How I Made Them: For the origami we just followed the instructions. When I finished, I used glue to secure them to folded 5x8 card stock.
They turned out really cute and it's been fun to get comments back about how much my pen pals liked getting them. They were really easy to fold so this would make a great kit for a beginner.
Inspiration: I wanted to make a small gift for someone in the Salesforce Community who is also a #PlatformChampion (former Lightning Champion) like me. I thought Astro in his Lightning suit with the lightning bolt would be perfect.
How I Made it: I took an image of Astro and used LunaPic to turn it into a Lego-ified image. Then drew it out on graph paper making some modifications along the way. I picked out embroidery floss colors based on what I had and started stitching.
What I'd change: I'm still not certain I like the background color. I made two and on one I used a dark blue but neither is really right. I don't like it just with no background because it's harder to see the little lightning bolts on the helmet and the arms are pretty pale.
