i have seen these wreaths all over the blog-oh-sphere. and i love them. i think that Ballard designs has them for about 50 or 60 dollars. but mine cost way less. wanna make one? you only need two things. a giant letter, i got mine from Joann's, and Christmas garland. i ended up using 4 garlands. they are about 2.99 at Michael's this week. i can't remember how much the letter was. but i want to ballpark it about 8 or 9 dollars. i didn't use glue, the garland is on a wire, so i just kept bending it as i went around.
i started in the center and made my way around the two bumps.
and then, i just kept on going. all the way around. i just kept tucking the ends of the garland into the last section i worked on.
and then i added a ribbon. in hindsight, i would probably add my ribbon as i went around. but i just adjusted the branches over the ribbon and you can't see it.
there are many different tutorials on the Internet on how to do this. i used a combo of a few. i wanted mine to be "chunky" so i wrapped the garland all the way around the letter. but i saw that some women just cut off the branches and hot glued them to the letter. this method will give you a flat back instead of a puffy back that mine has.
easy peasy, so bring on the Christmas decorating. i love it
jill b
2 comments:
Very cute! I can't even think of Christmas until after Thanksgiving. And even then, many times I'm still not ready for weeks...
Very Cute! You going to add lights to it. Terri gave me one of these a few years back, it's a favorite of mine. Hard to believe the trees going up in less than a week. yikes
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