 Well, hi there! I'm Sandy Almok and today I'm going to show you a little Copic Bible journaling that made it into my Bible recently. I haven't done any Bible journaling on this channel in a while. I do have another channel just for my Bible journaling, but I have this stamp set from the Colorado Craft Company and I was trying to figure out how to get this to fit in where the verse is that I wanted to do and it wasn't going to fit because the stamp is too wide. The verse is too wide as well as the image. So I decided to do something crazy and I took a piece of Neenah cardstock and I'm going to stamp on that. I cut it to the exact size of my Bible and round it to the corner since my Bible has rounded corners. We'll make sure it fits just perfectly and then I'm going to lay out my stamps and stamp them in whatever ink that you want to use for whatever technique you're going to use. I'm using Lawn Fawn's Jet Black and it's one of my favorite inks for Copic stuff. You want something that's going to be friendly to whatever coloring medium you're going to use. Recently I did another video with Colorado Craft Company stamps and I did what I called sketchy card layouts and did something very similar to this but I'm going to show you how to do it on a whole page. Now if you're not a Bible journaler you could certainly do this on an art journal page. It does not have to be for Bible journaling. This whole technique idea will work for that too but I'm using that other technique as a jumping off point by just creating lines and I'm using a rolling ruler. A lot of people ask where I got that. I think I got it at my local store where they sell children's school supplies I believe. You can probably also get one maybe over at Blick or something because I think they sell pretty much everything like that. I will try to find a link and put it in the doobly-doo if you want one but you can get them real cheap at your local school supply store. Once I've got a whole bunch of lines in there and you know you can put the lines wherever you want and not have to really think about it ahead of time because this is your sketching phase you don't have to actually make any decisions till you get a pen out but I got out some dies and some stamps and just started adding other images to the page and I knew I was going to do some fun coloring on this. It was going to be a fully saturated page as you saw in the sneak peek at the beginning so I used some hearts from the folk hearts die set. I don't even know if it's still available it's really old from Ellen Hudson and I also used some Ellen Hudson flowers the big peony in the bottom left and then the leaf in the upper left and the little flower are from the Mondo hydrangea set because I just wanted some flowers on here some imagery as well. My whole idea for this was to create some sections in which I could do for one some doodling and for two some journaling because when I do my bible journaling I like to write messages in there and I write down things God's doing in my life. I write down things He's told me I write down prayers my commitment to things that He tells me to do and you know okay yes I will do it and that's what I'm trying to create some sections in here where I can put some of that kind of content. So as I'm going in with my pen now this is a Ko-Kik friendly pen if you're using watercolor or something else then by all means use whatever's going to work with that medium and some of the lines I cross over each other some of them I stop short and I'm just creating different sections because I'm going to be able to color in each one of those sections some of them are going to go up higher and some only going to block off smaller sections and with something like the hearts you can decide whether or not your hearts are going to cross over some of the linear areas or if they're going to just be looking like they're on the surface of all of it and you're not going to have any lines go through them and I decided to kind of do a mix over all of this and just have fun with it. The stamps from Colorado Craft Company has as a lot of theirs do I don't know if all others do but a bunch of theirs have people where you just see the bottom of the person which means you don't have to actually color the face to match whatever person is in the scene so if you're a blonde you don't have to worry about coloring blonde hair but if this stamp has you know long hair and you have short hair it's not going to look like you or if the person that you are coloring it for has one kind of haircut and the stamp doesn't then it's not going to match but on something like this when they cut off all the heads it gives you some options that you don't have with some other stamp sets. It does create some challenges though for how you end it and I would recommend going to their Instagram page because they post of course a lot of cards made with them and you can get lots of ideas on how other people handle that and what I've done here is just created a box that that image is in. It's the same thing I did on the sketchy card layout videos I did one for my channel and one for Ellen Hudson's and you can go see those I'll have links to all of that in the doobly-doo as well and stuff on the blog but it kind of gives a frame for it a little place for it to stop instead of feeling like it just trails off into nothingness and what I'm doing with my coloring here my Copic coloring is to create real warm colors in this one section and I do my pajamas I have lots of mixed match pajamas so I have one that has a yellow shirt and purple pants and I colored yellow socks on there so you can color this in any way you want but I wanted all the warm colors in here and all the stuff that has yellow and golden things I'm going to use a little bit of yellow and gold in other areas of the coloring but I'm going to focus them on here because that's the main image that I wanted to have for this page and then I also want to draw attention to the psalm the text of it that's up above so I'm going to use some of that yellow up there too but I just decided I was going to use a bunch of those kind of warm colors down below now I am going to speed this up more because it took me a long time to color this but I thought I'd also talk a little bit about for Bible Journalers out there who probably came to this video very excited that I was using Copics in my Bible there are no Bibles that you can use Copic markers in and the reason for that if you think about it a ream of Nina which is what you would need to color your Copic markers on a ream of Nina's 250 pages and your Bible is what 1000 pages 1500 2000 depending on the size of the font you you would never want to carry around a Bible that's as thick as you would need if you had Copic friendly paper it just ain't going to happen some people have asked if you can use page preps and then use the Copic markers on top of that and I would not do that to your markers it's just dangerous to do that because those are I I don't know if it's a scientific truth but it feels like those page preps are more of a you know just those and things are more of an acrylic they can actually ruin your marker dip I I did try it once just to see and it got a kind of crusty thing going on so I just didn't even want to mess with any of my markers because they're too expensive to do that with but putting a page like this in your Bible and attaching it inside is one way that you can use your Copics and get a really powerful strongly colored image because on Bible paper you're not going to get this kind of really strong image the paper is just really thin and it doesn't handle super heavy color I think the only other medium that you could get this kind of intensity with would be like ph martins watercolors because those come out really strong and really bright but most everything comes out much softer which I don't find to be a problem but some people just really want a lot of color so I am just proceeding with the coloring of this and adding layers and layers of color and doing different fun techniques that I know of in Copic marker coloring if you take in my Copic jumpstart class there's all kinds of fun techniques they're stuck in the hex art class lots of different ways that you can add detail and and lots of fun things to stuff like this I'm doing some reversing out of color by using lighter shades to make blobs of color and then I'm going to use a black pen and a white pen to add a lot more detail and to add some of the text that I wanted to put in some of the sections so you know that that just gives me a world of opportunity to do tons of doodling I mean this was like a five or six hour project I think to do this page so it's not for those who are trying to get anything done quick but it is one way that you can use your Copics in your Bible this however is on this channel rather than on my Bible journaling channel because it is not Bible journaling made simple which is the title of the book that I wrote because this is not even remotely simple it also this technique requires that you have Copic markers and you have all these supplies and you have other stamps and a lot of Biblejournals are just getting started in art at all they have no sense of all of these supplies and I don't want people on that channel to feel like they have to have all this stuff but since I know that a lot of people that watch these videos have all the stuff I gotta give you an idea for how you can use all of that stuff in your Bible journaling too yeah if you even aren't a Copic marker user and you want to do something with watercolor or distressings or something you can do it on any kind of sheet of paper and adhere that into your Bible and tip it into your Bible but you're going to end up with one of the problems that I had which is okay now I've got all of the color coming through the back of this so I put some double stick tape down the B creative tape and glued this onto a sheet of blank paper just I used really thin paper I just used computer paper and then I trimmed it out all the way around it using my trimmer and I did the little corners with my corner chopper again so that I would still have that page now I've got a blank white side so that I can you know do some more writing more journaling on the back of that page or something but at least I don't have to look at all the crazy Copic marker coming through on the other side but if you do other techniques you may have that issue as well so one more strip of the double stick tape that B creative tape it's super sticky so what I do is line up the outside edge exactly where I want it and I hold up that edge with the sticky part on it first get it exactly where I want it and I don't press anything down until I am positive that it's going to be right there because otherwise if you get it in the wrong place you can't get that tape back up but you do end up with a page in your Bible that kind of sticks out like this it doesn't kind of lay down like Bible paper would but for a special page like this it might be worth it to you you might even put this at the beginning or end of your Bible so it doesn't kind of stick up in the middle like this and all I did was then highlight the verse itself opposite of the art page that I did so there you go there's one way that you can use Copics in your Bible now I have one other tidbit for you which is that there is a giveaway I purchased one of these and Amy sent me one of these so I ended up with two sets of this so if you want to go leave a comment on my blog because you can't do giveaways on YouTube leave a comment on my blog and I will pick a winner in a week and send this stamp set out to someone so I hope you win good luck and feel free to share that with your friends so they can enter as well and I'll see you later bye-bye