DIY Cozy Wreath

It’s exciting to be part of the Handmade Holidays Blog Hop again and to share my DIY Cozy Wreath- guaranteed to brighten up any door or nook that needs a little holiday cheer.

Follow the hop because there’s a Rafflecopter giveaway for 11 prizes of $50+ value each…

AND a big list of fellow designers who have created inspirational projects for you to get you ready for the holidays! You’ll want to check out these awesome ideas…

Now let’s get crafting! I have seen so many cute wreaths on Pinterest, I decided to make one.

Along the way, I discovered a really cool use for the Sizzix Leaves die… flower petals! This would be a really great project to do with kids. It would be fun to have a wreath making party and let them all pick their own colors and flowers- you can decorate these in all different themes and colors.

A little about felt… there is craft felt and wool felt. Wool felt is made of varying amounts of organic material- wool. Craft felt is synthetic and will not die cut as well as wool. Both kinds will work in the Big Shot- with the wool felt cutting like butter. I normally run craft felt through two times to make sure I get a clean cut. Felt comes in fifferent weights as well. For this project, I used extra thick felt by Kunin generously sent to me. Felt comes in a lot of Time to dig into my stash of felt and yarn…

You will need:

• Sizzix Big Shot
• Sizzix Leaves die by Eileen Hull
• Sizzix Romance Flower by Eileen Hull
• Sizzix Twist & Style tool
• STYROFOAM™ 10″ wreath
• felt- red, gold and green
• matboard scraps
• yarn- different textures of whites and greens and one red- preferably fuzzy 🙂
• glue gun

Instructions:

1. Wrap lengths of yarn around wreath form, alternating white with green. Use a glue gun to secure strands to wreath.
2. Die cut seven large leaves from red felt and three from green felt. Die cut six of the smallest flower petal on the Romance flower die from gold felt. Die cut one medium Romance flower petal from matboard to use as a base for the flower.
   
3. Form the red flower by adding dots of hot glue into the center fold at the base of the petal and pressing together. Butt petals next to each other and glue together in a flower shape.
4. Bunch centers of gold petals on a base flower and glue down. Glue gold center into middle of red flower.
5. Glue red flower on matboard base. Adhere to wreath.
6. Use the Twist & Style tool to make a hanger for the wreath. I didn’t know what would happen when I twisted felt but it worked! Cut a 1/2″ strip of red felt about 24″ long, fold in half and  and twist as seen on the instructions in tool packaging. Here’s a video I did at Scrapbook.com showing how to use this fun gadget here.
7. Pin hanger into back of wreath. I did that because then I can adjust the placement of the hanger if I want to change it.
8. And that’s it!
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Haven’t had enough yet? Here’s a look at my project from last year.

Many thanks to our sponsors of the hop… I didn’t use products from them in this particular project, but have been using all throughout the year.