Framed Burlap Pumpkin Patch for Halloween/Fall

So basically, I've only been using this site to host images. What gives!? The lest I can do is combine both my review/freebie site and this one. I'll have to look into that...

Yeah, that type of stuff might scare you, too
if you saw it outside your window every night.

I think fall is my favorite season for crafts. Between all the beautiful colors I can use, the materials available to me, and the delicious roasting foods, I just can never decide where to start! However, I dislike halloween. Maybe it's from my childhood gore-crazed neighbors who set up scenes from "Saw" and other scaries every year in their yard. Large floating feet? Nope. Someone burried alive? NOT for me. Spiders, snakes, witches, black fog, ect- no way.

HOWEVER, we did dress up our puppy, Maya! If you haven't met Maya yet, she is simply the sweetest, most charming dog. She LOVES love, other dogs, people, kids, and chewing on everything. We got super lucky. She was a bumble bee. She didn't mind wearing a costume, but she LOVED chewing it! This is the first and last costume she'll be getting.

Anyway, onto the craft! As I stated before, I don't like Halloween. All the decorations I could find were somehow directly related. I thought about painting pumpkins, carving pumpkins again, maybe putting some tied up cornstalks outside, but I wanted something festive for inside, too. I found some cute jeweled owls at Michael's and put out my painted "Thanks" wine bottles. Our living room colors are already brown, red, ect, so that room doesn't need much sprucing. I finally figured out something to put in the kitchen, and this is what I came up with :) A framed pumpkin patch!

Framed Burlap Pumpkin Patch

They were super simple to make and were even easier with my awesome Silhouette I won last year in a Thanksgiving customer appreciation drawing from ConsumerCrafts.com. You'll need:

variety of papers (pumpkins)
scrabble tiles
burlap or other fabric
frame with glass
hot glue or strong fabric adhesive
scissors
Silhouette (or scissors or punch for pumpkins)

Cut a piece of burlap to fit the inside of the frame with extra to wrap around the glass. You'll be gluing the burlap onto the glass and wrapping the extras around.

I used my Silhouette to cut out a bunch of pumpkins with all my different papers but you can use scissors or a punch instead. Or just buy cutouts from the store, I saw some again at Michael's.

Next, I lined them all up and placed my scrabble tiles on the bottom.

Finally, glue them on BEFORE glueing the burlap onto anything. I had to use hot glue to get everything to stick well to the burlap.

Finally, glue the burlap, centered, onto the piece of glass that came with the frame. You could use a heavy piece of cardboard as well.

Wrap the excess around the edges and trip if you need to. Especially with burlap, because it's so thick, you have to glue the excess edges down to the back of the glass. Otherwise, it may come unglued when things brush against it and start to wiggle around the frame.

It hangs gorgeously in my kitchen!! Festive without all the connotations!