A couple of weeks ago I was asked to please do the bulletin board at church. It would need a section for activities, birthdays and announcements. I was given some hand made tissue paper to use to cover the background and told I could do whatever I wanted with it from there.
It didn’t take long to get my creative juices flowing, and with the fun clear rubber stamps that I have and love using, I began to see the finished project in my mind. That was all it took. I went straight to my stamping desk and began stamping.
First I made three tags – one for each of the three sections of the bulletin board. I used some of my favorite Clear Alphabet Stamps and another stamp that gave me the words ‘Happy’ and ‘To You’ from the Happy Day Topper Clear Stamp Set.
This is one of the tags after it was on the bulletin board. Each tag was outlined using a border clear rubber stamp. I loved that the stamp was clear so I could see exactly where to place it to line up the corners. I used a scrap piece of paper to cover any area that I didn’t want the line to extend into, that way the border doesn’t extend beyond where I wanted it. I embellished each tag with blue flower shaped gems and punched a hole for ribbon in the end. That finished the tags.
The next step was to put it all together. I layered the hand made tissue paper onto the bulletin board. I had some cream colored paper twist ribbon which I untwisted and placed on the bulletin board as a horizontal element. Once in place I used tiny Clear Alphabet Stamps to stamp the words “Faith Hope Charity” randomly on the ribbon and thus establish a theme for the project.
You can see some of the stamped words on the ribbon in the above photo.
The next step was to divide the bulletin board into the required sections. To do this I cut white card stock into 1-1/2″ strips and made two rectangular frames with the sides going under the horizontal paper twist ribbon. Now I was ready to stamp again. I used border clear stamps to create a matching element with the tags. It is a little tricky stamping images onto a bulletin board. I had to be sure to have a chair so I could be directly over where I was placing the stamp.
This photo shows one corner of a rectangular section and kind of gives you an idea of what I did. With the borders in place I was ready for the next step. I made 3 paper twist bows, (I could have stamped on these as well but didn’t) one for each section of the board and attached them with staples. I added a tag to each ribbon as you can see in the above photo and secured it in place with staples. The birthdays are written on little flower pots that sit on the paper twist horizontal ribbon.
The last thing I did before I called it done was to stamp the theme onto an 8-1/2 x 11″ piece of card stock using the ‘Awesome ABC’s’ Alphabet stamps. I placed a matching border around the edge of the theme as well using my border clear rubber Stamp. I finished it with a ribbon placed through slits in the border. Then I attached a ‘Double Whirl’ ribbon clip onto the ribbon. To embellish it even further I tied more ribbon onto the ribbon clip as shown in the following photo.
It was a fun project, though it took a fair bit of time. I found it an enjoyable challenge to use my stamps for an application other than the usual scrapbooking and card making crafts (though I love those too)! I am looking forward to my next creative challenge.
