Inspired by a cute wreath idea I saw on another blog, I decided to recreate it since my front door didn't have anything springy on it. Actually, it didn't have anything on it at all, springy or not. All I needed to buy was some spanish moss and material...I already had the styrofoam wreath (which you can usually get at the dollar store!), hot glue, and ribbon.
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Cover the wreath with moss and hot glue it down. By the way, I sprang for the huge bag of moss from Hobby Lobby just in case, and I didn't need nearly that much. But, even the huge bag was only $5.
Now, I followed a tutorial on how to make these flowers, but I found that it really just took trying a few to get the hang of it. So the main thing is just to take a strip of material, start wrapping it in circles as if wrapping it around a spool, and twist the material from time to time as you wrap it. It's hard to understand until you do it.
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What I found was that the thicker the material, the better it turned out, so I started folding my strip of material over a few times first to make a thick strip before starting. Some turned out better than others, but really, who cares? They look cute anyway.
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I was also very excited by my material- only a few bucks at Hobby Lobby. They have little packs of different pieces of material you can buy from a few dollars up to $10 or so. So handy!
After making several flowers and hot gluing them on to the wreath, I just tied a ribbon around the top to hang it. Pretty simple, but the moss gets everywhere during the making so it is messy!
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Overall, I spent about $10 on this wreath, but I have a lot of material and moss left over for another project, so all in all, I'd say it was a good deal!
Very pretty! I think it is prettier than the example you went by! How creative!
ReplyDeleteThat is so adorable. Is there anything you can't do?
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