I’ve been having fun doodling and noodling and journaling in my Bible. Some of the pages are more personal than others, but I have no problem sharing some of my stuff, mainly because I feel a responsibility to do so. After all, I get tons of inspiration from Pinterest.
If you’re brand new to Bible Journaling, check out THIS post where I talk a little about some basics. All you really need is a Bible (either a fancy journaling one) or any old Bible and then some art supplies. Yay!
#1 Psalm 139 — For now, I kept this minimalist border around Psalm 139. It’s such an important Psalm, I have a feeling I might want to come back to it and do more over the page. I got the doodle idea from a page of doodle ideas I can’t find anymore. Just a simple pen and colored pencil. NOTE: if you want to watercolor over pen in your journaling bible, make sure you use pigment pens that do not bleed, or that you test them first! I’ve had some runny disasters.
#2 — Job 17:15 Where then is my hope? Who can see my hope? Ok, so this one brings up a point you might want to consider when Bible journaling, which is “Is this going to be a Bible I need to refer back to and look other things up and re-read?” In other words… How do you feel about blacking out words so that you can’t come back and read them again? For me, this journaling Bible is a bible I use exclusively for art and meditation. The meditative value in working on a page like this is enough for me to feel like it’s ok to not be able to read Job 17 again out of this Bible. I’m sure I will read Job 17 again at some point in life, but not out of this Bible, because the words are now illegible under there. I feel confident, though, that every time I flip through and see this, I will remember an important lesson God taught me through the creation of that page. Does that make sense? If you look around for Bible Journaling inspiration you will see that some people choose to keep their work in the margins or make sure not to obscure the text in any way. I don’t have that as a goal…. This was made with oil pastel that was sprayed with a spray fixative (yes, that’s a real word) to keep it from smudging. A note on the fixative in a minute.
3. Exodus 15:11 Who is like you majestic in holiness… awesome in glorious deeds. I was inspired by THIS page in the creation of this one. Ok, so back to the spray fixative. Here’s the thing. It works, but it really muted the colors on this. I’m happy with this page and no longer sad about the fact that the spray made it different, but at first I was super bummed out. Be warned. If you use oil pastels, spraying them so they have a non-smudge and smooth finish has to be weighed against the fact that it mutes the colors a little bit. Great verse, though, right?
4. Ephesians 1 – Did a sermon series on Ephesians this summer. This was me reading through Ephesians 1 the first time… Fun thing about using watercolors is that they bleed to the back of the page (this may not be fun for some people) but I love taking those bleed throughs and turning them in to other things. I’ll show you that next time!
Happy Journaling!
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