Bookmarks to Give Away

These are new bookmarks for The Bookmark Project, which just means that I leave them in library books when I return them.

First, I dry-brushed watercolor across two sheets of white cardstock, and then cut each piece into 5 strips.

I did the calligraphy using mostly felt markers as ink tends to bleed on cardstock.

Silly Scraps Saturday

Inspired by this, at Peony and Parakeet, I decided to try my own version.  Paivi demonstrated a simple loop pattern in her tutorial, but I used the alphabet.

Script on Watercolor

 Next, I added the brighter marker:

And finally, the pattern in white:

Letters from Paul

Paul wrote encouraging letters to his churches; these are quotes from his letters to churches in Ephesus and Galatia.  Both of these were in the area that we now call Turkey.

Psalms

Watercolor with a dip pen

The Psalms are a wonderful source of uplifting quotations.  It is wonderful to put your hope in something unchanging.

Thirty Days of Bible Lettering

30 Days of Biblical Lettering

 

Stamp by Just for Fun

 

This Weaver Writing is done with PITT Artist Pens.  I added stamps to jazz up the pages a bit.

 

 

Stamp by Fiskars



30 Days of Biblical Lettering

 

PITT Artist Pen

 

These two are done with brush pens.  The hand is called "Weaver Writing".