Fall Wreath Tutorial

Fall is my absolute FAVORITE time of the year.  I love the colors, the smells, the weather, I just love everything about fall.  I am so excited about decorating for fall.  I have never really taken the time to decorate for fall even though I love it.  This year I'm going fall crazy!! :)  Today I'm sharing my fall wreath.  I had an idea for a wreath but it was going to be a lengthy process.  I saw a wreath tutorial on another website and I fell in love with the simplicity of it.  here is the link to the model wreath.  She put a full tutorial on her blog but I'm going to include one too, even though it's not much different.  Here is a picture of my finished fall wreath.

what you need

grapevine wreath

 large flowers - I used 3, the other tutorial used 4 flowers

berry sprigs - I used 2 five foot pieces

fluffy things

floral wire

wire cutters



First I positioned the hydrangea, my large flowers that I used.  I grouped them all together pretty close.  I used hot glue to secure the flowers. 

With the rest of the wreath I put the sprigs of beads.  I have a screen door so I used the crystal bead things instead of just colored balls.  I used wire to hold the beads down.  You could see my wire but we will cover that up in the next step. 



You can barely see the wire, but it was enough that it would make me crazy!



Then I cut the fluffy things up into individual sections.  I used hot glue to secure the fluffy things in the wreath.  I just placed them wherever I had wire or any spot that I thought I needed something else.  I really liked the idea of using the fluffy things instead of just using the beaded things. 

Then I was finished!  SO easy!!  I was pretty excited about it and when I showed my mom she requested one with sunflowers.  That's the great thing about this wreath, you can use just about any type of flower or beaded thing or even fluffy things (those are all of the official names...).  Here is a picture of my finished wreath and my Mom's.  My Mom's wreath was harder to make than mine because I had to wire in all of the sunflowers from both sides.  The grapevine wreath was a little skimpy so it wouldn't hold the sunflowers in, even with a crap-ton of glue.  Still happy with the way that it turned out and my Mom loved it - even better!  Let me know if you make one.  I'd love to see pictures!

Happy Fall,

Meghan