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This post was originally published on the Consumer Craft’s website, Crafts Unleashed.
Fall is a time for slowing down, enjoying incredible weather and time with friends! This year we started a couple of new family traditions. Today we are going to show you how to create this adorable fall…
Thankful Bucket Garland
What a perfect way to celebrate the season of fall! Each little bucket can be filled with little notes on what you and your family are thankful for!
Let’s get started with the thankful bucket garland tutorial….
Supplies Needed for Thankful Bucket Garland…
Glue Gun and Glue Sticks
Floral Wire
Adhesive Hooks
2 9ft Twig Garlands
2 6ft Oak Leaf Garlands
Chipboard Alphabet Letters
Chocoalte Brown Extra Fine Glitter
Martha Stewart Glitter Glue
Wood Spring Clothes Pins
8 Metal Buckets
Faux Maple Leaves
Burlap
Simply stretch out your two twig garlands and attach to your mantel. We used adhesive hooks. You will need to play around with the loops in the garland to get the look you want. We wired some of the loops together to get the garland to hang the way we wanted…
Take your two leaf garlands and wind them through the twig garlands. Don’t worry about bare spaces, we will take care of that in another step…
Apply the glitter to your chipboard letters { THANKFUL } using the Martha Stewart Glitter Glue and allow to dry. While they are drying, trace some leaf shapes or use a die cut machine to cut out leaf shapes out of your burlap. Glue the burlap leaf shapes to the front of the buckets with your glue gun…
Look how sweet all your buckets are after attaching all the letters with your glue gun…
Next, attach the buckets to the garland with the clothes pins…
Attach leaves with your glue gun on the twig garland where you have some bare spots…this is the fun part where you can make it your own! We also added a few burlap leaves to the garland as well…
That is it! Now your mantel is ready for the fall with this fall thankful bucket garland and what a special way to celebrate with your family!
A perfect accent for my fall decor!
We just love this time of year and hope that you can start some new family traditions with your own family and friends this year. Did you catch our other new tradition… our little “Thankful Turkey“? We would love for you to check him out!
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Very nice!! I love the before photo with all the supplies and you always have the best step by step directions! I always think, “Wow. I think I could do that,” after I read your blog!!
That is so sweet Karen! We really try to create things others can make as well!! That is a fabulous compliment!
Cute idea! I love those burlap leaves =)
<3 Christina at I Gotta Create!
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Thanks so much!
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I love garlands and this one is especially unique and cute!
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Wow, you are a muse. Beautiful mantel. Do come and share it at our linky party, at http://www.finecraftguild.com/party-3/ Our readers would love to find you.
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This is PERFECT for my outdoor mantel for Christmas. I’m doing a Cabin in the Woods Christmas theme and I’ll be adapting this for Christmas. Thanks so much for this idea.
I love this! Thank you for sharing it at the All Star Block Party. I am featuring it today.
Oh..how sweet!! thanks so much!!
What a beautiful and creative way to share your thankful thoughts as a family! I’ll be pinning this. Happy Thanksgiving!
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Thank you!! my family has really enjoyed it!!
Love this!! Featuring it on this weeks All Star Block Party:
http://www.nutmegplace.com/2012/11/all-star-block-party-25.html
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