Hi Everyone:
Anita here with a bible study journal that I made for my father. He has not been able to go to bible study for various reasons over the last several months and is eager to get started back. I made him this journal so that he could take it with him to make notes. I used the SVG cut file from Lori's shop that is called Pray Hardest and you can find that file
here in Lori's store and
here in the Silhouette Design store. I also used the file called 3 Christian crosses which you can also find
here in Lori's store and
here in the Silhouette Design store. I also used one of Lori's newest Echo Park paper collections called All Boy.
Here is a photo of the materials that I used for making this journal.
I measured the journal cover and it measured 7.5" X 9.75" so I cut my front and back cardstock to that size. I decided that I wanted the spine cover to be 2" wide so I cut that by the 9.75" length as well. I used my Silhouette Cameo to create this project and did resize it once I measured the size that I would have available to decorate on the front of the journal. I resized it to 8.250" X 6.767". I used a wet adhesive on the covers because then I would be able to move the paper around until it was perfect. I then opened the journal and trimmed with small scissors around the rounded edges of the covers.
For the pen I took the end of the pen off and took out the ink shaft. I then measured the length that would be able to be seen when the pen was together. I cut my paper 1" X 3" and rolled it around a paint brush handle. You basically just need to get it started rolling in a circle. I then slid it into the pen shaft, put the ball point ink shaft back into the pen and screwed back on the end cap and my pen was done. I used 2/5" diameter adhesive dots to adhere the pen to the spine of the journal.
I hope that it brings a smile to his face when he sees his new bible study journal.
Hugs,
