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Hello Creative Friends,
Today’s share is another way to make your Sunday School and church Christmas trees to have a little more meaning by making the names of God mentioned in Isaiah 9:6 to place on a tree or to just use as decorations.   You can also make them for your home trees but I made them a little large with church decorations in mind:)

Isaiah 9:6 is one of my favorite verses at Christmastime.
“For unto us a child is born , unto us a son is given : and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor , The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.”

There is a pdf file of the names for you to print out.   Mine were printed out on white card stock and I cut them out just around the square edge.  Then I sponged the edges with Creamy Caramel ink and I also sponged the ink directly over the entire name to give it kind of an aged look.

To begin with I made a base of Chocolate Chip card stock (6 x 3 1/2).  The next layer is Old Olive card stock (5 1/2 x 3) on which I stamped one of the snowflake images on from the Stampin’ Up! Snow Swirled stamp set, Item #111690 in the catalog on page 36.  This is a very pretty stamp set and I’ll be sharing some projects with it later in the week.

I used the Creamy Caramel ink to sponge around the edges of the Old Olive card stock as well.   Ribbon, brads, and photo corners (from Photo Corners Punch) were added to finish the name cards off.   I didn’t add any type of hanger but only placed them on the branches of the tree but you could add ribbon or string if you wanted.

Tips:

• Spell out Isaiah 9: 6 on a church bulletin board and make the name cards to add to it.
• Make the name cards and string across your fireplace.
• This is a great way to Keep “Christ” in your Christmas!

By the way, I spelled “counsellor” on the pdf with two l’s as it is in the KJV.

Have a creative day,


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Hello Creative Friends,
Hope you’ve had a good weekend.   I will be sharing a few different themed Christmas tree ideas leading up to Christmas.  

Today I’m sharing a Fruit of the Spirit tree with ornaments made from just ribbon, card stock, and a little stamping on some.  For those of you who will be placing a Christmas tree in your church or a Sunday School Class, this is a great theme to use on your tree.

First, I’ve made fruit jar ornaments and placed the Fruit of the Spirit on them from Galatians 5:22, 23. 

 ”But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering,gentleness, goodness, faith,  Meekness, temperance:against such there is no law.”

The jar pattern can be found here!  I printed off the “fruit” wording from my computer printer onto white card stock.  Use your favorite font.  You may need a practice run to make sure your longest fruit wording fits inside of your punch cut-out.  Be sure to give good spacing so that you have plenty of room to punch out your words.  You could also write them on free-hand with an ink marker if you prefer.

By the way, I used Black Jack Font at 20 pnt. on my fruit “labels”.  Black Jack is my favorite font lately to do personal projects with.  You can download it for free here.

The jars themselves are just cut out of various colors of card stock with the pattern.  I punched out the “labels” from the Scallop Oval Punch and layered it on a Wide Oval Punch cut-out.   The hearts I added are punched from the Heart to Heart Punch.   For the hanger, punch 1/8 holes into the top corners of the “jar”.   I used silver cording.

The edges of each piece of card stock is sponged with ink to give definition.  Then I used the Silver Shimmer Paint on the top of the jar and around the sides and bottom.  (Right now the Shimmer Paint from Stampin’ Up!  is out of stock but should be available on November 9th.)  It is from the Mini Holiday Catalog.

For the “fruit” ornaments I used 2 x 3 pieces of card stock (Creamy Caramel) and ran them through the Crimper, rounding the corners with my Corner Rounder Punch.   I then stamped some images from the Tart & Tangy stamp set and layered them on scallop circles (Scallop Circle Punch).    Again, all the edges are sponged with ink for definition.  Just add ribbon to decorate, punch a hole (1/8)  and make a hanger (I used white crochet thread). 

Tips:

• These ornaments are a quick and simple way to do any of the smaller stamp images.
• This is a great project to use your ribbon and card stock scraps.
• Find other “fruit” pieces to fully dress your fruit themed tree.  Usually there’s a lot of apples and pear ornaments available during the holiday season in all colors.  You could also add “fake” grape clusters, etc.  Use your imagination:)
• The Fruit of the Spirit jars would also be great to use for a church bulletin board.  Just make them without the hanger and line them up as on a “shelf”.

 See my related pages:
“Provisions” Fruit of the Spirit Devotional.
Fruit of the Spirit  Women’s Ministry Theme.

Have a creative day,


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