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Since we took the Christmas wreath down there has been a void on our front door – it looks so empty, but no longer! Stella and I decided to make a Valentine’s Day wreath. We both had our parts of in designing and making the wreath – I did the wrapping, she did the tracing, me the cutting and Stella the layout and gluing. This work out well, since Stella told me she is not good at cutting!
Valentine’s Day Wreath
Materials Needed
Straw wreath
Wide red ribbon (quantity will depend on the size of the wreath – I used 2 1/2 rolls)
Felt (pink, red, white)
Heart stencils or cookie cutters, various sizes
Scissors
Glue ( I used the glue gun for securing the ribbon, but we used
Elmer’s for the hearts)
I wanted to get the smaller straw wreath, but the craft store was sold out, so I ended up getting the large one – I think 24″. After we had started the wreath we ended up at a Goodwill store and believe it or not and it figures, they has 3 of the smaller straw wreath for sale, $0.99 each! Of course, I bought them and they are now part of our crafting stash!
1. Wrap the wreath with a wide red ribbon, gluing the ends down with a glue gun. I tried to have all the ends on one side, but that did not work and figured it really did not matter since we would be decorating the wreath.
2. Trace hearts on the different color felt, with different sizes of hearts.
3. Cut the hearts out.
4. Lay out your design with the hearts. We layered them, fanned them and had singles. Stella did all the designing of how the hearts should be.
5. Glue the hearts onto the wreath.
6. Take a piece of ribbon and tie around the wreath leaving a large loop. Use this loop to hang the wreath with.
Our door does not look so empty anymore!
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What a festive Valentine Wreath. Love that Stella is so involved in making crafts. I can see wreaths for most holidays now. : ) Those Goodwill stores are great places to get supplies!
Yes, I think wreaths are going to be garnishing our door for most holiday’s this year – they are really fun to make! I love Goodwill and second hand stores – I always go in when I pass one – never know what you might find!