Photo: deco & style
Finds from nature
What is more beautiful in the autumn than the rustle of foliage? We make the Herbstboten our main actor in our Herbstdeko.
This is what you need for the leaf garland:
- White wax (eg of white candles from the drugstore or wax residues)
- Leaves, amount according to the length of the garland, here 24 leaves for 1.50 m (eg from the forest)
- roped
- knife
- 2 pots for the water bath
- scissors
And that's how easy it is:
1. Cut the wax into small pieces.
2. Slowly warm the wax in a water bath so that it melts completely.
3. Immerse each leaf individually in the wax for a short time. Then gently shake off the excess wax and hang to dry.
4. When the wax has dried (about 5 minutes), tie the leaves to the stems on the ribbon.
Note: When warming the wax in a water bath, make sure that neither the wax nor the water boils and that no water gets into the wax.
You need this for the pillows (51 x 51 cm):
- 55 x 130 cm cotton fabric
- Sheet template: z. For example, a cookie cutter Ahorn von Staedter, 7.5 cm or a dried maple leaf
- matching sewing thread (department store)
- Inner cushion
- tape measure
- Cloth scissors (department store)
- Felt (craft shop)
- pins
- sewing machine
And that's how easy it is:
1. Cut the fabric strip 55 x 130 cm.
2. Iron the two narrow sides 1 cm in each case two times inward. Hem edge in lockstitch.
3. Overlay the fabric strip on the left side so that the fabric overlaps in the middle and creates a piece of 51 x 55 cm.
4. Transfer the sheet original to felt and cut out.
5. Arrange the sheets on the pillow in a row and pin. Open the pillow again and sew it along the complete row with a rough stitch.
6. Now overlay the fabric strips on the right side so that the fabric overlaps in the middle and creates a piece of 51 x 55 cm.
7. Fix the two open sides with pins and sew the edges together with a seam allowance of 2 cm.
8. Turn fabric over.
9. Insert filling pad through the opening.
Info: For an oblong cushion of z. B. 41 x 61 cm fabric of 110 x 65 cm is required. At the 65 cm long edges turn twice and stitch. Then lay them over so that the fabric overlaps 20 cm in the middle and creates a piece of 41 x 65 cm.
You need this for the tealights:
- white baking paper or transparent paper (drugstore, approx. 2 Euro)
- various small glasses / tealight glasses
- Adhesive strips (eg from Tesa)
- black adhesive film (craft shop, about 2 euros)
- Tealights (drugstore, about 2 euros)
- Masking tape (from bespokendesign.de, 1, 95 Euro)
- Wooden discs (decolouring)
- ruler
- small scissors
- pencil
And that's how easy it is:
1. Cut the baking paper according to the size and height of the glasses.
2. Wrap the paper around the glasses and fix with adhesive tape.
3. Draw an animal motif from a book or freehand, cut it out and transfer the contours to the back of the black adhesive film. Cut out animal motif.
4. Remove backing paper from the animals and glue the foil to the jars.
5. Stick masking tape around the tealights.
6. Arrange tealights and tealights on wooden discs.
Tip: Glasses that are cylindrical, ie straight up, are easier to wrap than conical glasses that go "crookedly" up.
You need it for the dried flowers:
- Flowers: hydrangeas (fresh and dried), poppy capsules (fresh and dried), allium (dried), silver leaf (dried)
- Spray paint in gold (hardware store)
- vase
- Paper for the work surface
- secateurs
- knife
- gloves
- mouthguard
And that's how easy it is:
1. Spray the dried and fresh flowers with the spray paint. Wear masks and gloves and work best in a well-ventilated room or outdoors.
2. Let the paint dry well, preferably overnight.
3. Assemble flowers to a mixed bouquet of dry and fresh flowers, making the stems spirally.
4. Shorten the bouquet with the rose scissors to vase length.
5. Cut the ends of the stems diagonally for better water absorption.
6. Loosely place the bouquet in the water-filled vase.
Info: Use spray paint on paper underlays only in well-ventilated areas or outdoors, wearing gloves and mouthguards.
