NEW NEW NEW! 🍁 Dollar Tree FALL Sunflower Decor DIYs - MUST SEE!

hey there welcome back to my channel my name is amber and if you are new here i hope that you will take the time to subscribe to my channel give me a thumbs up and ring that bell if you are returning i'm so glad that you're back so this week we're gonna do some sunflower themed diys for fall now i know we've been doing a lot of themed decor series around here and i think it's been really fun last week was autumn harvest which those are super cute you guys i don't know if you missed that one you gotta go watch that one i'll link it in the description below but um if you're here on my channel and you have never met me before and we have never connected please introduce yourself in the comments just say quick hello let me know that you stopped by and if you're returning let me know you popped in too here's the situation we're going to be using items from the dollar tree and we're also going to be using items from other places now you can substitute out what you like you don't have to use things that i use in fact you maybe have not gotten your hands on some of the things i've used so supplement and i think outside the box wherever you can okay now all these projects will be linked in the description box below through a timestamp meaning you can just skip ahead and if we happen to have them on the blog we will put a blog link also in the description so don't forget to always look there on my channel we're updating it often with new blog posts and if you've not been over to my blog we break down the whole thing into what we use where i got it how it was made we've got photos over there we also link you back to this video as well so you can connect with it and then plus you can pin it on pinterest so don't forget to do that but hop over to themakersmap.com but let's go ahead and get started with this week's video and don't forget to let me know which one's your favorite i would love to know that stay tuned for some upcoming christmas i do believe this is going to be our last um fall video this year so stay tuned for christmas that's coming i know so many of you guys are super excited for that i know i am and uh we'll be sharing the viral pizza pan video as well so be on the lookout for that one but thanks again for being here this week i have nothing else really to share with you other than welcome to my channel i'm so excited that you are here i hope you have a great time being inspired by all these things and let's go ahead and get started with this week's video [Music] okay let's get started with our very first project we're gonna be making this cute guy right here and we're gonna be using some wood shims that i got from the hardware store and i think i picked these up at the home depot and you get a ton of them as you can see i think you get like 30 of them for like two bucks it's insane but they're not all flat so you i did alternate them like every other one because it's like skinny and then thicker on one end and then i just took some paint sticks like gallon sticks from the hardware store as well cut them down to attach on the back side now you can use the wood shims if you want to but because they're not flat like they're flat but they're not even it's thicker and thinner i didn't want to attach them on the back side so all i did was attach the paint sticks with some hot glue and it worked just fine for me and i just pushed down so that it would attach uh to the paint sticks because it was like thicker and thinner and then we're using some antique wax from waverly and i'm just applying this on here pretty generously and i'm using a baby wipe to spread it out now it is a little bit more orangey than i wanted it to be but we're gonna you know we're gonna dry brush this anyway so it doesn't really matter you can use paint if you want to it's completely up to you you can use stain now um i did want to tell you that the shims are a little rough cut so you might want to sand them before you stain them i am taking some orange paint to this and you guys i was gonna paint the whole thing orange i was gonna do like outlines i was gonna do polka dots i was gonna do so many things to this and then i was like no i'm not i did not like how it looked when i was doing it and so i just completely changed my mind throughout the process and it i think in the end it looked actually better to be honest with you so painting the leaf on this thankful and blessed sign that i got at dollar tree um green it's a olive green or moss green it's one of the greens and then i thought to myself you know what why not go in with this yellow so i just was not feeling the polka dots i did not i was not feeling like the stitching that i was doing and so i just went over it i wish i would have just thought to use the yellow first because it took so many coats of the yellow to cover that orange so i think i did three coats and i did two different yellows because i just could not get it to cover that orange the way that i wanted it to but in the end i think it looked pretty good for what we were going for and then i just took some of that yellow and added some like detail to the vine now i'm just dry brushing over this these wood shims and because they're more rough cut you get this cooler finish on there and i just did a dry brush and i'm just drying it with my heat gun or you can use a hair dryer as well i am going to glue on this wood cut out right onto the top of there and then we're going to use the sunflowers that i've found at hobby lobby as like a border instead of like i know you've probably seen it where people do like the half wood beads across like like trim i wanted to do the sunflowers so that's what we're going to trim the top and the bottom with now i was so lucky to find these would-be garlands at the dollar tree i know everybody's been looking for them and could not find them but i scooped some up and that's what we used as our hanger and we're gluing all these sunflowers on and i started with the middle and just went outward and you can see i think it turned out so cute you will have a little bit of glue strings on there but just pick them off and i think it'll be so adorable if you wanted to make that one so you can let me know what you think of that one but we're going to go on into this one and i was going to try my hand at making some fabric sunflowers so i thought why not do like a little sunflower patch kind of pocket thing so i have a round mdf sign from the dollar tree and i was able to get a hold of this wallpaper that looks like wood planks and i'm attaching that to the circle to be like our background now i'm just taking some burlap also to make our little pocket for this project and by the way that wallpaper sticks really good it's almost the same can like material feel as the contact paper um at the dollar tree so i don't know why they didn't just sell that on the roll like why you gotta make the whole like pieces look look like a placemat i don't know i'm trying to figure out how to explain it to you guys but maybe you'll agree with me like they should just give us the whole roll now i am making my sunflowers out of um fabric that i have found at walmart now you can use something that maybe you found at dollar tree and i'm just doing like a zigzag like a back and forth fan and i figured i would use my stapler to kind of help me it didn't really do any good but i wanted to show you that that's what i did i just stapled it to hold it in place and i ended up just cutting it and um the shape of the petal all at once so i was able to get more pieces at one time than cutting like individual petals like that was just would have been too long but so i just did like the accordion fan fold and that's how i got my little petals here now i'm just gluing them up like across from each other and i'm just continuing to alternate those steps all the way around and i did that three times so anywhere you see like an in-between from the two petals is where i put a piece of fabric petal on top of my cardboard cutout so yes i used a piece of cardboard to create the foundation of what we were gluing to and then you guys i found this fabric to go in the center and it's the polka dots and i thought it was so precious it was like perfect you can change up your like fabric if you want to but this black and white polka dot fabric i just thought this is got to go with it it turned out super cute so i just traced out the circle and cut it kind of you know not perfect hot glued it to the center you guys look at how cute that is i was so proud of these flowers they turned out so great so i made three of those and then like i said we've got this burlap that i got from hobby lobby now i did not like how you could see through it so i took this piece of fabric that i found and i just painted it the color of the burlap ribbon and well it's like just a burlap roll that way you did not see through the burlap to inside the pocket because i was gonna i'm we're putting um like the grass skirt for like straw in it and i just didn't want you to be able to see it so this way it stays true to the color of the burlap and it creates like that barrier and i hope that makes sense now this did not really want to stick to the placemat um actually i had to unglue it because i had my placemat going the wrong direction it's not a placemat i keep calling it a placemat it's a piece of wallpaper it's like adhesive but i had decided i wanted my lines to go a certain way so i had to unglue the pocket but anyways i glued it to the back side so it would stick because i could not get the burlap to stick to that wallpaper material now i took these um pipe cleaners i got them at dollar tree and i didn't have any green ones so i just painted them green and now i'm just gonna stain these beads in the bowl already strung they come that way from dollar tree if you can score those bonus points for you took me ever to find forever to find them but i did finally get a hold of some of them so all i'm doing is taking some paint and i'm trying to water it down i'm going to pour it right inside this bowl i'm going to put the bowl on top of it and glue it closed so that i could shake it up y'all it's the fastest way to stain your beads if you've ever seen anybody do them the hard way you got to try this put them in a bowl add you some paint and water shake them up and all of them will be stained and i just kind of pulled them out of the bowl because i didn't want to break the bowl and cut myself and then i just took a t-shirt rag or like you could take an old cloth or paper towel and i just dabbed off all the paint that was excess and it doesn't look like they're they're tinted but if you hold them side by side you can completely completely see that they're a different color and so um we're putting them around the outside of our circle um for our sunflower patch sign i think it's super cute we're gonna put that grateful sign on there we're gonna match it up to the um wood beads and we're gonna put some of the grass skirt it's like the bigger adult size it's a straw skirt it's a hula skirt is what it is from dollar tree i just had some left over from a project we had done in my private group i have a private crafting group if you want to know about it you can go to creativehavenvip and you can learn how you can become a member too but we did a project in there with the grass skirt and i had this left over so i wanted to use it and i thought this would be so cute to put it in there into this little sign so this is what we got and i use my excess beads that was left over from wrapping them around as the hanger and i think it turned out so adorable you don't have to put the hanger on like you could put this on like a plate um stand like a display and just to kind of prop it up but i think it turned out really cute my beads aren't completely straight but has a spring kind of fall feel you know you can dress it up forever you want it to look but this one here y'all is my favorite of the week i will be honest with you this one is presh now i saw an inspiration on pinterest and forgive me i cannot remember who it was i'm really trying to think really hard i've tried to go back and find it i know i saw it on pinterest and i was like oh i'm gonna do something similar but i'm gonna put my own spin on it so i just wanted to kind of clarify that i found this idea and just kind of put my own twist on it so anyways i took the house frame from the dollar tree and i got this print from i believe michael's or joanne's it's like um dictionary it's like a dictionary print and then we're just gonna stain over the frame and kind of darken it up just a little bit so it feels more um rustic to go with our sunflower uh topiary pumpkin candy corn looking it's like a it's like a mashup of all kinds of things so i found three different sizes of pumpkins at the dollar tree i'm just using my little scraper thingy to cut them in half and then i used some scissors to kind of flatten it up just a little bit more now these uh this pumpkin here had a face on the back of it and so i used the other side of it and then the other one was just um another pumpkin from another bag that i found now i'm doing candy corn colors because i felt like it just made sense for fall and i put a couple coats on the yellow because you can see the yellow is really hard to cover that orange then we did uh the top one will be white the middle one is orange and then the bottom one is yellow and so again if you're covering orange you're gonna need to do like a bazillion coats of yellow i think it took me three coats of this and then we're gonna add some characters some distressing with some brown to them and we're just gonna make them look super duper cute like i said we're using three different types of pumpkins for this and i'm painting them candy corn colors so you can try this too if you want i think this would be super cute on the big big pumpkins like to do a candy corn topiary color it's not really candy corn it's the colors of candy corn for like an outside front porch thing like on a larger scale that would be so adorable i really should i should really do that for my front porch i would just happen to think about that but uh this is our last video for fall this year we're gonna start moving into christmas so if i get around to it i might upload my fall front porch i know i did that last year and um you'll just be able to see the way that i did my porch this year but we're using some spanish moss for this and we're going to just kind of layer our pumpkins on top of that now i am mod podging these pumpkins to the scrapbook paper and i did add a little tiny bit of hot glue because i did not want my styrofoam to melt but at least the mod podge stuck to the paper and i didn't have any issues with the hot glue it just don't use a lot of it and i did the mod podge and the hot glue and then in between each pumpkin i added a little bit of spanish moss and then the one pumpkin that i had cut up i used the stem from for the top pumpkin and i think it just turned out adorable now i had to paint that one because it was you know a weird brownish color and i so i added a little bit of greenish black to it to kind of make it look like a stem now i found these sunflowers at the dollar tree maybe they're still in your store and i just left them on the stem like the little wire and started sticking them into the sign that i was making now this is more of like a leaner it's not like you can hang it if you want to but i made this to be specifically like a leaning sign and i put in the sunflowers and i did not like all of them yellow so i pulled out some and painted them white because i felt like that made more sense and it gave it a little bit of depth and dimension i added in a little bit of greens and you guys this one is my favorite this one's my favorite of the week and then i just added a little bit of that yellow distress or yellow it's white i added a little bit of the white paint to just kind of distress the frame and this is my favorite i love it so much and again i don't know who did this originally but it gave me that idea and i had to show it to you guys so this is our last one of this week of the season that is fall and i know this one's like a bold this one's going to be bold but we're going with the sunflower theme if you noticed this week on our themes this year we did themes this fall so i thought that was something fun to do now i did have this round from dollar tree and i'm using a napkin that i had uh put i had put together these napkin bundles for fall and y'all like i said we i think i said this in the other video like we sold out of the napkin bundles in like eight days there was it was crazy so we do have a christmas wait list going right now for a nap for napkins for christmas so if you want to get on that wait list to be the first to know when they come available the link will be in the description so you can do that or you can go to my website shopthemakersmap.com it's right there at the top for you to see how you can get on the list now i'm using that napkin i painted it white because i really wanted that white to pop and then i just used my saran wrap and my rolling pin and then i added a dollar tree grapevine wreath to the outside now i thought how can you combine fall farmhouse sunflowers harvest and all the things together for this piece here and so i painted this windmill black you can get them at the dollar tree now i will tell you i'm making this fall but you could change up the sunflowers to be something else if you wanted to incorporate that windmill into this i like if you like this idea you can change the background from sunflowers to something else now i love this ribbon that i get from hobby lobby and i thought we gotta do a bow with this we just have to do the buffalo check with the sunflowers i felt like it had a great feel and i struggle to make bows so i just like piecing it together i will hot glue pieces just tie it up i don't do well with the tails so i just kind of make my own and then we are adding a hanger to this just so we can hang it it's not like a super big hanger and then we're attaching oh the hanger is twine we're attaching the bow and then i'm adding in some of these um lambsier leaves into the grapevine wreath and i'm distressing up my windmill and we're gonna glue this sucker on and this will finish out our project i would love to know what you think about this week's projects i hope you enjoyed them and let me know which one is your favorite and i will see you guys on the next video [Music] you

Channel: DIY with Amber Strong

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Id: 5LHXYo8cYs8

Length: 18min 59sec (1139 seconds)

Published: Fri Oct 01 2021