Scripture Scrapbooks

Hi Everyone!

Thought I would share a little bit about a fun little project my daughter and I have started on.  It is our "Scripture Scrapbooks!"  I confess--like most of my best ideas, this one was not original with me.  But in my opinion, the next best thing to HAVING a great idea yourself is RECOGNIZING someone else's great idea and doing it! ;)  Thanks to Pinterest, I had occasionally seen a nice illustrated Bible verse.  Then a friend of mine did several pages of verses scrapbook style, and I just loved them! 

So with coupons in hand, my daughter and I headed out to our nearest JoAnn's store.  I liked the 

smaller 8" x 8" size book, because it didn't feel like it would be as difficult to "fill" each of the pages with illustrations--and I am NOT the most creative person out there!  My daughter and I both choose the same light purple color for our books.  I liked the purple because it represented royalty in the Bible--and Scripture verses are special messages from the King of Kings to us.  That makes it royalty in my book--the highest kind of royalty!

My local Christian book store sells these little prints of Jesus knocking at your door.  I LOVE this print--most likely because my mom has this in a large wall picture, and it has been hanging in her house ever since I can remember as a little girl.  It is in one of those deep frames, the kind with a light you can turn on above the picture.  When I was a child, I was in awe of this picture.  Guess I still am, and truly, how awe-inspiring is it that King Jesus would even want to come to MY house to see ME?!  Anyway, so I purchased this little tiny print to go in my Scripture Scrapbook and put it on the first page.  It reminds me here how Jesus wants to be with me.

I copied this idea from my friend's scrapbook.  I love the book of Isaiah!  If you have been around this blog for any length of time, you already know that!  I recently finished memorizing Isaiah chapter 55, and really want to make a page or two illustrating a couple of those verses.  Sounds like a trip to JoAnn's to find some special scrapbook paper to me! ;)

One day we had a little "a-hem," problem in our house with our words.  A small "mother lecture" just bubbled up to the surface and spilled out quite before I could stop it.  This page was my illustration for that lecture.  A little reminder for my children (yes, it's good for me as well!) that their mouth is speaking whatever is in their heart--so they need to keep their thoughts sweet and kind. as God would want them to.

This is my most recent page--just made today as I stayed home with my sick daughter.  In a week or two I will be starting on my next whole chapter memory project--only my second one ever, so I was looking at John 15 today and trying to get a little mentally prepared for it.  This well known verse is from that chapter, and the easy idea for illustrating it just popped into my head.  Not super unique or creative, but it's really good for me and it was fun besides!  And on top of all that, it was a good way to meditate on that verse just a bit! ;)

I have told my daughter that I would like her to memorize John 15 with me.  While she moaned a bit, I have no doubt that she will learn it better and faster than I will!  It will simply be part of our home school assignments, and this way we can quiz each other on the verses.  Built in study partner--works for me! ;)  Anyway, when she saw what I was doing in my Scripture Scrapbook, she illustrated John 15: 5 & 6.  It's hard to see in the photo, but she drew grape vines with little leaves all the way around her page and put grape clusters in each of the four corners.  She has many more verses in her scrapbook that I do not have pictures of at this time--will try and share more as I have a change to.

And there you have it--our Scripture Scrapbooks!  I am no artist by any means--but God doesn't require that of me.  But He does ask me to meditate on His Word, and to hide it in my heart, and I have found this to be a fun way to help do that.  Hope it has given you some ideas for having fun with Scripture verses!

~Susan