It gives me great pleasure when I can decorate my home with items I have made myself. A lot of my centerpieces and art that hang on my walls is made by me. With that being said, I also do not like to pay a bunch to decorate my home. Who does right?!
I came across a set of vintage patriotic paper medallions at a local antique store and fell in LOVE! They were pretty tattered and fragile and I knew that they would not last if I displayed them in my home.
I knew that I could make these so, I “Googled” them to find out how.
Pay no attention to all the crazy electrical cords to my ring lights on the table!🤪
Materials You Will Need:
Decorative Scrapbook Paper
Paper Cutter or Scissors
Ruler
Pencil
Hot Glue Gun
Hot Glue Sticks
Wooden Dowels (optional)
1 and 3 inch Circle Cutters (optional)
Using your ruler and your paper cutter or scissors, measure and cut 3 strips of equal width (2 1/2 inches for the smaller one and 3 inches for the larger one) and make sure all 3 strips were also equal in length – these are approximately 12 inches long.
Next, you are going to fold each strip into a fan (like we used to do when we were kids)😊
Glue the 3 “fans” together using Mod Podge making sure your folds line up. Enclose the strips into a circle (see last Picture).
Press the circle flat and squish the center together. Apply a good amount of hot glue to hold the paper into the medallion shape. Hold until glue is firm.
You can use a 1 inch and a 2 inch circle cutter to cut circles out of coordinating paper. Since I do not have circle cutters in that size, I looked around my home for something similar (a 3″ battery-operated candle and a 1″ spool of thread).
Draw a circle on around each object onto your paper and cut it out. Glue the 2 circles together using Mod Podge (I also hot glued a few buttons to mine) and then hot glue the circles to your medallion.
If you like, you can attach a wooden dowel to your medallion using hot glue like I did.
These are so cute when grouped with different sizes of medallions. I also added these sweet cardboard paper towel tube rockets to my grouping! I love them!
I hope you enjoyed this tutorial on how to make these patriotic paper medallions as much as I did. I would love to hear from you. If you decide to make a few, shoot me a picture in the comments below.
