{"id":1922,"date":"2009-07-19T21:12:12","date_gmt":"2009-07-20T02:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stampthat.com\/blog\/?p=1922"},"modified":"2009-07-19T21:12:12","modified_gmt":"2009-07-20T02:12:12","slug":"when-reality-strikes-a-crafter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stampthat.com\/blog\/when-reality-strikes-a-crafter\/","title":{"rendered":"When reality strikes a crafter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1923\" title=\"STampin' Up! Tulipe\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stampthat.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/family-poster.jpg\" alt=\"Rome VBS Family Poster\" width=\"186\" height=\"231\" \/>I am the director of Vacation Bible School for our church\u00a0(<a title=\"Church in Southern York County\" href=\"http:\/\/www.itsgrace.org\" target=\"_blank\">Grace Bible\u00a0Church<\/a>in New Freedom, PA)\u00a0this year.\u00a0 To be quite honest with you, although it wears me out a bit, I enjoy it!\u00a0 Maybe it&#8217;s that I like to be in charge or maybe it&#8217;s because I like to have my hand in every part, I&#8217;m not sure.\u00a0 The reality of it all though, is that VBS supplies can be expensive and I&#8217;m always trying to save a buck.\u00a0 We are doing the Rome theme through <a title=\"Rome VBS\" href=\"http:\/\/www.group.com\/vbs\/rome\/\" target=\"_blank\">Group Publishing<\/a>.\u00a0 I wanted to have some posters they are selling, <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1925\" title=\"Go Go Boots Die\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stampthat.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/family-poster-2.jpg\" alt=\"Go Go Boots Die\" width=\"184\" height=\"220\" \/>however, I don&#8217;t need that many and I didn&#8217;t want to pay for all of them.<\/p>\n<p>My first thoughts were to paint the posters.\u00a0 We painted columns and the Roman Colosseum, we&#8217;d paint these posters too.\u00a0 Wrong!\u00a0 It suddenly hit me, the Big Shot and Circle\u00a0Scissor Plus\u00a0would make it so simple!\u00a0 So, here you go, here are three of the five posters a friend and I made.\u00a0 How wonderfully simple they were!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1927\" title=\"Decorative Accent Die\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stampthat.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/family-poster-3.jpg\" alt=\"Decorative Accent Die\" width=\"186\" height=\"227\" \/>One of these days I&#8217;ll have to take a picture of the name tags we made using the Classic Sketches stamp set too.\u00a0 I&#8217;m planning to use that stamp set to make thank you notes for all of my works and for the companies that donated goods for VBS as well (once we&#8217;re actually through VBS).\u00a0 I&#8217;ve used the Big Shot to make letters for on bulletin boards advertising VBS too.\u00a0 I love what I do!\u00a0 I love the fact that I&#8217;m not confined to using my tools for just one thing, I can create all sorts of items and use them in so many areas of my life!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am the director of Vacation Bible School for our church\u00a0(Grace Bible\u00a0Churchin New Freedom, PA)\u00a0this year.\u00a0 To be quite honest with you, although it wears me out a bit, I enjoy it!\u00a0 Maybe it&#8217;s that I like to be in charge or maybe it&#8217;s because I like to have my hand in every part, I&#8217;m [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-big-shot","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stampthat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stampthat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stampthat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stampthat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stampthat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stampthat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1922\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stampthat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stampthat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stampthat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}