Hallelujah, What a Saviour!

That is the title of our Christmas bulletin board, which we put up earlier this month. It's one of those simpler, quick boards that is rotated. The gift in the middle of the board was even made by someone else! But, the message is the important thing, reminding us of God's love in sending the wonderful Saviour that we have.

Thanksgiving Blessings

This board is nice because you can change the window scenery, verse, and a few extras and create a Christmas board. With Thanksgiving and Christmas being so close together this can help save time and money - two things in high demand between the end of November and December. :)

Background: Plastic Tablecloth

Border: Store bought scalloped edging

Lettering: Colored Paper - done by Cricut w/Design Studio (that's how the letters for each word are connected to each other)

Scripture: Colored paper / Typed out

Picture Frame: Construction paper & Ribbon matching curtain tie backs

Window Frames: Thick card stock

Scenic view: Chalked Free-hand (Chalk does come off - afterwards we thought to put clear plastic wrap over the picture - then it might give it a look of glass too -- just a thought) (You could find something with a scenery already on it - like fabric, wrapping paper, a poster, etc.. and use that instead ... just be sure to make your frame the appropriate size)

Curtains: Lacy-looking plastic tablecloth cut in 4 equal rectangular shapes and tied back with ribbon (Top of "curtain" tucked behind window frame and stapled)

Tablecloth: Round plastic tablecloth cut on one edge then tucked down behind table and stapled from underneath.

Table: Brown crafting paper - cut out free hand

Fruit and Candlesticks: Cricut cut-outs. (stencils, die-cuts, or clipart are other options)

Bread 'n Bowl: Construction paper - cut 'n colored freehand

Christmas Ornaments

This board is in the nursery where we mostly go for "cuteness". I think this is very pretty though, and may use the idea next year for our card bulletin board and place cards on the ornaments. Personally I like to add a sentiment to my church boards with something like "Jesus is the Reason for the Season". Anyway, this one uses wrapping paper for the background and the ornaments. Ribbons "hang" the ornaments. I would guess she used a scrapbook puncher to make the ornaments designs. Very Pretty!

Christmas Cards

This looks fairly plain right now, but I'm posting just for the idea. Each year our church does a bulletin board where the church members can post a Christmas card to the entire church rather than write out a card to each person. This saves time and money plus brings a lot of interest to the bulletin board! Usually I use bright wrapping paper for the background, but this year someone else did the board for me. They decorated our church "country" like with brown paper, straw and plaid ribbons. It's hard to see in this pictures but the cards are "suspended" (not literally, just looks that way) from the brown, twine ribbons. It's a very different look from the past, but it's gotten a lot of compliments. Hopefully the board will be full of cards very soon!

The Vine

Again...a board from my mom. I thought this one was pretty unique. Mom found the vine at Lowes in the clearance section (it was in the wallpaper section for decorating a child's room). She then had a challenge of sorts for people in the church to come up with the best verse to go with the vine and those are posted in the pictures.

That all the earth may know!

I took a few pics of my mom's boards while home for a few days. This one is a missions board to go with their missions month theme this year of "That all the earth may know!" She used a chunk of material that has a world map as the background. The ribbon border has flags of various different countries. I didn't ask her, but I would guess she either used old mission posters or found clip art for the people of the world. The arrows and lettering are simply created and printed on the computer. Nice board, Mom!

Rejoice In the Lord!

This is a board I had used three years ago, so it did not take nearly as long to put together. The leaf pile probably took the longest at the time, cutting out all those leaves and pasting them just so onto a piece of posterboard. Making the boy was a bit challenging too; I normally don't put many people as such on my boards (unless they are already made), because they just don't seem to come out quite right proportionately. But, the idea for this board was one I really wanted, so I decided to tackle it anyway by looking through different clipart pictures and such. All the musical notes were printed from a clipart note to the size I wanted and then traced onto construction paper. Among the notes falling around the boy are some leaves that the kids wrote their names on.

God is Good

I "stole" this idea from my mom's Easter board. CBD had fall flags on sale (CBD has many pretty flags if anyone is interested...check it out!) so I got this one and posted it with some foliage I bought at Joann's (also on sale! : ) ) If anyone knows how to get wrinkles out of nylon flags, let me know! I tried several things to no avail.

Welcome to the Itty Bitty Class

This board was designed by my mom for her nursery class.

Fruit of the Spirit

A simple board created by my sister. Many ideas could stem from this one.

O Taste and See...

I found the idea for this board on a web site and purchased all materials at our local education store. The best part was one of the church ladies put it together for me while I was on vacation! : ) Simple and cute.

FROG (Fully Rely on God)

Again, one of our teachers found discounted stuff at our local education store. She wasn't sure how to turn frogs into something biblical, so I made the suggestion of "Fully Rely On God". She did a pretty good job changing it over and has another cute board for her Sunday school class.

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.

Jesus Loves the Little Ones (Nursery)

This was created for a church nursery, but it could be used for any Sunday school classroom. The background is light blue felt with green felt for grass. I used construction paper for flowers, leaves, sunshine and 2 butterflies. The little wooden turtle, lady bug, frog and pink butterfly came from the Wal-Mart craft department and were hot glued to the background.

Saved By The Blood!

Great Easter Board "Saved by the Blood!" designed by my Mom. The cross picture is actually an out door decorative flag she ordered from e-bay. The pussy willows can be found at craft stores such as Michael's. Mom often uses ribbons as borders which creates a little more "elegant" look for the main foyer walking into the church.

Busy Bees

Here is a board that is fun to display with its different colors! But, more important is its reminder of things we should be busy about as Christians. On the bees buzzing around the different flowers are the names of the students in our Sunday school class, as well as our names as teachers. I printed the words of the grass strips on green paper, cut the tops for a grassy look, and laminated the part below for extra protection. There is other creative potential for this board, such as 3-D objects (flowers, insects, etc.), so have fun if you should ever use this idea!