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Handcrafted Holiday ~ Paper Ball Ornaments
The kids and I have been making ornaments for the tree for about two weeks now. I can't wait to show you the files of the sweater mice... but I can't figure out how to upload the PDF file I made for the pattern. If anyone has ideas I would love them. ;)

The other day on our advent calendar tag was 'making paper ball ornaments'. I saw a picture in a book (or on the net) of these and I thought they were just beautiful! They have been in my head ever since. Of course, I had stick with my theme and find a way to make them recycled. So I found the perfect medium... Old calendars!

Georgia O'Keeffe and Sulamith Wulfing were my two top choices from our stash of old calendars, but the kids favorite was Mary Engelbreit. She has some really neat patterns around the outsides of her calendar pages that make very fun ornaments!

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  • How to make a bauble. Paper Ball Ornaments - Step 1
    Step 1

    Cut a bunch of 3 inch strips off the calendar picture. You can either keep them in order (so the ball has a distinct picture on it), or you can mix them up.

  • How to make a bauble. Paper Ball Ornaments - Step 2
    Step 2

    Take 5 or so and punch them with the hole punch on both ends like the picture above. Then, still holding them in your hand, put the brad, but do not butterfly. Do the same with the remaining paper strips until you have a little stack with brads at both ends. When you have quite a few, then butterfly the brad so they stay secure.

  • Step 3

    Slowly spread them out, like so:

  • How to make a bauble. Paper Ball Ornaments - Step 4
    Step 4

    Arrange them how you want being careful not to rip the strips and viola!

  • How to make a bauble. Paper Ball Ornaments - Step 5
    Step 5

    We are tying fishing line to the brad at the top of each ornament and then putting Christmas tree hooks through the fishing line. They are making a BEAUTIFUL addition to our recycled tree!

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Smadar R.
Smadar R.
Valery, there seems like one step is missing between step 4 and 5: how to you go from the 5 stripes ornament to the 10 stripes one? do you glue them?
Any how this is beautiful and I'll definitely use it
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