Our next Bible journaling session has ‘rubber stamping’ as its theme. It will be a departure from my normal style, and it took some time to find suitable stamps to match some verses and themes. When creating, I also chose to break my ‘rule’ of not working over the text areas of the page. I made sure, however, the work I did was transparent and the text still readable:

I found these samples quite tricky to do when restricted to certain stamps and elements. All the text is hand drawn as, with all the inking, tracing printed text was going to be tricky.

What I learnt: don’t use archival ink, it bleeds through the paper. I didn’t gesso the pages as I didn’t want the inks/pencil moving too much, but this may have led to more bleeding that otherwise would have happened through gesso.

Used in these layouts

• NIV Black Journalling Bible with Unlined Margins

• Clock stamp: PSX E-3154 (from year 2000!)
• Music collage stamp: Penny Black 2390L (2002)
• Instrument stamps: Darkroom Door DDRS010 Harmony (2009)
• Jumbo Leaves: Stampendous CRS5052 (undated)
• Cling Baroque Cross: Stampendous CRR190 (2013)
• That’s Crafty!: Textures Stamp Set 2
• Stampers Anonymous/Tim Holtz Mini Blueprints: Bulb CMS150

• Ranger/Tim Holtz Distress Oxides: Pumice Stone / Hickory Smoke
• Ranger/Tim Holtz Distress Inks: Pumice Stone / Hickory Smoke / Black Soot / Shabby Shutters / Fossilized Amber

• Faber-Castell Albrecht Durer Watercolour Pencils

• Posca Pens: PC1MR