I got the idea to make the plates above last year. They are supposed to be a tree made with our 4 boys handprints. The ornaments are thier fingerprints, and the star their thumbs. The trunk is Brandon and my thumbs. We made them for our moms for Christmas this year. I wish I would have gone gradually darker up the tree. I went lighter, darker, lighter darker. They still turned out cute enough, and Brandon ended up traveling to Vegas in early December so he was able to carry them on the plane.
The ornaments below are something I've wanted to do for a few years. I saw someone who had some similar a few years back, and I loved them. I love to collect nativities and anything that reminds me of why we celebrate Christmas. These different names of the savior were perfect. I tried to make some other balls with cricut cut snowflakes, but they didn't turn out as well, and for some reason I kept knocking them on the ground and breaking them. I made only 4 or 5 and broke 2. Sad because I broke them after sticking the snowflake on them, and that wasn't easy because I had to sneakily cut here and there to make the flat snowflake fit the round ball. They didn't work as I had hoped. I wanted them to match other balls I had on my tree. Ooh, I just got an idea, maybe I could make them and put them inside a ball. That's an idea for next year though.

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