Bible Journaling

Category: Bible Journaling

19
May
2016

Bible Journaling: Strength of My Heart

categories: Bible Journaling, Christian Thoughts, Illustrated Faith

Hello, friends thanks for stopping by to see what I’m up to today! Recently, I’ve begun incorporating my Bible reading and journaling into my planner in an effort to remind and encourage me to crack open my journaling Bible on a regular basis.

For the upcoming week I am ping ponging between the old and new testaments. For the purposes of this post, I went ahead and wrote out the verse plan as well as creating the art in my journaling Bible for Monday, May 30th. I really like using the daily pages for my Bible journaling lesson. This allows me to meditate on the verse as well as thinking about what visual images I want to use.

“My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.”
~Pslam 73:26

In the upper box I wrote out the complete verse along with a few of the cross reference verse themes and phrases. I used the small box on the right for the noted cross reference verses. As I meditated on Psalm 73:26 a few key words popped out to me and I noted those in the lower box on the right: flesh, heart, fail, God, strength (rock, Hebrew), and portion. I used the morning/afternoon/evening boxes to divide up the verse for memorization.

As I began to think about what imagery I might use, rock came to the forefront (strength is rock in the original Hebrew). I have always thought of this verse as a morning prayer … hence the sun rising over the rock. I love incorporating stamping into my Bible journaling so I added a few from a couple of the Illustrated Faith stamp sets.

Thank you for sharing some of your time with me today. Until next time, remember, creativity and imperfection live together in all we do. “Grace is the face love wears when it meets imperfection.”

~xoxo
Beanie

Supplies Used
Journaling Bibles
Illustrated Faith: Names of God Stamps
Prismacolor Colored Pencils

06
Apr
2016

Created Workshop

categories: Bible Journaling, Illustrated Faith

I was blessed to attend a Bible journaling event down in Federal Way over the April 2nd weekend. It was sponsored by Illustrated Faith’s Shanna Noel and The Reset Girl Cori Spieker. There were two “workshops”, one taught by Cori going over how to create a Faith planner and the other by Shanna on Bible journaling.

Each participant received a giant tote filled with so many goodies from the event sponsors (Illustrated Faith and The Reset Girl) along with products from other companies.

It was an amazing day of sunshine, inspiration, and friendship. I ended up sharing a table with Sandy Allnock and spent the day “oohing and ahhing” over her work … she is so talented. While it was a wee bit daunting sitting next to her, she is also so kind and gracious I really enjoyed spending the day with her. This is one of the pages Sandy worked on in her Bible. The below picture is of her watercoloring the 12×12 sheet that was in our swag bag.

I did manage to work on two pages in my Bible and since I’ve done a few additional pages (2nd row of images), but really I’m just getting started. Below are a few pictures of what I worked on that day, which was beyond amazing. So many of the participants had such beautiful stories and artwork to share with the group – I cherished every minute!

I don’t know if I will end up creating a faith planner, to be honest I’m not sure I’m a planner person, but I am having a blast creating art in my Bible. Until next time, remember creativity and imperfection live together in all we do. “Grace is the face love wears when it meets imperfection.”

~xoxo
Beanie

31
Mar
2016

categories: Artful Pursuits, Bible Journaling, Christian Thoughts, Illustrated Faith

Good morning friends! I hope you are well and enjoying the steady march toward spring and summer. I cannot believe that March is over (after today) the time is flying by so quickly. Today I want to share my newest creative undertaking: Bible journaling.

Maybe you already know about this new creative medium, but I thought I would share what I’ve learned in case the idea of drawing in your Bible was a foreign concept. Like most kids raised in the Bible belt I was taught that the Bible was sacred, precious, and most importantly not to be altered. As I’ve grown in my faith my understanding about what the Bible is and isn’t has changed. One thing that I no longer believe is that the Bible should remain unaltered, hence my interest in Bible jorunaling. I am always looking for ways to make my faith more personal and Bible journaling allows me to take my interactions with the Word to a whole new place. A good place where I am able to celebrate the joy of the Word visually.

I was able to snag a newly released journaling Bible by Tyndale (NLT). Not only does it have 2″ wide margins on each page for my journaling and artistic musings, it contains artwork just waiting to be colored. Filled with beautiful imagery and graphics, this Bible is a wonderful way to dive into Bible journaling.

The neat thing is crafty companies are jumping on board, creating journaling Bibles and other tools to help us achieve a new understanding and relationship with the Word. Here are a few of the companies selling journaling Bibles and other supplies:

DaySpring: Illustrated Faith by Shanna Noel
Lifeway: Journaling Bibles
Scrapbook.com (selling Illustrated Faith products)

There are also a lot of classes forming. I will be writing a post over the weekend after I attend the “Created” workshop with Cori Spieker and Shanna Noel down in Federal Way. I can’t wait to dive into Bible journaling fully. I am excited to see where the Word takes me and my mixed media tools.

Until next time, remember creativity and imperfection live together in all we do. “Grace is the face love wears when it meets imperfection.”

~xoxo
Beanie