September Church Bulletin Board

For September we did our take on sunflowers!  Steve really helped get these done this time and we are sure glad! They aren’t exactly the rolled cones like you have seen other places, ours are a little sloppier! But we think that it was a good thing for this project to have some of the ends of the rolls overlap the next petal.  The assembly went way faster with 4 hands!

The first step was figuring out the sizes of the squares and rolling them. We used a tool from our jewelry supplies to roll them all the same size.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We stapled the petals together at the bottom.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Then we stapled them onto a cardboard circle. This is where 4 hands were very helpful!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Then we used the shredded paper for the centers.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Some lettering and it was ready to go up!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Dino Birthday Card

It was our sweet granddaughter’s birthday this month and she loves dinos! So we decided to make a shaped card for her!

Here are the elements that we cut from Cricut.

 

 

 

 

 

This is the inside of the base.

 

 

 

 

Some people do the shape just on the front side of the card but we like it shape on both front and back.

We wanted it to say Happy Birthday but weren’t sure how to make it fit! We did not want to hand write it! So here are the elements of that before they were put together. We found that the cutting small things out of thin paper results in tears and tears! But there is a cheap solution! We have been using clear contact paper. It is sometimes tricky to peel that off after it is cut but sure saves paper and since the thinner paper is usually you designs and a little more expensive, it is well worth the contact paper!

 

 

 

 

 

Here it is put together.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And here is the finished card! We used the shiny glossy stuff on a few spots, just for fun!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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August Bulletin Board

For the August church bulletin board we decide to do watermelons. We cut them out on the Cricut, so it was super easy and fast!

To make the “seeds” look shiny we used a product called Glossy Accents. It doesn’t take very much but I think it makes a big difference! Thanks to Kaye Vos for turning me onto it!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Flower Pot Finished

Sorry there wasn’t a blog last week.

But this week we have filled the flower pot!!! These flowers from cotton swabs have been very popular. We wanted to make ours just a little different! We think this is a fun thing to make with your kids! It is not expensive and can be as complicated or simple as you want!

 

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Lu

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Flower Pot Fun

This week we are just brainstorming some ideas to do with terracotta pots. As you know, I love black and yellow! So here is an idea for painting one!

You’ll have to stop by next week to see what we filled it with!

 

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Lu

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Buffalo Decal

A friend of Steve’s wanted a decal for his jeep. He wanted a buffalo with a date in it. The buffalo represented American freedom.  And 1791 was for the Bill of Rights.  The tricky part was getting the date to read correctly from both sides. We figured it out!

 

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Lu

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Can’t Wait to Make This a Cricut Project

So what do you do when you can’t sleep? I mistakenly got on Pinterest!

I found this fun card and decided that 4 in the morning was a great time to try it!! It looked easy enough. Then as I started to look at the directions the measurements were all in cm!! Good thing I had a ruler that had cm and inches! It took a little trial and error but I think for a first try it turned out pretty cute! The only thing is that I want it to stand up better than it does and I don’t want to have to cut or score it by hand.  So this will getting put into Cricut very soon!!! If you are interested in how to get something like this to cut and score on the Cricut, I can teach you!

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Lu

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July Bulletin Board

Sorry there wasn’t a blog last week, we had a health problem.

 

This next bulletin board came up on us very quickly!  Lucky for us it was a month filled with possibilities! 

We just went to the dollar store and bought a sign and some garland. Took the sign apart and glued garland around them! Then just cut letters out to match and we were done!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Church Bulletin Board

Since the pandemic we haven’t had in person church. Before the pandemic I was asked to keep the bulletin board decorated! I was happy to as long as I didn’t have to keep the events updated! Now we are back to in person church and they asked me to do that again. Since June was almost over I needed something quick and easy. I picked up some fun trays at my favorite store and added some vinyl and there you go! Fast and easy! The other person in charge of the events went with me to hang it up and said she liked it! So expect to see a few more of these in the coming months! I’m already working on July!

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Father’s Day Cards

Just a quick blog this week. 

 

We just did a couple of Father’s Day cards for our boys. They weren’t really fancy and were easily done with the offset feature in Cricut Design Space. After we had them the correct size to be half the size of a card we duplicated, flipped and welded together. Lining them up correctly was done by using the position settings and then just eyeballing it. Once they were welded we then added a score line to get the fold. Then all that was left was to cut out the original design and glue it on.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Lu

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