Welcome to HGTV Handmade with Me Meg! Today, we're at MaryAnn's house in Nashville, Tennessee, where we're all going to make different elements for a tiki party that we'll be attending together. As I always say, one of the most important parts of a party is the table and the centerpiece, which is a great way to get creative and speak to the theme of your party.

To start making our tropical leaves, we'll need some fake leather, scissors, a gold-tip marker, a pencil, and my free printable template. I created this template for you to use as a guide, but feel free to eyeball it if you want! We've got everything laid out on the table, including vinyl rolled out with the good side facing down, so we can trace our template onto our fabric.

Mother Nature has done all the hard work for us by creating these gorgeous tropical leaves. Now, we're just going to mimic their shape and have some fun with it! We can go with one color of green or get creative with different colors - whatever you want is fine by me! Let's start tracing our template onto the fabric. Remember, we're just using this as a guide, so feel free to experiment and make any changes you like.

Once we've traced our template, let's cut out the leaf shape. I always find it easier to cut around the general shape of the leaf, so I can get in there for the details without having to contort my whole body. Make sure to use a nice pair of scissors - if you have fabric scissors, they're perfect for cutting faux leather. And, as a pro tip, sometimes turning the actual leather instead of turning the scissors makes for a cleaner line.

Now that we've got our main shape cut out, let's add some little divots to give it some extra texture and interest. We can certainly leave it as is, but I think adding a little gold will bring in some pizzazz! I'll just go around the perimeter with my felt-tip permanent marker in Gold and add some details.

As we work on our tropical leaves, remember that this is where you can get really creative and go as elaborate as you want. You could mimic the veins of a leaf or do some little gilded edges - there are no rules! I'm going to create a contrast with a darker green for one leaf and mimic the veins with Gold, doing it a little heavier by the stem. I'll also get thinner as I get down here.

Once we've added all our details, these tropical leaves will be the perfect DIY element to add into our layered tropical Bohemian centerpiece. And that's not all - we're making different elements for this tiki party, so stay tuned to see what my girls Julia and Karen come up with!

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhey everyone welcome back to HGTV handmade with me Meg I'm here in noxville Tennessee at MaryAnn's house and I have my darling girls with me Julia and Karen and we're all making different elements for a tiki party that we're all going to go to together right here so one of the most important parts of a party is the table and the centerpiece and it's a really fun way to get creative and speak to the theme of your party so we're about to make some tropical leaves and add a little bit of gold detail to them to be a part of the centerpiece so let's get started for this you'll need fake leather scissors a goldf tip marker a pencil and my free printable template so I created a free printable for you to use as a template but you can also eyeball it so you have this guy you have your vinyl rolled out with the good side facing down so we can trace our template onto our fabric for this project Mother Nature kind of did all the work for us by creating these gorgeous tropical leaves and we're just sort of mimicking the shape here you can go with all one color of green go for an ombre look or you could even get creative and use different colors whatever you want okay now we have our Leaf shape and we're going to cut this bad boy out I always find that it's easier to cut around your general shape so that then you can really get in there for the details without having to contort your whole body you'll want to use a nice pair of scissors really sharp scissors like fabric scissors if you have them to cut this out cuz you want the perimeter of your shape to be really nice and clean Pro tip when cutting faux leather sometimes turning the actual leather instead of turning the scissors makes for a cleaner line you can also just sort of cut out the perimeter of the leaf and then go in for those divots a little later all right so now we have the main shape and we're going to go in and cut these little divots out all right we have our first Leaf cut out so you can certainly just leave it as is but I think adding a little gold to the mix will bring in you know some Pizzazz if you will so I laid the vinyl back out cuz I don't want to mess up the nice table and I have my felt tip permanent marker in Gold so for this guy I just want to go around the perimeter and just add a little gold detail in here and this is where you can get really creative and go as elaborate as you want with some very intricate cool designs you could mimic the veins of a leaf or do a little gilded edges like this guy so the other color that I went for is a really nice dark green to create a contrast and for this one I'm going to mimic the veins of a leaf with the gold doing it a little heavier by the stem I want to get thinner as I get down here you could get really meticulous with this if you want or just kind of go with a flow man kind of like how that guy looks just like that these are going to be the perfect DIY element to add into our layered tropical Bohemian centerpiece whey everyone welcome back to HGTV handmade with me Meg I'm here in noxville Tennessee at MaryAnn's house and I have my darling girls with me Julia and Karen and we're all making different elements for a tiki party that we're all going to go to together right here so one of the most important parts of a party is the table and the centerpiece and it's a really fun way to get creative and speak to the theme of your party so we're about to make some tropical leaves and add a little bit of gold detail to them to be a part of the centerpiece so let's get started for this you'll need fake leather scissors a goldf tip marker a pencil and my free printable template so I created a free printable for you to use as a template but you can also eyeball it so you have this guy you have your vinyl rolled out with the good side facing down so we can trace our template onto our fabric for this project Mother Nature kind of did all the work for us by creating these gorgeous tropical leaves and we're just sort of mimicking the shape here you can go with all one color of green go for an ombre look or you could even get creative and use different colors whatever you want okay now we have our Leaf shape and we're going to cut this bad boy out I always find that it's easier to cut around your general shape so that then you can really get in there for the details without having to contort your whole body you'll want to use a nice pair of scissors really sharp scissors like fabric scissors if you have them to cut this out cuz you want the perimeter of your shape to be really nice and clean Pro tip when cutting faux leather sometimes turning the actual leather instead of turning the scissors makes for a cleaner line you can also just sort of cut out the perimeter of the leaf and then go in for those divots a little later all right so now we have the main shape and we're going to go in and cut these little divots out all right we have our first Leaf cut out so you can certainly just leave it as is but I think adding a little gold to the mix will bring in you know some Pizzazz if you will so I laid the vinyl back out cuz I don't want to mess up the nice table and I have my felt tip permanent marker in Gold so for this guy I just want to go around the perimeter and just add a little gold detail in here and this is where you can get really creative and go as elaborate as you want with some very intricate cool designs you could mimic the veins of a leaf or do a little gilded edges like this guy so the other color that I went for is a really nice dark green to create a contrast and for this one I'm going to mimic the veins of a leaf with the gold doing it a little heavier by the stem I want to get thinner as I get down here you could get really meticulous with this if you want or just kind of go with a flow man kind of like how that guy looks just like that these are going to be the perfect DIY element to add into our layered tropical Bohemian centerpiece w\n"