Super Craft Saturday, I Can Do All Things

I was asked to teach a craft for a 'super Saturday' activity at our church this weekend. It was my first time teaching in this type of setting. I made the example about a month ago to put on display and we had twenty-eight that had signed up. It was a little crazy at times but it was a lot of fun. I would definitely be up for doing it again.

The wooden tile was approximately 16"x16" and the vinyl saying was purchased from silhouette store (for personal use only, so each one was purchased individually) if anyone would like to do it. We glued a ribbon around the edge. Found the correct placement for the vinyl, marked it with a pencil, peeled, applied, pressed, peeled, whala! For the most part, the craft was fairly straight forward. The only tricky part was application since the piece was so big and unforgiving. Luckily, all came out successfully.

These stands came from Amazon and seemed to hold it quite well. I think once my piano is cleared from Holiday decor, that is where I'd like to display my finished piece.

There definitely is a trick to peeling it off just right.

Framed Nativity

I had promised my sister a vinyl for her wall and she saw a framed nativity scene with vinyl and knew it was exactly what she wanted. I told her that if she got the frame, I would cut and put on the vinyl. I stumbled across this frame and fell in love with it. It wasn't exactly what she wanted (she was hoping for the two glass panel frame and found it) and I think she could see how excited I was over it. It's only March but the frame has been sitting on my craft table for over a month so I decided to get it done. I LOVE it. I'm so excited to have it and I'm hoping to see there are others that would like one as well. Here are some pictures of it:

Sketching Temples

It's my first blog post and I was trying to decided what to share. I like to sketch. I've done a few commission and some just for myself. I rarely do portraits but when you grow up as an apprentice to a professional artist, you pick up a few skills. Here are a couple of my favorites that we have up around our house of temples. The first is the temple closest to where he served his mission. The second is of the temple where I served my mission.