Stamping with Nanna: Burlap and Blooms Simply Created Wreath Kit

Tuesday, May 20, 2014

A Huge Spring Wreath

Today, I have a huge wreath to share with you. Using flowers from our Burlap and Blooms Simply Created Wreath Kit, I created a wreath to go above our fireplace mantel.

I started with a large grapevine wreath, wrapped burlap ribbon around it, along with some wired beads. I love the rustic look of the wired beads. This wreath had a lot of extra twiggy pieces on it and I loved that, too.

There are butterfly accents, as well, and a couple of little loops of jute accents. I also added a few extra flowers that were punched and/or die cut, as well as some extra sprigs of burlap ribbon and finished it all with a burlap bow with long streamers hanging down the side of the wreath. With a project like this one, I ended up making it, hanging it up, taking it down and adding a bit more this and that, and repeating this process a few times. It was worth it in the end. I love how it turned out.

I took it outside to photograph it in good lighting. It looks wonderful above the mantel. Here are some close-ups of the flowers and butterflies.

I hope you enjoyed seeing my huge wreath and that maybe it will inspire you to try one yourself. It was a lot of fun to make it. Come back soon and I'll share how all the living room decor came together for Spring.

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Monday, May 19, 2014

My Curly Wreath and a Framed Project

After all those pages from my Ribbon Techniques Album, today I want to share with you a project uses tons of ribbon in a super fun and super easy way to create a beautiful home decor project. This is one of my latest wreaths. This was by far one of my top favorite projects I've ever made. It was just soooooo much fun... except for several very bad burns from my glue gun. It gets really hot! I used some of the flowers from our Burlap and Blooms Simply Created Wreath Kit, along with a lot of our burlap ribbon. I love how it turned out!

I also used a few punched flowers and die cut flowers. The wreath base is from the kit. I wrapped it first with burlap, to give a beautiful, finished look to it.

For the loops, I cut short pieces of burlap, stapled them together, and then hot glued them to the wreath base, being careful to keep the staple hidden in the back. As you can see, I used a random pattern for them. I wonder how a Fall wreath with this loopy technique would look. Hmmmmmm...

... and, remember my cute little card from Laura? I found my square frame (finally) and framed it. Won't this be fun to use to decorate again next Easter? I love it. Thanks again, Laura!