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More seasonal wreaths

14 November, 2016

Apparently wreaths are my new craft thing.  In particular, seeing how little money I can spend while making a decent looking wreath. I was originally going to get a wreath frame from Michael's and add things to it, but they wanted $6 for a small ring of flimsy styrofoam. And $12 for the sturdier kind.  Just a plain styrofoam ring.  No thank you.  

Fall leaves

I wanted a wreath for fall, and was looking for some sort of leaves I could put into a wreath shape.  I found some cheap coasters at Bed, Bath and Beyond: three packs of 4 maples leaves for $2 each.  Score.  They came in nice muted fall colors, just what I was looking for.

I decided 12 leaves with a little overlapping would make a decent size for my door.  I cut out a cardboard annulus from an old shipping box, making it thick enough to hold the leaves and its shape, without showing too much of the cardboard beneath.  (As usual, I did not take step by step pictures.)

Then it was a matter of spacing them evenly, alternating colors, and hot gluing them in place. After they were all in place, I added a few extra dollops of glue to make sure they stayed connected to the cardboard. I tied a dark green ribbon behind one of the leaves and around the carboard, so I could hang it from a hook on my door.  Not too bad for a $6 wreath.

 

   

White winter snowflakes

I have already made two Christmas-types wreaths, but I wanted a general "winter" wreath for after the holidays. 

For this one, my cheap materials came from the Dollar Tree.  I bought a 12 pack of simple foam snow flake shapes in white and silver sparkles. Then I got two packs of frilly snowflake ornaments with more sparkles.

 

Again, I cut out a thin annulus from cardboard (size was dictated by the size of the cardboard I had laying around).  I arranged 8 of the foam snowflakes onto the cardboard with just a little space between them, trying to maximize coverage of the cardboard. 

Hot glued those, then hot glued the frilly ornaments between them with lots of overlap. I took off the silver strings meant for hanging the ornaments, and used one of them for a loop to hang the wreath by.  Because the whole thing was so light, and the strings were short, I simply hot glued the string to the back of the ring.  A little of the cardboard still shows, but I didn't want the ring to be thinner and thus too flimsy. It works okay for me because it blends into the brown of my front door!

        



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