Hi everyone, welcome back!
We have been so busy, and this project took 2 weekends to complete because of it. Anyway, I'm ready to share a wreath I made for my mom for Mother's Day! Her laundry room was pretty drab, so my sister gave me the idea to make my mom a wreath to spruce it up a little bit.
(Sorry for the poor iPhone quality. :) )
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Here's what you'll need to make a wreath of your own:
* 12" metal wreath form
* Roll of Burlap (I used a 10 ft roll that was 5.5" wide)
* Hot glue gun and glue sticks
* Jute/Hemp String
* Floral wire
* Scissors
* Artificial Flowers
* Scrap Burlap (mine is printed)
* Buttons
* Sharpie
*Wire Cutters (optional)
* Ribbon
* Small clothespins (optional)
Here's how to make your own laundry room wreath!
Unravel your burlap, and pinch the end like so.
Stick the pinched end of the burlap through the center slot of the wreath form.
Push the burlap through the slot until you can wrap it around that vertical bar.
Secure the burlap to the wreath form with some floral wire. It's pretty thin, so you can use scissors or wire cutters. I just used scissors to cut it.
Turn your wreath form over and pinch the burlap about 6-8" down from where you secured the burlap the first time. Bubble it up so it's sort of rounded like this:
Attach to the wreath form with your floral wire. My wreath form had 6 of those small vertical bars I mentioned a few photos ago, I repeated the process of bubbling up the burlap and attaching with floral wire at each of the vertical bars until my wreath looked like this:
You can stop there, but I didn't feel like my wreath was full enough, so I went around the wreath once more. Following the same process, I bubbled up the burlap and secured to the wreath form at every place I secured the burlap to for the first round.
Once I got all the way around the wreath, I secured the burlap to the last section. I did not cut off the tail quite yet.
I turned the wreath around, and took the burlap (before cutting it) and wrapped it around the last place I secured the burlap to cover the floral wire.
Then I secured it through the back (so you can't see the floral wire on the front) and cut the burlap.
Tuck in the ends of the floral wire so they don't poke you (or the future owner of the wreath).
When you've cut the burlap, if you used the same size roll I did, you should have just enough to cut 5 little strips about 1 1/2-2" wide.
Use these to cover the floral wire that still peeks through the front of the wreath where you secured the burlap. I just wrapped it around and hot glued the ends together.
Here is what your wreath should look like at this point:
Set your wreath off to the side and grab your hemp string or jute. I measured and cut enough for it to drape across the front of the wreath with 2" added to each end to allow me to tie to the back of the wreath form.
Take your scrap burlap and cut it into 7 triangles. They don't need to be perfect. Mine were about an inch across, and about 2" long.
Organize your triangles in the order you like them arranged. Then, with one letter per triangle, spell out the word "laundry" with your Sharpie marker.
**(Sorry for the change in "color", this is where I had to pick up my project and used another camera to take the rest of the photos!)**
Evenly space out your triangles, and make sure you have them in the correct order. I may or may not be providing this tip based on my own experience. ;)
Hot glue the triangles to your jute or hemp, leaving an inch or so between each one.
Secure each end of your little laundry "banner" around the back of the wreath.
Here is what your wreath should look like now:
Next, take your artificial flowers and place them around your wreath. I clipped the little knobby things off once I figured out where I want the flowers to go. A flat back makes it easier to glue to your wreath.
Once you've placed your flowers and like how they are arranged, hot glue them to the wreath.
I decided the wreath needed a little more detail, so I decided to add a little bow. I cut some ribbon and tied it up, and hot glued it by the "L".
I thought it could still use a few more "pretties". I found some pink buttons and glued one to each of the letters in the laundry "banner".
You're done! I purchased some small clothespins to attach to the wreath, but decided I didn't want the wreath to feel too cluttered. You can add whatever other details you want though!
Also, if you want, you can secure another ribbon to the back to make a "hanger", but I chose to just leave it as is and hang it up using just the wire form.
That's all I have for now. :) I hope you all enjoyed this project! If there are any suggestions or custom requests I can make for you (or do a tutorial on), let me know! I'm always up for new things. :)
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Until next time, my friends!
