On Friday after I took the boys to tumble time I stopped by the craft store (since getting out the door is half the battle) and finally bought me some colorful felt so that I could finally make my wreath! I'm not going to show how I made the flowers, because I didn't take any pictures of the process. But I will share the links to tutorials that I used to make my felt flowers below.
I only used 2 flower variations to make my wreath and just repeated these two styles of flowers in a variety of sizes. I used this rose bud felt flower found at Creative Jewish Mom, which I think is absolutely lovely! She uses her flowers to make a bouquet but obviously I just used her tutorial on how to make the rosebud flower and then put them on a wreath!
The other flower I made was found here at Craftiness Is Not An Option. Instead of using 6 felt circles as she does I used 7. I used 1 circle for the flower base, 4 to fill the bottom layer of the flower and then 2 in the center rather than 1. I felt (no pun intended!) that it made the flower look a little more full and aesthetically I liked it better.
After making all my flowers I made then in an arrangement on the wreath, glued them in place and voila! My beautiful new spring wreath.
Can I also just share that I am proud that this wreath cost me about $5 to make. I scored the wreath base at the Goodwill for only $2 and spent about $3 on felt. Win win!
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| Close up on some of the flower detailing. |
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| And hanging on the front door, pardon the scratchy paint, we need to give the door a fresh cost of paint! |
I must say I'm quite happy with how it all turned out! Have a happy weekend!
So cute! Genius to get the base at the thrift store!
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