If you follow Silhouette School on Instagram you may have seen me drooling over the adorable burlap Easter Bunny table runner in the spring Pier 1 circular (which will set you back between $40 and $50). I promised to make a DIY with my Silhouette I've done it. It was seriously so easy that even my six year old was able to help me with almost the whole project.
I started by cutting a long piece of burlap. I cut it about 16 inches wide and 36" longer than my table so there would be plenty to hang off each end. If you don't know the secret to cutting burlap straight and without fraying, than you need to hop on over to my DIY blog Two It Yourself and check out this life hack. Seriously, you'll thank me.
Oh, chevron, how I love you. Oh, Spring, how I adore you. Oh, Silhouette, how you make my life so much easier. That is definitely the case for this project which is based off a beautiful chevron fabric art piece created by the very talented, and very patient - I might add - Lia Griffith. Lia's work caught the eye of Silhouette School reader, Deanne, who emailed me for help turning this labor-intensive fabric and scissors version into a paper Silhouette project.
Deanne wrote to me saying...
"There is one thing I would love to try. A project I found at Lia Griffith blog.
I would like to make it with paper instead of fabric,
and figure my Silhouette has to be able to EASILY cut out that shape!
Much easier than doing it all by hand. But, I’m afraid I would get so
frustrated trying to figure out this simple shape that I would skip it
all together! Wondering if it might be a lesson
you would do?"
Ding ding ding we have a winner. I love the chevron art piece as much as Deanne does and so I was happy to help! The best part about this chevron art is that one of the free designs that comes in the Silhouette library is a chevron border. It works perfectly for this. So enough chit chat let's get started.
Open up Silhouette Studio and go to your library. Click the Chevron Border design.
Guess what...we have another substitute teacher in the class today! I'm thrilled to have Bren from Bren Did blog with us to share one of my all time favorites...a Pottery Barn knockoff. If you follow our sister site, Two It Yourself, at all you know that I could be promoted to PB knockoff queen any day now.
But back to business...Bren created this adorable cotton tail and paper bunny banner by cutting out the bunnies on her Silhouette. Are they not spot on to Pottery Barn's (top) or what? I honestly had a tough time figuring out which one was Bren's version when I first check out her awesome project.
This bunny bunting takes no time at all which makes it the perfect addition to your Easter decor...even now just a few days before Easter. Hope on over to Bren Did for the full tutorial and to get the FREE cut file and see Bren's trick for making those oh-so-addorable cotton tails.
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