Family Photo Heirloom Ornaments

When Brittany of the House That Lars Built sponsored a heirloom ornament craft along two years ago, I purchased the ebook so I could learn how to transfer photos to fabric and participate. And then, I purchased the supplies – Bubble Jet Set 2000 and freezer paper (for crafts, I found out any old freezer paper won’t work when I thought I was out of it and ordered the wrong kind).

I started by making ornaments of my cheerleading granddaughters for one of their advent calendar presents.

And then I made some of my Missouri grandniblings to bring when we went to their house for Thanksgiving.

For Christmas that year, my Birmingham sister in law gave us a flash drive with old, mostly unlabeled photos from their mother’s side of the family.  I knew they’d be perfect for this project, and since we hosted the family Christmas get-together this year, I decided to make them as favors.

Their embellishments varied from embroidering what was already there, like ties or adding something simple like a flower to some fanciful additions like hats and crowns. If the pictures were labeled, I printed the names on the back. Guests had fun picking the ones they wanted to take. My grandniece took the relative she was named after. My nephew took the one with a crown because my daughter thought it looked like him. I worked on them for months, so it was great to see everyone enjoying them.

When I finished them, I had one more ornament to make since I have a new Missouri grandnephew, and we were headed there for Thanksgiving again this year.