The Autumn sun is a lot lower in the sky and now is the perfect time to make some wonderful Autumn/Fall leaf sun catchers.
The boys and I have such fun making these sun catchers and they are really effective and look beautiful when the sun shines through them singing the colours on to walls.
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Materials
- Cardstock – we used black
- leaf template
- Coloured Cellophane
(this is one of the reasons we save sweet wrappers)
- glue
How to make your leaf suncatcher
We decided to make different shaped sun catchers, mine was a circle, but Mini chose a diamond shape. I am going to demonstrate how we cut these out with our Cricut Explore, but you could also trace the leaf templates onto your card using a white pencil and then using a craft knife cut them out. Just make sure that you cut both sheets of card the same.
Mini actually did all the design work on the Cricut Explore himself using design space and once he had chosen which leaves and pinecones he wanted on his diamond he positioned them, and then cut 2 of the designs on to black card stock.
He then glued coloured cellophane to one side of the card and allowed it to dry before gluing the other piece of black card with the cellophane sandwiched between them. This means the suncatchers look great from both sides of the window.
We used Blu Tack to stick them to the window, but they would look equally as lovely with a hole punched in them and ribbon strung through and hung from the window.
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We also have some other ace Autumn Suncatchers to make with kids.
The girls love making these. We haven’t done any crafts for ages. It’s about time we did!
They look beautiful! I can imagine the beautifully colourful light coming through these leaves 🙂 Sometimes I really wish my boy was bigger already, so we can finally do crafts together 😉
Love this! Wish I was as creative as you!
I used to love doing things like this all the time as a child, now I want to do the same with mason jars x
That looks really lovely! I wish I had the means to cut such intricate shapes.
I think I could just about manage to do this, though art isn’t my strong point.
This looks great Jen. I have a Silhouette Cameo in the cupboard that I really should use more x
Lovely autumn craft idea. I’ve been out all afternoon looking at the leaves. I love your craft station!
Aww that’s lovely x
Lovely idea Jen x x x
What a lovely idea. Like you said perfect for this time of year. x
What a brilliant idea!
Love making sun catchers with the kids!!
As soon as I saw that I realised you must have done it on the Cricut! Desperately saving up for one now.
These are gorgeous – have pinned the craft 🙂
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That looks gorgeous! We’ve been making suncatchers recently but I’ve done mine with sticky back plastic (old school!) looks brill with the cricut. Thanks for linking up to Tuesday Tutorials #pintorials
I love this. When I was little, we used to make lots of suncatchers for Christmas. I love the dark seasons because they bring out all the colourful crafts.
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PS: I’ve just seen your washi tape holder. I’m soooo jealous x
What a gorgeous idea! Autumn is great for getting out your wellies and tramping through the damp leaves, but on those rainy days it’s great to have some new ideas to keep little hands busy.
These Suncatchers are really lovely, and I can see how they could be adapted to different shapes…maybe even made into lanterns for halloween? Beautiful. Thanks for the post :o)
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