Cómo Hacer un Muñeco con la Técnica del Cartonaje 🎨

Today, we bring you the technique of "cartonaje"! This technique is super easy because it's like putting together a puzzle. All the pieces are assembled in the same way, just as I will explain. The only difference is with the arms and nose. I'll show you how to assemble them by edging them along the border. Cartonaje consists of three main components: cardboard, foam or batting, and fabric or felt. For this project, I'm using slightly larger pieces for this part compared to the others. After cutting out all the necessary shapes, we'll glue them together using hot glue along the edges while being careful not to burn ourselves.

Pay special attention to these corners so that when we flip it over, it looks neat and tidy without any loose ends or visible corners. All pieces will follow this process; that's why it's called cartonaje since it involves working with cardboard. In my case, I'm using strawboard but you can use any type of cardboard you have available. As for gluing, hot glue works better than liquid glue in my opinion.

Now let's move on to making two arm pieces for each side which we'll join together and edge along all sides just like before. The same goes for creating a nose piece - although I only made one here, feel free to make two if you want a thicker nose piece! Lastly, don't forget about marking and edging around the face shape using a fabric marker.

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