The new Illustrated Faith Bible just hit the shelves this week and I was so excited to put it to the test that I created five videos demonstrating multiple mediums on it. I hope each of these tests helps you decide if the Illustrating Bible is right for you. If you want to jump directly to the review, just scroll to the bottom of this post.

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Important Note

Please test your own supplies on the pages in the back of your Illustrated Faith Bible before using them. My supplies may be more or less inky-er than yours. These tests were not performed in a lab and supplies vary so use this information at your own risk.

I didn’t use gesso in these tests. When in doubt, you should use gesso if you are concerned about bleed-through in your Illustrated Faith Bible.

Illustrated Faith Bible – Stamping Ink Tests

Results of the test:

All inks show ghosting on the opposite side of the page.

Best Performing

  • Illustrated Faith Pigment – No Bleed-through in the Bible during testing
  • Stazon Solvent Ink – No Bleed-through in the Bible during testing
  • Ranger Archival Ink – No Bleed-through in the Bible during testing
  • Stampin Up Ink – No Bleed-through in the Bible during testing
  • Versa Magic Chalking Ink – No Bleed-through in the Bible during testing
  • Friskars Water-based Ink – No Bleed-through in the Bible during testing

Worst Performing Either bleeds through or heavy ghosting

  • Hero Arts Ombre – Mega Bleed-through
  • Momento Dye-based Ink – Minimal Bleed-through
  • Distress Ink – Minimal Bleed-through
  • Distress Oxide Ink – Minimal Bleed-through
  • ColorBox Pigment Ink – No Bleed-through

Illustrated Faith Bible – Acrylics, Inks, and Sprays Tests

Results of the test:

Acrylic Paints

  • Golden Heavy Body Paints – No Bleed-through in the Bible during testing
  • Illustrated Faith Paints – No Bleed-through in the Bible during testing
  • Blick Paints – No Bleed-through in the Bible during testing
  • Artist Loft – No Bleed-through in the Bible during testing

Fluid Acrylic Paints

  • FW Fluid – No Bleed-through in the Bible during testing
  • Golden Fluid – No Bleed-through in the Bible during testing
  • Testers Air Brush Paint – No Bleed-through in the Bible during testing

Other Inks That Bled Through

  • Bombay – Yes, it bleeds
  • Distress Spray – Yes, it bleeds
  • Distress Stain – Yes, it bleeds
  • Dylusions Spray – Yes, it bleeds

Illustrated Faith Bible – Watercolors Tests

Results of the test:

Watercolor Pencils

  • Prisma Color Premiere – No Bleed-through during testing
  • Faber Castell – Minimal Bleed-through during testing
  • Liberty – No Bleed-through during testing
  • Derwent – No Bleed-through on the words but yes when heavily applied
  • Marvy ColorIn – No Bleed-through on the words but yes when heavily applied

Crayons

  • Distress – No Bleed-through during testing
  • Neocolor 2 – No Bleed-through during testing
  • Recollection -No Bleed-through during testing
  • Dina Wakely – Minimal bleed-through
  • Gelatos – Minimal bleed-through

Watercolors

  • Windsor – No Bleed-through during testing
  • Illustrated Faith– No Bleed-through during testing
  • Jane Davenport- No Bleed-through during testing
  • Kurtake- No Bleed-through during testing
  • Crayola – Yes it bled through the Bible

Illustrated Faith Bible – Markers Tests

Results of the test:

Best Performing Pens – No Ghosting or Minimal Ghosting

  • Illustrated Faith Fine Liner – No Bleed-through/No Ghosting
  • Faber-Castell Pitt Pens Fine Liners – No Bleed-through/No Ghosting
  • Pigma Micron Pen 08 & 05- No Bleed-through/No Ghosting
  • Pilot Frixion Pen – No Bleed-though (but not archival)
  • Lolliz Gel Pen
  • Generic Ball Point – No Bleed-through/No Ghosting

Good Performing Pens – No Bleed-through, but some ghosting

  • Jot Washable Markers – No Bleed-through
  • Creative Devotion by AC Moore – No Bleed-through
  • Stamping Up – No Bleed-through
  • Posca Paint Pen – No Bleed-through
  • Pilot Varsity Pen – Minimal Bleed-through
  • Generic from Hobby Lobby – No Bleed-though
  • Fude Ball Pen – No Bleed-though
  • Foray Style Marker Pen – No Bleed-through
  • Generic Ball Point Pen – No Bleed-through
  • Mermaid Markers – No Bleed-through
  • Fabrico Pen – No Bleed-through
  • Distress Pen – No Bleed-through
  • Galaxy Markers by American Crafts – No Bleed-through
  • Inc Scented Gel Pens – No Bleed-through – hardly any ghosting
  • Veritaz Gel Pens – No Bleed-through
  • Sakura Gelly Roll Pen – No Bleed-through
  • Faber-Castell Big Brush – No Bleed-through
  • Faber-Castell Brush – No Bleed-through
  • K & Company – No Bleed-through/Minimal Ghosting
  • Inkadinkado – No Bleed-through
  • Arteza Pens – Minimal Bleed-through

Mega Bleed-through

  • Permanent Markers
  • Jot Permanent Markers – Yes it Bleeds-through
  • Higgins India Ink Pen – Lots of Bleed-through
  • Sharpie Permanent Marker – Yes it Bleeds-through
  • Copic Alcohol Markers- Lots of Bleed-through
  • Spectrum Alcohol Markers- Lots of Bleed-through
  • Chameleon Alcohol Markers – Lots of Bleed-through
  • Crayola Markers – Some Bleed-through
  • Faber Castell Duo Tip – Some Bleed-through

Illustrated Faith Bible Review

Here’s my review of the Illustrated Faith Bible.

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