Stained Glass on Vellum

I just spent Easter with my daughter and her family in San Antionio.  We have been wanting to do Bible journaling together for a long time.  Erica is a Stampin' Up demonstrator and is extremely creative and energetic.  She is braver and more spontaneous than I am, so she was an inspiration to me in many ways.  Here is her blog:

 pinkbuckaroodesign.blogspot.com 

She has a new studio that her hubby created by putting up some walls and adding a lot of Ikea cabinetry. It is very near the hustle and bustle of her family's life which makes it possible to dash in for a few minutes and do a little creative work.

Here are some pics of me with 2 of my granddaughters working on our journals and you can see a piece of Erica's beautiful new studio:

The lesson we are going to do this week in journaling class is Erica's design.  She wanted a stained glass look.  She painted her directly on the Bible page and used Stampin' Up ink with an aqua painter.  It bled through the Bible page, but she did not mind at all. I did mine on vellum with Prang watercolor and outlined with a Micron.  I did the words directly on the Bible margin.

Two Women in the Bible

I've been trying out some cling stamps by Jamie Dougherty at Creating in Faith.  She has created 4 women in the Bible stamps (Ruth, Esther, Mary, and Eve) that  are perfect for the 2" margins in our journaling Bibles.  In the pictures below you can see that I added and enhanced two of them for my journaling class this week. There are students of all abilitites in my class, so I am giving them choices. Most of my students are courageous and sometimes experimental and give my lessons their own spin.  (These stamps are sold all over the Internet.  Just google and they will pop up. I even saw them at Walmart.com.  They were very inexpensive and stamp beautifully.)

The Ruth design is done in Prisma colored pencil (face and hair) and gel pens (clothes and flowers.)  I also shaded with colored pencils over the gel pens and it worked! I first stamped the original design.  Then hand drew the additional parts with a 2H pencil.  My students will be able to trace that part if they want.  I went over the pencil lines with a 01 Micron pen.  After coloring with the gel pens I had to go over some of those lines again.

I stamped the Esther design, added the additions with the 2H pencil, painted all parts with watercolor, went over lines with the 01 Micron.  I added the white dots with a white gel pen.  I went over the roses and the gold with a Stampin' Up Wink of Stella pen.  Warning - the Esther design with the words in the middle is a little too long for the Bible margin.  I don't know what I was thinking.  It will have to be shortened. That one was really a rough drawing to work out the design.