Fall in Florida

The first project I created was my letter A.

I bought a paper mache letter from my local craft store and covered it with the burlap paper.  I was amazed how well the burlap paper cut and adhered to my letter with the mod podge.  A few fussy cut flowers and a tag were the perfect finishing pieces to my project.

My next project was my tree.  As easy as it looks this was not the original intent!  I started by spraying my jar with gold spray paint (and now I am addicted to spraying everything). I then gathered sticks of various lengths.  I originally had cut leaves to put on my trees, but they didn’t give me the look I wanted.  The tags though were perfect to hang from the branches.  I did hot glue the string to the branches so that they wouldn’t go everywhere and would stay where I wanted them.

My final project was my wreath and this came together because I had those pretty leaves cut and I wanted to use them for something.

I wrapped my wreath in strips of torn material.  I used the bags from the collection to make my flowers. (Rolling flowers is much easier if you lightly spray your paper first with water or even mists.)

The gold foil paper is thicker but worked well in my dies to cut the fringy flowers. I used my leaves to fill in the areas around my flowers (both made and fussy cut). A 3×4 card tucked behind the flowers gave the perfect pop of color and theme to my wreath.

My sentiment at the top with another flower was the finishing touch.