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.