JFlah's Blunders

Did a lot of these this year... I've got three for sale right now [Winter Birds, Christmas Morning Raggedy Ann, and Ornamental Reindeer] Still have a lot of uncompleted ones in a box if anyone wants to start a new tradition at their house next Christmas. I make them with a reinforced hang tag and often embellish or change a few things so they're not exactly like the kit requires. Super fun, but I think I'm done for a while. Going to focus on writing again. Depending on complexity, these take 15-25 hours to complete, but they're so special, they've been worth the time for family members.

This week's sermon title slide was a lot of fun to put together. Pulled images from several places to make the box work and then I pulled images to create the environment for the box before working on the text and such. Will probably work on the text layout a bit more - am not fully satisfied with the font choice or layout just yet, but it's very close. Started with this image and a title earlier this afternoon: Just a squashed old box photo. Ended with this: This is the "almost" final rendering. Will be working a bit more on the text layout, but the background is pretty much done. Was fun to find the box, choose a pattern for the wrapping paper, warp that paper to fit. Most difficult part was deciding on the color scheme. The most fun was making the bow fit and putting the shadows on there in a believable manner. Not really satisfied with how the box doesn't quite seem grounded on the wood, but it's not so obvious that I am overly concerned about...

I'm typically in search of people who like to wear handmade items, especially crochet and knitted items. This is a project I did recently for one of those stylish people.   These are for a person who always makes me smile. She said her favorite colors are blue and green so I went to Walmart and found some pretty yarn. Had to use a tiny crochet hook since the gauge of the yarn was tiny, but the final pieces turned out great. I hope she loves them even half as much as I enjoyed making them for her. Here's a link to the pattern I used for the "neck warmer" one pictured here with the buttons and the pendant. Here's a link to the pattern used for the infinity scarf.