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Earthy Paper Feather Wall Decor with Cricut

Do you love feathers and paper crafts as much as we do? Then you’ll enjoy making this pretty paper feather wall decor perfect for adding interest to any indoor space.

Wall decor made with blue, white and patterned paper feathers hanging from a piece of driftwood by a fishing line.

Pretty Paper Feather Wall Hanging

We instantly fell in love with this Hostess with the Mostess decorative paper ever since we used it to make these upcycled tin craft storage containers (our craft supplies are now organized in style!). We were very eager to use the leftover papers to make another paper craft.

Realizing we didn’t have any feather projects on our blog (shocking, I know :)), we combined the two ideas to make this pretty paper feather wall decor. It can be tough to find custom art for a large sized wall so this wall hanging is a great solution to any indoor space. We love how the light and airiness of the papers gently sway in the breeze…pretty relaxing for a bedroom!

Finished wall decor paper feathers hanging from a long piece of driftwood.

Materials Needed to Make This Paper Feather Wall Decor

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Materials needed to make a paper feather wall decor, including a Cricut machine, Cricut spatula tool, paper, fishing line and a piece of driftwood.

How to Make a Paper Feather Wall Decor

Uploading the Feather Images

On a new canvas in Cricut’s Design Space, select Images from the toolbar.

Search “feathers” and click on a mix of feather images. Insert the images onto your canvas.

Searching for feather images in Cricut's Design Space.

Duplicate the feathers four times to have a total of 36 feathers. 

Duplicating the feathers in Cricut's Design Space.

Maintain the size of the feathers, they range from 3.5” to 5”.

Changing the size of each feather in Cricut's Design Space.

Move to the Color Sync tab to sort images by paper color. Cut the majority of feathers using the watery patterned paper and the least amount of feathers in the light blue geometric patterned paper.

Using the color sync tab in Cricut Design Space to change the feather colors to grey, green and red.

Cutting the Paper Feathers

Select “Make It” in Design Space.

Set material type to medium weight cardstock.

Place the first paper color onto the standard grip mat. Follow prompts for loading cardstock paper into Cricut Maker and cutting and when the cut is complete, unload the mat from the machine.

Loading the blue card stock into the Cricut machine.

Remove the paper feathers from the cutting mat.

Repeat for the remaining feathers and papers.

Removing the cut polka dot paper feathers from the Cricut machine.

How to Assemble the Feather Wall Hanging

Prepare to hang 4 individual feathers along each strand.

Arranging the driftwood and placement of the paper feathers underneath.

We found it easiest to assemble the piece with it hung on the wall, working one strand at a time.

Thread a needle with a long strand of fishing line approximately 40” long.

Poke a hole through the top of the paper feather and pull one end of the fishing line all the way through.

Using a sewing needle to poke a hole in the top of a paper feather.

Join the ends of the fishing line together with the feather hanging on the line and thread both ends through the needle.

Using a sewing needle to pull fishing line through the hole of the paper feather.

Next, poke the needle through the second feather pulling the line through. Loop the fishing line through the hole again to secure in place about 4” above the first feather.

Repeat for the third and fourth feathers.

Using a sewing needle to poke a hole through a paper feather.

Tie the end of the fishing line to the driftwood and continue with the remaining strands. And that’s it, the feather wall hanging is complete!

Wall decor paper feathers and driftwood hanging in a bedroom wall above a bed, next to a side table and wood chair.

For more paper craft ideas, check out this sweet cherry blossom paper flower arrangement and this pretty framed paper peonies.

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Wall decor made with paper feathers hanging from a piece of driftwood with text overlay "Wall decor with Cricut cut paper feathers."

Pretty Paper Feather Wall Decor

Jane and Sonja
5 from 1 vote

Materials
  

  • Cricut Maker
  • Cricut Deluxe Paper Hostess with the Mostess Winter Sparkle, assorted papers
  • Cricut Standard Grip Mat
  • Cricut Design Space’s Feather Patterns variety of feather images
  • Cricut Spatula
  • Driftwood or tree branch measuring 24” long
  • Fishing line
  • Sewing needle

Instructions
 

  • On a new canvas in Cricut’s Design Space, select Images from the toolbar and search "feathers."
  • Choose a variety of feather images and insert on to a blank canavs,
  • Duplicate the feathers four times to have a total of 36 feathers.
  • Maintain the size of the feathers.
  • Move to the Color Sync tab to sort images by paper color.
  • With the machine set to Cricut Maker, select “Make It” in Design Space.
  • Place the first paper color onto the standard grip mat.
  • Follow prompts for loading cardstock paper into Cricut Maker and cutting. When the cut is complete, unload the mat from the machine and remove the paper feathers.
  • Repeat for the remaining feathers and papers.
  • To assemble the feather wall hanging, hang your piece of driftwood on the wall to work one strand at a time.
  • Thread a needle with a long strand of fishing line and poke a hole through the top of the paper feather and pull one end of the fishing line all the way through.
  • Next, poke the needle through the second feather pulling the line through. Loop the fishing line through the hole again to secure in place about 4” above the first feather.
  • Repeat for the third and fourth feathers.
  • Tie the end of the fishing line to the driftwood and continue with the remaining strands.
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tracey

Thursday 7th of July 2022

Lovely idea, thank you for more ideas with my cricut maker. The feathers are very tactile and I may use them for other projects now.

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