Bella Blvd Studio Blog: Bella Blvd & Illustrated Faith

i everyone, Stephanie here today to share one of my latest bible journaling page with you. I feel like it's been a while so I decided to try and make this a good one, sharing lots of my steps along the way and a look into my creative process. I recently attended a woman's conference called reCreate and this verse was on my heart after I heard one of the speakers. Psalms 139:4 says: "I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works, my soul knows it very well."

WOW! Talk about powerful! For me this is such a strong verse, it reminds me that no matter what I think about or how I see myself God made me to be so much more. He made me wonderful!? Most days that's not how I feel, but what a reminder that you and I are made by Him and in Him and He is wonderful. If ever a time I wanted to be guilty by association this would be it haha, I hope you agree!

Let's take a look at where this page started:

I have been noticing pretty flowers all over my Instagram feed covering so many of your pages and it inspired me to try making some of my own. Well right there I ran into trouble, my flowers looked more like pink globs of paint, not the look I was going for at all.

So I grabbed my brushes and headed to YouTube and found THIS video. Problem solved, I now had flowers!

After they were dry I cut them out, because who am I kidding? If I tried to paint these right onto my bible pages the first try I would have made a mess, and probably a big one.

When I got the ones I need cut, I started Laing them out on my page where I thought I'd like them to go. I also thought I'd like to add some leaves cut from patterned paper, but I just didn't like the way they looked.

Once I saw my flowers on the white background I knew that I needed more color, so I decided to use some light mint paint and add in a bit to the center of my page.

After my paint was dried I started playing around with my flowers and decided to use them at the top and bottom of my page instead of on the diagonal. It felt more balanced and put together this way so I just went with it.

My next step was deciding on what I wanted to use for my journaling, I decided to hand paint part of it and use letter stickers from the Genesis kit for the rest. So I waited for my words to dry then cut them out, allowing myself times to practice until I got something I liked verses just going for it right on my page (are you picking up on my fear of commitment yet? Lol).

Next I laid out my words and white letter stickers then decided I I would sneak in some of the new Tiny Text letters in white as well. Once everything was stuck down I decided to sew through my painted words to make sure they were going to stick it out for the long haul.

Here is a close up of my finished page, I added in my journaling strips which on this page is simply the verse I printed out.

When I had my page in my bible I felt like it needed something more so I cut my last two flowers out and glued them down. I finished it off with a few white enamels, stepped back and smiled. I hope it made God smile too, I bet it did!