Friday, January 25, 2008

Welcome Packets

I've been working on Welcome Packets for our church today. My friend had an idea that we should have some kind of packet to give to people who were new to our church so they'd know everything that was happening there. She discribed what she was thinking about and asked if I'd like to do the art work. Ah ya!

I think I remember her saying keep it simple... I think I did!
The image on these cards is a drawing by Bob Karns that he drew for our Thursday Morning Women's Ministry cook book last year. I have the scanned copy from making note cards for our group to sell. I added Welcome and the name of the church and adjusted the size to fit my needs and printed them out on some left over linen text paper.
The images are matted on black and then the same color as the side panel, I used the Stampin' Up! photo corners punch and put the larger corners under the left side of the focal image to give it some pop and added a small photo corner and a brad or eyelet. In two out of three of these I added a black strip of paper toward the bottom to cover where the background stamp didn't quite meet the second time I stamped it. These needed to be 5"x7" and the background stamps aren't that long.
The background stamps I used are each made by Stampin' Up!, Weathered BG and Antique Lace.

10 comments:

Deb said...

I am now able to post on the SBS cafe blog, I have asked for any ideas our sisters have for our group, please drop in and leave a comment!

Jessica said...

Wow! These are great!

Rose Ann said...

These are really nice!! What a great idea too!

Deb said...

sorry you couldn't get into the cafe, here is the link

http://thesbscafe.wordpress.com/


I also sent you an email with an invite to join the sbs4 yahoo group, hope you got it! Let me know if you didn't! It should make further communication between the group a lot easier!

Unknown said...

WOW JAN WHAT A GORGEOUS IDEA!THEY ALL LOOK FABULOUS IN THE DIFFERENT COLOURS WITH THEY PINK ONE MY FAVE!YUMMY!

Tracey said...

The welcome packs look fantastic and what a great idea :)

Suzanne @ Day to Day said...

These are terrific. You did a great job.

Chris (catt871) said...

Hi Jan! I've tagged you - check out my blog if you want to play along!!!
Chris

Donelda said...

THESE are BEAUTIFUL!!!! What a wonderful and thoughtful idea!!!! Nice work.

Marcia @ Pretty Things said...

These are beautiful and just right.