# 99 Create Beautiful Fall Mantel Decorations

 

Burlap and harvest colors make a statement on this mantel. The garland is made by cutting six triangles from a piece of burlap and adhering them to a length of wide ribbon using hot glue. Give a tall vase a makeover with a coat of chalkboard spray paint and a welcoming fall message.

 

The vintage look of this fall mantel can easily be re-created with backyard finds and an easy-to-make garland. The backdrop is a planked stove board, and old minnow buckets filled with dried hydrangeas add symmetry on either side. To make her ruffled felt garland, gather a 1/2 yard of brightly colored felt and cut in half. The felt was 10 inches wide, so she cut each width into four 2-1/2-inch wide strips. Adhere four of the strips together at the ends with hot glue. Measure approximately eleven feet of jute, knotting one end of the twine and threading the other through a large-eye needle. Stitch with wide stitches down the middle of the strip. To give your garland more dimension, make a second garland from the same materials; twist the two strips together and hang from your mantel.

This mantel has a rustic look for fall, using several natural elements. A wooden bowl holds acorns beneath an antique window frame. Faux pumpkins sit atop a stack of paperback books tied together with twine and also on a vintage scale with a piece of scrap burlap. To create her bright fall wreath, use colored yarn, a wreath form, and faux foliage. Secure the yarn with a dab of hot glue on the back of the wreath form and wrapped the yarn carefully around, alternating the colors. Add a few fall foliage embellishments with hot glue and florist's wire and hung the wreath on the window frame.

This mantel combined rustic and vibrant elements,  using a metal-and-wrought-iron frame as a focal point for her design. A vintage wooden pheasant figurine, a red fall sign, and small gourds placed under a glass cloche to give the mantel pops of color. Creamy pumpkins, candles, and burlap-wrapped pitcher add to the design, and a garland made from fall-hue wooden beads strung together on picture wire adds a fun layer. The mantel gains a welcoming glow with light-up branches placed in a pitcher alongside faux florals, natural branches, and feathers.

Instead of the traditional colors of autumn, use muted tones of cream, blue, and green to coordinate with the existing decor her home. Layer natural elements like ruffled burlap, stacked stone, basswood slices, birch bark candles, and rustic pottery, and interspersed them with decorative silver accents, Indian corn, and bundles of wheat. Create the ruffled burlap garland by gathering the edges of 6-inch burlap strips and hot-gluing them end to end.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The abundance of natural materials in the fall make decorating your mantel easy and fun! Head outside and pick up pinecones, dried leaves, and branches. Use these materials to accent an old barn door and a dried hydrangea wreath.