Sunday, December 1, 2013

Christmas Wreath!

So I worked on this Christmas wreath off and on throughout November. Of course it was Pinterest inspired. It was time consuming but very easy!

Supplies:
- Red Felt
- Pins
- Styrofoam Wreath
- Black ribbon
- Buckle material
- Wooden letters are optional

How to:

1. Cut lots and lots of felt circles!! I probably cut 400-600 circles. (It was later brought to my attention that you could get a similar outcome with squares)
2. Fold the circles into fourths.
3. Put a pin in the corner of the folded circle and attach it to the styrofoam wreath. This is a pretty random process and it can be as full as you want. Mine was pretty compact so it took more circles.
4. I wanted to include "Ho Ho Ho" so I purchased white wooden letters (that were fairly dirty looking so I added a coat of white paint). I hot glued those onto the wreath once I had finished adding the circles.
5. I used thick black ribbon for the belt. Just measured it to size, cut it, and hot glued the ends together.
6. For the buckle, I cut the shape out of a foam like placemat that I found at the craft store. I am not thrilled with the finished buckle product but it will do until I change it (I'm a shotty cutter when it comes to straight lines!).

To hang it, I just added a piece of ribbon to the back.

TA-DA! A Santa wreath!

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