Poinsettia Yarn Wreath

I'm finishing up projects for the next craft show coming up this weekend.  I will be participating in the Plumgrove Boutique in Sacramento.  This is the 35th year and we are so excited!

Here is one of the new items I'm selling this weekend.

I love the way it turned out!  It keeps reminding me that Christmas is just around the corner!

If you are in the Sacramento area this Friday and Saturday make sure you stop by and start your holiday shopping.  We have a huge variety of items and lots of door prizes!

Linking to:
Savvy Southern Style, Someday Crafts, We Are That Family
A Bowl Full of Lemons, Coastal Charm, Sugar Bee Crafts
Imparting Grace, A Delightsome Life

Halloween Book Wreath

Another project done for the Lodi Street Faire.  It's getting close now, just two weeks away!

I love my fall book wreath, so I decided to change it up a bit and add a little something for Halloween.

The edges are inked just slightly with black ink and the spiders are glued on top with hot glue.

My girls love it because the spiders are creepy, but not too creepy because they are "girly glitter spiders."

Linking to:
The Shabby Nest, Imparting Grace, The Pin Junkie
Diary of a Real Housewife, 

Rose Wreath Tutorial

Thank you for all your wonderful comments about this wreath.  It is a bit time consuming, but totally worth it.
Supplies:
12 inch foam wreath
Cardstock – I used 8.5 x 11
scissors
hot glue gun
spray adhesive
glitter – I like Martha Stewart’s crystal fine glitter
1 1/2 yards sheer ribbon
1.  I made two different sized circles.  For the large circles, cut the cardstock into four pieces. 


2.  Cut each square into a circle.  Doesn’t have to be perfect.  Mine were ovalish, they both work.

3.  For the smaller circles, cut your cardstock into strips about 3 inches wide.  Then cut each strip into three squares.  Cut each square into a circle.

4.  Cut each circle into a spiral, trying to keep the thickness even throughout.  Mine definitely were not even, but it is helpful. 


5.  Once all the spirals are cut,  start rolling the flower starting with the outside.  Roll as tight as possible keeping the bottom edge aligned at all times.


6.  When it is completely rolled, pinch the flower together a little bit to help it hold it’s shape.

7.  When you let go of your flower, it will spring open into shape.

8.  Put a group of your flowers together on a sheet of newspaper and spray lightly with the spray adhesive.  Then sprinkle your glitter on top.  I was pretty generous with my glitter.  Let dry at least 1/2 hour.

9.  Hot glue the flower together by placing a little bit of glue on the bottom flap and then hold the flower in the shape you want while the glue dries.  I found that if I left the individual flowers unglued, they would start to unwind and lose some of their shape after a few days.


10.  Start gluing the large and small flowers on your foam wreath so that they are touching and showing as little of the foam as possible.  You will probably have some little bits of the foam peeking through where you couldn’t fit even the little flowers.  Continue with all your flowers and come back to that at the end.  Once all the flowers are in place you can go back and cover some of the areas where a lot of the foam is showing.  I took a left over glittered flower, pulled out a little bit of the middle, and tore it off from the rest of the paper.

11.  I curled it as tight as I could and stuck it into the little holes in my wreath.  If I needed more, I kept taking little bits from the left over flowers and wound them into little pieces.
12.  I bought one and a half yards of sheer ribbon and wrapped it through the wreath and tied a bow at the top.

Email me if you have any questions and please send me a link with your wreath.  I would love to see how it turns out!



Linking to:
Nesting Place

Paper Rose Wreath

I have been working on this project for several weeks now.  I had hoped to finish this wreath before Christmas, but I didn't make it.  I think it will look great as part of my Valentine's Day decorations.  I got this idea from a red cone tree I saw a Target, and a picture I found online of paper rosettes. 

The roses are made from red cardstock.  I made all the flowers, then sprayed them with a spray adhesive and then covered them in glitter.  It's a little shiny in the pictures because of the adhesive, but it's not obvious on the actual wreath.

I used a 12 inch foam wreath and hot glued the rosettes to the foam.  I bought a 3 inch wide sheer ribbon from JoAnn's and wrapped it around the wreath.

This was so easy to do, although a bit time consuming.  I used my lunch breaks at work to make the roses and then would glue them on at night. 

When I first started making the roses, I put them in a little box thinking I would glitter them all at once.  I noticed that they started to unravel and didn't hold their shape very well if I waited too long. 

Tutorial found HERE.

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A Little Lovely, Funky Junk Interious, Tidy Mom, Finding Fabulous, Simply Designing
My Romantic Home, The DIY Showoff, While He Was Napping, Chic on a Shoestring
Fun To Craft, I Heart Naptime, CRAFT, Making the World Cuter, Sumo's Sweet Stuff
Crafts Keep Me Sane, Craftomaniac, Embellishing Life, Sew Chatty, Dittle Dattle
Today's Creative Blog, Craft Edition, Little Eme

Book Wreath

I have been loving fall wreaths lately. I especially loved this wreath by MaryJanes and Galoshes, but it was a little to plain for me. I also loved the pages of this book wreath by SimpleJoysPaperie, but overall, it is not my style. So, I combined the two and this is the book wreath I came up with:





Here's how I made my book wreath:

Supplies:

12 inch foam wreath
old book with several hundred pages
2 inch scalloped circle punch
ink pad
unsharpened pencil
glue gun



First I punched out my circles. I used about a third of my book and I think it had about 600-700 pages. I forgot to look.

Then I inked all the circles just around the edge.
ETA: The first two pictures were inked with brown for more of an aged look.  It's not as noticeable as the red.



Once all your circles are punched and inked, you can start gluing them onto the wreath. Place the pencil in the middle of the circle and fold up the edges.



Place a small amount of hot glue on the bottom and then stick it on the wreath.



Keep gluing until your wreath is full. I hung mine by a ribbon hot glued to the back of the wreath.


Linking to: 

Nesting Place