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

Playing with Birds

Remember I told you about the class I made for His Kingdom Come about Eagles?  My class is one of five in the set called God's Aviary.

This week I decided to start working on Mary's class called Look at the Birds of the Air: Symbolism in the Bible, which can be done as a standalone class.

I haven't started on the Bible study yet but I have started on preparing the Tim Holtz Small Folio.  After I had downloaded Mary's instructions I painted the outside and inside of the folio.   You will notice that I have removed the elastic whilst I painted the board.

Mary used painted papers for her folio but I decided to look through my stash of scrapbooking papers and see what I had that was bird related.

I attached the paper pages to the waterfall hinge - I used mixed media paper rather than watercolour paper because that's what I had.  I cut up the scrapbooking papers and attached them to the mixed media paper.  I used doublesided tape and a gluestick rather than wet glue.  When they were all glued down I inked round the edges of the pages.

For the inside back page I cut a sheet of scrapbook paper to size and then used the HKC Dove stencil and a white pen.

It will fit here.

For the covers I cut paper to size, brushed matte medium all over the cover and pressed the paper onto the cover, then brushed the matte medium over the top to seal the paper.

And did the same thing on the inside cover.

So now I'm ready to fill my book with quotes, verses and pictures.

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