Summer WreathCreatively Sam's

Now that June is here, I figured that I needed a new wreath for the door. And since I’ve made a conscious effort to use up my crafting ‘stash’ & only use what I have on hand, this is what I came up with.

I started with a simple grapevine wreath & some yellow wired ribbon. I made a bow with the ribbon & used floral wire to secure it.

In case you’re wondering, I’m using an easel wreath stand to work on the wreath. I’ve had it for years & it makes it easier to work on a wreath with this than laying it flat on a work surface.

I pushed the ends of the wire on the bow through the grapevine wreath and formed it into a loop for hanging.

I had lots of ribbon left, so I wrapped it around the wreath. I threaded the ribbon under some of the grapevine & hot glued it into place at the ends under the bow.

There was a lot of ribbon left over, so I made a ribbon loop in the back for hanging. I could have just used the wire loop, but since I’m using up supplies, I thought that this was a good way to not waste what I had.

Then I clipped off the excess ribbon.

I went through my floral stash & found some ivy, sunflowers & daisies. I cut the stems of the sunflowers kind of short, applied hot glue to the stems & inserted them in and around the bow.

Then I cut apart the leaves & added some hot glue to them & inserted the leaves around the sunflowers and in between the loops of the bow.

To balance out the large & somewhat overpowering sunflowers, I added the more delicate daisies.

It could have been done at this point, but I had these sweet little miniature flower pots in my stash.

I cut some floral wire that was long enough to go around the pots with a long tail left over. (about a foot) I put the wire around the pots & twisted the wire in the back of the pots.

Then I added a drop of hot glue to the twisted area on the pot & covered the wire with ribbon.

I brought the ribbon towards the front of the pots & tied the ribbon into a bow, hot gluing the bow to the pots. The ribbon brought the color of the sunflowers towards the bottom of the wreath.

Then I pushed the wire through the bottom of the grapevine wreath. Do each pot separately so that the wires are in different spots. That way they will hold tightly when twisted together.