Burlap and Blooms Simply Created Wreath

  

 When I first saw this kit in the Occasion catalog, I thought "That's kind of cute" but when I actually SAW the weath at Leadership, I thought, "WOW, really CUTE!".  So, of course I had to try it and it was really easy and fun and some of the ideas from it I could take away to use for other cool things. 

The wreath is a cardboard form that you wrap with the burlap ribbon-  There is whole role to wrap it'  I just tucked it with some straight pins but you could use hot glue or some industrial tape.  The big petaled flowers were made from circles with a slit ( all diecut for you which made it super easy ) that I just put a dap of multomono liquid glue to make these gentle cones.  Layer then 3 around in layers until you get the full flower.  I used hot glue gun on some, dimensionals in others and they all wored fine.  Added a layer of gray- I did cut a fringe with my paper trimmers and then added a button on top with my glue dot and a really easy supercute flower.  They had 11 circles for each color flower. 

They also had these heavier cardstock pieces that had sticky strip on 2 ends.  You peel one and stick it together as shown on the middle piece and then pull the other sticky strip and start to roll the flower to make the puffy mum like flowers.   With the new fringe scissors these are something I could try duplicating as well.  Such cool ideas.... Use more than one strip to make a bigger flower- all you have to do is just stick it on!



This is another one that was hard to see from the picture but they had diecut 6 petal flowers is 3 different sized that you layer and then add the pompom flower to the top-  I punched a hole in the center to have the pompom sit in a bit but a beautiful flower nevertheless. 

The whole effect is so pretty and now I see how each flower was done, I will use the technique I learned from this to make many more wreaths in the future-     You have a beautiful project for a cost no more than a movie and a drink now a days- and it took me less time to complete than it took my DH to take the kids to the new Lego movie.  I think I got the better end of the deal.....

Banner for Gabrielle

My sister came to visit with her stepdaughter Gabrielle and we planned a day of crafting that included making 3D cards using honeycomb paper and then we made a banner of rainbow colors (die cut with Pennant die- retired SU)  and floret using the Designer Rosette die and diecut her name using silver glimmer paper (retired SU die also) to spell her name, tied it all with a green grosgrain ribbon so she could pack it up and take it home to hang it in her room to remind her of her visit.

I couldn't ge the pictures ot line up side by side but it was really cute!

Sharleen's Ornament Keepsakes variation

Sharleen who has been coming to my parties for couple of years and she would either like something or not and when she saw the Holiday catalogue, she said "I love that and I want to make it but I want to use the champagne glimmer paper".  So I had a special class and we spent this past Saturday morning making Ornaments - just like the one in the catalogue cover and then some but this one was our favorite.  We made it double sided so it was really gorgeous.  To make a one sided ornament diecut 20 larger ornament shapes using the champagne glimmer paper and 20 small ornaments in real red on vanilla cardstock.  Cut 2 strips of 1 inch Candlelight Christmas DSP, diecut it using Designer Rosette die. Hot glue the Vintage facet button on the front and then a pearl on top.   

 Now this was really pretty on its own but Sharleen was not satisfied.  She wanted another layer of the the scalloped tulle.

So we used a long wooden skewer to poke the pieces of the tulle into the hot glue that we squeezed in between the leaves and it really did make it.

So pretty!