Saw it. Pinned it. Did it. - Burlap Banner

Teach a man to fish and he'll eat for days.

Give a Southern girl a yard of burlap and a roll of twine, and she's set for life.

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While I would have LUH-HUVVVED to recreate the Christmas tree, the fireplace, the furniture and just about everything else in this picture, the only thing I could even remotely come close to recreating is the burlap "NOEL" banner. I'll get around to re-creating everything else...one day...

Fortunately, I had some extra burlap, red paint, and an entire roll of twine just lying around so this project cost me zero dollhairs. (Thank the crafting Gods!)

What you'll need:
Burlap
Twine
Letter Stencils
Red or black paint
Sponge brush
Hot glue gun

Decide what word you want your banner to say and print out your letters out on paper (cardstock is better than regular paper and my letters were size 550). Cut the letters out from your paper. This is what you will use as your stencil so try to be as precise as possible when cutting them out.

Measure and cut out the banner pieces from your burlap. You may want to draw your banner template on card stock and use that as your banner stencil so that each piece of your banner is the same size.

Center the stencil on the burlap and hold it in place while you paint in your stencil. Make sure you have something behind the burlap because the paint WILL seep through! Let your paint dry (shouldn't take long) and set aside while you work on the remainder of your letters.

After you have done this with all your letters, hot glue the banner pieces to a piece of twine that fits comfortably across your mantle, measuring evenly between each letter. (I put about a 1.5" space between each letter).

Hang from your mantle (or in my case, our window since our mantle is currently "under construction") and bask in all it's burlappy glory!

...and then go off and make one for every occassion...

Now I'm really gonna be pissed if we aren't in our new house by Christmas. Come hay or high water this banner WILL be hanging from our mantle this year...whether it's done or not! ;)

PS: it is pure coincidence that Katie and I both made some type of festive banner. I swear.

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