Harvest Your Own Home Decor
Oct 03, 2016 01:34AM ● By Family Features
(Family Features) Warm up your home with this season’s trendiest looks. Put your personal touch on your home’s decor with crafting projects that highlight the best of fall: copper detail, animal icons and pumpkins of every color, including white.
Create a seasonal tablescape or mantel decoration with these Harvest Fall Lanterns created by the crafting experts at Jo-Ann Fabric and Craft Stores. The lanterns lend a coppery sheen to complement the seasonal hues of the pumpkins and gourds. Place them atop a swatch of soft plaid for a multi-textured look that celebrates the season indoors.
For a unique outdoorsy look, piece together a birch wreath using natural supplies such as twig stems, cattail stems and foliage.
Find more harvest perfect fall home decor at joann.com.
Harvest Fall Lanterns
Skill level: Beginner
Crafting time: 3-5 hours
Supplies and Tools:
- 2 boxes fall pumpkin and gourd decorations
- 1 bottle (2 fluid ounces) cloud white paint
- Black sponge paint brush
- 2 metal and glass lanterns
- Hot glue gun and sticks
- Select two pumpkins to paint white. Paint them and let dry.
- Choose multiple sized pumpkins and gourds and attach them to the inside bottom of each lantern with hot glue to begin building a design. Add more pumpkins and gourds, and glue them to each other.
- Insert leaves and berries to accent pumpkins and fill in any empty spaces.
Birch Wreath
Skill level: Beginner
Crafting time: 1-2 hours
Supplies and Tools:
- Burlap garland
- Dark brown raffia
- Florist wire (22 or 24 gauge)
- Burlap-wrapped wreath
- Hot glue gun and glue sticks
- Wire cutters
- Beige twig stems
- Brown floral tape
- 2 pinecone pick stems
- 2 onion grass cattail stems
- 5 fall leaf foliage
- 5 bags medium birch rounds
- Craft bow out of burlap garland and dark brown raffia. Wrap wire around middle of bow and poke it into burlap wreath in desired location. Secure with hot glue.
- With wire cutters, cut twigs to length and tape together with brown floral tape. Add pinecone stems to twigs and tape together with floral tape.
- Wrap twig and pinecone stems with wire and poke wire into wreath under bow. Use hot glue to secure.
- Add cattails and fall foliage to accent. Attach to wreath in desired locations with hot glue.
- Cover remainder of wreath with birch rounds using hot glue.
