Altered Book

I have no idea where July went.  In June I asked you to come back to find out more about my altered book.  And I have just realised that I didn't do the follow up post.  Sorry about that.  So here it is.

This is a flip through of the whole book.  The book is based on Deuteronomy 8:7-8

And here are some of the individual pages.

I really loved making this book.  I made it as part of a class for His Kingdom Come.

Thanks for stopping by.
Bernice

National Colouring Book Day

Colouring books are the new thing!  And not just for children.  I have seen so many articles on the health benefits of colouring in for adults.  So why not join in?

As regular readers know I helped form the online community His Kingdom Come and we have 3 colouring books available to download from the HKC Shop.

And the team decided that today we would share our coloured pages in honour of National Colouring Book Day.   Shonna started us off with a blog post on the HKC site.

Here are some of my pages:
This is from Shonna's God's Girls Colouring Book.

I coloured it in with Inktense watercolour pencil crayons.

And then went over the colouring with a wet brush.

This is a page from Narda's Creative Call Colouring Book.  She made this to go alongside a Book Study of The Creative Call that I was leading on the HKC site.

I used the Inktense pencils again and used a very, very small brush to wet the colour.

I also coloured a page from Paula's Scripture Snippets colouring book.

I've put together a free colouring sheet for you to download.  It is based on the designs drawn by Shonna for my Altered Books class based on The Promised Land.

I used watercolour paints and gel pens to colour mine:

(The blue lines in the background are from my printer and are not on the download)

 

Thanks for stopping by.
Bernice

TMD: Honour week 5

Take Me Deeper is a weekly Bible Study from His Kingdom Come.  Each month we have a theme and the theme for July was Honour.

I wrote the prompts for this month with the aid of the series Rob Davey brought at Jubilee Church and a talk by Becky Webb on what it means to encounter the Kingdom of God like a child.   You can listen to Rob's Talks here.

Last week's theme was Honouring Others.  This week we are looking at Honouring Ourselves.

I had used the map stencil last week and wiped it off on the pages for this week.

Then I added the bible page and gesso as before.  I journaled on the page.  I turned the journal upside down to write several sentences.   Then I turned the journal 90 degrees and wrote the remaining sentences over the top.

I sprayed some more turquoise ink on the two pages which made the writing run as I hadn't used a waterproof ink pen.   I used a stencil and some pink spray ink to do the page on the right.

I used the vine Thermofax screen again with black and white acrylic paint.  I drew round the letters in the words courage, freedom and grace with an orange pen to highlight them.

I printed out the verse and glued it down.

Thanks for stopping by.
Bernice