Tears

This verse has come up several times in my life.
Psalm 56:8 (CEV)
You have kept record
    of my days of wandering.
You have stored my tears
in your bottle
    and counted each of them.

It was prayed over me at a meeting of regional leaders.

And I have used it at various times in art work that I have done.  This was part of a workshop that I did at the Festival of Quilts at the NEC some years ago.

This scrapbook layout was done whilst I was a member of Scrapbooking From the Inside Out.

I really like hidden journaling and this was hidden under the torn papers.

And this my most recent version of the verse using acrylic paint in my art journal.   I wrote with a waterproof pen my feelings about a life event.   I scraped a thin layer of modelling paste through a stencil.  Because I don't clean my stencils the pink ink I had used previously spread onto the teardrops.  I used a thin layer of blue acrylic paint over the whole page painting round the teardrops.  I added another layer of modelling paste and dry brushed the butterscotch acrylic paint over the top.  I used a Thermofax screen and black and white paint to add the grasses.  I printed the verse and coloured the paper with Distress Inks before cutting the words up and gluing them to the page.

This journal page has been chosen for inclusion in a book provisionally called Art Journal Kickstarter to be published at the end of the year.

Do you have a particular Bible verse that crops up on a regular basis?

See you soon
Bernice

Introducing Made

Made 2014 is the second year of a great line up of teacher exploring various themes from a Christian perspective and encouraging a creative response.

To quote the Made website:

Made is an e-course created by Christian creatives for Christian creatives, exploring what it means to be a person who makes things who believes she or he was, in turn, made by God.

It's a 13 week course starting on September 1st.  Registration is now open.  Why not click through to register.  You can see who the Christian Creatives are and find out about the classes.

You will find that I am one of the teachers and here is a sneak peek at a journal in the making for one of my two classes.  I do hope you'll come and join in.

The cost is $80 or around £48.  Just £3.70 per class.  Bargain!

And if you can't wait until September to get started then come and join us in the Made Tribe where journal prompts are posted twice a month - on the 1st & 15th.

See you soon,
Bernice