Chocolate from Heaven

This past Saturday was our annual ladies and girls banquet at church, and the theme was "Chocolate from Heaven." So, based on what I was told as far as the color scheme and theme, this is how the board for the banquet ended up looking.


If I had to do it over, I would have used three-inch letters instead of four-inch ones, so that there would have been more space on the board. Since I could not find any brown letters, I traced and cut them out of brown felt. The clouds were made from white posterboard with stretched-out cotton balls on them. The "chocolate kisses" were foil-covered posterboard pieces with a paper flag coming out of the top. This board was pretty easy to put up and take down, because everything (except the background and border) was taped up.

Although I'm not planning to do this for future boards necessarily, this time I tried something different to get an idea of how the board might look. I used Scrapblog to sort of sketch out my idea and see how different arrangements might look. Since there were no pictures of Hershey Kisses, I used the closest thing instead--triangles.

Thank you for your service.

I just put this board up for Spring/Summer. I started by taking lots of pics. of church people at work day and then in various areas of service/ministry Sunday at church. Then Icompiled the pictures into "scrapbook pages". (One page is unfinished in this picture because I still haven't gotten a picture of the ushers). I bought the material at Joann's on sale. Buying material with fine lines is often helpful in keeping letters straight too! Next I found a ribbon border with bright and matching colors. Over all I like how the look turned out. This one will probably be up awhile since it's not seasonal. I have some other ideas for summer though so we'll see...

Let your light so shine...

One of our Sunday school teachers did this fun board. She was pretty excited to find the lighthouse, and wave border at our local education store in the clearance section. She often uses plastic table cloths as backgrounds which gives a variety of bright color at a great price. You can see, she hand wrote the verse Matthew 5:16 and then wrote the names of the children on the sailboats.

Missions: Go Ye Therefore...

This missions board was already coming down before I got a picture, hence the 2 missing prayer cards. A lady in our church wanted to combine our missions emphasis month with a spring look. I think she achieved that look well by using "scrapbooking paper". Very colorful and pretty! That background would probably work well with any basic spring saying/verse to make an easy spring board.