Welcome friends! Today it’s time for our Creative Craft Hop, hosted by Sara from Birdz of a Feather, where I join up with some wonderful bloggers every third Thursday of the month to bring you a new DIY project. Can you believe it’s the third Thursday in August already? That means it’s time to get all of your early fall decor ready to go. Where do you start? Well at the front door of course! Doormats can be so expensive, but not to worry. Today I’m sharing a gourd-geous fall doormat that you can make with a $1.25 mat from Dollar Tree. Let’s get into this!
Supplies for a fall doormat:
- black doormat from Dollar Tree
- acrylic paint
- fabric paint medium (optional, but it makes the paint softer)
- my fall doormat design with vinyl
- or other stencils
- foam paint brush
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Cut a Stencil to Use on the Fall Welcome Mat
I’m sharing a free cut file that you can use on your fall doormat. You can use it on other decor, like a sign or wreath, as well.
For personal use only!
This design is for personal use only, not commercial use. If you’d like to share it with friends or family, feel free to use the buttons at the end of the post to share it with them on social media or send them straight to the blog. Please don’t download this image and give it to multiple people. I’d love to have them come visit the blog! This helps me to keep these free printables, PNGs, & SVGs coming to you for free! Also, the preview image of the design has my logo overlaid on them. That will not show up on your downloaded file. It is there to keep anyone from stealing and printing them straight from Google without coming here. Thanks y’all!
I’m sharing two versions of this design that you can use on your fall welcome mat. The first has thicker panels on the pumpkins. I also have a version with colored pumpkins so that you can cut a design for a door hanger that isn’t all one color. Just substitute the color of vinyl you want to use for the gourds for the colors I added. Remember, the logo will not be on the download!
Cut & Prep the Stencil
Upload the design of your choice to cutting machine software and cut it on vinyl. I sized mine to be about 11.75″ wide since I only had vinyl that’s 12″. My software won’t let you size it to the full 12″.
Reverse weed the design by removing the actual letters and pieces of the pumpkin. Leave the outer portion on the backing. Be sure to leave all of the centers of the letters in, like the e’s and o’s.
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Transfer the Stencil onto the Fall Doormat
Cut a piece of contact or transfer paper large enough to cover the entire fall doormat design. Place it on the vinyl and remove the backing following the usual process of rubbing it on first. You can use a weeding tool or credit card to make sure the inner parts of the design that aren’t attached to the big vinyl piece stick on the contact paper.
Place the vinyl in the center of the mat. To help with that, I placed mine on a 24″ cutting mat. It was about 24″ so I put a piece of masking tape in the middle at 12″, then 8.5″ from the bottom.
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Paint the Design
Mix the paint and the fabric paint medium. Mine calls for one party medium to two parts acrylic paint but read your bottle to determine your ratio.
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Place your new autumn welcome mat out and enjoy your hard work!
How’s this for a $1.25 mat?!
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