What to write in a bible for a gift
Give the Gift of Bible Journaling
hi there my name is sandy Olenick I'm an
artist and paper crafter here on YouTube
and I want to talk a little about giving
the gift of Bible journaling christmas
is coming or if you're watching this at
another time then
Easter might be on the way and sharing
your passion for Bible journaling might
be a great gift to give to someone the
inspire Bible is usually a really good
place to start especially for people who
aren't artistic don't consider
themselves artistic but they'd like to
color something in because these Bibles
have art down the sides and they have
just scriptures written out and pictures
going with them so you can just color
them in study the scriptures on the page
beforehand so you have something to
meditate on while you do the coloring
you can do crazy backgrounds and all
sorts of Bible journaling techniques or
you can just stay simple and color in
the images that are provided the one I'm
flipping through right now is the
regular version of the inspire Bible it
has a bunch of different color colors of
covers available some with flowers some
plain colors this one is the large print
version of the same Bible inspired Bible
and thank you to the publisher for
sending it to me so I could share it
with you a lot of people have asked if
there is a large print version and there
is links in the doobly-doo to all of
things mentioned in this video but the
pictures are blown up as well as the
words on the page blown up so it's not
as though everything's rerun like the
text is not re flowed to make make it
fit for this it's just basically blowing
up the entire thing and what I'm going
to do is compare a particular spread and
then I'm going to color this picture in
the large print version but I'm going to
compare it to the one in the regular
print version and you can see how much
easier it's going to be to do that
lettering in the large print version
rather than the small and there's also a
significant difference in the text size
so for those whose eyes are aging like
mine you may find the large print
version to be easier the pagination is
also the same so the way that that could
be helpful if you want to get one
version for you and one version for
someone who is a person you'd like to
gift from a distance say your
grandmother
or your grandchild you want to get them
comparable version study the Scriptures
together talk about it email about it
Facebook about it and share your artwork
that you do from each one in the
scriptures it's a way that you can say
on page 372 is this picture that I'm
working on and here's what the scripture
says and this is what God told me about
it so you can study along with someone
else by just using the same page numbers
I recommend getting some watercolor
pencils or I'm using inktense pencils to
go along with the Bible gift because
that's going to help them get started
and the reason I almost recommend
watercolor pencils or inktense pencils
over regular ones is that they can be
used as regular pencils so I could just
color them as I'm doing right here and
leave the pencil as it is I don't have
to actually do any of the water coloring
but you have the option when you have a
watercolor pencil there's a set of
twelve inktense pencils that has a
really good set of basic colors that
would help somebody new at this totally
get started and be happy with that color
selection and on my blog is a little
swatch card of the colors that are
available in that set of twelve if you
want to see kind of what those colors
are so I'm just scribbling the color in
here and filling it in in sort of
general ways I'm not being real careful
with it I'm not worried about making
everything blendy blendy putting a few
colors in more concentration in some
darker areas but really I'm just
layering different colors over so it can
feel almost like a fall harvest time
scene I could take a brush a wet brush
and kind of wash over all that to blend
it but what I want to show you is a
different way to do it that won't add as
much water to the page which means it
won't get as wrinkly crinkly which is
using a baby wipe I've wrapped it around
my finger so that I can kind of push
that color using my finger right along
with the baby wipe and while it has the
green on it I'm going to do all the
darker green parts and just swish the
pencil around look how quickly that
covers a large area and then I'll change
it up if I'm going to switch to an area
that has more yellow in it with the tops
of all of the field has
yellow and I can just smoosh across it
really easily this will not only not be
as wrinkly it'll also dry quicker so you
can go back in and do some more work
there's some scrolling things in the
corner that I'm gonna go in with an
orange pencil and work on and it just
gives you some different options to use
the baby wipe instead of the brush but
you can also give the person a brush to
go along with their set of pencils here
with each of the words that are in this
I'm going to do a two-tone coloring so
I'm going to put one color on the top
one color on the bottom and fill that in
with the pencil it doesn't even have to
be perfect with the pencil because when
I move that pigment around with a brush
it's going to blend them nicely and you
can see how nicely these silver brushes
point this isn't number six and I think
if you're just looking to get one brush
to go with some Bible journaling and
number six would be a good size
especially for this large print version
you might want to go a little smaller if
you're going to do this small print
version or the regular print but I have
done it with a number six you just have
to be a little more careful these
brushes points so well they get such a
nice fine point on them that you can do
a lot of fine detail with them after all
this was dry I was able to go back in
and do another layer of color to
intensify color in certain areas you
certainly don't have to do that but you
just wait until it's completely dry and
then you can do another layer over top
and so I'm just gonna add some dark
colors in some of the deepest shadow
areas to increase the contrast in my
picture and I'm just kind of scribbling
in between some of them I'm using the
shadows that the artists already put
into the picture
to follow along and throw some color in
is kind of scribbling it and being real
real loose with it and then when I take
my brush to it I can just move it around
and I'm always careful when I do my
Bible generally not to use a super wet
brush it's kind of more of a damp brush
wipe the brush off on your fingers or on
a paper towel or something so that
you're not putting a ton of moisture
down but you do end up with a little bit
of wrinkly crinkly Ness sometimes even
with these careful techniques but if you
want to flatten it out a little bit more
just
sheet of computer paper above and below
and I'm gonna apologize for my crazy
camera focusing I didn't realize it was
gonna do this weird focusing thing but
just iron over top of it you can see how
quickly I'm ironing it's set on its
highest setting pull my papers out and
it's done is I know it's out of focus
but it is much flatter than it was if
you're using anything with acrylic or
with a metallic in it then don't do this
technique because the heat will melt
them and then I'll stick to your paper I
often get asked what's my favorite Bible
because the inspire Bible is not my
favorite because I'm an artist and I
like to create my own things so I'm
going to show you my very favorite Bible
it's an expensive one so if you have
somebody who really is going to put
their heart and soul into it this is an
excellent option it's got this beautiful
leather cover on the front and this
isn't a trans this one particular what
it's into translation that I love and I
would recommend that you focus on what
translation you want to read the
scriptures in not only whether or not
they have the right kind of other
elements in it but this one is my my
Study Bible it's the translation that I
love the best and love to work with the
most and now that I've perfected I
shouldn't say perfected I've done a lot
of learning about my techniques in my
other Bibles I also have those other
Bibles to use as testing to try a
different medium try different colors
and different applications as well as I
have those translations now to study and
I can see how one version translates a
verse compared to another so it's a
great library of resources as well as
lots of places to practice things and in
this Bible this is just the one that I'm
going to be using more on going more
long-term for myself because I love this
leather cover on it so much now one of
the other Bibles that I like a lot and
if you know somebody you're going to
give this to who's really an artist and
they really have some skills then the in
the interleave bible is a good one to go
with because this has a blank page in
between every page of scriptures so you
have lots of room to do your artwork
without interfering with but you can
also interfere with the
texts so you can interact with it or not
interact with it you can just do one
page or you can do the full spread now I
would recommend if you're going to gift
a Bible to someone and get them started
in Bible journaling that you do a page
or two in their Bible maybe on your
favorite verses so that when they get it
they have some sort of an idea where to
begin so on this one this is watercolor
pencils I might do that on my favorite
verse to share with them what the
possibilities are for when they start
creating so here's a couple more Bible
journaling videos if you're interested
in those there is a link in the
doobly-doo to my Bible journaling class
online it's an inexpensive walkthrough
of mediums and how they work and what
bleeds through and what doesn't and how
I went through my testing process so you
can do the same as you embark on your
Bible journaling adventure okay I will
see you guys later take care and have an
awesome day
