Jumping in the Clouds!

I LOOOOOOOVE my calling in the Young Women's program!

I work with amazing women!

We love our amazing girls!

We get to create amazing projects like THIS!

My friend Sharilyn really knows her stuff with the camera!

(I keep begging her for lessons)

She took pictures of our girls jumping with whatever kind of backgrounds

off a little trampoline 

the church gym

someone's family room

etc.

Then she photoshopped a new background to make all the photos look like 

THIS

Wow, our newest little Beehive, Ashley is flexible!

I'm not gonna lie

I was super worried that the picture quality would be compromised when we blew them up to 8 x 10's

My first glimpse of the photos as I'm walking through Costco...

I was beyond THRILLED with the quality

AND

with how Sharilyn had used a different cloud background with every single photo!

The pictures are SO FUN!!!

Well then we wanted to do something extra special with them

Here's Ann, a creative genius and our president extraordinnaire

We painted the edges of regular 8 x 10 canvas boards with 

acrylic craft paint

So that they'd look like this.

(hi, little finger in photo)

Then we trimmed just a tiny bit off the edges of the photos so that 

the brown edges would show in the front just a little bit

and DECOUPAGED them onto the canvas!

I even love the streaky effect the decoupage created.

Added a ribbon bow so the girls could hang them up and

VOILA

An extra special gift for the girls at our 

Young Women In Excellency

and

New Beginnings program!

My family is so spread out everywhere now....

we will likely NEVER get another family photo of all of us together

*insert huge frowny face here*

But after seeing how adorable these turned out

I thought having each of our far-away children take jumping (or anything really) 

photos of themselves and their families

and we could STILL create a wall of updated family photos 

with matching backgrounds!

I'm so excited about the possibilities!

Here are links to more of how we created our New Beginnings and Young Women in Excellency program!

{Leap into Young Womens Glittery Cupcakes}

{Arise and Shine Forth Young Women's blocks}

I would love to hear about some of the projects you've created for your Young Women's program!