Scripture Mastery Cards and DIY Holder

Ok, so no one is allowed to tell my sister, but I’ll be packing this ATC case up tonight and sending it to her tomorrow.  She has just started high school, and in my family, that means she will also be starting early morning seminary.

My family and I are members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (Mormons) and early morning seminary is a program in the church where high school students attend a scripture class every morning before school.  As part of the program, every year there are 25 scriptures that are highlighted as “Scripture Mastery”.  The students are encouraged to memorize these scriptures, and each student is given a set of cards that has the scripture and reference, as well as notes on the context and it’s meaning.  I thought it would be a great gift for my sister if I made her a unique set of scripture mastery cards with their own case she could carry to class.

I decorated the front of each card and added the scripture reference to the front somewhere- either printing it or simply writing it.  I prefer printing when I can, because my handwriting is not very reliable- I have a hard time making it look nice and uniform.  However, some of these cards were too thick and packed with embellishments for me to run them through my printer, so hand written it had to be.

The Church has the official scripture mastery cards available to download and print for free, so I printed off the scripture reference part of each card and added it to the back of my ATC’s.

I’ve loved being able to try a wide variety of techniques with these cards, from more simple to lots of layers.  The little details were so fun, like using ink to color the thread on the back of some of my stitched cards, and watching the ink soak through and color the thread on the front, adding a really cool variegated effect.  This project can really be used for all sorts of occasions- famous quotes, favorite books, collections from other artists, business cards, tags, tutorial cards, etc.  The sky is really the limit!!  How would you use this project?
If you’d like my tutorial for the Card case, here is an article I wrote about it for mixedmediaart.net.

Let me know what you think in the comments!  I’m always looking for new ideas and suggestions!