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DIY Thanksgiving Fall Mantle

in Celebrations, Crafts & DIY, Halloween / Fall, Home Decor, SVG Cut Files

A fireplace mantle may be a great spot to hang stockings at Christmas but it can also serve as a spot for your seasonal décor other times of the year! Start a collection of basic décor items and mix in some DIY components that are seasonal specific. Check out this DIY Thanksgiving fall mantle made with a Cricut Maker and grab some SVG files to make the pieces for yourself!

DIY Thanksgiving Fall Mantle featuring Cricut Maker made projects | spotofteadesigns.com
DISCLOSURE: This post was created in partnership with Cricut. All opinions and creations shown are mine! Know I only promote and share products I personally use and recommend! To learn more, please review my disclosure policy here.

If you haven’t noticed by now, I have a deep love for my Cricut Explore Air 2! That machine helped me cut countless cardstock, adhesive vinyl and iron on materials these past 2 years, but I’m excited to announce that a Cricut Maker has now been added to my collection! (and the crowd goes wild!)

DIY Thanksgiving Fall Mantle featuring Cricut Maker made projects | spotofteadesigns.com

The Cricut Maker can do everything the Explore Air 2 can do plus it can also cut thicker materials, like chipboard, poster board or leather, and textured materials, like fabric and felt! This versatile machine includes an adaptive tool system where you can swap out the blades to make different types of cuts or decorate treatments which I used to create my DIY Thanksgiving fall mantle.  

Cricut Maker - the ultimate cutting machine for the creative crafter! | spotofteadesigns.com

The Cricut Maker machine, tips and new vinyl materials are all available at Cricut .

DIY Fall Mantle - Cricut Maker Quick Swap tips| spotofteadesigns.com

My DIY fall mantle was made mixing the standard fine point tip, fine point pen and four new QuickSwap tool tips: debossing tip, wavy blade, perforation blade and engraving tip. You can swap out each of these tips in the QuickSwap housing unit (seen above) with a push of the button making them easy to mix and match within one cutting session. Each of the tips are numbered so you can keep track of them as I’m sure these won’t be the last tips they create!

DIY Thanksgiving Fall Mantle featuring Cricut Maker made projects | spotofteadesigns.com

The textured leaves used in the wreath and the twigs were made using both the deboss tip and wavy blade in foil poster board and metallic poster board. In order to make them, you must choose the linetype for each element when in Cricut Design Space.

DIY Fall Mantle - Cricut Maker Deboss leaves | spotofteadesigns.com

You can see the vein element I have highlighted here and “wave” being chosen from the dropdown menu on the upper left. The layers panel on the right shows each element and what linetype was chosen. In this case, the leaves only show “fine deboss” and “wave”.

DIY Fall Mantle - Cricut Maker Deboss leaves | spotofteadesigns.com

Before sending it all to cut, I highlighted it all, right clicked and chose “attach” to make sure all the elements are treated together vs random shapes all over the mats. The machine will prompt you when to make the change to swap out a new tip, as shown in the above screenshot halfway through my cutting process.

DIY Fall Mantle - Cricut Maker Deboss leaves | spotofteadesigns.com

Look at those beautiful debossed veins! Confession: I did have to complete a little trial and error with my design to make sure to get nice, smooth debossed lines. Straighter lines seemed to do better than ones which had a weird curved angle and sometimes it seemed to matter which direction I had them laid out on my canvas.

DIY Fall Mantle - Cricut Maker Deboss and wavy tip | spotofteadesigns.com

The wavy blade was the perfect cut for these pieces to make them more leaf like!

DIY Thanksgiving Fall Mantle featuring Cricut Maker made projects | spotofteadesigns.com

I love how they look on the twigs but also on the wreath in the middle of the mantle.

DIY Thanksgiving Fall Mantle featuring Cricut Maker made projects | spotofteadesigns.com

This wreath includes another decorative element right in the center: an engraved acetate sign.

DIY Fall Mantle - made with the Cricut Maker and their new QuickSwap tips | spotofteadesigns.com

Yes, the Cricut Maker can cut thicker materials, like my 2mm thick acetate! You just have to make sure to chose the right one from the material list that appears once you send your design to cut.

DIY Fall Mantle - made with the Cricut Maker and their new QuickSwap tips | spotofteadesigns.com

Acetate Engraving Tips:

  • Peel the top protective layer of your acetate but leave the other side attached.
  • Attach the acetate to your Strong Grip mat using masking tape to help hold it in place.
  • Move the white star wheels on the roller bar all the way to the right to give more clearance for the machine to engrave this thicker material
  • Once it’s finished engraving you’ll find these little plastic shavings on your acetate piece, as shown above. Brush them away with a dry, clean paintbrush.
  • Note: The only limitation you have on this is the size as you can’t cut larger than 11″ pieces of materials.
DIY Fall Mantle - made with the Cricut Maker and their new QuickSwap tips | spotofteadesigns.com

This was actually my first attempt and it came out perfectly!

DIY Thanksgiving Fall Mantle featuring Cricut Maker made projects | spotofteadesigns.com

I can see this engraving technique used in future party setups, especially table number stands!

DIY Fall Mantle - made with the Cricut Maker and their new QuickSwap tips | spotofteadesigns.com

As I know my girls LOVE a good interactive countdown, the next project I created for my fall mantle was a little countdown calendar.

DIY Fall Mantle - made with the Cricut Maker and their new QuickSwap tips | spotofteadesigns.com

The dates are written by the Maker with the fine point pen, the tear away portion was created with the perforation blade and the shape itself was cut with the fine tip blade.

DIY Thanksgiving Fall Mantle featuring Cricut Maker made projects | spotofteadesigns.com

The girls are able to tear a sheet each morning, representing each of the 30 days this month. I have a feeling they are going to request more of these for future months!

DIY Thanksgiving Fall Mantle featuring Cricut Maker made projects | spotofteadesigns.com

A mantle design wouldn’t be complete without some custom signs! This layered turkey sign was made with the new premium pearl metallic and holographic bubbles vinyl. The pearl metallic vinyl gives a nice glossy look while the holographic bubbles give a little reflection and dimension for your turkey feathers.  

DIY Thanksgiving Fall Mantle featuring Cricut Maker made projects | spotofteadesigns.com

The “Gobble til you wobble” sign features the new holographic threads vinyl. You can see a little texture with the thread design and shine with the glossy look! Grab the SVG file for both these signs and make them for your home!

DIY Thanksgiving Fall Mantle featuring Cricut Maker made projects | spotofteadesigns.com

Add some cute finished decorative pieces, like these dapper birds, and your Thanksgiving mantle is complete!

Another version of a fall mantle with DIY crafts:

DIY fall mantle made with handmade crafts | spotofteadesigns.com
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