Make a fall-inspired book page leaf garland to decorate around your mantle or doorway. It’s an easy DIY project you can make in no time. Yay!
You may remember the fall-inspire book page wreath I made using this same leaf template. I traced around a plastic leaf from my fall garland onto cardstock and then used the cardstock leaf as my template to cut out all my other leaves. You can also use a leaf from one of your own trees in your yard.
Materials:
book pages
brown paper
leaf template
pen or pencil
scissors
jute cord
darning (or yarn) needle
Coffee (of course)
I have a hot glue gun pictured, but decided not to use it after all*
I bought my jute cord from my local hardware store, but they also have it at Walmart. This is a pretty hefty cord. You can get by with a much lighter ot “skinnier” cord if you like. This is what I had on hand.
Cut the desired length of cord for the area you want to hang it. I am making mine 10′ long to drape on my dining room shelves. I used a large yarn needle to thread my jute through. You can poke holes in each leaf and hand thread the jute through, but that will take much longer to do.
You can get yarn needles anyplace they sell yarn.
Because I did not cut as many brown paper leaves as I did book page leaves, I decided to thread my leaves in a pattern (3 book page leaves and 1 brown paper leaf).
I also threaded every other leaf with 2 holes and the opposite with 1 hole. I like the way the leaves laid on the cord this way (not so lined-up if you will).
I have to admit, this project took longer than I thought, but I feel that it was worth it. It just looks so beautiful hanging from my shelves, Y’all!
