DIY Fall Table Runner

Making a Fall Table Runner might be fun, so I pulled out my leaf stamps and made this DIY runner.

Every once in a while, I make intelligent decisions. I had planned to sew the fall table runner, but then I remembered I had seen one for sale online. It was perfect. It had a ruffle on it, was adorable, and it was very inexpensive ($11.99)!

DIY Table Runner

I was inspired when I received the Iron Orchid Designs Fruitful Harvest collection featuring apples, pumpkins, and leaves. My mind began spinning with all the fun projects I could make with these stamps.

A few years ago, I made a warm apple pie with a decorative pie crust stamped with the Iron Orchid Designs Fruitful Harvest stamp. It turned out beautifully, exactly as I had pictured it. Of course, this fueled my enthusiasm to do another project right away.

So, I made this fall table runner last year. I was looking for a new idea for my fall table and thought this would be perfect.

I purchased the inexpensive but darling white table runner online. It was the perfect length for my table and had a super cute ruffle on each end. After giving it a quick iron, I was ready to transform it from a plain white table runner to a spectacular fall table runner.

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Fall Table Runner DIY

Iron Orchid Designs

You all know how much I love to craft, and I am always looking for new ideas that look amazing and are not hard to do. Iron Orchid Designs has the most incredible crafts and DIY products. Their designs are so creative; they are a company of wonderful people, and their products will quickly help you discover amazing new DIYs and crafts.

If you go to the IOD website, you will find “DIY tools and tutorials to inspire your creative soul.” They have decor moulds, decor stamps, and decor transfers to make fabulous items for your home. I am sharing how I used their stamps to make this fall table runner.

Where can you buy Iron Orchid Designs products? Just click here to find a retailer near you! (You can also order online from some of the retailers.)

I used the Fruitful Harvest Stamp for this DIY project. Some IOD retailers still sell it online.

I love it when I have a crazy idea, and it works!

Materials Needed for this Project

• Iron Orchid Design Fruitful Harvest Stamp or Maple Palm Leaves from Amazon
• Scissors
• Table Runner
• Ink and Stamp pad
• Acrylic paints – I used light green, Alizarin Crimson (red/pink), purple, warm yellow, and white and mixed the colors to match my salad plates.

The stamps from Iron Orchid Designs come in a sheet, so give them a light sanding to prepare them for the paint.

Once the stamps were cut out and lightly sanded, I laid out some fabric before I applied the ink to determine where I would place them. I also did a few test stamps to ensure I had enough ink and to determine how to paint them.

Every single stamp looked perfect, and the painting was easy! You can make this!

How to Make a Fall Table Runner

• one – Iron Orchid Designs ink comes in a bottle separate from a blank ink pad so that you can refill the ink pad as needed and not waste ink! You drizzle the ink onto the pad and it absorbs, easy peasy!
• two – Cut the stamps individually from the sheet.
• three – Push the stamp into the ink pad to coat the entire stamp evenly.
• four – Gently place the stamp on the fabric and use your finger to apply medium pressure to the area of the leaf.

• five – Continue to stamp the leaf patterns down the center of the runner.
• six – You can see from the photo that the design was sporadic and done quite loosely!
• seven – Once finished, let the ink dry for about 30 minutes.
• eight – Mix paints to match the colors of your table. I matched the colors to the salad plates I selected for my table. I mixed more colors than I needed and only used four colors – warm yellow, light green, pink, and purple.

• nine – I painted the runner in thirds. I had a paintbrush for each color and did one color at a time. I added the yellow paint first and just painted it sporadically like I thought it might look on a fall leaf. I thinned the acrylic paint with water for each color but ensured it wasn’t too thin. You don’t want it to run or bleed after being painted.
• ten – I painted the purple once I was done with the yellow. Next, I added pink.
• eleven – I painted green last.
• twelve – Here is a close-up of one of the leaves. Don’t worry about painting them perfectly. Just have fun!

• thirteen – Here is another close-up. As you can see, the paint was added very loosely.
• fourteen – The finished runner looks amazing.
• fifteen – Let the runner dry.
• sixteen – Iron the white table runner using a thin cloth to seal the paint in the fabric. Lay on the table and enjoy!

Here are the dishes and charger I chose to set the Thanksgiving table. The colors in the salad plates helped me choose the colors to paint the leaves. I found these gorgeous plates at a flea market a while back—ten plates for just over $30!

One of the things I love most about DIYs is that I customize what I am making. In this case, I used the colors in the plates and headed to the grocery store to see what flowers I could find to complement them. I added my cranberry glass, which looks amazing with the new fall table runner.

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I love the ruffle on this table runner. Look how wonderful the painted leaves look!

I love that the colors are a nod to fall but not traditional fall colors. I might use this in November.

This is a great project to try if you are a timid crafter. Stamping and painting the inside of the stamp is easy. There is no right or wrong; stay inside the lines.

Or not.

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