Scripture Power Bookmark

You are probably wondering why I am posting something for Primary Children on my Visiting Teaching blog.  I decided that since it took me a good long time to create these, I would go ahead and share and hopefully some of you that follow my blog will serve in Primary.  My husband was asked by the Ward Primary President if after the Scripture Power Challenge, if he as the Bishop would come into the classes that completed it, and congratulate them with high fives, or something.  I thought that if little children were to be so diligent as to bring their scriptures to Primary for weeks and weeks in a row, especially considering that youngsters barely remember to take anything they are suppose to with them wherever they go, that they needed more than a high 5.  I make some for the boys and some for the girls, but also thought of another idea for a bookmark using the light bulb and Book of Mormon.  Feel free to use whatever you would like of these and I thought that when you Visit Teach, and you talk about the power of the Scriptures in your life, that you could use it too.  Enjoy!  Katie G.  Oh and go drop by my new blog http://ifyou want2behappy.blogspot.com

Printables by Katie has your November freebie waiting for you.

I am so excited to announce that finally after so much work, I am launching my new printables site.  It isn't yet really how I want it, because I am doing it all by myself, and there are some technical things I don't know how to do, but I decided to jump in with both feet and just get it going.  I have some darling new Thanksgiving and Christmas printables on my site and I am offering each print for only a dollar, as my grand opening special.  I have some LDS oriented printables on my blog and will continue to add more, as I have time to do it.  It simply just takes time.  Wish there were more hours in the day.

I hope you have enjoyed all the printables I have created over the past 7 years, and put on this blog and my other blogs, and don't worry, I won't neglect them either. I just felt like it would be nice after doing it all for free, to actually get a little bit back for a change.  I am saving my shekels to hire a builder of an ecommerce website so that I can actually take credit cards, but for now, it will be done the old fashioned way.  Please take a moment and go to my new  www.printablesbykatie.com and you can make a request for a download there..  It is really cute, and vintage as I found the image at the Library of congress and was so excited.  This is freebie is a great printable to print and frame and take with you to your sisters that you Visit teach.  Tell them to keep the frame and every holiday you can come to my blog and see what new art I have come up with for the next holiday or season of year.  (Sorry about the Watermark on Santa Subway Art, but he only costs $1 for my grand opening special, and I wanted you to see how cute he is!)

My new website is still under construction, however I can arrange to send you what you are looking for, and go to the contact page and request what you are looking for. 

I have barely scratched the surface with my new business, and have so many darling things I have created, but just have to come up with the time to post them.  Keep checking in regularly and follow me on Pinterest, and I will keep you up on the newest things.  Oh and by the way... the Santa Subway art turned out absolutely beautiful.  It is pictured  on the top of this post.  The Jesus Christ, Wonderful, Counselor, is also really nice, and good for any occasion too. 

It is really late, so I am going to bed, but don't forget to go get your freebie!!!!!  Enjoy, Katie G www.printablesbykatie.com 

Easter Printables

I just love the "Tip nut" site don't you?  Here is the link to some darling printables for Easter. http://easter.tipnut.com/04/printables/  and when you get there, you had better go exploring, and plan on taking lots of time, because there are so many wonderfiul "TIPS and ideas" that you will really have fun at that site. 

For my Easter ideas, go to my tags on the right hand column and click on "Easter".

Enjoy!  Katie G.

Visiting Teaching Message June 2011- Strengthening Families through temporal self reliance

June 2010 Visiting teaching lesson focus on self reliance.  In my Visiting teaching tips, handouts and Ideas blog, I shared some stories about my own family and how they became self reliant in raising their families.  If you would like to read my personal stories, click on the title of this message and you will be whisked away to my other blog, where I will share my stories with you. 

One of my stories included my own experience of learning to bottle, or can fruits with my Mom  and my sisters.  I too passed on this wonderful talent to my own daughters and we get together every year to can.  So I went looking for some cute things that you can use for yourself, or give to your sister you teach to encourage their own self reliance.  I found some darling canning jar lid stickers that you can print out for yourself on sticker paper, or label paper.  Here are the cute things I found and the links to find them on the Internet.

1.  Round jar top labels can be found here:

 http://blog.worldlabel.com/2011/round-labels-in-a-vintage-style-design.html

2.  Cute vintage labels for bottles or whatever can be found here:

http://blog.worldlabel.com/2011/bottle-labels-for-your-apothecary-products.html

More really pretty vintage labels can also be found here and you know how much I love Vintage things...

http://blog.worldlabel.com/2009/free-fillable-suzee-que-vintage-labels.html

And I even located a few more cute labels here:

More really pretty vintage labels can also be found here and you know how much I love Vintage things... http://poppytalk.blogspot.com/2009/03/free-downloadable-stickers.html 

  

And one more cute one made by Poppytalkhandmade is found here:

http://poppytalk.blogspot.com/2009/02/free-downloadable-labels-from-us.html

Any of these can be customized to suit whatever you are canning.   This would be a cute way to encourage self reliance and learning how to can fruit.  Another idea would be to invite your sisters to come can or bottle with you at your house, and use some of these cute labels to adorn your handiwork!  Enjoy!  Katie G.

More Cute Valentine Ideas

I usually make up my own Valentines, because I can, so I try to come up with a Valentine that has a message that is specific for either the gift I am giving, or for the person.  Here is my little gift idea that i am giving to the ladies I Visit teach and I hope that none of them come look at this post before I get their Valentine to them.  Well.... if they do, then they will have something to look forward to..... do you think?

Click on the image and it will make it larger for you to see in better detail.  I love vintage so I took an old Vintage Valentine and added some other do dads, and turned it into a Valentine, that is color coded to match the little gift I am giving.

I went to Target and in their $1 section, I found some really cute black, red and white note pads that have a magnet on the back side.  They also had some really cute matching pens so I bought them and taped them to the front of the note pad.  I then found some matching pencils too, and did the same with them.  I bundled all of this up in a Valentine Cellophane bag and tied the top off with a red ribbon.  It turned out so very cute.  Now... Notice what the Valentine says right at the top..."PLEASE NOTE" ... get it?  Note pad and please note.  Pretty cleaver and very cute. 
These Valentines will print two per page and they are note card size.  Walmart sometimes carries the note card size envelop, but if they don't have any, then Office Max or Office Depot or any other office store should carry them, but unfortunately in bulk.  I do allot of card making so, I buy bulk most of the time. 

Sending a Package to someone in the mail for Valentines Day?  I made these up to send my Valentine Package to my son's family who lives in Wyoming.  These can also be used as gift tags too, for cookies or other goodies that you make up to give to someone for Valentines Day.  Enjoy!

I found a cute old Popcorn themed Valentine here:  http://vintageholidaycrafts.com/ that I used to create one of my own, to put on a box of microwave popcorn to give to my sons and sons-in-law as part of the Valentine packages I do for my children's families.  This Valentine (at the bottom) would be cute to use in many different ways.  Today at my local Target store, I found these darling large heart shaped bowls in pink or red, and I thought how cute it would be to pop some popcorn and fill up those bowls. (and to make it extra yummy, add a bag of Valentine M&M's) I would wrap the popcorn filled bowl in cellophane and tie the top with a beautiful bow, and of course I would attach this cute Valentine to tie in the Popcorn message.

On my blog, http://visitingteachingsurprise.blogspot.com/search/label/popcorn I even have a Mother gooses or Koolaid popcorn recipe that would be great to use for the popcorn if you wanted to get alittle more creative than just having buttered popcorn. Kettle Corn is really good too and that is easy to make as well.  I found a very simple recipe for Kettle Corn on the Rachael Ray site.  http://www.rachaelraymag.com/Recipes/rachael-ray-magazine-recipe-index/appetizer-starter-recipes/Sweet---Salty-Kettle-Corn

I also found another site that did about what I did with this popcorn idea and here is their link http://keepingmycents.blogspot.com/2011/01/homemade-popcorn-valentine.html

Have fun and enjoy your Valentine giving!  Love, Katie

Printable recipe index cards

I am trying to get organized with all the photos that I have been collecting since I was married.  I finally have them sorted and now I need to put them in some boxes per family or child.  I decided to design some index cards that same colors as are in the cute boxes that I have to store them in , so here are some that are
8" x 4"  that can be printed off.  If they are a bit too long for the box that you have, you can just trim it to fit.  The particular box I am using is being turned sideways, so it had to be a bit longer.  The boxes this size that I have are a little smaller so I will be trimming myself to fit those.  They will still look the same if you just trim on the non tabbed side.    Enjoy!  Katie G.

Printable Thank-you cards

I was in need of some cute new thankyou cards, so I designed a couple pages of them and thought I would share with you.  Feel free to print them off for yourself.  They fit nicely in the invitation envelopes that areou 4 3/8" x 5 3/4 ".  Enjoy!  Katie G.

Printable recipe cards to go with the Soup exchange

I am making up a bunch of cute things to give out at the Soup exchange that I am doing, and thought I would share.  Here are three pages of tabbed fall recipe cards.  The reason I am tabbing them is so that the different soups will be able to be found easier, as I find that my recipe cards kind of get stuck together after a while so... with tabs they can be seen and separtated easier. I was also thinking that they could be tab coded with the left tab for Brothy soups, the Middle tab for Creamy soups, and the tab on the right could be for favorites or whatever else you would want it for. 

Once again... how can I relate this to Visiting teaching?  Ok.... do you have a great soup recipe that you might like to share with someone you Visit Teach, or maybe even that you would be taking to a Relief Society night meeting?  Here you go.....  What I will be doing is printing out a bunch of these cards so the the ladies can write down their favorites off of the master that will be displayed on the table.  Fun idea huh?

Enjoy and happy cooking!!!  Katie G.

Be sure to scroll down for the invitation idea that I have below of the Soup label to invite friends over for a soup exchange.

You have been Boo'd

I love Halloween, partly because it is my birthday month, but because it lots of fun.  I love to decorate my home and even dress up in my old age, to greet the trick or treaters.  I must be crazy, but I am sure having fun.  So... I created my own "You have been Boo'd" flyer to go out when you take treats to your neighbors and friends.  You are welcome to use mine if you like.  You might want to start with those you visit teach!  ( but don't count that as your visit!  Ha, ha!)   Enjoy!!!  Katie G

P.S. I had forgotten about my other storage blog that goes with this one, and accidentally started posting this Halloween handout in that one.  I thought I had better remind you too since I am the one who created it and forgot about it.  Here is the link to see the things that are in it!  http://visitingteachingsurprisedocuments.blogspot.com/

My Sweet Son Andy, who is my computer guru, came over and fixed what was wrong with my internet that would not let me insert any photos on my blog.  It took him less than a minute.  Am I ever grateful for him, and you should be too.  What is this blog without all the images that I put on it for you to download.  Thanks, Andy!!!!  Happy Halloweening.... Katie G.

I have been asked about whether or not people can  use popcorn with the caramel recipe and I have said yes but....if you use it with puff corn, I can guarantee you that it will be gobbled up so fast, your head will spin.  Everywhere I have ever taken it, people love it.  There is a recipe on the back on one of the different brands bags of puff corn, but it just isn't like my caramel, but it is pretty good too. I recommend my caramel recipe.  I also recommend that you try the puff corn and see if you agree about how yummy it is.  One tip though.... caramel corn can really set up fast, and you want to be able to keep it as soft as possible.  You could cook it about a minute or two less, but what you need to do is to put it immediately into plastic bags, so it stays as soft as possible.  Oh and with popcorn... you can never get all the hard kernels out, and you about break your teeth chewing into one.  Puff corn is so soft it will about melt in your mouth and the chewieness will come from the caramel.  SOOOOOOO Good.  Here are a couple of different brands of puff corn that I found on the internet:

Two Printable Note Cards

"You are Loved" and "Thank-you" cards by Katie G.

I had occasion to need some greeting cards to give to some people this week.  I thought that I would share them with you as well.  Print them off on a white sheet of card stock.  You will get two cards per one 8 x 10 and when you cut them in half, where the white space is between them, they will fit into a note card size envelop.  I buy my note card envelopes from Office Max or Office Depot, but I have seen them from time to time at Walmart.  The top card I am giving to a friend who has had a death in her family, but you could use it just to let those sisters you visit, know that they are loved. 

My sister who lives in another state sends a card faithfully to a sister that she was asked to Visit teach years ago.  This woman, does not want Visiting or Home teachers, but she was still assigned to my sister.  I admire my sister Becky who has for years, sent a letter or card and message to this sister every single month.  We spoke of it once over the phone and Becky said, "I will never know if keeping in contact with this sister in this way will ever impact her or get her back into activity in the church, but she will know that there is someone who cares for her."  Becky went on to say, "I don't know if she even reads my letters or cards, or just throws them in the garbage when they arrive."

The bottom card is a thank-you card that I was sending to the woman who hosted our Young Women's Alice in Wonderland tea party.  It turned out so lovely and this woman spent so much time in decorating, setting up, cooking and on.  I wanted to send her a customized card and you will notice that the image on the card is a public domain image from one of the illustrated versions of Alice in Wonderland.  I thought it was perfect, but the card is perfect for a Thank-you for anyone.

I hope you enjoy this printable.  Please comment below if you use it as I do like to feel like my efforts are appreciated.  Share the Love!  Katie G.

Alice in Wonderland Mad Hatter Tea Party Invitaion

This is the finished invitation.

 

All the materials cut out and ready to assemble the invitation.

I am inserting the invitation first followed by the other separate pages of the invitation.  I have posted the pages so that you can fill in the blanks, to customize for your own use.  I am using black card stock for the front and back cover for this book/card/invitation. Cut the black card stock in half which is 5.5 inches.  Fold each of those in half for the cover.

This image to the left is what you print off, cut out and glue to the front book cover.  Now you will need to paste the cute cover picture on the front of the black book card cover.  Make sure to center it between the binding tape and the right hand edge of the black paper cover. I used white duct tape to look like binding and to cover up the staples, but I think I am going to go to the store and see if I can find some cute decorated duct tape instead of just a plain white duct tape binding. 

The next step is to print the inside pages  1 - 4.  Cut them out.  If you are going to make a lot of these invitations, I highly suggest you purchase a cutter, as it makes the cuts straight and looks so much better.  Takes far less time than cutting out things by hand.  Then collate the pages 1 - 4 and insert into the folded black card stock cover.  Staple as close to the edge of the fold on the book cover as you can.  Using a strip of duct tape, place over the staples and over fold so that it covers both the front and backside.  (see the photo)

 

Now for the bookmark................... Print the bookmark page on white card stock.  I just my card stock at Walmart in a ream, because it is firm enough for cards, but not too firm to give me problems running it through my printer.  I wanted my bookmarks to be two sided.  The black and white printed paper below I found at Shabby Princess Paper and printed it on the back side of my bookmark page.  You might want it to just use solid black but either way it goes great with the invitation. 



Bookmark

 The next step is to cut out the bookmark, so that a boarder of black is showing all the way around and then punch a hole in the top.  I then cut a piece of Red ribbon, folded it in half and threaded the folded side through the back to the front side of the punched hole, then put the two ends through the folded ribbon loop and pulled it tight.  I slipped this completed bookmark in the center pages of the book with the ribbon hanging out.  I was thinking that a black and white polka dot or checked ribbon would be really cute instead of the red, but red is what I have.   



 The paper below was designed by Shabby Princess and Sara Carling called "Dinner Party." The link to Shabby princess is:   http://www.shabbyprincess.com/   At the Shabby Princess site, you need to stay for a while because she has great scrap booking products and offers a bunch of really nice looking ones for her blog visitors to use for free.  Very, Very generous!!! Just click on "downloads" and a whole bunch of complete digital packs will be displayed and you will really be amazed at just how pretty her freebies are!!!   I am using this paper as the backside of the  book mark as well as the page before page one and after page 4... just because it looks nice and gives an extra page to make it look more like a vintage book. 



I just wanted to tell you why I include on the invitation the link found on page 4 to Project Gutenberg's site that has several Alice in Wonderland books, with different illustrators.  I found out that the Young Women really love to read, and some of them read several books a week.  I personally am not fond of the Alice in wonderland book, but it is a classic, and Project Gutenberg has spent countless hours digitizing so many wonderful classics (vintage books) for people to access and read online.  We are trying to get the Youth to do productive things online instead of playing games, and just surfing the net, so I thought this would be a very worthwhile link to post on the invitation. I wonder how many parents know about Project Gutenberg?  Here is the link to this wonderful site loaded with tons of free ebooks to read.  http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page  I love to pass on good tips, so take this one and pass it on to those you visit teach and give them a bookmark while you are at it.

I will be designing some place cards, and a Mad Hatter Hat favor in the next few days, so come back and I will have the templates and images of them as well.

Enjoy!

Katie G.

I just finished the name tags to be put on the table at the tea party and they turned out really cute as you can see in the picture.  They are so easy, so not template for these.  I have below this image the cute little tag that is hanging from the side of the favor box.  This box I found at my local $ store for 8 of them only $1.  They are pink.  They will be filled with "English Toffee" and set by each table setting.  This party is really going to be cute and fun.  Oh the teapot that is behind my cute little printouts, is one that I purchased online because I wanted a very special and very cute one to have tea parties with my little Granddaughters.  I think this one really fits the bill!

Enjoy!!!  Katie G.

 P.S.  So just when I think I am done creating things for this party, I remember the hostess wanted to have some 2 sided menus to be displayed on each table.  So below is what I came up with.  In keeping with the Alice in Wonderland theme, I named all the different foods, with names from the Story.  It turned out pretty cute. 

Fathers Day.... Quick, cheap and printable cards, and gifts.

I just had some fun ideas for Fathers day.......I thought I would add some links of some cute fathers day printables for you in case you find yourself wanting to do something creative and fun, lacking funds to buy a card or gift, or just want something original for you or your kids to do for fathers day.  I have inserted a bunch of links that can take you to some pretty awesome and creative printables.  The first site is one that I want to focus on as I just happened upon them today and LOVE, love, love, their site. The site is  http://thetoymaker.com/  They not only have fathers day printables but printables for just about any other holiday or occasion you could think of and soooooo cute!  They have some darling inline readable books as well that could keep your kids busy during the long summer.  I want to insert a photo of the darling Fathers Day box that they have that you can print off and fill with with some of dad's favorite treats......

If you go to the link located here: 

 http://www.thetoymaker.com/Holidays/Fathersday/DADBOX.pdf you can print it off.  Be sure to look through this entire site as you will find all kinds of fun things and they are sooooo cute!!!!!
More from that site can be found here for Fathers Day:
Card for Husband http://www.thetoymaker.com/Holidays/Fathersday/besthusband.pdf
Card s for Dad http://www.thetoymaker.com/Holidays/Fathersday/Bestdad.pdf

Thanks Toymaker.com for you talents, and hard work and for sharing!!!!

Other fun printables are here:
Coupons - http://familycrafts.about.com/od/fathersdaycrafts/ig/Printable-Father-s-Day-Coupons

Marble kids face magnets  http://crafts.kaboose.com/family-marble-magnets.html







Fisher Price Printables
http://www.fisher-price.com/fp.aspx?st=5254&e=thumbnail&mcat=pcFathersDay
Parents printables http://www.parents.com/holiday/fathers-day/printables/printable-fathers-day-cards/
Coupons http://www.associatedcontent.com/theme/1259/fathers_day.html?cat=74

Coupons  http://familyfun.go.com/fathers-day/fathers-day-printables/fun-fathers-day-coupons-704055/







Fathers day Certificate http://familyfun.go.com/fathers-day/fathers-day-printables/printable-gift-worlds-greatest-dad-certificate-704051/

King for a day crown http://familyfun.go.com/assets/cms/pdf/printables/fathers-day-crown-printable-0510.pdf

To go with the printable here is a darling king for a day cake by wilton King for a day cake http://www.wilton.com/about/pressroom/pressrelease.cfm?id=320FAF4F-1E0B-C910-EA39B599F655FF69

This cake would be fun to just do a King for a day themed dinner and tread Dad or your husband like Royalty.

I found a site that takes this idea one step further and it can tell you all kinds of fun things to do to make your husband or Dad, king for a day at http://beautyandbedlam.com/fathers-day-ideas-king-for-the-day/  They even have a cute fathers day coupon booklet to print off located here http://beautyandbedlam.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/FathersDayCouponBook.pdf
Wondering what to cook on Fathersday?  How about a "PAPA'S PIZZA"?  This darling idea comes from the same site I found the king for a day ideas.  Thanks again.... and here is the link http://beautyandbedlam.com/celebrate-dad-this-fathers-day-with-a-papa-pizza/  Thanks Jen at beautyandbedlam.com for all the great ideas!!

Enjoy these fun Fathers Day finds!!!!!  Katie G.

Printable Note cards

Before I create a first visit card of my own, I wanted to show you a whole bunch of free sites where you can print off some darling premade cards.

These two pages of darling cards can be found this link.  Be sure to leave a thankyou note.   http://keeleyskreations.blogspot.com/2009/02/free-printable-note-cards.html

Aren't these darling and I love the message.  They print two per page and you can find them at this link: http://www.operationnice.com/2008/09/nice-assignment-gratitude-notes.html  This is a great blog about being NICE.  You should spend some time looking at this blog as they have many other "Nice" printables too.  Oh and it would be Nice if you would write them a little not to thank them for their niceness!!! 

I just found a link to this site for these darling cards to print off and give out whenever you feel like it, just to be nice! http://melissahead.com/operation_nice/kind_over_matter_cards.pdf
It is part of operation nice... can you tell! Now go out and do something nice for someone!  It is another great site for you to go to and look at.  Worth your time!  http://kindovermatter.blogspot.com

I will take some more time to add some more great printable card sites and also include some of my own creations.... BUT I must leave my house right now, but I will be back!

Katie G.

Your Hands are His hands.

Here is a handout to use either with President Uchtdorf's April 2010 General Conference talk if that is the one that you pick to use for your own Visiting teaching message for the month, or you can use it for a Visiting Teaching Centered  monthly Relief Society meeting.  One sister emailed me and asked me for ideas and I had come up with this one as I was rereading the General Conference talks.  Anyway, however you use this printable, enjoy and know that it was made with lots of love and hopes that you have a wonderful month doing your Visiting teaching.  The message on the bookmarks, comes from President Uchtdorfs talk.  For the R.S. meeting idea, go to http://visitingteachingtips.blogspot.com  Enjoy!  Katie G.