Autumn Banner How To...

Hi! 

Thanks for stopping by!

Today I want to show you a little project that took 4 things to make,

 and literally just 6 minutes from start to finish!

I was at Michael's Crafts earlier this week, and they had these muslin covered cardboard pieces on sale for a dollar!

Well, I knew I wanted to make some type of fall banner like the ones I've seen in the Pottery Barn catalog, so using that as my inspiration, I made my own version. 

All I used were the fabric covered banner "boards", a sharpie, some letter stencils, and a spool of black ribbon.

Ok, I'll show you how...

 I used some Martha Stewart stencils that I had in my craft supplies...

 Mine came two letters per card, so I cut them in half because they are much easier to work 

with that way.

 As usual, I just eyeballed it. 

Seriously, I never. measure. anything.

 Traced the outline with a Sharpie, and filled them in. 

Easy peasy, lemon squeezie!

Then I laid them all out and used a spool of back ribbon to string them all together. 

 I didn't have a pumpkin stencil, so I just free-handed the pumpkins with vines and leaves. 

They turned out better than I expected. 

 The ribbon I used had a tiny wire in it, so I curled it around my Sharpie at the ends.

I will give you one blurry shot of it hanging on the mantel, but I am still in the process of changing that out for fall, so I will so a mantel post with close ups when it's finished!

Have a great day!! 

xo-Lisa

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