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Fall Swag

Equipment

  • Scissors
  • EZ Bow Maker
  • Hot glue pot
  • Rotary Mesh Cutter
  • Wire cutter

Materials

  • Evergreen swag base
  • 1 roll 21″ Mesh
  • 3 2.5″ wired ribbon
  • 1 1.5″ wired ribbon
  • Fall Leaves Stem
  • Fall Berry Picks
  • Foam Pumpkins
  • Skewers

Instructions

Prep your base.

  • Start with an evergreen swag base.
  • Fluff out your pine needles.
  • Take some 21” burlap mesh and make a poof on one end, attach it into your swag by securing it into a pine needle.
  • Keep making poofs going up the side of your swag and repeating on the other side as well as the middle.
  • Take 3 different colors of mesh and cut 25” pieces.
  • Make a cruffle by curling the ends in and pinching the middle together. Add it into a pine needle near the top.
  • Repeat that with the rest of the cruffles spreading them evenly throughout your swag, alternating colors as you go..

Make and add your bow and pumpkins.

  • Take 4 different ribbons and make a bow with 2 x 7.5” loops each side and 1 long tail and one short tail with each of them.
  • Secure the bows together with a pipe cleaner.
  • Fluff out your bow.
  • Add your bow into the top of your swag. Secure it with a pipe cleaner.
  • Trim your top ribbon ends.
  • Add in your pumpkin decorations. Secure them in with skewers and hot glue.
  • Take your long ribbon tails, layer them a few and make a poof, secure it down with a pipe cleaner and hot glue.
  • Trim the others.
  • Take some more ribbon and make tails, add them onto a pick and add them into your design.

Add greenery.

  • Take some fall leaves and add them into your design.
  • Take some eucalyptus and add a few pieces throughout your design.
  • Take some orange berry picks and add them into your swag.
  • Add in some fern type greenery into your design.

Final touches.

  • Add some more funky tails where you see necessary.
  • Take some navy fluffy balls and twigs and hot glue them onto your design.