🍁 All New Cozy Farmhouse Early Fall Decor DIYs and Crafts

Welcome to Farm Charm Chic, I'm Emily. In today's episode I'm taking a thrift find along with some Dollar Tree products to make a faux tin picture. It's perfect for fall. I also am grabbing my sugar mold. I'm going to update it for this season with some new florals, some new ribbons. In the end it looks stunning. I also have a wonderful hack for you if you want to try making these faux caramel apples with the fake nuts. These turn out absolutely delightful. If you like crafting, DIYs, dupes, hacks, or flips or just creating in general I would love if you would consider subscribing. If you like any of today's projects remember to hit that thumbs up, but let's go make some DIYs. As I've been shopping around to get some ideas for different fall projects and autumn projects I've seen a lot of black cats, not in a Halloween way but more in just kind of a harvest fall time way and I've really been loving them so I thought I would make a piece with a black cat on here. I just thought it to me just screams fall and autumn time. I just printed this out from Google Images. I just searched for black cat silhouette and was able to cut that out. I'll leave a link to it down in my description box so if you guys want to quickly find one you can. You can kind of match it to the size of your piece. I just cut that out and then I traced it on the back of one of these faux tin tiles that you get at Dollar Tree. I love using these for decor because I just feel like it has a nice vintage feel to it. Something that would be a typical farmhouse thing to do of repurpose something like an old ceiling tin tile so I just think these are so fun. Now I just free-handed kind of a pumpkin shape so you could also google a pumpkin shape and cut that out if you wanted something a little bit more symmetrical. I just kind of wanted to do something kind of abstract and just cut something out kind of an organic feel. Now of course I just paint the cat black. I paint the pumpkin orange. It takes about two coats of the black, three coats of the orange. Now this sign I found at the thrift store one of the recent trips that I took there. It looks like I think I paid a dollar for it. You can tell clearly that at one point it came from Hobby Lobby. Someone just got tired of it but I'm going to distress the frame a little bit to kind of make this look a little more rustic. Again that's something I like to do. This worked perfectly because I didn't feel like I had to paint the frame or anything. I loved the color that was on there but there were a few gouges in there and everything so that just kind of makes the rustic tie in. Now these are those cutting mats that you get at Dollar Tree. There's two in a package and since this has a tin background here and it has a cutout on that I wanted to completely cover this. So this is just kind of my idea. I was press that cutting mat into the picture, run my finger along it and then I just trim it to size to go right into my picture. Now this is one of the peel and stick wallpaper or wall stickers that you can get at Dollar Tree. Any type of wood pattern or design they had or whatever designer pattern you feel that would work great. This is just a great hack that you could translate into any season or any DIY but I just cover that cutting mat and then you can see it fits in so well. Now I want this to be a little bit more of a permanent hold on here so I'm just using my trusty Elmer's School Glue to go over that mat and then I'm going to place it down onto the background here. That's going to cover that completely. Now you could do the same thing on the back side if you're going to sell this or you want to make it double sided. I just went ahead with some black card stock and cut it kind of down to size and I'm just placing that on the back. The reason why I'm doing that is since it had that cut out letters where it said thankful the light was shining through and you could see it through on the other side and I did not want that. But this would be a perfect sign and I may come back at a later time and make this a double sided sign. I think that would be so fun. Now on my little cat that I cut out here I'm going to use some craft sticks to glue down in a straight line down its back. I'm going to pop this out with some Jenga blocks and I'm doing this so that way it gives a little bit more literally a backbone to this cat so it's not going to be kind of flopping around anywhere. This just kind of adds some stability. It's going to give me a place to glue my Jenga sticks or Jenga blocks onto and make this cat have a backbone. You can see here I'm just taking some Jenga blocks and I'll glue three down so that way when I glue it onto the surface it's going to pop out and give you that 3D element. You can do the same thing with the pumpkin just glue a Jenga block onto the back of that and he just needed one that little pumpkin did. Now the fun part of using these faux ceiling tiles is that you get to make that design pop. So I'm taking just a little bit of Folk Art Metallic Silver paint. I felt like if the paint was to scratch off of an actual ceiling tile you would get like a coppery or a silver some type of metallic tone to it. So I thought that was really fun. I just dry brushed that over both of those. Now I just used a bunch of scrap ribbon that I had to make this bow. There are so many different treatments you could do to your cat even just a couple little wraps of twine around its neck with a simple little bow or a button. Kind of decide how much you want to embellish this. I just did a couple like three or four different types of ribbons and just tied some bows and tied them together with a zip tie. Then for my pumpkin stem this is just a stick that came from our farm. I love to use these as pumpkin stems. I kind of collect them whenever we have a windstorm we get a lot of fun branches that fall down and I'll find some cute little sticks and I just have a bucket of them I use for different stems or different things like that. It's kind of fun to bring that in plus it's free. Now I have this little wooden tag and I'm just stamping hello fall. I'm using some dollar tree stamps and I thought it would be fun to kind of mix the fonts up kind of make it look a little whimsical. Now comes the fun part of putting everything together here. So I'm just making sure that my sign is completely free of any debris and I just kind of place my little kitty cat down there and then I kind of while that glue is still hot you can kind of manipulate where you want him set if you want him up a little bit. I even tried to put a little Spanish moss underneath him to see like if he was sitting on a bed of Spanish moss. I didn't love it but that's something just to give you an idea of something else that you could do. Then I'm just going to stack my little pumpkin right next to this cute little kitty cat. Now I want to add that tag to our pumpkin so I just make a little raffia bow with just a little bit of raffia and then I add a little bit of Spanish moss underneath him there just to kind of add a little bit more softness to it. Overall I think this turns out so cute. I think this would be such a fun little cozy piece to have for fall time. I love black cats this time of year and I love that they're not just Halloween, that you can have them that just kind of means harvest time, fall time. I just think this is so stinking cute. What do you guys think? Today's video is part of a really fun and exciting fall collaboration. I am joined by all of these very talented YouTube creators to bring a whole playlist that is full of fall DIYs and inspiration for you. This is hosted by Liana at Liana DIY. I just love her. She is amazing and you guys this month our guest hosts are Monner's Market and Crafting with JC who are both fantastic and I love both of their channels and I'm also joined by DIY with Amber and DIY Next Door and you're going to love them also. They're amazing as well. We have so much fun fall DIYs that are planned for you in all of our videos. All you have to do is look for that link in our description box or pinned in our comments and it will take you right over to the playlist and begin playing that. If you are new or coming over from the playlist, welcome! I am so glad that you are here. Let's get right back into the DIYs. I have this sugar mold that I purchased on Amazon a number of years back and I love changing it out for different seasons. It has these three holes in it. A lot of times you find them with candles in them and once you burn the candles you're wondering what you're left to do with it or you just want to start with a blank slate. I just love changing it up for all sorts of different seasons. So I thought I would take it for this fall season and I'm going to update it to kind of just be something fresh and new for this fall. So the first thing I'm doing is I'm getting any glue residue or anything that's on there off. Now this is a reproduction sugar mold. This is one that has been made recently in the last few years. It's not an antique. If you have an antique one you do just want to be careful if you're doing anything on the surface such as glue or anything like that. Just be careful removing it. But as you can see I just use my heat tool to help get anything off of there. If I happen to scratch any of that stain that's on there off I'll just use a little bit of antiquing wax to help get that back to its color there. So you can see I just have some styrofoam down in each of the little molds there and I keep that in there. I just kind of take out my florals with every season. You can add things to it like that if you would like to. The styrofoam and some Spanish Moss in there would work great as well. So I just have these florals. I picked these up at Hobby Lobby this year. I just thought those little teeny sunflowers were so pretty and delicate and perfect for fall. Kind of a good transition harvest piece. I do kind of change it out a little bit for Halloween and so I just wanted something that could bring in that essence of fall since it's still a little bit early right now. I just really wanted those colors. I still have flowers blooming in my front yard so I thought it would be fun to incorporate those fall feels but yet still have a little touch of summer there with those sunflowers. As you can see I just kind of do what feels good. There's not really a rhyme or reason to this. I have this little pit berry that I'm just going to corkscrew around just a paint brush or pencil here. I like to just kind of stick that in. Have that sticking out for a little whimsical touch. If you do want to sell these and you're wanting to put your florals in I would recommend using a little bit of glue to glue these in with. That way it will stay a little bit more permanently. However if you're really wanting the people to be able to change these out go light on the glue so they can change them out. I've had a few people ask me that in the past if they were to sell them what I would recommend. Part of the fun is to be able to change these out for different seasons. Change them up a little bit different. Now I had that corn cob that I put in there from Dollar Tree and you can kind of see down on my table I had a crow I was going to put in there and I ended up not loving that so I left him off. I just have these little pumpkins that came on a Dollar Tree pick that I just took those off. I have a couple of little corn cobs that look like the little harvest corn there that came on a Dollar Tree pick. I just kind of look for bits and pieces to kind of stick in here and just kind of go with what I'm feeling. I've had a lot of fun coming up with some different themes to do with this sugar mold. Now this is one of those little pumpkins I think it was either on a little toothpick or it might have been on the back of a little truck but the orange was so bright that I just thought I would tone it down with a little bit of white paint and then I even get out a little bit of my pumpkin orange from Waverly and I'll kind of go over it a little bit with that to kind of bring in the little more muted orange tones that this piece has. I love to keep the barbecue skewers on hand from Dollar Tree for projects like this because you can snip those down and use that to place these little pumpkins in there. It worked perfectly. Now you can see my little corn cobs here. I had one or two in there and I found another one in my stash so I thought it would be fun to have three of them and have them kind of I had the two yellow and the one reddish orange and so I just kind of stuck those in there. Now this ribbon came from Dollar Tree as well and since this sugar mold tapers down it's not an exact rectangle in the back it does have to kind of go at an angle like this to have it sit flat. Now in some of my other videos on my sugar molds I've showed some ways to kind of get around that but for the most part where this sits in my home it's up against a wall. You're not going to see the back of it so you just need to keep that in mind. There's lots of different ways around that with working with that angle but on this one I just wanted it really taut in the front so I just pulled it completely taut and then had it kind of at that angle in the back. Now this is just a tag. I found this in my stash. I don't recall if it came from Dollar Tree or Hobby Lobby but there was a couple of them so I'm just gluing this onto the ribbon rather than the wood itself and that way it's going to have less glue residue for me to remove when I change this out for Halloween but I'm just kind of ruffling or wrinkling this tag. I wanted it to look kind of like it had some wrinkles in there like it had been kind of stuck over time. I just thought that looks kind of fun but if that's not your jam then you would just skip that. I just had this twine bow it felt like it needed a little something a button or a little tassel would have been really cute as well but I just think this turns out so stunning. I love the corn and the sunflowers together with just a little touch of pumpkins not overly pumpkin. This is going to be so beautiful in my home. Again if you do this and decorate it from both sides it would make a beautiful centerpiece something maybe on a kitchen island. A mantle is where it would be perfect. Unfortunately I don't have a mantle in my home but where it sits is kind of against the wall like a mantle would be but what do you guys think of this? Do you want me to keep showing you different ways I decorate the sugar mold? The faux caramel apple face is very real and everybody loves them. Now whether you get apples such as these or maybe you find some wood cutouts. I know Walmart has this style right here. Dollar Tree typically has several different styles of apples this time of year whether it's plain wood cutouts their wood signs. Any way that you can get your hands on an apple shape I'm going to show you kind of a little hack as far as how to get these to look so good. Now this is just a warm caramel color of spray paint. I'll leave it linked down in my description box. I just painted mine. These are some that I had cut out but again you have so many different options you can find apples literally anywhere any craft store any home decor store that you go into and so this is just going to be a way to jazz them up and make them look like those little faux caramel apples. I have mine painted a couple red and one green and I just took a little bit of fabric that I have and I just tore it into some strips and I'm going to decorate these by tying this around kind of halfway up my stick. Now if your apple doesn't have a stick it is very easy you just get one of those wooden dowels from Dollar Tree. You can use a craft stick such as I have here to glue onto the back of your apple like it's coming out or the top. That's how you're going to get your stick coming out of your apple. This is just more to show you how to do the little bit of embellishing here and you can see I'm just going to tie this around. I had a cute little tag that I had on there that says caramel apple that kind of is fun but here is the hack. You want to take a screenshot of this right here. This is natural corn cob bedding and litter. This is all natural. It is not going to bring bugs into your home. This stuff looks just like faux nuts and it is amazing and I found it on Amazon. It is kind of a larger bag that you have to buy however have a craft night invite all your over to make these cute little caramel apples and use this stuff up. It is amazing and I cannot believe how realistic it looks. Again it's an all natural product that is dehydrated like corn cobs like it's just fantastic and it's just clean. There's no odor nothing like that. But as you saw I just put some Mod Podge on the bottom part of my caramel apple. I kind of dipped my apple down into it and now I'm just taking some extra and sprinkling it over the top of the apple. I have seen several influencers do this technique so I'm hoping this works well. I'll let you know as the season goes on. Of course there's no like foolproof way unless you use like resin or something I don't think to kind of have not a little bit of shedding from this but I have to tell you I made these a couple of weeks ago and that has been very minimal amounts that have fallen off but I have a hack for you if you want to know how to have that have it contained so I'll show you that in just a minute. But again you can see I'm just kind of smushing all of those faux nuts down onto our apple and then after it dries I go back in with a little bit more Mod Podge kind of in more like more clumps here. Kind of like if you're making a caramel apple and you have a little bit more caramel on one spot or maybe a little clump of caramel and a little bit more nuts stick to that area. It's kind of what I'm going here. My daughter told me she liked it better when it had one layer of nuts however the rest of my family told me that they liked it better with the extra layer. It looked a little bit more like an expensive caramel apple that you would get. So you're going to do whatever style you like and and play around with it. Have some fun and do a little bit of seeing which style you like more. But this is just to get a second layer here. I felt like it just gave a little bit more coverage. Now here's the hack if you want to have these cute caramel apples but you don't want to have any of this possibly coming off in your home. I just got a treat bag that I had from just making some suckers or some treats with my kids and I placed my caramel apple down in there and then I'm going to still embellish this the exact same way I did those other two apples at the top. I'm just doing it over the bag so it looks like it's an actual contained caramel apple that you would go and pick up at the fair or at wherever you were. But I just thought this was such a stinking cute idea and I just thought it was so fun. But the same thing. I used that fabric and I used some twine. I would love to know if you had an idea of anything else you could embellish this with or tie on this. Let me know down in the comments what you would use to embellish yours with. But look at how cute these look. Even displayed like this with some in the bag some not. I just think they turn out so cute and apples are so big right now they're kind of becoming a little more popular. Apples are not my most favorite fall decor item so I haven't done a lot with them but they're growing on me and so I'll have some more different apple DIYs to come. You guys request that every year but I think that you won't have a hard time finding an apple shape to try this with. You'll have to let me know how yours turn out. What do you think of these? Thank you so much for joining me today with all of these really beautiful fun fall DIYs. Remember that this is part of a collaboration so there will be a playlist link in my description box as well as pinned in my comments so you can sit back and enjoy your time and have a really fun afternoon watching all of these beautiful fall inspiration DIYs that we have for you and you can get all those fun fall feels. I would love to know does it feel like fall where you are or are you still in summer temperatures? We're still in like 90 degrees at my house so I love summer but I'm ready for all of the fall feels to come. Maybe a little bit cooler but I just love fall decor and when you start to pull it out and get all of that fun the fun oranges the fun leaves and it's just I love creating new things to be able to decorate my home with. If you guys had a favorite DIY today I would love to know which one it was. I will love to know if you'd like to see more apple DIYs since they are becoming so much more popular. Let me know down in the comments with an apple emoji and I will know that you definitely want to see more apple DIYs. Thank you so much for joining me today. I'll see you next time. Happy crafting! If you like the video that you just saw and you want to keep crafting together here's another video that you might enjoy and as always remember to like and subscribe. Thanks so much for watching. I'll see you next time.