Dream Book Design

DIY Fall Harvest Burlap Banner

For this craft I got my inspiration {and guidelines for cutting the pendants} from this blog. I knew I wanted to make a cute burlap banner, and I am pretty excited with the outcome:)

Process:

I started by measuring 5 in. across and 6in. down from the middle point on a piece of cardstock. Cut it out and used that as my guidelines for all 7 pendants. I used a dissolvable fabric pen and traced out the pendants on the burlap. Here you could have just as easily pinned the pendant to the fabric and cut around it, I just did this my own way.

I then ironed the pieces {since I got the burlap at SAS Fabrics they were pretty wrinkly} so that when i put them up they didn’t look like a mess

This part is where my stroke of genius came in! You all remember how terrible my L looked on my pumpkins right?! Well I decided to be smart this time and print out the letters and then trace them onto the burlap. All I did was tape the paper under the burlap on my window and trace away. SOO much easier and so much more pretty!

Next I simply filled in the letters with a handy-dandy brown sharpie. I definitely could have used fabric paint, but guess what- I had a sharpie already, which didn’t require me to A. Spend more money B. leave the house, since I did this in my PJs:) Sharpie it was!

After the letters were all filled in I Modge Podge all the pendants. This wasn’t necessary, but I think that the pendants will last a lot longer now. I had already noticed that the edges were fraying, and I didn’t want to dig this out of storage for Fall next year and only have a few strands left in place! This gave them all a sturdy feel and hopefully will prevent from any more fraying.

This is where I had J come in. I am TERRIBLE, I repeat, TERRRRRIBLE at math. Any type of math freaks me out. So I simply had him measure our fireplace and then figure out how far apart each letter needed to be from each other to be even. I highly suggest doing this because you really don’t want to get them all glued on and then realize that its not even spacing. Now for this I used Fabric-Tac, simply because I could not for the life of me find my hot glue gun. Who has a bag of about 100 sticks of glue, but no gun to be found…ugh it was frustrating. The Fabric-Tac ended up working beautifully though, so no worries. I glued the brown ball thingie {again, very professional terms used over here at Dream Book} to the front and cut off the balls {yikes} that laid on top of the pendants. I also glued on some Fall leaves with the same Fabric-Tac on the backs of each letter. Hoorraayy- it’s finished!  So easy, simple, and super cute!




You like it? Make one for your own home! It’s great because I can have this up through Thanksgiving now, since its not Halloween only themed. The best part though-
The whole project cost me a total of $4!!!! And I have enough burlap left over to make another 10 banners! I also just found an incredible deal on Fall leaves, a pack of 120 for only $10!  Best deal I have seen yet!
<3,
Adri

Comments

  2. The Pennington Point says

    You totally had me with that amazing piece in your header…it’s wonderful! These banners are so great, so easy, so inexpensive. I’ve been thinking of jumping on the banner bandwagon, but haven’t seen one I wanted to make yet. This is perfect. Thanks! Lisa~

  4. adrianne says

    Pennington Point- Thanks so much!! I hope you do make one soon-theyre too easy and cheap to not!
    Megan- Thank you so much for the comments and for featuring us! Hope your readers enjoy:)
    <3,
    Adri

  13. Joy says

    Just love this tutorial. I would have made so many mistakes had I just “winged it” from looking at the picture only. I also don’t care to do the math so I figure out where middle is on my project, bring it to where I will be hanging it and then mark on wall where the middle will go and work out from there. Not very scientific or impressive…but it works for me! 🙂

  14. Jaimee @ Craft, Interrupted says

    This banner is so charming with that pom pom trim! I love it!! I’m including your Harvest Banner in a “5 for Friday” round-up of Fall Burlap Projects at my blog this week, including one pic and a link back to this post. Thanks for sharing a great tutorial and an inspiring project! : )