Happy Fall to everyone! Today I want to share my Fall Mantel... I have had the hardest time trying to decide what to put on it this year. First, the basket pumpkins on the end, were made by from dollar store supplies. I will share the tutorial with you all next week! So stay tuned :) today I am going to show you what I did to make my banner. I wanted something simple {meaning not time consuming}. So I came up with this idea!
Supplies
Paper grocery bag
!glitter!
Elmer's glue
string of beads / ribbon (to hang the banner on)
clothes pins
Start by carefully opening up the paper bag on its seams, where it was glued.
Next trace your pattern on the inside of the bag.
I like to use paper plates when I glitter. I find that it helps to keep the glitter more in one spot.
Take your Elmer's glue, and along the edge of the bunting trace with glue.
Then sprinkle glitter on the glue. Continue doing this all the way around the bunting. Set aside to dry.
Now for the owls. I was going to go a different route with them, which is why I cut out thier wings too. But instead I ended up doing the same thing as the bunting. I traced the body of the owl and the wings with the emlmer's glue and then sprinkled them with glitter.
You should now have pieces that look like this.
(for some reason I know I had more pictures, but they are all GONE!)
For the faces of the owls, I took the Elmer's glue and drew circles for the eyes and an upside down triangle for the nose and glittered it with a different color glitter.
Take your bunting pieces and write the word's or letters that you want in Elmer's glue.
Now glitter the words {letters}!
I taped the owls to the strand of beads and used clothes pins to hold the Happy Fall Ya'll to the beads.
I like my mantel, simple for fall!
I got the light strand going across at Joann's. It is supposed to give a candy corn effect, it does a little.
The leaves are from the dollar store.
I would love to have some of these
candle holders for my mantel someday....
Then I wish I had a fireplace like my mom so I could pick out a
screen for our fire place.
Maizy Peas enjoying the warmth of the fire this morning.
Hope you are enjoying Fall as much as I am!
::{Happy Fall Ya'll}::
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Tomorrow I let everyone know who they get to send a mug to, it's a great way to get to know each other and to meet other bloggers.
xoxo
Heather
