Fall Burlap Banner

Fall is by far my very favorite season of all time!!!  I'm lucky if I can wait until Sept 1st to pull out my fall decorations most years!  :)  This year was no exception!  After setting everything out, my mantle just looked so plain so I decided to make a banner.  I'm pretty addicted to banners on the fire place now and think I need to make one for every holiday & season! 

I still have a few yards of various colors of burlap and a roll of twine and I just went to Home Depot the other day and got some fall colored paints so I was all set!

 

I cut the burlap into 5" x 6" pieces and picked the Rustler font for the letters.

I thought 4 squares would look a little too plain so I decided to paint maple leaves on burlap for each end of the word.

 

 

I just love these sample bottles of paint that you can get at Home Depot for less than $3!!!  A bottle of this stuff actually lets me do several projects and I love not having huge cans of paint cluttering up our already cramped garage!

On my last trip to HD I had originally picked out 12 colors that I wanted to get samples for but wanted ot get some other things too so I decided to take it down to 6 so hubby wouldn't be as upset with me!  :) 

 

 

 

I love a more rustic look so I didn't want to sew the burlap so I used clothespins to attach the burlap to the twine and I love the way it turned out!!!

Here's our fall mantle:

My Scentsy burlap banner

 

I am having a Scentsy booth at the Coos County Fair in Oregon next week and I'm frantically getting things together and trying to figure out how I want to decorate my booth.  I found this super cute eyelet ruffled tablecloth (well, it's actually a bedspread but I'm using it for my table) at a flea market type store in town for $15 and fell in love!  It doesn't really go well with my black Scentsy tablecloth so I set out to make a burlap banner to hang from the front table.

 

I cut burlap into about 5" x 6" squares (they don't have to be perfect, that's the beauty of the project).

I then googled "star template" and printed it out and painted white stars onto each piece.

 

Next I printed out the word using the "MTF Jumpin' Jack" font which you can download for free HERE.

I cut out each letter and used it as a stencil.

 

 

I used a multi-purpose acrylic black paint (Martha Stewart) to paint on the letters.

 

 

When it was all dried I took some twine and thread it through each piece so I could hang it from my table.  I think it turned out awesome!  Can't wait to set my booth up!!