DIY Fall Harvest Burlap Banner

Burlap Harvest 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!

<3,

Adri

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