Leafy collage

Want to make a fun leafy collage?

First of all, you take a piece of sturdy cardboard.

Cut a piece of fabric that is one inch larger, than your cardboard.

Go through your autumn colored fabric scarps, and pick out some pretty leaf colored fabrics.

Cut out a bunch of leaves.

Arrange your leaves on the fabric, making sure to keep a one and a half inch border all the way around your leaf design. Have fun with this! There is no right or wrong way to arrange your leaves!

Put a dab of hot glue on the back of each leaf, to fasten it to the fabric.

Pick out some pretty colors of embroidery floss, and stitch around the leaves with a needle and thread. If you are in a hurry, you can use your sewing machine, using a pretty stitch.

I left a few of the leaves alone and did not stitch them.

Secure these leaves with a bit more glue, using my hot glue gun. If you have fabric glue, this works well, too.

Using a cool iron, carefully run the iron over your finished collage.

Cover your cardboard with your collage. I simply taped the fabric around the cardboard, on the backside. (no one will see, right?!)



I got a little carried away with the leaf cutting, so I have a few leaves left over. I am going to make a banner with these.



I plan on having my kids help out with this one. We are going to collect leaves (real ones) and use them to dip in fabric paint, and stamp the individual pieces of fabric that will attach to the banner. We will mix these in with the fabric leaves for a fun effect. Come back later on this week, to see what we came up with!

Happy leaf hunting!