Leaf It All to Us
Get crafty this fall with this painted paper leaf garland. This project features pretty metallics and pastels — two unexpected color palettes that are super trendy this autumn. Create this garland as a gorgeous accessory for a mantel, table, door, window or plant… The styling options are endless! Leaf it all to us to come up with a pretty new paper garland for you to craft today…
Tools & Materials
- Cutting Machine (recommended)
- Low-Temp Hot Glue Gun
- Scissors
- Rough Bristle Paintbrushes – various sizes
- Text Weight Paper – Paper-Papers – Speckletone Kraft, FAV Shimmer Pure Gold and Shine Champagne
- Acrylic Paint – Blick Neutral Gray, Titanium White, Blue Light and Sage Blue; Martha Stewart Yellow Gold; Americana Cactus
- Sakura Gold Pen
- 1/8” Cotton Cording
Steps
- Gather the tools and materials listed above.
- Score and cut your leaves out of kraft paper using a cutting machine (recommended). If not, print the pattern directly onto paper and cut it out with scissors or an X-Acto blade.
- Paint your leaves in desired colors using large, rough bristle brushes. Tips for painting multi-color leaves: brush on a medium tone color first, moving in one direction. Make sure that the brush isn’t too wet with paint by dabbing excess paint off on a scrap piece of paper first.
- Next, brush on a brighter, lighter tone of paint in a similar color.
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12 Comments
IM TRYING TO DOWNLOAD SVG FILE FOR LEAF GARLAND, BUT IT KEEPS SAYING THE FILE IS NOT SUPPORTED? HELP
Hi Patricia,
Everything look good on our end. Could you please send a screenshot of the error message you are seeing to hello@liagriffith.com so that we may better assist you. 🙂
The link for the Speckletone “Kraft” paper is not working – can you provide the exact details for which paper it is? There are so many Speckletone papers on their site. Thank you!
Yes, here’s their updated link for the French brand Speckletone Kraft paper: https://www.paperpapers.com/speckletone-kraft-8-5×11-paper-28-70lb-text-104gsm-50-pk-dfs.html
Hey dear, Thanks for sharing such great stuff. Really, your post has just blown my mind. Simply awesome and easy to understand every part of the post with amazing directions and images. I got good inspirations from your article and I will obviously try to make like yours with my kiddo.
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Kind of a drag that we have to pay and join as a member for the leaf stencil. Doesn’t the advertising and promotions all over this page cover that cost? Beautiful work nonetheless! Thank you for the inspiration
Hi Christine, thanks for your comment. Our membership fees pay my staff (and keep the lights on!) so we can continue creating and adding to our library of 1800+ projects for our members. We do include freebies as we can and our photo and video tutorials are always free. Another perk of membership is enjoying an ad-free site 🙂 Thanks for reaching out, we always appreciate hearing from our readers!
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Elegant and Exquisite…. beautiful concept… the color combination just makes it more classy…
BTW really liked GIF pictures .. just took the tutorial to a whole new level…. 🙂
Thank you so much! The GIF was a test so we’re happy to hear our readers like it 🙂 We’ll certainly create more of them!