Buffalo Check and Roses Spring Mantel

Slowly but surely my love for Farmhouse style decor is creeping into the formal dining room.

When I took down the Easter decor on the faux fireplace mantel this week,     I couldn't decide what to put up in it's place.     I knew I wanted to create a banner to hang across the mantel,   so I looked thru my Pinterest board to get some ideas. 

The buffalo check pennant caught my eye right away.........

Then I clicked over to my Alphabet board and these gorgeous black letters covered with roses caught my eye first thing!

I think the combination of the two elements......checks and roses......made a beautiful spring banner

The R is probably my favorite letter......lots of roses on it

I couldn't find the I in this alphabet,   so I printed an H and cut the I out of it!

Bringing up the rear of my spring banner........

the N

and the G

I decorated the mantel with a combination of different containers of roses.

I used silver.....milk glass.......and the ferns are in  glass containers  that are filled with a "dirt look" styrofoam.

I tied some rose stems together to make a topiary in a milk glass bud vase.

I added some farmhouse touches to each side of the fireplace.

I tucked a cute cow print on one side.......

and a watercolor cow print on the other side.   
 You are welcome to use any of the prints I used to create my spring banner,   just click over to my Pinterest board.......https://www.pinterest.com/penny2005/print-it/

I added some spring to the fireplace opening too

I filled the vintage heater with greenery.

Thank you so much for stopping by to see my Spring Mantel......come back soon!