Faith Crafter Magazine 1 2016 | Page 30

Tutorial - Bible Journaling - Hope Anna is giving some insight on how to prepare the Bible pages before painting them so they become a better base for your artistic work. All the stencils can be found on page 42 and 43 of this magazine. Prepare your page before painting in your Bible with your favorite medium. I have tried a lot of different products and the one I have chosen to use is Liquitex matte gel and Liquitex matte medium. I mixed matte medium and the matte gel medium in a small container until it got the consistency of whipped cream. When my page was dry I painted it and I choose to color it in two blue shades using Dylusions ink spray for its intense color. I poured a small amount of each color into two plastic cups, a little paint goes a long way. I used them to color the page the same way as you paint with watercolors. While the paint was still wet I sprinkled sea salt on top of it, the salt will soak up some color and make lovely marks after it has dried. Let it dry completely before removing the salt, otherwise it will smear. I printed out the Owl, the text frames and cut it out leaving some white around the motifs and colored them with Promarkers. I then glued them on the page and I used white rhinestones pearls between my text frames. 30 Faith Crafter January 2016 www.faithcrafter.com