Butterfly Flower
A friend saw the other napkin wreaths I made and commissioned me to make one for spring. Colorful napkins plus butterflies and a bird from the dollar store equals this wreath.
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A friend saw the other napkin wreaths I made and commissioned me to make one for spring. Colorful napkins plus butterflies and a bird from the dollar store equals this wreath.
I was bored at work, during a slow day, and started making paper flowers from napkins. Eventually, I had enough that I had to do something with it. I started gluing onto a wreath form and realized this made a great wreath. So good, my mom bought it off of me to give to a former neighbor at her new housewarming party.
Another early wreath, I had this idea while in high school. I bought a puzzle from the dollar store, and lucked out on a winter scene with a nice red barn. I had separated the pieces, red and white, regular and edge, and kept them in baggies for years. Then I got a wreath form, and suddenly my idea seemed to be doable. I found a clip art of a bow and used it as a template. I am quite pleased with the result.
$20
This was the first wreath I ever made. The learning curve was pretty good; I later found out how tinsel can help fill the holes, where I just kept adding more ornaments.
It is a 16″ wreath, which made it very heavy. Tragically, it fell down from the wall where I was storing it and broke into several pieces. I was able to salvage many of the ornaments and reuse them for base layers on other ornament wreaths. Also discovered that the glitter ornaments get everywhere, so I am phasing out glitter crafts in my home. (The arm belongs to my husband who I roped into holding the wreath. I have since devised a system for hanging my wreath for pictures.)
This was the first monster wreath I made. I had seen the project online (link below) and was itching to do it myself. I made this for my cousin, as a wedding shower present. Blue and gold for the colors of Notre Dame, where they met. I learned to trim the sides a little, and put the eyes closer together. Also, glitter tulle, like everything glitter, gets everywhere. I will not use tulle with glitter anymore.
http://www.babyrabies.com/2012/09/boo-its-a-monster-of-a-wreath-tutorial/
This wreath was made as a friend’s baby shower present. It could be used as a sort of announcement when the baby arrived. After that, remove the ribbon for a Halloween wreath. The baby (now a toddler) refers to it as “Cookie Monster”.