TMD: Promises 4

This week's Promise theme is the promise from Jesus that God will send his Holy Spirit.  We tend to think of the dove as a symbol for the Holy Spirit.

For my last week's pages on Promises I did a totally different background.  I had dried off the stencil from last week's page onto this page.  And then I took the dove stencil from His Kingdom Come and put clear gesso through it.  You could put any transparent acrylic medium.

I found 7 Ranger re-inkers that almost match the colours of the rainbow and dropped some of each colour at the top of the page, sprayed water onto the ink and held the book upright so that the ink dripped down the page.  When it was nearly dry I removed some of the ink off the clear gesso with a wet wipe.

I printed out the verses I wanted to use and coloured the paper with Distress Inks.  I cut up the verses and glued them to my page.

I drew a border round the page with a black pen.

I used the rainbow colours because the rainbow is a sign of another promise from God in Genesis 9: "And God said, “This is the sign of the covenant I am making between me and you and every living creature with you, a covenant for all generations to come: I have set my rainbow in the clouds, and it will be the sign of the covenant between me and the earth.  Whenever I bring clouds over the earth and the rainbow appears in the clouds, I will remember my covenant between me and you and all living creatures of every kind. Never again will the waters become a flood to destroy all life. Whenever the rainbow appears in the clouds, I will see it and remember the everlasting covenant between God and all living creatures of every kind on the earth.”

Thank you for stopping by.
Bernice

TMD: Promises 3

I did three of the four backgrounds for my pages this month a few weeks ago and I blogged about them here.

The theme for this month is Promises and in particular this week the promises that God has made us that if we ask for wisdom he will give it to us.

I used the Thermofax screen that was made for my Altered Book class - The Promised Land.  This is the palm branch.  I had stamped the bell and the pomegranate from the stamp set.  Details of the purple and gold are on my previous post.

When I came back to the pages I still thought they were too red so I sprayed the whole page with the Dylusions White Linen Ink.

I have a set of stamps that look like machine stitching so I used three of them to put the border around the page using black Archival ink.

Then I used various letters from my scrapbooking stash to add the verse from James 1.  I wrote the verses from Exodus 31 around the inside of the border. "See, I have chosen Bezalel son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah, and I have filled him with the Spirit of God, with wisdom, with understanding, with knowledge and with all kinds of skills - to make artistic designs for work in gold, silver and bronze, to cut and set stones, to work in wood, and to engage in all kinds of crafts."

The bells and the pomegranates relate to the robes that were to be made for Aaron's priestly robe described in Exodus 28: "Make pomegranates of blue, purple and scarlet yarn around the hem of the robe, with gold bells between them.  The gold bells and the pomegranates are to alternate around the hem of the robe."

Thanks for stopping by.
Bernice

TMD: Promises 2

The theme this month for Take Me Deeper is Promises.  Week 2 is about the promise of forgiveness. 

You will remember that I had prepared my backgrounds earlier.  I used the Olive leaves stamp that I made for my Altered Book class and stamped across the top of the page.

I added white sketchy marks with a white pen.

I used a dove stamp from the God's Aviary range across the bottom and some definition stamps from my stash.  Then I added the words using scrapbooking letters and went round each letter with a black pen.

Thanks for stopping by.
Bernice

TMD: Promises 1

I did three of the four backgrounds for my pages this month a few weeks ago and I blogged about them here.

So now it's time to start using those backgrounds.  The theme for this month is Promises and in particular this week the promises that God has made us to able to live our Christian lives.

I used the Thermofax screens that were made for my Altered Book class - The Promised Land. I printed with white acrylic paint and used a black pen to add some highlights.  Or should they be called lowlights?

I used these images because all that was promised in the Promised Land was all that the people needed to survive.  They were given everything they needed.

When Jesus came, died and rose again, he gave us everything we needed.

Thanks for stopping by.
Bernice