Pretty Paper Ornaments
Remember those tissue paper ornaments you used to make in Kindergarten where you cut squares of tissue paper and dip the end in Elmer's glue, dying your fingers red and green for the next year? We’re going to do a grown up version today, minus the Elmer's and tissue.
What you need
Hot glue gun
Round plastic ornamentPaintbrush
2 sheets of thin scrapbook paper or about 7 book pages cut into 1” squares. Glitter and paint in the same colorPiece of thin cardboard
What you do
Take a square of paper and wad it around the end of your paint brush. Add a dab of hot glue to the flat end and put it on the very bottom of your ornament.
Keep placing your little paper wads in a circle around your first piece, filling in bald spots as you go. I like to put them really close together. Keep going until your entire ornament is filled up.
Once your ornament is filled up and you’re happy with it, it’s time to destroy one side. Find the front of your ornament and smash it flat a little, rip out one of your wads if you need to, we just want a flat spot to glue the embellishment.
Cut out a shape from your cardboard and paint it. Once the paint is dry smear on a little glue and sprinkle with glitter. Cut little bird beak triangles from the ends of your paper strip and fold the tails in towards the center. Fold the tails to the outside again to make your little banner.
Using hot glue, glue your banner to your shape by just the tail pieces. It makes the banner pop out that way. Glue your shape to the flat side of your ornament and viola`. You are done and it was so easy!
