These 7 Cozy Fall Decor DIYs Are Too Cute to Miss!

Hey everyone, welcome or welcome back to my channel. Today I've got some fall DIYs to share with you that I think you're really going to enjoy. So, if you want to know how to make them, stick around. I'll show you how. Thank you so much for being here. I really appreciate it. Alright, next one. For this one I'm using one of the little watering cans from Michaels. And I'm going to spray paint it with a silver metallic paint. After that's dried, I'm going to take some burnt umber, some white paint and black paint. And I'm going to distress this. Now I'm going to start with a chip brush and the white paint. And I'm going to put a pretty heavy dose on this one. This will give it a more of a rustic look, but you do want to take the time to put quite a bit of the white on here. And then we'll go back over and add some of the two other colors just to kind of finish this out. We're just trying to make this look like it's a real vintage can. And then I'm coming in with some black paint. I'm going right over the white. I'm not doing it quite as heavy. I'm just kind of doing it lightly just to kind of give it a little bit of a contrast. And then you can kind of just take your paintbrush and just kind of soften up all the areas that you just painted. Next I gave you the pattern in the description below and we're just going to cut this out. Now this is going to be for a mini scarecrow that's going to sit inside the picture. So cut it out and then we're just going to cut it out of just some brown felt or some tan colored felt. Just make sure that that one inch square measures one inch when you finish printing it just to make sure that you did get it the correct size. You want to make sure that you aren't printing to default but you want to print to actual size. And then this part right here is going to be the top part of your hat and then the other one is going to be the brim of your hat. So just get them cut out and then we'll start putting it together. Easiest way to cut the center out is just to fold it over and then all you have to do is cut a half circle. And this is the easiest way to get that circle pretty round. The larger notch is for the top of the hat and then the smaller one is for the bottom. And you're just going to take your fabric, fold it over and then you're going to go all the way up to the edge of that little notch. And just try to make sure that you get your hat pretty straight right here and then just do a bead of glue right down the center. Next you're just going to cut a little quarter inch strip just big enough just to go around the bottom part of that hat. We're going to start gluing this in right along the bottom edge starting in the back where the seam is all the way down to the other side. Just kind of glue it on. This is going to be the little ledge that's going to hold our brim on. And I didn't give you a pattern for this. This is just a little quarter inch strip of the felt that you just cut by hand. And then you're just going to glue it right to the back where that other one started. Then just pull your brim right over the top part and it'll sit on that ledge and then we'll start gluing that in here in just a little bit. And next I'm going to take a two inch styrofoam ball. You can get these at Hobby Lobby, Michaels and Amazon even has them. And we're going to cover this with a piece of burlap. But since you can see the ball right through the center of it I am going to paint this with a kind of a caramel colored paint. So that you won't be able to see the white styrofoam ball through it. Next I'm going to cut my burlap into like a circle shape. And it doesn't have to be perfect just kind of get it rounded. And then we're going to measure this at about five and a half inches in diameter. And then we're just going to put it right around the face of the styrofoam ball. Kind of smooth it out. You just want the face part to be smooth. Don't worry about the back part being wrinkled. It's all going to be covered up with the hat and the rest of the fabric. So just make sure that you do get the face part smoothed out. And just really try to pull it as tight as you can so you can get it pretty flat on the back of the ball. And if you have any that's sticking up after you get it glued down just kind of trim it off. We're going to add a little bit of stuffing to our hat. You don't want too much. I ended up putting a little bit too much then the little ball wouldn't fit in there. So I'll show you here about how much you need and how far to push it down. Just kind of push your way up in there and that's about how much you need. Just kind of get the ball put up in there and kind of pull it down until all the wrinkles are hidden. And then we're going to put a little bit of glue in here just to hold the hat on. Just be sure before you glue it in that the seam of the hat or the back of the hat is in the back of the head. And we're just using a little bit of spot glue all the way around just to hold this together. I'm going to cut a pool noodle to fit inside my container. I just want it right up against the edge of the very top before you get to the spout part. And just cut the back of it off because you won't fit it in there if you don't. Now you could use floral foam for this if you want to. And then I'm going to take a quarter inch by six inch dowel stick and I'm going to sharpen one end. And put it up into our styrofoam ball kind of like a neck area. And that's what's going to hold it into our pool noodle. For the eyes I got these little doll eyes from Amazon. And I'm just going to put them right up towards the top part near the hat. And I'm just going to kind of space them apart maybe about a half an inch or maybe three quarters of an inch. And I'm not going to glue these in. They just stay into the styrofoam just perfect. For the mouth I'm using some embroidery floss. And I would use a needle threader to thread this through your needle because it is so thick. And I'm using the full strand of this. It just makes it a little bit easier to thread. And I'm going to tie a knot at the end of my embroidery floss. Just like two little knots right there. And you're going to see it on the mouth but we're going to finish it out on the opposite side and it's going to blend just perfectly. For the nose I'm just using a little pom pom. It's kind of a peach colored pom pom. And I'm just gluing it right into the center. Next to give him some little cheeks I'm just taking some Tim Holtz Distressing Ink in an orange color. And I'm just going to go around in circles just to give him some little cheeks right there. For his mouth I'm just kind of coming up right below the cheek. And I'm going to cut that little string right off that little knot right there. And I'm just going to go in and out of the face of it just to give it a little smile. Just going to kind of push it through there and then give it a little smile. Just kind of take your time on this. You're going to do several stitches. And then when you get to the opposite end we're just going to tie this off into a knot. I'm just going to kind of run it through there and then run it through my loop right there and then just cut that off. And I'm going to do it a couple of times. Next for his arms I'm just taking a two and a quarter inch piece of fabric strip. And I'm going to fray the edges of it just to kind of get all the little strings off of it. Just kind of spend a little bit of time just getting these all off of here. And kind of figure out how long you want his arms. I'm just kind of draping them over here. And then I ended up cutting this at about nine inches in length. I'm going to add two pipe cleaner to the center of it so I have some flexibility. Just kind of roll it up and we're just going to glue this over just like that. It doesn't have to be perfect. The more frayed looking it is the better it looks. And then we're just going to put this right underneath his head and bend it over onto both sides of our little canister. So it's going to sit in there about like this. But before we glue that in we're going to take another piece of fabric and we're going to wrap it around the back part. So just get it wrapped around the back part before you glue that in. And then we can cut this to length here in a little bit. Just kind of get it pushed up underneath his hat. This is what's going to be the front part of his shirt and his little tie. Just kind of wrap it around a couple of times just to kind of get all that covered up. And then we're going to glue our arms in right here. And then we'll finish wrapping the rest of the fabric around just to cover all this up. This way it'll be like a shirt and then like a little scarf at the front. And then we're just going to tie that into a knot and then we're just going to glue all this together. Just kind of tuck it in there. You just want to make sure that you're covering every bit of that little stick and every bit of that little pool noodle. And then just glue that straight down inside of there. Next for his hair I'm just going to take some raffia. And then I'm just going to put a clump of them together and I'm going to glue them to another piece. That way they'll hold together. And then you can put this right up to his head and glue it on. Just kind of wrap it over the top and this will hold all this together. And then just cut it to the length of the hair that you want. And I'm just going to put these on both sides of his head. And then I'm going to go all the way around the back to the other side matching it up. So about just like that. And then just get a bunch of those made up. For the back you're going to have several of them. But you're going to have two shorter ones for the front and a longer piece for the back. And you can put as much as you want or as little as you want. I did put quite a bit of the raffia on here. But if you do glue it to a little strip it makes it a little bit easier to hold it all together. And this will be for my opposite side. And you can give him a nice haircut once you get it all done to kind of give it evened out a little bit. And for the back of the hair you're going to have a bunch longer strip. And then once we get this glued together we're just going to glue this to the little ledge of the hat that we put down at the bottom of the hat. So the little trim piece right down at the bottom. And then continue until you get as much hair as you want on there. Then we'll give him a nice haircut once we're done. And you're gluing the hat to the top of the raffia. Then go ahead and put your two side pieces in. And then we're going to pull the hat on down over those and we're going to start gluing it down. Just kind of put a little bit of glue in the center too just to kind of hold all this together. I decided to turn the front part of the hat up. Just put a little spot of glue right on the top part. And then I'm going to add a couple leaves to his hat to kind of dress it up a little bit. Then I'm adding just a little small pine cone just to the very front. And then I'm going to add two more leaves to his hat and then that'll be pretty much it. This was a pretty quick and easy project. I think he turned out so cute. Alright, look how cute he is. Let me know what you think in the comments. For this next one, I'm taking some 8x8 shadow boxes. You get three to a pack. If you order these online, they run about $13 and you can pick those up at the store. And I'm going to use two of these. Now you can use some Dollar Tree frames if you want to. But for the price, by the time you stack them up to get them as deep as this, this actually was a better buy. So we're going to take the back off of one of them. And then we're going to take the glass out of one of them. And then I'll show you how these are going to stack here in a little bit. Okay, so the one with the glass in it, you're going to put it in the front. And then the one with the backing on it is going to go into the back. And you need to have the part that holds the glass in for the one in the back in place because that's what's going to hold the cardboard piece. So put that piece back inside of there. And then we're going to glue all these together. So that's how that's all going to sandwich together. So that gives you two boxes and it's a lot deeper. Before you get started, be sure and clean your glass really well. I'm just using some rubbing alcohol to clean this because it really works well. Okay, then for the front one, we're going to glue our glass in place. So just pull your glass out, put a little spot of glue around all the sides. And then this will help hold the glass in place. Don't put too much because you don't want it oozing out. And then push your glass down in there and let it dry. And you may have to clean your glass again once you finish doing this part. And then put your frame back inside of it and then we're going to glue the frame in. Since we don't have the backing on this one, it's not going to hold it in place. And then push your tabs on down and we are going to have to cut these a little bit short because you will see these through the front. So once you get them pushed down there, just take some pliers or some wire cutters and then just cut them flush with the frame. And do that to all of them. And to attach our other frame, we're going to use a little bit of E6000 glue and a little bit of hot glue and we're going to join the two together. Now the second one, the one I'm putting glue on right now, this is where the glass was facing upward and the backing would go onto the back part. And I'm not going to put a lot of E6000 glue. I'm just going to kind of go around the edges a little bit and then maybe right into the center and then put the rest of it with the hot glue. And then just join the two together, kind of squeeze them tight together and let them dry. This is how this ends up looking once you get this done. You put your backing back on and then you'll see you have two layers deep on your shadow box. Take some painter's tape and we are going to cover up our glass completely. And I'm just going to cover up the edges with the painter's tape and then I'm going to put a piece of paper in the center to cover up the rest. But just get your glass completely sealed in so you do not see it because we are going to paint this. Next, I'm going to paint this with the Folk Art Parisian Gray paint and I'm going to paint the entire thing this color first just to give it a nice base coat. Next, I'm going to take a white acrylic paint and a chip brush and I'm going to dab off most of the paint onto my paper towel and then I'm just going to kind of give it like some little stroke marks. And I'm going to do this all over this. This will give it the more distressed look like it's a little weathered. And I'm going to start light at first and then I'm going to come back in and put it on pretty heavy. Next, I'm going to do the same thing with another chip brush but this time I'm going to use a water-based stain and this is called Whole Wheat. I got this on Amazon. But just get most of your stain off of your brush and then start brushing it. This is what's going to finish out the look and give it a real nice distressed look. And you can add as much or as little or if you don't like the distressed look at all, you don't even have to do this step. But I really think that this is the part that finishes this out and makes it look really nice. And you can start light and then get heavy if you want to. But I'm going to do this all the way around. When that's dry, just go ahead and remove all your paper and your tape. For the backdrop of our little shadow box, I've given you this print in the description below. It's an 8x8 of a general store. You just download it and cut it out. Now just try real hard just to cut right around the edges because you want your complete 8x8 piece. And you could cut this by hand if you want to. I'm just using a paper cutter to cut it out. To attach my picture, I'm just going to use some matte Mod Podge and I'm going to put a generous amount onto the back part of my board. So you want to get quite a bit but you want to cover it completely. And then you want to set that aside and let that dry until it's about 90% dry. It may just be a little bit still tacky. To attach our print, we're just going to lay it right onto our board. We're going to put a piece of parchment paper over the top part of it and we're just going to iron it. Now this is a good way to do this so you don't have any air bubbles in your picture. It does make it blend in just perfectly. It activates the glue and it adheres it to the picture without any kind of bubbles. I would highly recommend this way every time you do Mod Podge if you have a flat surface like this. You just kind of take your time until you get it completely glued on and then it'll blend as one piece and it won't come off. And then just flip it over, take some scissors and trim out the rest of it. And if you haven't already subscribed to my channel, I would love it if you would hit that button. And next for the groove that's inside, you're going to run some jute all the way around. Just kind of measure it out so you can go all the way around that little trim and that way it'll hide the glue where we glued this together. So just start right at the bottom, go all the way around until you have enough to go into all the groove all the way around it. Then to clean up our jute, I'm just going to take a lighter and I'm going to light it up to kind of get all the little frays off. Now if you're not comfortable doing this while you're holding it in your hand, take it outside into your driveway and lay it down there and do it that way. This just gets it really cleaned up. I'm going to paint my jute with some black chalk paint. I'm just putting it in a paper towel and then I'm just going to start running it through this. This is the easiest way to get this painted. Now it does make a mess on your hands a little bit, so if you want to wear gloves, you might want to do that. But it does get it pretty evenly coated. That's dry, we're just going to take some hot glue and we're going to glue it into that groove. And you're going to go all the way around. This is going to kind of blend it in real well and make it look real pretty. Just kind of stick it into the groove and glue it all the way around. That's how that looks once you get that glued in. It just really cleaned it up. Next I got this little stringer of lights from Amazon. It has nine different settings on it and I'm just going to fold it over several times until I get all the way to the end so it's the same size as the top part of my frame. And then I'm just going to use a power little nail gun. I'll give you the link for that. It's on Amazon. It works really good. Just make sure you get it lined up there pretty good. And then we're just going to staple this in. And this is a power tool that you can just hook up to a USB. And it works really good. And I'm just going to staple it in on two sides of this. Just kind of squeeze it together because you don't want to staple through your wire. But just kind of get it stapled in and then that's pretty much how we'll do that. Next I got these little pumpkins from Michaels and I'm just going to cut all of them off my little stringer. And I'm going to glue these to the very front part of my shadow box on the inside. Next I'm taking some of that raffia and I'm just going to bind it up to make little bundles. And then I'll show you how we're going to attach this after a while. Next I'm going to start by gluing my little pumpkins in. Just put a little bit of hot glue on those and push them in. And you can put however many you want. I'm going to put a couple of them side by side and then start stacking them up a little bit. And you can put anything that you want to in here. Just kind of put something in the front of it so it does give a little bit more 3D effect. And I am attaching quite a few of the pumpkins with this. Okay now I'm just going to attach my little raffia right to the side. And then I'm going to put another little bundle right in the center just to kind of finish this off. Attach your back to it with your wire for your lights coming out the back. And then I'm just going to run my wire right through this little metal piece right here. Alright that was pretty much it. Look how cute that turned out. This one I'm just using an old embroidery thread spool that I've had for a while. And I'm going to distress it with the Tim Holtz Distressing Ink in the Walnut Stain color. I'm just trying to give it a little bit of a vintage vibe. And then I'm going to unwind it quite a bit so I can tie it off into the center to make it look like it's been used. And you want enough to where it really does go around and it is kind of thick right around the middle. And then when you get to the end just kind of tie it off. Okay next I'm just going to take a 2 inch wooden disc and I'm just going to distress it with that same walnut stain. And now I'm going to glue this right into the center so that I can put a stem on it and it will hold it in place. So I got this little stem out of my yard and I'm going to put some E6000 glue and some hot glue on this. We just had a branch come down and I just trimmed that right off of that. And I got this preserved Spanish Moss from Michaels. I'm just going to glue it all the way around. This is really a pretty Spanish Moss. When it is the preserved Spanish Moss it's a pretty green color. And it's not as, it doesn't shed as much as the regular Spanish Moss. I mean normally you have a big mess. I mean you still get a little bit of a mess with this one but not quite as bad. And it does stay together in clumps pretty easily. Sometimes you have to cut them apart just to kind of get them separated. But I am going to go all the way around here. I am going to add a generous amount. This gave it a lot of color and really did make it pop a little bit. Next I got these wooden leaves at Hobby Lobby and I'm just going to stain them with that same whole wheat stain. And I'm going to stain the front and the back. I'm going to leave the sides just like they are because they already have a dark color to them. But just paint the front or stain the front and the back. And then set that aside and let that dry real good. So that's dried. I'm just going to glue this right to the side of my pumpkin. And then just hold that there until it dries. Next I'm taking some ribbon just so I can tie a bow right around the stem. I'm going to trim this right here and then I'm going to take some of the Tim Holtz Distressing Ink to distress it. I just wanted to have a little bit more of a vintage look. It was a little bit bright for me. And I'm just going to attach it right around my stem and I'm going to tie it in a bow. This was a pretty quick and easy little project. And then I'm going to cut my ribbon a little bit short on both sides. Look how cute that turned out. Let me know what you think in the comments. Okay, for this next one I'm using one of the little candy containers from the Dollar Tree. I'm using a pie pan and I'm also using a little wooden block and a little plastic plate from the Dollar Tree as well. And you get like five of those into that pack. To assemble this I'm just using some E6000 glue and I'm just putting it on the bottom. And I'm going to use some hot glue to hold it in place while it dries. That's just like a one inch block. You can get any kind of piece of wood or anything that just stands up tall like that to put on top of the little candy container. Next I'm adding my pie pan. I'm going to put some E6000 glue and some hot glue on here as well. And then I'm just going to center that pie pan onto the top. Now I just want to let you know ahead of time, I would go ahead and paint my base first before I assembled all of this. Just kind of make sure that you do get it centered and just kind of push it down so it does adhere good. Next I'm going to attach my plate. Now these are just five and three quarter inch plastic plates. And what we're making is a scale. And so you're just going to put some hot glue and some E6000 glue on it. And then we are going to put it right at the top part of our base. Just kind of center it on there where it overhangs the top and the sides. And then let this all dry. After that's dried, I'm going to take it outside and I'm going to spray paint it with some flat white primer. After that's dried, I thought about coming in here with the crimson chalk paint and just distressing it like this. But I am going to come back in and paint the entire base red. Now this is why you need to probably do this ahead of time because I did get it onto the back part of my plate. I'm also going to paint around the edge of the little plate on the front. And then I'm going to paint around the top part of the pan as well. Just kind of go all the way around the edge with it. This is going to be kind of like an enamel pan. Before I paint the top part of my little container, I am going to tape off the little stand. Just put some painter's tape right around the base of it. And then continue painting until you get it completely red. If you have red spray paint, I would have spray painted this before I even assembled it. Next to give it the chipped enamel look, I'm just coming in with some black chalk paint. And I'm just painting in some little shapes here and there on my pan. And I'm sorry I got out of the camera on the side where I'm painting on the side, but I did add quite a few of these. And I'm going to add a few to the face of the scale. Now this is going to be covered up with a little label, so just get the edges only. Next I'm going to take a chip brush and some black chalk paint. And I'm going to go inside of here to give it the look as if it's been scratched up a lot. And I'm adding quite a bit of this. And then just try to brush off most of it on a paper towel before you do it. And that way you won't get little clumps and it will kind of evenly go around here. But you want to put quite a bit. This really does distress it a lot. Now if you don't like the distressed look, you can leave all of this out and just paint it a color that you like. And then I'm going to do the same thing to the outside of the pan and to the underneath of the pan. Now I decided to come back in and add a few more little chipped places on the inside of my pan. I'm coming in with some burnt sienna paint and I'm just going to go kind of around the edges of our black chipped places just to kind of make it look like it has a little bit of rust. Now you don't need a lot of this, just a little bit so it kind of does look like it rusted a little bit. And I know you probably can't see it in the camera at all, but it is on there. Next I'm taking some white chalk paint and a chip brush and I'm going to heavily distress the red part of this. And I'm going to go fast, you can see what I'm doing, but I'm putting a lot of this on here to really distress it. And then again, if you don't like the distressed look, you can skip this part completely. And then for the stand, I'm just going to paint it with some black chalk paint. Next to give this more of the vintage look, I'm taking some of the Tim Holtz Distressing Ink and I'm just going to brush it on my pan. Now I'm going to put this pretty heavily because I do want this to look really aged. This is what's really going to make this look good. And then if you don't have any of the Tim Holtz Distressing Ink, you could also do something very similar to this with the Waverly Chalk Paint Antique Wax. But you want to get the inside of the pan, the outside of the pan, and you want to do the bottom as well. Next I'm going to take some black chalk paint and a chip brush and I'm going to distress the red area again. I'm just going to add a lot of black to it just to distress it up a little bit more. This gives it a little bit more of an aged look. And then on my paper pipe plate where I have the red paint behind it, that's why I was saying you might want to paint that ahead of time, you can just go back in with a paint brush and paint that white. That's what I ended up doing. But I am adding quite a bit of this and I am going both up and down and sideways as well. Next to soften this up, I'm coming in with some Antique Wax in the black color just to kind of go over the whole entire thing. This will also protect your paint but it also kind of blends it all together. And I got this at Lowe's. It's the Magnolia brand. And I'm putting quite a bit on this. Also going to add some of the Tim Holtz Distressing Ink just to kind of soften up the white color to kind of blend it in with the top. Adding some of that same Antique Wax inside my pan. This just kind of softened it all up. And if you haven't already subscribed to my channel, I would love it if you would hit that button. Next I've given you the scale face. It's in the description below. You're just going to download it and print it. And I printed mine on a cardstock. And I'm going to distress it with the Tim Holtz Distressing Ink. This is a good way to do it before you cut it out. Then you can kind of get it pretty even on there. And then just take your time on this part and just really cut close to the edge of that circle. And we're going to distress the face of our scale first before we put our label on. You really only need to do the outside edge. But I'm doing mine pretty heavily. Then to attach my scale face, I'm just using some matte Mod Podge. And I didn't let my ink dry good enough. You can kind of see I'm smearing it around there. So let your ink dry pretty good before you do this. And then just center that on there. And then really push it down good. Make sure it's completely sealed in all the way around. And then I'm going to take Mod Podge and I'm going to paint over the face of it. Just to kind of seal it up after I'm done. Then we're going to attach another plate over the top part to finish out our scale look. And I'm just going to use some E6000 glue. And I'm not going to put a lot of it. I'm just going to kind of spot put it on there in several places. You don't want it oozing out too much. So just put a little bit. And then we're going to just put our other plate right over the top of it to kind of finish out our scale look. And then just really push your plate down there good. Try not to touch the glue. Just kind of push it down and then just set that aside and let that dry. You don't want to get any glue on the front of the face. Okay, I think that turned out so cute. Let me know what you think in the comments. For this project, I'm taking three little cutting boards and I'm going to put them together and I'm going to glue them together. And I'm going to take the top part, measure it at the top, and I'm going to cut the two top parts straight across. Okay, next I'm going to push these two close together. Just make sure you do get them even. And I'm going to glue this other one over the top of them using just some wood glue. Just make sure that you do get your bottom pieces straight. And then when you attach the other one, we're just going to put a generous amount of wood glue all the way across the back of it. Now, I'll give you the link for these cutting boards. I got these on Amazon. You get quite a few of them in a pack. But you do want to take some time to really smear this in good and then just put this right on top. Make sure it's even and then set that aside and let that completely dry. I want to take a ruler just to make sure that you do have it pretty even before it dries so that if you have to make any adjustment, you can. Okay, next I'm taking a piece of tissue paper and a piece of printer paper. And I'm just going to cut this out so I can tape it onto my paper. I'm going to run the tissue paper through my printer. So you need a piece that's big enough to pull around to the back part of your paper. And then we're just going to fold it over and we're going to use some just regular tape to tape it over. Just some regular scotch tape. But you want to make sure that you get it pretty square because it is going to run through your printer. So you need to make sure that it covers the paper completely. And I've given you the artwork in the description below. You're just going to download it and print it on your tissue paper. Okay, next I'm going to paint my cutting boards. And I'm using a DecoArt colored chalk paint in the color Serene. And I think I got this at Hobby Lobby. It's a real pretty blue. But you want to cover the entire front part. Don't do the sides or the back because we're going to do those in white. But just make sure you get it completely coated. Next I'm using some matte colored Mod Podge and I'm going to add a generous amount on this. We are going to give this a crackle look. So the more of the glue you put on there, the heavier the crackle. So I'm going to put mine on pretty heavily. And you don't have to use a matte Mod Podge. You can use anything you want to because it's not going to really show up. And this is a new technique that I just learned where you don't have to let the glue dry between putting the top part on. Just go ahead and put a lot of glue on there. And then we're going to add our color over the top of this while this is still wet. And I'm just applying white chalk paint right over the top part of the wet Mod Podge. Now I did have some little pieces in my paint so I am kind of funneling those out. So that's what I'm doing on that. But you can put your paint on pretty heavily. And then try to really get your brush strokes straight up and down. Then you want to grab a heat source and really start drying this. Don't get so close to the paint that you burn it. But kind of put it on like a low heat and then just start really getting it dry. This is what's going to start the crackle look. But you do want to kind of go over it pretty quickly. And then that will make it start really cracking. But you could use a blow dryer. I'm using an embossing gun on this. But you can kind of really see it start to crack up pretty good. This way you don't have to wait for your glue to dry for about four hours before you start the crackle process. You can do it right over the top if you're using a heat source. But isn't that a nice crackle look? Look how good that looks. And the longer that you apply the heat the more crackle you're going to get. And then I am coming in with my white chalk paint. I'm going to paint all the edges in the white and I'm going to paint the back white as well. And then for our decoupage we're just going to take our tissue paper off of our copy paper. And that's what we're going to attach to the front part of our cutting boards. Just kind of be careful not to tear it up too much. You want to just make sure that you just kind of take your time on this part so that your image comes out nice. And again, I've given you the image in the description below. You're just going to download it and print it. Take some time to cut it out because you don't want a lot of the white around it. You want to kind of get as close to the image as you can without cutting into the image. So just leave maybe about an eighth of an inch overhang on each side. But you do want to do this part. You definitely want to cut out your image. So I'm going to center this right in the center of my cutting board and I'm going to glue my center part first. Now that crackle look will show right through that napkin really pretty. You'll see all the texture right through it. But you want to get the center part done first. And then just take your finger and kind of spread it out a little bit. Don't push too hard. Just kind of lightly push it out. I decided to pour some out on a piece of paper to start with because it did have a few clumps in it. And then I can get them off there before I put them on my piece. And then I'm gluing the opposite side down on the face of it too. And I'm just going to smooth it out to the edges. I'm going to go down the ledge right there and then go to the opposite side. You are going to have to take some plastic wrap, put it over the top of it. Push that down. Make it really a sharp corner. Smooth the rest of it out with the plastic wrap as well. This keeps you from getting your fingers stuck to the glue and lifting any of your napkin. And then once you get that completely smoothed out, we're going to go ahead and glue the opposite side down. Making that same ledge on this side. Just kind of take a little bit of time to push it up there and then go ahead and finish smoothing it out. And then you're going to let this dry for a couple of hours. And then we're going to come back in and put some Mod Podge over the top part of it. This really helps seal it up so if it gets wet, it's not ruined. Just do one little coat right over the top of it. It doesn't have to be a heavy coat, but just get it completely coated onto where the napkin is. And you do want to wait until the first part dries before you do this step here. So I'm going to attach some ribbon. I'm just going to cut four strips of two different color ribbons. And I'm just going to tie this right in a bow on top. And then you can kind of separate out your little loops there. And then to finish it out, I'm just taking a little bundle of raffia. I'm just going to push it right up underneath that ribbon, glue that in, and then I'm going to glue the ribbon on top of that. And that was pretty much it. This was a pretty easy project. For this project, we're just going to use a four and a quarter inch can. And we're going to use a nail setting tool and a hammer. And we're going to hammer two holes into the bottom. Now you can drill this if you want to, but you just want them straight across from each other. And you don't need a big hole, just a small hole. Next, I'm going to take it outside and I'm going to spray paint it with a rustic orange paint. Next, I'm going to take these number 10 jointer biscuits. These are for woodworking and you can get these at Home Depot, at Lowe's. I got mine at Amazon and I'll give you the link for them. And I am going to paint them with a burnt umber brown paint. And I'm going to paint the sides, the tops, and the bottom of them. And I'm using 10 of them for this project. Next, I'm going to take some of that same burnt umber. I'm going to take a chip brush and I'm going to distress my can. Just kind of dip it into the paint and then wipe it off, most of it, and then just start going around your can. And I'm going both ways. I'm going up and down on it and sideways. And you can put as much or as little. If you don't get into distressing, you can skip this part completely. Next, I got these two paper flowers at Hobby Lobby. Now, you can just take a regular flower, just kind of press it down so it is flat. And I'm going to paint the center of it with some black chalk paint. These are going to be for some eyes. But you definitely want to paint them because we are going to kind of highlight them a little bit with some white. And I'm dipping the end of my paint brush into some white paint and just putting a dot on both sides. To assemble my can, I'm going to come down about a half inch from the top and I'm going to put my eyes close together. And I'm just going to put a dollop of glue on both sides to hold these on. But you do want your eyes to be close together. Next, we're going to attach his ears. We're just going to come to the center of the eye and just kind of angle it outward. And then you'll angle the other one on the opposite side the opposite way. And just kind of look at them and make sure that they are even. Next, to build the wings, we're just going to take one, put it in the center and the two overlapping on both sides. And then we're going to put the other one just below it. Now, if you don't want to make these out of this, you can use craft foam. It'll work just the same. Just cut it out into the same shape. And you're going to make the other side exactly the same way. Next, for his beak, I'm just going to take the corner of some craft foam and cut it into the shape of a triangle. And then I'm just going to fold it backwards at the very top and glue that together. This will give it like a little bit of a three-dimensional. Tone down the brightness of the orange. I'm just going to use some Tim Holtz Distressing Ink in the walnut color. And I'm just going to go right over the top of it. Okay, then I'm just going to glue it right between the eyes. Just kind of center it up there and just put a little bit of hot glue right up underneath it. Next, to attach the wings, we're just going to put some hot glue on the outside edge of the center one and lean it inward. And then just hold that until it dries and then you're going to do the same thing on the opposite side. And when you're assembling your can, watch when you do the little holes because I did put mine on the wrong side. So you want those to go side to side to match the front. So I'm having to re-drill my holes. I'm taking a hole punch and I'm going to punch a hole on the top part of both sides. This is a way I can put a little hanger on it to hang it up. Next, I'm taking a cork and a Phillips screwdriver and I'm just going to drill a hole right through the center. This is real easy to do. I'm going to run a soft wire through the center of this and I'm going to attach it to my can so I can hang this up. And you can make this however long you want to. I'll give you the link for this wire. I got it on Amazon. It's really super easy to bend. Just pull it through there and then bend that backwards and bend it down on the side of the can. And do the same thing for the opposite side. And then you can shape it out here in a second. But it just makes it a little bit easier because this is a really good easy bendable wire. And then that's how that looks. As for his legs, I'm just going to run the wire right through that hole all the way down and determine how long I want his legs. I'm going to wrap this around a little piece of wood. So you're just going to kind of take it out there and kind of figure out how long you want it. And you're going to wrap it around a couple of times like his little feet are holding on to it. And then just get it figured out exactly where you want it and you're going to do the other one exactly the same way. And we're going to put a little bead onto the other end of the wire to hold it into the can. So now you can go ahead and pull the other one out and then match up the other one exactly the same way. You just want to make sure that they are even. Just wrap it around a couple of times and then we're going to run it back up through the can and add our bead. I'm just using a small bead with a hole in it. So run those back up through there. Pull it on up there. Add your little bead to it. And then just curl that around so it stays on there. And do the same thing for the other side. And you can glue these if you want to. Just roll that wire around that bead and it will stay in there. Then kind of pull your legs on down. If you need to do any adjustment, just adjust it at the other end. Okay, next I got this bundle of wheat at Hobby Lobby. You can use anything you want to to put in here. I just thought it needed something in the top part of the can. I'm just putting this all in the top part. Kind of almost looks like he has some hair. Look how cute that is. Let me know what you think in the comments. And if you haven't already subscribed to my channel, I would love it if you would hit that button. Okay, for this project I'm just taking two 15 ounce vegetable cans and I'm going to spray paint them with a matte river rock paint. Next I'm just going to draw a scarecrow face on this. I'm just doing kind of a U-shaped little mouth. I'm going to kind of mark where my nose is going to be. And then I'm going to add a couple of little oval eyes. And I hope you can kind of see this. This is with pencil. I probably should have used a marker. But you'll be able to see once I start getting it painted in. And then for the nose, I'm just doing like an upside down little candy corn. Next I'm taking some black chalk paint and I'm using a brush that kind of has a rounded head on it. Now I was a little bit worried at first that this was not going to paint good with all the ribs. But it painted just fine. And I'm going to paint both of my eyes black. And then I'm going to come back in and I'm going to paint in the mouth. I am kind of going quick on this so that you can kind of see what I'm doing. But not just sit there and watch me paint. And this paint went on real easy. You only really had to do one coat with this. And then to do the mouth, I'm going to switch to a finer paintbrush. And I'm just going to paint over my lines. And then I'm going to come back in with a fine paintbrush and I'm just going to do some X's right on top of his mouth. I'm using a really fine paintbrush on this part. And you don't need to load up a lot of paint on this. Just kind of lightly dab your paint. For the nose, I'm just going to color it in with some Waverly Crimson paint. And I'm just doing a triangle. Give a little character to his eyes. I'm just coming in here and drawing a straight line kind of curved on both sides. And then I'm going to put a little dot right at the bottom. And there's a lot of ways that you can paint eyes. Just kind of get on the internet and take a look at some of the others that people have done. And then I'm just going to put a little swoop across the top part of his nose. To make the hat, I'm just taking a pool noodle. I'm going to cut it at one and three quarters of an inch. And this is going to be for the very top part of his hat. Brim, I've given you the pattern. Now that square needs to be one inch square once you cut this pattern out. And I've given you the pattern in the description below. You just download it and you can cut it out. And I'm using burlap on this. You can use any kind of fabric that you want. But burlap really does look cute with this. And then I'm going to cut out a couple of them together. Because I am doing two of my little scarecrows. Easiest way to cut your little center circle out is to fold it over in half. And then cut your half circle at the same time. And that way you can make sure that you get it pretty even. For the hair, I'm using one of the Dollar Tree hula skirts. You could just use raffia on this. But this was already connected at the top so it kind of made it a little bit easier. But you can just glue the strips on instead of doing it this way. I am going to cut it short because this is for his bangs. And then we're just going to kind of center this right onto the front part of the face. Going to start kind of in the middle with just a little bit of hot glue. Put that one on and then you can go ahead and do your sides. Now again you could just use regular raffia. You're just going to have to glue each strip on there. And that's doable too. I've done that on several scarecrows in the past. For the hat, we're going to take our pool noodle and we're going to glue it to the top part of the can. Then we're going to take our burlap brim and we're going to slide it over the top of that pool noodle. Just pull it all the way down and kind of tuck it down at the very bottom of the can. And then we're just going to spot glue all the way around at the very edge of the can. So just the very top edge. And then you don't have to touch the glue because it is kind of... It'll come through the burlap a little bit. Just pull it down like that. Then you don't have to touch it. Now once it dries, you can just kind of rub it a little bit. But just go all the way around the top part of the can. And then you don't need a lot of glue. Just a little bit of glue will hold it in place. Okay, next you kind of dress up the top part of the hat. I'm just going to take some 5mm jute and I'm just going to go all the way around the hat. Now I'm going to show you this way and then I'm also going to show you another way of doing this if you don't want to use all your jute like this. But you're just going to go round and round all the way until you get to the very top. And then when we get to the top, we're just going to start spiraling in. And I'm going to kind of go fast on this because all we're really doing is just kind of wrapping this. But you do want to make sure that you do get it pretty tight so you don't see any of the orange noodle between the two rows. Or between any of the rows. And this really didn't take a lot of jute to do this. But you are going to go all the way around until you get to the top and then we're going to come into the center part. And I'm going to show you that here in a minute. If you don't have a thick jute like this, you can use like a brown macrame thread. Those are pretty good because they're thick. And if you don't want to do that, then I'll show you this next version of it here in a little bit that will save you a little bit of money. But once you get to this point, you want to start spiraling it in. Just clue on the inside all the way until you get to the very, very center. And then we're going to run our rope down into the middle of the hole once we get it pretty tightly together. But you do want to make sure that you are spending some time on the top part of this because you do want to make sure that it's completely covered up. And then once you run out of the pool noodle to glue to, you're just going to glue to the inside edge of the remaining rope. And then once you get to a certain point where you don't have a lot left, we're just going to stick that right down into the center there. So just cut it off right there and then just pull that and slide that right down into the center after it gets small enough to where you don't have any more room. Like that. So we're just going to pull the front part of the hat back and we're just going to glue it right in place. Okay, next I got these little leaves. I think I got these at Michaels and I'm just going to cut the little stems off. And I'm going to use three of these for each one of my hats. And you're just going to pull it back and glue it right up on the top part of that hat. That way it will just cover up that little ledge right there between the hair and the hat. So you put two on each side and then we're just going to put one overlapping in the center. And you can decorate these however you want to. And then to finish it out, I'm just going to take two small pine cones and I'm going to attach them right down into the center. Lastly, I'm just going to pull the two sides down and the back down and I'm just going to glue these right to the can. And this way it will make it look like it's more of a floppy hat. So just make sure you're doing both sides and then you're going to turn it over and you're going to do the back as well. And that was pretty much it with this one. And for the alternative on the hat, you're just going to take a paper bag. This is just like a lunch sack. And you're going to just cut the bottom of it off. Next we're just going to fold the edge in a little bit. Probably about a half an inch. Just so we have a nice clean edge on this. And then we're going to wad it up into a ball to really distress it really good because we do want a lot of wrinkles on it because we are going to put some Distress and Neat on it and we need to have those definitions of those wrinkles. And then we're just going to cut it open so we have one full piece. And then to shorten it up a little bit so it just goes right over the hat, we're just going to fold it up a little bit higher. So we're kind of going up about an inch and a half. And then we're going to wrap it around the top part of our hat and then we're going to tuck it down into the hole in the center. And then I decided to take it and make little pleats. So you're going to pleat it so that it goes all the way around the hat and you're using every bit of this piece of paper. So just give it little pleats. You're just folding them over. And then that way it'll fit around the hat and it does give it a lot of little character right there. Okay, then we're just going to run a little bit of glue down the back. We're going to attach this side and then we're going to run the other side over and we're going to glue it back to the back as well. And then we'll fold all these pleats back up here in a second. And just kind of clean up your edge right there. And then we're going to start gluing it to the bottom edge as we go around with each of these pleats. And they don't have to be perfect, just kind of wad it up a little bit. And then we're going to cover that edge up with some jute here in a minute so don't worry so much about it being perfect. And I did trim a little bit off the top so I didn't have so much to tuck down inside of my noodle. But you're going to put some glue inside there and then just start tucking it in. To finish out the edge, I'm just coming in here with some jute and I'm just going to wrap it around it. This is a great way if you don't want to use a lot of jute because paper bags are easy to come by and they don't cost hardly anything. And I'm just going to glue an acorn right down into the center. And then I did the front of the hat exactly like the other one. Okay, next I'm going to take some of the Tim Holtz Oxide ink in the walnut stain and I'm just going to stain the paper bag. And I am getting some on the rope as well so it doesn't really matter. You do want to distress it a pretty good bit. And then I'm distressing the top part of the hat as well. Okay, next I'm going to take some burnt umber paint and a chip brush and I'm going to distress both of my scarecrows. Now if you do not like the distressed look, you can skip this part. But I think the distressed look really does give it a little bit of character. It makes it look kind of like it's been somewhere else. It has a story and I just like the vintage rustic look. And I'm doing the hat and I'm going to do the entire body the same way. And I am adding some to the hair also. Alright, I think this turned out super cute. Let me know what you think in the comments. Okay, I hope you enjoyed the video today. I hope it gave you some inspiration. If you want to see more fall DIYs, just leave me a comment in the description below. If you like these kind of videos, be sure and give me a like. 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