Catholic Planner 2016

Just finished the NEW and IMPROVED Catholic Shop and Blog Planner!

This year, it’s embellished with Kelly Saints on the calendar and Divider Tabs to organize your Passwords, Blog and Social Media Stats, Guest Posts, Contributor Posts, Ad Space, Sponsor Buttons…and more!!

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Sweet ’16 with the Saints: Ushering in the New Year!

2015 was an exciting year for Arma Dei: Equipping Catholic Families with the release of several new Kelly Saints Craft Kits and our Super Saints quizzing cards (you can play actual card games with!)…just in time for the World Meeting of Families in September!

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Feast Day Fun: Holy Family!

This is one of my favorite Feast Days of the whole Liturgical Calendar!

The Feast of the Holy Family!

I’ve made a number of Holy Family/ Nativity sets over the years. This was a gift for Bill, the Christmas before we were married. The figures were loosely based on patterns I found in a magazine…and the clothing and the stable were architected improvised with limited sewing skills.

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Merry Christmas from the McConkey family

With Emily coming home on December 23rd…

our Christmas photos were pretty last minute!

…but that didn’t stop us from our customary Goofy Family Picture!

Merry Christmas from the McConkey family!

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Print-a-Present! Last Minute Gift Idea and Discount!

It’s not too late!

Print a Present!

We’ve got lots of totally Catholic, Catechism, Saint and Sacrament PACKED Craft Kits that can be purchased and printed right away for unique

One-of-a-Kind family gifts

that will be treasured for years to come!

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Kelly Saints Christmas Ornaments

Just recently, we released the Kelly Saints Blessing Cards…a craft kit to print your own stash of All Catholic Occasion Greeting Cards! With the purchase of the kit, you have permission to copy, so you can print another collection of awesome Catholic cards, add invitation envelopes and put them in a dollar store gift box…and give them to your favorite Catholic penpal or serious greeting-card-sender. Great for Grandmas who love to send hand-written notes, but can’t readily hit Hallmark.

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Reproducible…One-of-a-Kind Gifts

One of the cool features of our Cathletics Craft Kit Printables…is the fact that each kit includes permission to copy for family or classroom use!

Each one of our Cathletics Craft Kit Printables is packed with Catholic Catechism, Saints, Prayers and Sacraments…and illustrated with our own original Kelly SaintsTM   artwork

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Painted Saints Church in a Wooden Box (Part II)

Recently, I used the Cathedral Clipart Craft Kit to convert this wooden lunchbox from Michaels…into a Church for our little Painted Saints!

Check out Painted Saint Church TO GO!

Just to prove that our craft kit is versatile…and after converting a Michaels wooden barn and a Goldfish Cracker Box to a Church, I picked up a couple other boxes from Michaels to make a few different styles of Church play sets for our Painted Saints.

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Reprintable stash of Catholic Greeting Cards…at the ready? NEW Craft Kit!

Here’s our new Cathletics Craft Kit for Catholic families! These can be printed all at once to have your own stash of unique Catholic cards…for every awesome Catholic Occasion…and then some!

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Painted Saint Church -TO-GO!

I’ve been shopping for hinged unfinished boxes for an even easier Painted Saint Church

…an easy box to find at the craft store… and easy to mod-podge the Cathedral clipart!

You might remember the barn-converted-to-Church.

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