My favorite season is officially here…autumn! Cooler temperatures, sweater weather, pumpkin spice everything, apple picking, and the colors of the changing leaves are just a few of my favorite things about this time of year. Those cooler temperatures are bringing us inside more often and I cannot wait to bring fall colors into our home. While my daughter and I were decorating for Halloween, we might have snuck a few orange and red leaves into the mix knowing they could be left up thoughout the season!
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As the weeks progress, we will be adding more brightly-colored leaves to our home and to our crafting projects. Our annual trip to the pumpkin patch will need to be documented along with all of the other fun seasonal activities we have planned. The easiest way to add a touch of fall to your paper crafts is to add a few leaves because nothing says autumn quite like the bright hues of the changing leaves! Adding just a few to your card, layout, or home decor project will instantly give it a cozy feel.
Autumn Leaf Paper Crafts
Easy Paper Crafts: DIY Leaves
The leaves you create from these paper craft tutorials can be used in all of your autumn DIY projects. Add them to wreaths, fill a decorative bowl with beautiful paper leaves, tie them on a package for some autumnal color or embellish a card with them. From simple to ornate, there are paper craft tutorials for every style.
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Paper DIY Garlands & Mobiles
I may be addicted to leaf garlands! From the one decorating my fireplace to the two (or three!) in other places throughout my home, DIY garlands are my favorite way to decorate for each season.
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Folded Paper Fall Leaf Garland
Watercolor Paper Leaf & Branch Mobile
Leaf DIY Wreaths
Welcome friends and family into your home with a paper leaf DIY wreath on your door this year. If the traditional wreath isn’t quite your style, don’t scroll on by, check out this modern monochromatic wreath that would add simple fall flair to your modern decor.
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Cards & Scrapbook Pages
Along with autumn comes fall photo opportunities. Between the pumpkin patch, apple picking, and other fall activities, there will be memories created that will need to be scrapbooked! Invitations, DIY birthday cards, and thank you handmade cards can reflect the season as well through the addition of leafy embellishments.
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Shimmering DIY Metallic Foil Leaves
Stunning Pressed Leaves Fall Artwork
What are your favorite fall paper crafts?
I started scrapping in 2006 and was quickly addicted!I was an avid scrapper until late summer of 2010 when we started our adoption journey, at that point I was overwhelmed with paperwork (and emotions!) and I had to put something on the back burner in my life but I knew I would eventually come back to it.
We welcomed our daughter home from China in December of 2011 and a few months later I found my groove again and pulled out all of those supplies that had been tucked away.
I started out scrapping again doing traditional layouts, but at the beginning of this year I jumped into Project Life and I love it!
When I’m not scrapping I am usually spending time with our daughters which means library time, going on walks, thrifting (they love it as much as I do!) or watching Kung Fu Panda for the millionth time.I also have an Etsy shop Panda Eight Designs where I sell scrapbooking flair that I design.
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