Fall Cutout Pattern & Tutorial

The framed paper leaf from yesterday's Fall is in the Thrift Stores post was so easy and cheap and got so much attention 

(poor squirrel box is now in therapy) I decided to do 

a quick tutorial and give you guys some 

fall patterns of your very own.

  

I'm temporarily replacing family photos on my desk with the fall cutouts.  The original pictures are tucked safely behind them. 

Here's a look at the before....

And, the after...

Let's get started:

Size you patterns as needed and cut the pattern and the book page at the same time.  This saves a step...

Cut the acorn in two and placed it on the page in two different directions.  Clever me.

I used burlap, scrapbook paper and crumpled sandwich bags for the backgrounds.  Here's your patterns...

Now, go have some Fall Fun!

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Fall is in the thrift stores!

So, the a-kerns are done and the temp (thank heavens) has 

dropped and I'm ready for a little fall something - something.  

I hit a few thrift stores last week just to see if I could pull something interesting together using only what junk I could find and by shopping my house.  Here are the results.....

I found the little home-make squirrel box first.  

Isn't it the cutest thing?  

It, the basket, the wooden box, the books and the 

picture frame were only $1 each.  The glass jar was 

a whoppin' $3 and the leaf wall shelf (turned upside down 

and used as a bookend) was only $2.  I shopped the yard 

and the house for everything else -- free!

 I changed the picture in the frame out for a piece of burlap 

and leaf cut out of a page in an old book.
Leaf pattern and tutorial --  *click here*.

Happy Fall!
 
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Jingle Bells Turned Acorns? -- Sure!

It's amazing the things you'll tell in a blog that you wouldn't even want your next of kin to know, but, here goes... When I saw these huge jingle bells for $2.49 at Goodwill I immediately thought ACORNS!  

 

Nuts, I know.  You've got to be wondering about me but this is just how my mind works, when it's working-- always looking at 

things in a "different" way and then 

(I couldn't stop myself if I wanted to) acting on it.  

I bought the bells along with all these other treasures, for about $15, at thrift stores, to put together a fall look for my house.  My next post, I'll show what I did with all this stuff!

Let's get started...

1. Tear a lunch bag into small pieces.

 2.  Using Mod Podge, coat small areas at a time, put a piece of paper on the area you coated,

      and brush on another coat of Mod Podge.  Repeat this process, overlapping the paper,
      until the bells are completely covered.  WARNING--This made one sticky mess.

 3.  After the bell is dry, add a "dot" of hot glue to the bottom of the acorn.  Once cooled, cover
      with paper the same as before.  This can't be done before the bell is covered because of the
      holes in the bottom of the bell.

 4.  Using dark brown acrylic craft paint, paint the "caps" of the acorn. 

 

5.   Using antique gold acrylic craft paint, paint random X's on the cap.

6.   Cut pieces of twig about 1/2" long and hot glue to top of cap.

And, there you have it...

My guess is, there are gobs of creative folks out there who think exactly the same way I do, saying to themselves, "I love that, now how can I change it!".  Leave me a comment and fess up!

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Fall Pretties

I like to tear up silk flowers.  It's easy.  It's liberating.  It's legal.  (Well, it is legal if you do it in private, completely sober, with all your clothes on.) And, it's inspiring.  

This is the third time I've been inspired by tearing up silk flowers.  You can check out the other two times *here* and *here*.

And here... I made a Fall pillow for my Mom.  She loves Fall 

with lots of Fall doo-dads.

Here are some how-to pictures:

And some of the pretty vignettes my Mother has created for Fall...

Happy Fall!

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