Fall Craft Ideas for Your Table

I  am so excited to share another fall craft idea! I had so much fun making these fall leaves for our family room. And this table just might be my favorite.

Next time I do a fall leaf project, remind me to wait until the trees actually have fall leaves. Somehow, I thought I could walk around our neighborhood and collect beautiful red and yellow leaves. But it’s fall in Southern California, and it feels like summer. Did I mention it was 89 degrees last week? There were no leaves at all.

Since leaf hunting was out of the question, I decided to make my own fall leaves. Should I have bought faux fall leaves to hang above our table? Probably so.

But just for fun, I painted watercolor paper, ironed it flat, and then debossed and cut out the leaves on my Cricut machine.

Piece of cake. Haha.

(By the way, scroll down to the bottom of this post to see twelve more great leaf projects!)

And don’t these leaves look amazing?  I am addicted to the deboss option on the Cricut. Look at those veins in the leaves.

What You Need to Make the Paper Leaves

Ten sheets of watercolor paper  (14o lb, 10″ x 12″)

Paintbrush and glue  gun

Acrylic Paint  (Alizarin Crimson, Warm (Cadmium) Yellow, Dark Pink, and Brown)

Cricut Machine

Fishing Line

My Cricut Leaf pattern SVG (You can download it!)

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I used these four colors to mix all my paint colors. The more limited colors you use will create a more harmonious color palette.

How to Make the Paper Leaves

Paint the sheet of watercolor with water. Then drip thinned (with water) paint on the sheets. Move around to the desired look.

Place each sheet in the sun to dry, and paint the backside of the watercolor paper.

This is what mine looked like.

Next, I found a maple leaf in the Cricut Design Store, and I made my pattern. The pattern included debossing a pattern for the veins in the leaves. If you want a copy of the SVG file with the maple leaf, just click here.

Place the dried watercolor paper on a cutting mat and be sure to use a brayer to adhere it. I used the cutting setting for 140-lb watercolor paper.

I made three sizes of leaves, and I absolutely love them. I also love that every leaf is different.

Next, I hung the leaves from our ladder chandelier in our dining room. 

I cut 72″ lengths of fishing line and attached one leaf at each end with a hot glue gun.

I varied the lengths of the leaves, and  I am thrilled with how this came out.

Don’t these leaves look like a pile of leaves from the yard?

I  also found these wonderful copper 3″ x 4″ glass frames, and I put the cut-place cards inside.

All of the fall branches in this arrangement are from Amazon Home, which can be found here. I love these colors so much!

The glasses are vintage cranberry glass. Aren’t they incredible?

Fall Craft Idea Must Haves!

Be sure and check out a fall leaf project by a group of very talented bloggers. Their projects are wonderful!

13 Fall Leaf Project Ideas

Gold Dipped Leaf Place Cards – Modern Glam

How to Make a Paper Quilt Leaf – Happy Happy Nester

Fall Craft Ideas – Jennifer Maune

DIY Gilded Leaf Pumpkins – Tatertots & Jello

Watercolour Fall Leaf Free Printable Series – The Happy Housie

Fall Craft Ideas for Your Table – My 100 Year Old Home

Pressed Botanical Art – Craftberry Bush

Outdoor Fall Tablescape with Leaves – Hallstrom Home

Fall Wood Bead Garland – Lolly Jane

DIY Leaf Pillow – Thistlewood Farms

Dinner Rolls with a Cut Leaf Design – Twelve On Main

DIY Leaf Trivet – My Sweet Savannah

The Worst Project Made with Leaves Ever – Jennifer Rizzo

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