Spiritual Art

I was asked to help do a craft at our church that would be considered "Spiritual Art" and $2 per project.

Yay a crafty activity!! Well I first went to the mecca of all things crafty u-createcrafts.com and clicked on the label that said "religious". From there I found a cute temple block craft from the website lilluna.com. She and her husband antique temple pictures to be used for this craft. This project is becoming fairly popular based on the number of different temples she had on her site. However, she didn't have an Atlanta temple so my dear friend Stacy helped me out and sent me a great temple picture.

I was expecting 15-20 people to sign up but we had over 60 people sign up! We had around 50 people at the activity too. What can I say girls like to craft...or they like anything that is free.

I managed to stay in the budget and in the end spent $1.80 per craft. They didn't charge me at Home Depot to cut the wood so that was a life saver and I learned at Kinkos it's 9 cents a page to use the copy machine with USB port opposed to 48 cents a page to use the printer. It's the exact same quality. This helped me save so I could spend more money on ribbons. Everyone did a great job especially with their ribbons which is something I am very dysfunctional at.

There was a second craft too which were these cute vinyl tiles that are super easy but turn out so sharp.

Apple Sauce Jar into Pumpkin Face

I've been saving up apple sauce jars, peanut butter jars and other jars to make a little pumpkin patch for my living room. I found this idea here. I love kids crafts.

Land of the Free * Because of the Brave

Time for some Fourth of July Crafting. This is an easy fun craft that would be great to do with children. I saw this idea done for Christmas and Halloween so I decided to try it out for another holiday.
Take a look at these cute ones right here and here. I'll be making some of these when these holidays roll around.

To make these jars you will need:
Mod Podge
Tissue Paper
Napkins or paper
Tea Candles.
Jars. I used baby food jars.

To make add a layer of mod podge onto the outside of the jar. Layer tissue paper onto the jar. Spread another layer of mod podge onto the jar and place on decorative napkins or paper cutouts. When dry apply one more layer of mod podge. Add a candle and watch it glow.

First Mod Podge Projects

This week for craft night we did mod podge projects. I wanted to do my son's name and some blocks. I bought everything at Hobby Lobby.

For a tutorial on the letters go here.

For a picture and description on baby blocks go here.

I used hard mod podge for the blocks. I still need to do some sanding and it will take 4 weeks for the mod podge to cure all the way. I love them though!