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Every year the air turns and I start hauling things around the house before anyone has asked me to. The kitchen shelf gets cleared first. I do not plan it, I just look up and realize I have stacked three pumpkins next to the coffee tin and we are officially doing fall now.
Most of what I put out started as a file I printed at home on my tired inkjet. A clipart sheet here, a wreath print there, a little something for the dining sideboard where my mother-in-law sets down her purse the second she walks in. I lean warm brown and gold most years, partly because that is what flatters the brown of the kitchen cabinets and partly because gold ink hides a multitude of streaky-printer sins.
A few of these are ones I used myself, and yes, some links below are affiliate links, so if you grab one I might get a tiny cut. Costs you nothing. Let me walk you through them.
The Scarecrow That Lives On My Kitchen Shelf
This little harvest scarecrow ended up on the kitchen shelf, propped against the coffee tin in a thrifted frame I had sitting empty since spring. The PNG drops in clean, no white box around it, which matters because I wanted it floating against the wood and not stuck on a paper rectangle.
I printed him on 65 lb paper first, regretted it, reprinted on the heavier 110 lb stock so he would stand in the frame without curling toward the window. Gold and brown all the way through, which suited the shelf.
One nitpick. The straw hat reads a touch muddy if you print small, like under four inches. Mine looked great at frame size and a little blobby on a second mini version I cut for the spice jars. Give him room.
Soft Watercolor Bits For The Sideboard
The watercolor set is the one I reach for when I want something on the dining sideboard that does not shout. Little washy houses and leaves, the kind of thing that looks expensive and took me four minutes to print.
I clipped two of them into the frames my roommate left behind when she moved her stuff to the other side of the apartment, lined them up by the bowl where the keys go. Warm brown edges, a bit of gold in the leaves. It pulls the whole sideboard together without me having to buy a single new thing.
Nitpick: the watercolor edges go slightly soft and pale on a thirsty inkjet. If yours runs light like mine does by November, bump the saturation a notch before you hit print or the pale ones nearly vanish.
Fourteen Wreaths And No Excuse To Buy One
Fourteen wreath images in one set, which sounds like overkill until you realize you can swap them through the season and nobody notices you are just reprinting paper. I rotated three of these through a single frame on the sideboard across October.
The golds and rusts in this batch are richer than I expected from a JPG, so they hold up even on cheap paper. I framed one, taped one straight to the cabinet door, and gave one to my mother-in-law who asked where I bought it. I did not buy it.
Nitpick: they come as flat JPGs, so each wreath sits on its own background block. If you wanted a clean cut-out wreath floating on the wall, this is not that set. For framing, though, the background is a non-issue.
The Paper Wreath I Built At The Kitchen Table
This is the cut-and-build one. You print the pieces, cut them, and assemble a layered paper wreath that actually has some dimension to it. I did mine at the kitchen table over two evenings with a glass of wine and a glue stick that kept drying out.
I ran it in warm brown and gold cardstock so the layers would catch the light a little. Hung it on the cabinet door beside the kitchen shelf and it has more presence than the flat prints around it. People keep touching it, which I take as a compliment.
Nitpick: the smallest leaf pieces are fiddly. If your scissors are not sharp you will mangle a couple, so print one extra page of the small bits. I lost two leaves to a dull blade and was glad I had spares.
Acorn Wreaths For The Quiet Corners
These acorn-heavy wreaths are a little more subdued, more brown than the loud orange stuff, which is exactly why I like them. I put one on the sideboard where the light is low and the brassy designs would have looked cheap.
Acorns and muted leaves, warm gold accents. I framed one in a slim black frame and it reads almost like a botanical print rather than seasonal decor, so I can leave it up past Thanksgiving without it screaming pumpkin spice.
Nitpick: the acorn detail is fine, which is lovely up close and lost from across the room. This is a print to hang where people stand near it, not a statement piece for the far wall.
The Plain One I Almost Skipped
A single straightforward autumn wreath. I nearly passed it over because the thumbnail looked basic, and then it turned out to be the one I used most. Funny how that goes.
I printed it big, almost filled an 8.5 by 11 sheet, and propped it on the kitchen shelf in a leaning frame. The browns and golds are warm without being orange-heavy, so it sat well against the wood and did not fight with everything else I had crammed onto that shelf.
Nitpick: at full-page size you start to see the image soften at the very edges of the leaves. Keep it around seven or eight inches and it stays crisp. Push it to full bleed and the outer leaves get a touch fuzzy.
Ten Pumpkin Wreaths On Rotation
Ten pumpkin wreath images, which is how I kept the sideboard looking different every week without spending anything. Print one Monday, swap it Friday, your guests think you redecorate.
These lean warmer and a touch more orange than the acorn set, so I balanced them with brown frames to pull them back toward my gold-and-brown thing. My roommate liked one enough that she took a copy for her own door.
Nitpick: a couple of the ten are noticeably brighter than the rest, almost neon in the pumpkin. On a calibrated screen they look fine, but my inkjet pushed them loud. I just skipped those two and used the muted eight.
A Sunflower Wreath For The Early Weeks
This sunflower farmhouse wreath is my September-into-October piece, before I go full deep-brown for Thanksgiving. The yellows still feel like fall but carry a bit of late-summer warmth, which bridges the awkward early weeks.
I hung it on the cabinet door near the kitchen shelf and it brightened up a corner that goes dim early now that the evenings are shorter. Gold center, warm petals, farmhouse-plain in the best way.
Nitpick: the sunflower yellow drinks ink. My first print came out streaky right across the center where the coverage is heaviest, and I had to run it twice on a fresh cartridge to get it even. Worth it, but budget the ink.
The Green One For People Tired Of Orange
Not everything in fall has to be rust and pumpkin. This green-leaning autumn clipart is for the weeks when I am sick of orange but not ready for winter. Sage and olive with little gold touches, softer than the rest of this list.
I scattered a few of these in frames on the sideboard, mixed in with the brown wreaths, and the green broke up all that warmth nicely. My mother-in-law, who thinks fall means orange and only orange, eyed it suspiciously and then admitted it looked good.
Nitpick: the greens can shift toward gray on a tired printer. Mine came out a little dull until I bumped the saturation, after which the olive read properly green instead of sad-gray-green.
Little Elements To Fill The Gaps
This is the grab-bag set, a sheet of small autumn elements, leaves and acorns and little sprigs, that I use to fill the gaps the big wreaths leave. The bits that go in tiny frames, on the spice jars, tucked between the books on the shelf.
Warm brown and gold throughout, which is why this one earns its keep all season. I cut a handful out and scattered them across the kitchen shelf and the sideboard until the whole thing looked intentional instead of cluttered.
Nitpick: I will be honest about the casualty here. I taped one of these tucked behind the kettle, forgot it was there, and the steam warped it into a sad little curl over a week. Lesson learned. Keep the paper elements away from anything that puffs out steam.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is farmhouse decor going out of style?
Honestly, the very white shiplap-everything look has cooled off. But warm farmhouse, the brown-and-gold, sunflower-and-acorn version I lean on, still reads as homey rather than dated. I think of it as a base, not a trend. A plain wreath print in warm tones is going to look fine on my sideboard for years, regardless of what the magazines decide is over this season.
Can I print these at home?
Yes, that is the whole point, and most of mine came off a tired home inkjet that I keep threatening to replace. For frames and wreath prints I use the heavier 110 lb cardstock so nothing curls. For clipart you are cutting out, regular cardstock is fine. If your printer runs light by autumn like mine does, nudge the saturation up before you print the watercolor and green ones or they come out pale.
What file formats do these designs come in?
It varies by listing, so check before you buy. Several of these are PNG or JPG image files, which is what you want for printing and framing. The DIY paper wreath is a cut-file project meant to be printed and assembled. The product page spells out exactly what is in each download, so glance at it first so you are not surprised.
Do I need a Cricut or Silhouette to use these?
For the image sets, no. You print them and frame or tape them, scissors at most. The DIY paper wreath I built by hand at the kitchen table with regular scissors and a glue stick, no cutting machine involved. A machine would make the fiddly small pieces faster, but I did mine the slow way and it came out fine, just budget an extra evening.
Before You Print
The kitchen shelf is full now, the sideboard has its rotating wreath, and my mother-in-law has stopped asking where I bought things because she knows I am going to say I printed them. That is the part I like best. A glass jar, a candle I already owned, and a good print on heavy paper, and the corner looks like I tried harder than I did.
If you grab one, start with a single wreath print and the little elements set. Print the wreath big, scatter the small bits to fill the gaps, and just keep the paper away from the kettle. I learned that one the hard way.
