Stampers Dozen Blog Hop: Home Decor

 

Good Morning!

I hope you are having a wonderful weekend!

Welcome to this month's 'Home Decor' Blog Hop! I hope you enjoy the project I created for this month's blog hop! It took some time, but it was a lot of fun to create! 

If you need a March Break activity, this would really be a great project to get your older kids involved in. If they are old enough to use a glue gun, they can make these flowers!  The more help you can enlist to make the flowers, the faster this project will go  but this project could be completed in a weekend even without help. I made most of the flowers while I sat and caught up on some t.v. viewing. 

I used all the items from the kit to make this wreath. First, I had to create all the flowers! I just followed the instructions provided in the kit to create each flower however I did not attach the leaves as instructed. The instructions indicated gluing the leaves onto the wire stems- but the wire stems were just going to be wound around the wreath and would have ruined the leaves- instead I glued the leaves right under the flowers themselves, and also glued some leaves directly to the wreath after it was completed. 

Here is how I made it:

I used the wire stems included in the kit to create the wreath base. Two wires were connected together to get the length needed, then I used a cylinder shaped jug to help shape it into a circle.	I wound each flower stem around the wire base to keep them secured onto the wreath.
To help the flowers point the direction I wanted them to, I used pliers to bend the wire so the flowers would point forward.	I also cut the stems shorter so that there wasn't as much to wind around the wreath.
Once all the flowers were attached, I used the cotton ribbon that came with the kit to cover up the wire. It doesn't look that pretty, but it's really just to keep it from scratching the wall 🙂 Then I glued some leaves where I felt the wreath needed a few more.	Then I stamped with the Hello Life stamp set and die cut the center circle using the Circles Collection Framelit. I then added rhinestones from the Rhinestones Basics Jewels as a bling-y border (I used the long rhinestone strips). I then used some Old Olive Trim to hang the die cut from the top of the wreath (you could also just use the twine included with the kit!).

 

I actually didn't use all of the kit, I just made enough flowers for this project for now 🙂 but now I have leftovers to create something else! 

Now to finish off the wreath, I also used some additional Cotton Ribbon to add the bow to the top of the wreath.

Now I have a gorgeous and colourful wreath to decorate my newly redecorated office! Love it!! 

Here is a list of the supplies I used to create this project: