Acorn Autumn Burlap Banner

In case you missed that autumn is here, NOW you know. Because this Acorn Autumn Burlap Banner is announcing it to YOU! 🙂

Do you remember in the Winans giveaway post I told you they sent me some empty burlap bags that their coffee beans come in?

And how I wanted to craft something with them? And it’d probably be later than sooner?

{And they sell the bags in their shops if you want to craft, too!}

I had some craft stuff out and I kept thinking about those burlap bags.

Finally, I marched upstairs and I sorted through them and I carried one back down to the basement with me.

I kept noticing the pennant banner my daughter made last year. Hmmm. Burlap pennants perhaps?

But, then I thought about my acorn cookie cutter and how burlap looks like autumn and maybe an acorn banner????!

So, I gave it a go.

I traced around my cookie cutter with a brown marker. The marker I grabbed happens to be a dry erase marker. It worked fine. You could use any marker.

Then I cut it out. {With my pretty gold-handled scissors my sister gave me once-upon-a-time.}

 

I liked the brown edge of my tracing showing and left it.

Now. What will add a pop to my acorns?

LETTERS!! I can incorporate my handlettering.

I decided to spell out AUTUMN.

{More on the lettering below}

Once the lettering was finished,  I grabbed my favorite stapler and stapled my acorns to my jute twine string to make them into a banner.

This stapler uses tiny brass staples. Love them!

You can order these staplers from my friend’s Etsy shop, here.

I love it for gift packaging and creating. I also use it for my cupcake liner flowers in this post.

Done and Done!

Would you like some acorn cookies to go with your acorn banner? Hop to this post.

I tried it a few places and left it draped on my wheat wreath.

A closer look at the letters.

I started working on “PRAISE.”

I used paint pens for the letters.

I wrote my letter with a gold paint pen and then outlined it with a black one. The outlining made the letters stand at attention.

You can find paint pens here.

My paint pens are oil-based and I used medium point for this project. I have fine point paint pens, too.

The gold one is metallic.

Here’s a look at some of my burlap bags from Winans.

This one is hanging in my upstairs landing room right now. I like it there!

This is another design and I have a couple more ideas of some fun things to do with them.

And one more look at the Burlap Banner!

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