Fall Crafts, Round 1: Paper Bag Wreath

I spent Sunday working on my first fall craft of the season, a cute paper-bag wreath I spied over at Abbey's blog. Abbey originally pulled it from Martha, and I thought it would be an easy craft with a big effect for our apartment door. I followed the directions on Abbey's post:

(both via Abbey via Martha)

If you'd like to make this cheap beauty, I recommend following Martha's directions, except that I found it easier to attach the "leaves" with a glue gun instead of the suggested stapler. I've included some process photos:




You'll see I used brown kraft paper, metallic brown cardstock, and gold cardstock. If A.C. Moore had bronze cardstock, I would have purchased that; but alas, they did not. Here was my total cost for this first fall craft of the season:

• 1 sheet of 12"x12" gold cardstock - $0.49
• 2 sheets of 12"x12" brown metallic cardstock - $0.98
• 16" wire wreath form - $2.59
• 1 black wreath hanger - $0.99
• 1 7-yrd spool of expresso grosgrain ribbon (for wreath hanger) - $3.99
• Total, inc. tax - $9.76

What do you think?

P.S. Did you notice the slight change in the blog heading? Like it?