the tubers away to friends and neighbors. But these are the few that bloomed this year.

I was pleased to see the pink one. 

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Our clematis have begun blooming. This first photo is our oldest vine.

This one grows beside our porch

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These bottom 2 photos are from our newer ones and grow on a round trellis in the yard.

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We have had so much trouble growing this rose. I have cut it back every year almost to the ground. It seems to get a type of rose blight. But this year it came back healthy and has bloomed and bloomed. 

O and we did get rid of our comode planters. The weather took a tole on them and they had cracked and broken. We also removed the old washing machine barrels we always planted with faux sweet potato vines. They are just so much trouble to work up each year. 

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We finally did a little pressure washing. 

It looks so much cleaner and nicer.

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Our baby dog Kinzey is now 3 years old. Here are 2 photos...one about a month after we got her and now. She now weighs in at 100 lbs.

She does not like to have her picture taken.

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Well that's all folks.