I was trying to decide how I wanted to start this in my own Journal the Word Bible so I thought I'd share a few tips on how I got started (just this morning). I started by sitting and looking through my own stamp sets and some online stamp sets to see what I had that could be used for this purpose and made a list with the help of some ladies on the Papertrey Ink Forum, including Dawn McVey. She started this a while back and it was actually the bible she recommended that I chose for my project. At least half of my stamp sets have a flower, a flourish, a word or phrase that can be used to accent the pages of our bibles in such a lovely way. This is the list I started with and these are all Papertrey Ink Stamp Sets and a few dies as well:
| 2016 Anniversary Set (Prayers) |
| All Booked Up |
| Alphabet Dies |
| Alphabet Stamps for creating your own words. |
| Beautiful Berries: Spring |
| Beautiful Blessings |
| Beautiful Blessings (contains Bible verses and some other sentiments that would work with Bible journaling) |
| Beautiful Blessings: Holiday |
| Bitty Butterflies |
| Bold Blossoms |
| Book Club |
| Brushed Blooms |
| Brushed Off |
| Butterfly Hope |
| Cheerful Heart |
| Choose Joy |
| Christmas Blessings |
| Christmas Faith |
| Counting my Blessings |
| Courage and Kindness |
| Easter Alleluias |
| Embroidered Blooms |
| Enclosed Wreath Mini |
| Enclosed: Bell (Joy) |
| Enclosed: Butterfly Mini |
| Everyday Blessings |
| Faith & Hope (Vault) |
| Fancy Pants Holiday |
| Feather Finery |
| Festival of Lights |
| Friendly Flowers |
| Give Thanks |
| God appears near mountains or in clouds. |
| Graceful Greetings |
| Graceful Greetings II |
| Gratitude Journal (Vault) |
| Guiding Light and/or Lighten Up - for verses on light |
| Happiest of Holidays (Silent Night-Holy Night Stamp) |
| Harvest Berries |
| Heart Dies |
| Heart Prints |
| Heart Prints Sentiments |
| Heavenly Medley (Vault) |
| Inside and Out Holiday Stamps |
| Inspired: Blessed |
| Inspired: Faith |
| Inspired: God |
| Inspired: Grace |
| Inspired: Hope |
| Inspired: Jesus |
| Inspired: Lord |
| Inspired: Love |
| Inspired: Mercy |
| Inspired: Praise |
| Inspired: Prayer |
| Inspired: Savior |
| Jingle All The Way |
| Light of Life |
| Lock & Key (Vault) |
| Love and Marriage |
| Love Lives Here |
| Love Lives Here: Holiday |
| Make It Market Mini Kit: Sunshine and Rainbows |
| Meadow Greens |
| Move Mountains Mini |
| Mum's the Word |
| Nativity Silhouettes & Additions |
| New Every Morning |
| Oh Holy Night (has some great Christmas verses!) |
| One Big Happy |
| One Liners |
| Painted Poinsettias |
| Paper Clippings: Done in Love |
| Paper Clippings: Joy to the World Stamp Set |
| Paper Clippings: Love Story |
| Paper Clippings: Thankful For You Details |
| Paper Clippings: Thankful For You Stamp Set |
| Peaceful Pinecones |
| Phrases and Praises |
| Season's Greetings |
| Snowflake Serenade |
| Some Like it Hot |
| Sparkle & Shine |
| Splits: With Love |
| Spring Woods |
| Spruce & Sprigs |
| Stacked Statements |
| Stained Glass (Vault) |
| Stamp sets with Hearts |
| Star of Wonder |
| Stitched Sentiments |
| Stylish Sentiments |
| Stylized Autumn |
| Think of different stories and pull elements, e.g. rainbow, apple, tree, whale, anchor, house. |
| Thrill of Hope |
| Tulip Time (New Beginnings) |
| Walk by Faith |
| Walk by Faith |
| Wet Paint Holiday |
| What the Doodle: Waves |
| Winter Village |
| Winter Woods |
| Wonderful Words Dies and Stamps |
| Wonderful Words Dies: Joy |
| Year of Flowers Collection |
| Year of Psalms |
| You Are a Masterpiece |
I'm still looking at my sets but once you start doing this, it becomes easier to see what you can do with what you have. There are also some obvious choices such as Papertrey's "Inspired" series designed by Betsy Veldman and her new series called "Year of Psalms". I'd recommend that you just sit down to see what you can use. I use an indexing system to store all of my stamp sets, so I just grabbed my Papertrey bin and started looking. I will look through my other sets, as time allows, but I have a lot to get me started.
To actually decide on the place where I started, I chose a few favorites and started there. One of my absolute favorite verses is Psalm Nineteen - Verse One: The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands. When I see a star filled sky or a perfect blue sky with fluffy little clouds drifting by, this verse comes to mind and I think it will even more now that I've begun Bible Journaling and Stamping. For this page, I used WPLUS9's Lucky Stars Stamp Set.
There are still a few kinks to work out. Which type of ink is the best is one of those kinks given the fact that bible pages are so much thinner than regular book pages. So far I've tried dye and pigment inks and I prefer the pigment inks but it will be important to use fast-drying formulas for this. I chose this style of Bible because it has a single column of text toward the inside of the page and lightly ruled outside columns. This gives you a place to stamp or to write in your thoughts as you reflect on what you've read.
Another one of the things I did was to mark the two prayers taught to me by my Great Grandmother. If there's a story or passage or particular chapter of the bible that you like, start there. You definitely need to put a piece of scrap paper behind what you've stamped to prevent bleed through to other pages. And you also need to let whatever you have stamped dry fully before you move on to another page or close your bible.
Not everyone likes to write, so this isn't something that will be everyone's cup of tea. I was pretty sure it was for me, so I'm happy I took the plunge. I hope you enjoyed the few tips I've given to get started and I hope to have more insights for those who are interested in the future. Have a great week everyone!
Not everyone likes to write, so this isn't something that will be everyone's cup of tea. I was pretty sure it was for me, so I'm happy I took the plunge. I hope you enjoyed the few tips I've given to get started and I hope to have more insights for those who are interested in the future. Have a great week everyone!
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