Silent Auction Boxes

I was so excited to be asked to bake something for the Fall Festival at my church! I had almost as much fun making the boxes to display my baked goods as I did baking them! Both of these started out as plain 10" by 10" cake boxes. I used my Coluzzle and cut out the giant openings and taped a window sheet in from the back side. Then I made the borders and tags and added the letters. I thought the decorated boxes would add value to the items...it was a silent auction. I made two sets of each item and thankfully they all did get bids. :) Chris thought about bidding on the apple pies...my mom's recipe is FABULOUS. If I were going to bid, I would have definitely gone for the lemon cupcakes!

Church Welcome Bags

I'm a sucker for flower stamps...always have been! These are all old Stampin' Up! stamps that have been retired for years, but are still beautiful! I really enjoyed making these bags for the bread ministry at my church. When you visit St. Paul, sometime during the following week a church member brings fresh baked bread to you in one of these bags. There's also some info about the church. We really like for people to feel welcome. If you'd like one of these bags, I know how you can get one. :) My favorite one is the hydrangeas...followed closely by the daisies...and that Tasteful Trim die cut just finishes them off perfectly!

New Member Dinner at St. Paul

We had the New Member dinner at church last Sunday. I made the place cards for the tables. They match the invitations I made several weeks ago. I also made butterflies to use like confetti around the center pieces on the tables. I die cut hundreds (yes, literally hundreds!) of butterflies with the Beautiful Wings embosslit. The Family Life Center looked so spring-y and festive. It was a great day to celebrate new members of our church family! Laura was excited that her job at the end of the dinner was to pick up all the butterfly confetti pieces...she did a great job...I think she got every last one of them!

Church Invitations

I finished the 14 New Member Dinner invitations in time to get them in the mail yesterday! It's a quick and easy design. Upsy Daisy is one of my "go to" stamp sets when I need something fast. I added the butterflies from the Beautiful Wings embosslit die cut. This die cut not only cuts out the image, but adds texture too! Up close it really is very pretty. The ladies who are organizing this event at church thought that by the last Sunday in February we'd all be ready for a spring theme!

St. Paul United Methodist is the church where my family and I attend. It's located in Hurst, and it is quite a drive from our home, but it is worth it! Feel free to ask me more about it...or better yet, come join us some Sunday! We'd love to have you there!