Dream, Create, and Share: Visiting Teaching Handout for February 2016

Our sister's in our church monthly visits our sisters and present a spiritual message and check on their personal welfare. This month's is on Marriage is ordained of God.

After reading the message this is a handout idea that came to mind.

As a couple works individually towards the Lord, they also get closer to each other. This handout is interactive and shows how they achieve this. You can use this idea for your visiting teaching if you wish.

First I cut a piece of blue card stock in half longwise.

Then I die cut a heart out where I wanted the fold line to be. I did not want to cut through the whole way so I positioned my cut plate only over the part I wanted to cut.

I then folded at the bottom of the cut out.

This left a space at the bottom back that was longer than the front, this is because the people attatched later kind of hang down past the edge.

I then used a die to cut out figures representing a man and a woman.

I copied the part of the message that went with his handout and pasted to the inside of the card

On the cover of the card I punch 3 holes using a 1/16th inch hole punch as shown in image.

I then punched two holes in each figure as shown. They are slightly angled on purpose as they will be sliding up the string on an angle.

I then cut string about 18 inches long and threaded through the top holes in a figure

try to center mid way on string

then thread top piece through hole on top of card

and the lower piece through the bottom side hole on card

turn card over and pull string end towards top of card trying to keep them even

tie in a knot at the top hole as shown

then pull leftover string towards bottom of card and knot off two pieces together

this will be your pull cord to lift figure closer to the lord.

I then made a small tab to put over to keep it on the side of each person so the strings didn't get tangled.

Thread other figure onto card as done for first figure but on the other side of card, going through the same top hole.

Finish off the same as for first string

Turn card over and gently pull figures to the bottom of the card

I then used a small piece of pop up adhesive to attach a heart to each figure, being careful to NOT cover the string

Then I printed a small image of the Savior , die cut it out with a circle punch and attached it to the front of a larger heart

On the back of this heart I added several pop ups and then adhered to top of card, centering inside the die cut card base heart and being careful, again, not to stick to the strings.