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Paper Leaf Wreath with Paper Owl | Fall Paper Craft Tutorial

Paper Crafts have always been a hobby of mine. When I was younger, I used to attend paper crafting parties with my mom ; we would make cards, scrapbook, and even bookmarks. This year I decided to put my paper crafting skills back to use and create a paper leaf wreath for fall. I have even included an adorable and simple paper owl!
I love paper crafts, especially seasonal and holiday crafts, so I am excited to partner with Distinct Papers to bring you this DIY Paper Leaf Wreath.

 

While this fall wreath may seem a bit overwhelming with all of those paper leaves, it really did not take very long; just wait until you see how it is made.

 

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My paper leaf wreath was designed to resemble an autumn tree. You will find a green tree top covered in fall-colored leaves. The brown bow is the tree trunk and I have even included branches for the woodland critter to sit on.

The fall wreath uses bright fall color paper from Distinct Papers. They sell all types of paper, envelopes, and packaging supplies. The paper is perfect for paper craft and stamping lovers like me.

 

Paper Leaf Wreath

Paper Leaf Tree Wreath Square

 

What You Need

  • Foam floral wreath (I used green)
  • Green twine (I ended up using just over 120 ft.)
  • Hot glue
  • Distinct Papers cardstock (I used dark green, light green, red, yellow, orange, and light brown)
  • Sponge
  • Slightly damp watercolors or acrylic paint I used green, brown, red, yellow, purple and orange)
  • Large leaf-shaped paper punch (I have this one which you may find cheaper in stores, or this one works too)
  • Brown ribbon (I used wired burlap)
  • Sharp scissors (fabric scissors are best)
  • Black permanent marker
  • Brown colored pencil
  • Twigs

 

Directions

1. Begin by wrapping the twine around the entire foam wreath base. Add a small amount of hot glue every few wraps. Note: if you do not wish to take the time for wrapping so much, try using thick strips of fabric or ribbon.

 

Paper Leaf Wreath For Fall Step 1

 

2. Choose your paper colors.

3. Using your sponge, dab bits of brown, red, orange, yellow, purple, and green paint onto the dark green, light green, red, and yellow cardstock from Distinct Papers. Make sure the sponge is is not too wet, just very slightly damp. Let dry.

 

Paper Leaf Wreath For Fall Step 3

 

4. Place the paper, one piece at a time, into the paper punch, and punch out a bunch of leaves in different colors. If the paper gets stuck, it’s good to have another thick piece of cardstock and a tweezer on hand to pull the paper out of the punch. Set aside.

 

Paper Leaf Wreath For Fall Step 4

 

5. Cut a small piece of the brown ribbon and wrap it around one part of the wreath then glue it down.

 

Paper Leaf Wreath For Fall Step 5

 

6. Since you are already working with the ribbon, go ahead and make the bow. Begin by twisting a piece of the ribbon into a loop.

 

Paper Leaf Wreath For Fall Step 6

 

7. Take a small piece of the twine and tie the bow in the center.

 

Paper Leaf Wreath For Fall Step 7

 

8. Trim another small piece of ribbon off and clue it around the middle of the bow. Set aside.

 

Paper Leaf Wreath For Fall Step 8

 

9. Now you can start gluing some leaves on. Make the colors sporadic so it looks like a real tree. I started with the dark green then added the yellow leaves, red leaves, and light green leaves. I glued mine on everywhere but the brown section. Add a few more to the outside and inside of the ring so they are not all on just the front of the wreath.

 

Paper Leaf Wreath For Fall Step 9

 

10. To make the owl, I cut out an owl body shape from the dark green paper, a belly shape from the light brown paper, two circles from the light brown paper, and two small circle eyes and a triangle beak from the orange paper.

11. On the belly, I drew a fun loop pattern with the colored pencil, just to give it some feature-like texture. I drew a fish scale pattern then filled those each in with two more loops and little peaks at the bottom between each set of loops. You may notice that I went back over it to darken the pattern later as I decided it was not bold enough. Around the brown part of the eyes, I drew a starburst pattern and on the orange eyes I drew pupils. Glue everything together.

12. Make small slits all along the outside of the light brown circles around the eyes then use your finger to pull it up a little to make it look 3D.

 

Paper Leaf Wreath For Fall Step 10

 

13. Roll two rectangular strips of orange paper to make the owl’s legs. Glue them onto the back of the owl.

 

Paper Leaf Wreath For Fall Step 11

 

14. Cut out two wings and a long tail from the green paper. Add a smaller piece of light brown to the tail and add the same pattern that you used on the owl’s belly. Glue everything into place.

 

Paper Leaf Wreath For Fall Step 13

 

15. Bend the owl’s tail back slightly so it sticks out.

 

Paper Leaf Wreath For Fall Step 14

 

16. Find a twig or two that fit perfectly into your wreath and glue them down into the middle of the paper leaf wreath. If needed, add another leaf or two to cover up where the twigs are glued down.

 

Paper Leaf Wreath For Fall Step 15

 

17. Perch your owl onto one of the twigs by wrapping the orange legs around the branch and gluing them down onto the branch.

 

Paper Leaf Wreath For Fall Step 16

 

18. Tie a hanger onto the back of the wreath if needed. I just used another piece of twine. If you have better wreath hangers, you can use those instead.

 

Paper Leaf Wreath For Fall Step 17

 

19. Glue the bow into place on the front, on top of the brown piece of ribbon. Remove any strings of glue that may still be on the wreath; I know hot glue can get messy.

 

Paper Leaf Wreath For Fall Step 18

 

Hang your beautiful paper leaf wreath in your home or on your front door behind a storm door! Since this paper leaf wreath is made with, well…paper, it is not meant to be an outdoor wreath, but it displays nicely indoors. I chose to hang mine behind our storm door.

 

Paper Leaf Tree Wreath AnglePaper Leaf Tree Wreath Close

 

I love the details on the owl and leaves!

 

Paper Leaf Tree Wreath Owl Paper Leaf Tree Wreath Leaf Closeup

 

As with any craft, get creative with your paper leaf wreath! Take a look through all the lovely paper colors and paper products from Distinct Papers. You can make the owl and the leaves any colors you wish. Keep them all green, make them browns and oranges, make the owl teal…make it fit your style!

 

Paper Leaf Tree Wreath Cover

 

Be sure to sign up for the Distinct Papers newsletter and Distinct Papers Blog and follow them on Instagram. They have so many great paper craft ideas and are the perfect go-to paper and packaging source for small business owners, graphic designers, crafters, teachers, and anyone else who uses a lot of paper, envelopes, and packaging. Distinct Papers is a very new brand and their products are high quality. I love their bright papers and vellum. I love using the cardstock for printing my coloring pages.

 

Paper Leaf Wreath For Fall Step 2

 

I just had to sneak this picture in here…captioned “When you’re a DIY blogger, but you’re also a mom…you might find out some of your pictures have been ‘photo bombed.'”

 

Paper Leaf Tree Wreath Photobomber

 
Read also: Simple Fall Wreath Tutorial and Paper Fairy Mobile Craft
 

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25 Comments

  1. I have two granddaughters who would love for me to win $50 Distinct Papers gift card. Thank you for the opportunity.

  2. I am about as uncrafty as they come but that is so cute! I would stock up on Great White MP Smooth Paper for the home office!

  3. I would buy anything with the gift card but I think die cuts would be on my list.

  4. I have so many ideas for these papers! I might just need to get me some Kraft paper…

  5. I would buy BriteHue Smooth Paper in multiple colors. They would be perfect for using with my Cricut.

  6. I would get Sterling Premium Gloss Paper

  7. I would buy the cube boxes.

  8. Card stock paper. Have you seen all of the beautiful colors?!!

  9. Being the snail-mail-aholic that I am, a cheerful array of origami paper and cardstock would be purchased using a giftcard, so my kids and I can pay it forward sending cards full of feel good kinda stuff all around the globe!!! -H.Cook

  10. I would love to make some fun ornaments for Christmas with paper like this.

  11. I do a bit of Scrapbooking and since I am on a fixed income this would be a great prize to win. Thanks for the chance.

  12. I forgot to tell you what I would buy: I would buy the Vellum Paper. I love using it for my scrapbook pages, but it can be VERY expensive. Thank you again.

  13. I would probably get some Multipurpose Paper and envelops!

  14. I want a giant roll of kraft paper. I want to crumble it up and then use it to wallpaper a wall in my bathroom. (I think I saw something like that on Trading Spaces yearrrrs ago)

  15. I would use the gift certificate to purchase card stock. I teach Adult coloring with eye shadow and this would allow me to print some new pictures to color. Thank you for the invitation to join in on this wonderful opportunity.

  16. I’d order 8 1/2 x11 Card Stock for card making, and some of the textured papers for scrapbooking and cards as well.

  17. Jacquelyn Schlageter

    I would like to get paper to make old fashioned ornaments like they used to make for the Tree

  18. Leigh Anne Borders

    As a school teacher, I could really use this paper. I would get the bright hue red paper because I can use it for so many things.

  19. I would first clear my day to look through the site it loads extremely slow on mobile device. So would do on my computer and would buy as much card stock 100lb bright white and multi colored from Astro writes as the card would let me buy then get to crafting once it got here

  20. We could use the Kraft Paper Rolls for all kinds of art projects!!!

  21. The colored papers look like they would be fun to use!

  22. Going to try this. I have an owl punch and I cant wait to try it.

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