Take Me Deeper June

I showed you how I made backgrounds for my June Take Me Deeper journal pages.

The theme for June was Family.

Week 1: Why family?
As you know I don't usually put people on my pages but I was very taken with the quote from Kurt Bruner: "We know artists by their most important creations."  It seemed to me that my most important creations were my son Andy and my marriage to Roger so how could I not include this photo!  The beginning of our new family.

Week 2: The Trinity - Our model for family

Week 3: A Father's Love
I downloaded the Father's Love Letter from the internet and stuck it onto my page.  I blended two colours of Distress Ink to make it look part of the page.

Week 4: The Family of God
I printed out the logo of my church because Jubilee is my family.  In June I wrote a poem called Jubilee Jubilate about the 5 culture words of the church - honour, courage, authenticity, passion and family.  This is the family verse.  My friend Bernadette made the digital background for me.

I'm almost caught up with my journal now.  Just 3 weeks of April and then I'll be ready for October's prompts.  I've actually already done all of September.

Thanks for stopping by.
Bernice

TMD backgrounds for June

As I mentioned there was a bit of a hiatus through April, May and June in my Take Me Deeper Journal.

For my June pages I decided to take inspiration from Diane's video Stencil, Spray & Stamp.  Rather than tear the pages to make 3 sections I made 4 sections.

I sprayed through the stencil as Diane instructed but then I turned the stencil over and pressed it onto the left hand page.

The pages look like this as you go through my journal.

Then I stamped through the stencil on the individual pages.  Closed they look like this.

Then I went back to each page and coloured the remainder of the page with Distress Ink.

Now everything is ready for the journaling or verses - whatever I choose to do.  Come back tomorrow to see what I did.

Thanks for stopping by.
Bernice

Take Me Deeper for May

There was a bit of a gap in my Take Me Deeper journal.  I missed 3 weeks of April, and all of May and June.   I thought I would go back and have a bit of a catch up.

May's theme was Sanctuary.  I had done the backgrounds for the pages and blogged about it here.  So using those backgrounds here are my finished pages.

May week 1: Sustainable Living

May week 2: Dwelling in God's Presence

Week 3: Fearfully and Wonderfully Made

Week 4: Rhythms of Grace pt 1
This background was so busy and so black and I was thinking of painting over it but then I found this quote which is actually from Mary's prompt for Week 5 but I thought that the background was so restless and indicated the need for rest.

Week 5: Rhythms of Grace pt 2
Mary's prompt was about living water but my thoughts led to abiding in the vine.

I'm working on the missing pages from June next.

Thanks for stopping by.
Bernice