Country Christmas Ornament
By Shauna Berglund-Immel

Decorate your tree with these elegant ornaments, or give them as gifts! The Paper Pizazz® Nested Shapes #2 template makes it so easy to create dozens of beautiful and different ornaments–just mix and match the template shapes to come up with your own custom ornament patterns. You can also use the template and your favorite patterned papers to create card focals, gift package tags or embellishments for your scrapbook pages!

To create this Country Christmas Ornament, Shauna traced the template onto coordinating Christmas papers, then mounted them with foam tape to make a dimensional ornament. She used a black pen to outline each shape and to add faux stitching around the edges.

Supplies:

• Paper Pizazz® 8"x8" Christmas Papers: Red texture, solid tan, green paisley, Christmas plaid and green texture papers and artwork
• 1/8" hole punch
• jute
• black pen
• Scotch® Brand Foam Mounting Tape
• glue stick

Instructions:

1. Trace shape 3-A from the template onto red texture paper and cut out. Mat on solid tan paper and cut around the shape, leaving a 1/16” border of tan. With a black pen, trace against the edges of the red texture shape onto the tan mat. Use the pen to add stitch marks along the edges of the red texture shape.
2. Trace shape 3-B onto green paisley paper and cut out. Mat on solid tan paper and cut around the shape, leaving a 1/16” border of tan. Use the black pen to trace against the edges of the green paisley shape onto the tan mat. Add stitch marks along the edges of the green paisley shape. Use foam mounting tape to secure the shape centered on the red texture shape from step 1.
3. Trace shape 3-C onto Christmas plaid paper and cut out. Mat on solid tan paper and cut around the shape, leaving a 1/16” border of tan. Trace against the edges of the Christmas plaid shape onto the tan mat with the black pen. Add stitch marks along the edges of the Christmas plaid shape. Use foam mounting tape to secure the shape centered on the green paisley shape from step 2.
4. Trace shape 3-D onto green texture paper and cut out. Mat on solid tan paper and cut around the shape, leaving a 1/16” border of tan. Trace against the edges of the green texture shape onto the tan mat with the black pen. Add stitch marks along the edges of the green texture shape. Use foam mounting tape to secure the shape centered on the Christmas plaid shape from step 3.
5. Cut out the star shape from the artwork. Use foam mounting tape to secure the star centered on the green texture shape from step 4.
6. Punch a hole in the top of the red texture shape from step 1. Cut a length of jute and run one end through the hole, then knot the loose ends together to form a loop.

Love the Nested Shapes #2 template? Try using the original Nested Shapes template for even more options and more variety in your ornaments and other paper crafts!