Rustic Paper Ornaments

Fronts

Materials:  
Brown Kraft Paper (paper bags)
Acrylic Paint (1 color + gold, silver or bronze metallic)
 Patterned fabric 
 Hanging cord or ribbon
 Fiber filling (stuffed animal polyfill)

Equipment: 
Sewing machine or needle and thread, scissors
Exacto knife and protective cutting mat                 

Instructions:

Lay out your brown paper flat on a surface where you will paint it.

Crumple up the paper. smooth out.

Paint your base color that will show through the gold, let it dry

Paint over with metallic paint, let it dry.

Cut out shapes like stars or diamonds, two matching pieces (front and back).

Cut out peek-a-boo windows like tear-drop shapes near the middle of the front piece of each ornament, using an Exacto knife on a protected surface.

Place patterned fabric behind the cut-out's (temporarily glue edges or pin) so that the right side of the fabric shows through the front piece windows of the ornament, then over-stitch (either by hand or narrow zigzag by machine) around the edges of each cut-out area.

Put both pieces wrong sides (inner sides) together, matching edges.  Pin edges if desired.

Over-stitch (use a medium-narrow zigzag) around the outer edge of each stuffed ornament almost to the top, but leave an opening with room to push polyfill inside.

Fill to desired puffiness.

Insert ends of a fabric or string/cord loop into the opening.

Holding the opening flat, stitch the rest of the way around the top, catching the hanging cord/thread/string in the stitches.

Done! 

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