The Earth Bringeth Forth Her Bud

Ok, here's a dual board with the ideas of Elizabeth W. and Elizabeth K. combined. : ) I bought the white, wire, outdoor flower decor on clearance at a discount store for $2 last year at the end of the season. I had no idea where I'd go from there. Then I found the yellow forsythia at Big Lots...it was actually a long chain of it, but Elizabeth K. cut it apart for decorating. We found the ribbon boarder in a storage tote leftover from years past. It's hard to see but this boarder has yellow and pink butterflies on it. We were undecided about what color background to use until we started peeling away the old layers of backgrounds and found purple (from the grape vine board) and decided to go with purple. I like to leave my backgrounds up on this board since it's such a large board and hard to get them up. Then, I just layer over them until I need a color that's already there and I just peel back the layers. Sometimes they're a little "poked up" with staple holes, but they still work fine. So, Elizabeth K. went to town putting this up and later I added the dogwood flowers which I found while cleaning out a closet! I would still like to find some pretty butterflies to attach to the top of this board to fill a little...if I do I'll repost the picture later.

An idea for when you're trying to attach thicker things than paper to a bulletin board..."T" pins (found in the sewing/craft area of WalMart) or Joann's for sewing work wonders!

On a side note...Elizabeth K. just got a Cricut which she has wanted for quite some time! She has assured me that she will have lots of great ideas for boards coming with this new tool. So, hopefully we'll have some ideas from that soon!

Read Your Bible...and You'll Grow, Grow, Grow!

This board was done by one of our Sunday School teachers to match her attendance charts which are growing sunflowers. She used a plastic table cloth for the background. I'm pretty sure she found all the other stuff at the Dollar Tree. I printed off a banner for her to go with the children's song "Read your Bible, pray every day and you'll grow, grow, grow!" Cute idea, thanks, Marlene!

Make a Joyful Noise

Here is another one of Mom's boards that is in the nursery. I LOVE this adorable little board! So cute with a piece of material with farm animals (she said she thinks it's a chunk used for making a quilt) as the main background. Yellow felt fills the rest of the background with a grass border on the bottom. Words were all printed on her computer with PrintMaster...left side has animal sounds " moo, cluck, baa, etc." and the right side has the verse Psalm 100:1.

The Earth is the Lord's

Well, I hate to say it, but this was, once again, a quick last minute idea. I bought some calendars at our Michael's this winter since they were moving across town and had calendars for 15 cents! I figured they would come in handy for a bulletin board one day. We have a young lady in our church who is going to start working on this particular board (it's in our main foyer) so I gave her some ideas for this one and she went to work picking colors etc. She did the work with my imput basically! So, though basic, it will work nicely for a few summer months.

Happy Mother's Day!

I don't normally do Mother's and Father's day boards because I don't like the fact that I'll have to take them down within a few weeks of putting them up! (Leaving boards up for 3 months is much more my style! ; ) ) However, this year I was at a loss of what to do following missions month and my mind went to work on a quick simple mother's day board. I actually had a very different picture in my mind of what I would do, but as usual, while I was shopping I found other stuff and changed course. So, here you have a very pink look...background is pink and black polka dot wrapping paper from WalMart. I already had black letters on hand. Paper doilies (I cut them in half) and pink daisies can also be found at WalMart. Thankfully 2 of the ladies at church gave me a hand last night putting this up and it went quickly. I'm sure the ladies at church will be surprised I actually did a board for them this year! : ) HAPPY MOTHER'S day to all the Mom's out there...especially to my mom and mother-in-law!

Rise and Shine Children of the Lord!

My sister in law did this cute board for junior church. You gotta love digital cameras-how they can catch the quirky little looks of kids, and how they make getting a picture so quick! We got a kick out of all the "kool aid" smiles shown...the after snack time in jr. church look. Anyway, nothing new about this except the letters. They are thin vinyl letters with sticky backs that I got at our local education store. I wasn't sure if I would like them, but after they were up I really liked how "clean" they went on (no staples and flat finish). They say they are reusable, so I'll have to update you later to let you know how that works for us.

All we like sheep

This is a bulletin board for our church nursery. I used an overhead projector to enlarge the sheep clipart in the middle. You could use any sheep graphic in place of this. The "grass" under the picture is spring excelsior I got at Michaels and stapled to the board. The bulletin border is light blue gingham wrapping paper (also from Michaels) that I cut into strips.

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.

Welcome to the Itty Bitty Class

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

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.

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...

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.

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!