If you’ve been wondering why my posting has been so infrequent lately, part of the reason is because I’ve been all consumed with planning, following through, and picking up the pieces for our church’s Super Saturday Emergency Preparedness Fair (which we ended up calling our Back-to-Basics Bonanza). I had this big event dumped right on top of me the minute I was put into the Relief Society a month or so ago.
Sheesh.
Anyway, things are all over now. The event was last Friday and everything fell nicely into place. Have you ever been in charge of big event? I’ve done small events but nothing quite this large scale. Now I know from experience that it can be pretty overwhelming.
Because of my photoshop experience, I was able to whip up some posters, fliers and graphics for emails to help advertise our Preparedness Fair, so of course I’m going to share. I hope these will be useful for you and save you some time in front of the computer when it’s your turn.
Download here for a limited time until it goes into my shop.

I had fully intended on taking pictures of our event but because I was in charge, there were so many other things to do. So you’ll have to imagine what my signs and banners looked like hanging up in the church gymnasium. Here’s a look at my digital versions.
My poster I used for advertising:
Perfect size for printing out a Costco.

My flier for passing out at church and to friends and neighbors:
My template is for printing 2 fliers per page. Design the one side and then duplicate it for the other side. Make sense?

Here is my email insert for dressing up all the emails that had to be sent out:

I had signs hanging up at the event to help direct people and to show where each station was located:
This template is an 8.5×11 but we blew up them up a little bigger so they’d be easier to see.

And last, but not least, is my flag banner:
These were pretty big flags because we were going to be in such a big room. If you are doing a birthday party or shower would might want to have smaller flags. I just duplicated the template and add different papers for more flags. You can print out as many as you need. This banner turned out super darling and I wish I had a picture of it hanging up. I spelled out the word BONANZA and also had blank flags without letters on the sides. I also made some paper circle fans (two ways to make them here or here) to go in between banners.

I used Digital Design Essentials Generations of Love Kit for all my pieces. That way everything coordinated.
So that’s it. I’m so glad it over. If you ever have an event fall into your lap, I hope you’ll be able to utilizes some of these templates.
Later skater.