After doing our Pinterest Craft Day (go to Tiffany's Blog and view MANY posts to see all of our projects on "Pinterest Craft Day") mom and I have still had the "crafting itch".
The week of spring break, everyone at work took a day or two off,
so I invited mom over for a day to craft and hang out.
This post on Pinterest had sparked my interest so we selected it to be our project for the day.
Mom brought a role of brown paper she just happened to have.
We bought styrofoam wreaths from Michael's Craft warehouse (with our 40% off coupons of course), I have a circle cutter in my scrapbooking supplies and we were ready to go!
First we figured out what size our circles should be for the size of wreath we purchased.
I think we cut about 5" circles.
See all of the scissors in the above picture with different scalloped finshes? Well we quickly figured out that cutting the edges scalloped was going to TAKE FOREVER (mom was able to cut 5 circles at a time with the circle cutter and I would have had to cut each circle one-by-one with the scallop finish).
As a a result, we decided to try burning the edges!
I was able to burn anywhere from 5-10 circles at a time.
Mom cut, while I burned!
Safety first, I burned on an old cookie tray!
Then we decided we better see what they look like before we got too many done!
Looks good! Keep going!
We used the ends of sponge brushes to wrap the circles around, place the hot glue, and stick to the wreath.
Careful.... if your hot glue gun is too hot, you have to hold it a lot longer than you do if your glue gun is at a medium temperature.
It is a very repetitive and time consuming process, but the end product is worth it!
Since, I have also added butterflies! They look great and they can easily be removed as I simply used Tacky Glue and figured if I want to use this wreath in the winter or another time of year, I can remove the butterflies and either leave the wreath plain or add something else!
I finished mom's wreath for her (we had everything cut, I just had to glue) and brought it to her this weekend when we enjoyed a nice Easter weekend with mom, dad and other family members.
We both LOVE our new wreaths!
