Handmade French Christmas Postcard Ornaments

My taste in decor varies so much. I love rustic, of course I have to right? I live in a log cabin. I also love chippy, shabby farmhouse goodness too.   The ornaments I made today fall into the latter category.  

  I decided to use some of my fabric scraps to create Christmas ornaments.   I had red ticking, tan ticking and creamy white duck cloth fabric leftover from making pillow covers.   I started out by choosing two French Christmas postcard images  and printing them directly onto the duck cloth. There's a full tutorial here on how to use freezer paper and your printer to print onto fabric.  

Next, I cut the fabric with the printed images,

along with the ticking fabric into 5.5"x 4" rectangles

and cut pieces of batting slightly smaller.

 



 

I made two sets of ornaments.

One set has red ticking on the back and the other set has tan ticking on the back.

 

I also cut 4 matching lengths of twine to use as hangers.

  I stitched around the outside edge of each ornament creating little pillows with frayed edges.  

  You may be able to use a no sew heat adhesion product to achieve the same result if you don't sew.  

  These ornaments would look cute hanging on cabinet door knobs...  

 

...they would even work as bowl fillers...

  ...and of course, you can hang them on your Christmas tree.     Do you suffer from liking more than one decor style also, or is it just me?     'til next time,     Linking to: The Hankful House Knick of Time The Newlywed Pilgrimage Between Naps on the Porch