One thing I love to think about or plan, but don’t talk about too often, is home decor. Because of my current living situation, I’m really unable to change permanent aspects of this house, but I am able to take advantage of easy decorations, so the changing of the seasons brings me the opportunity to be a little crafty and add flair to both the inside and outside of the house I live in.
This year I really wanted to focus on making a wreath for our front door. When you pull up to our house, it’s nice to see some ‘curb appeal’, and reflect the personality of what’s to come inside the home. My usual wreaths are always a simple style, because a little bit goes a long way in my book, but I was more excited this spring to add pops of color.
This wreath was extremely simple to make, and very easy on the bank compared to purchasing one in a store or online. Plus, it’ll give you the opportunity to personalize it with your favorite colors and flowers. Keep on reading for my easy step-by-step tutorial so you can make your own spring grapevine wreath.
First things first, we need materials. To make your wreath you’ll need a grapevine wreath in whatever size fits best for your door, or the area you choose to hang it. And for all of your decorations, you can choose some of your favorite flowers, green fillers, baby’s breath, etc. I usually tend to choose a few filler pieces (smaller flowers that are easier to move around), and then a few larger ‘statement’ flowers that I love.
This year I saw these small bundle flowers in white, which I loved because of the simplicity of them, but I could not pass up the coral color for some reason. I ended up basing my whole wreath off of this color combo, and I couldn’t be happier with the result. To contrast the coral and white, I decided to pull in some red just to even things out a bit… for some reason things look better with odd numbers (three colors, three statement flowers, etc).
Other than your flowers and your grapevine wreath, you can have a pair of scissors ready, as well as a glue gun just in case. I needed the glue gun only to fix the way my flowers were arranged (I was missing a section on my red artificial flowers, so I glued them together to make them appear fuller).
To start arranging your wreath, have an idea of what you want it to look like, or play around with the arrangement before actually attaching everything. I like the simple style of having a bundle of big flowers, and then filler around them, so that’s what I went with. I decided where the top of my wreath would be, and then started adding my filler flowers in to the wreath one by one. For this, all I did was insert the stems in to the wreath until they wouldn’t go in any further.
Because we aren’t permanently glueing the stems in, feel free to move around the arrangement until it’s in an order you like. I feathered mine out so they looked a bit staggered, almost as if they’ll be framing my bigger flowers in place.
Next, add the larger flowers. I had to cut mine down for this, but I inserted them in to the wreath the same way; one by one, and then bending the flower a bit to face it forward.
Finish it all off by adding the rest of your filler, and you’re done! The back of your wreath may have stems hanging out, which you can totally clip and trim off. If you have any loose flowers, this would be your opportunity to glue them in place. I always try and wait to make sure everything looks the way I want it before I glue, because it can get a little messy, but most of the time I never need to glue the flowers in place.
If you want to add a little flair, attach a large bow, a monogram initial, some easter appropriate decorations, or even a little ‘Welcome’ tag. All in all, this project shouldn’t take you too long, it will be easy on the bank (look for sales on artificial flowers – my whole wreath was under $40!), and it will reflect your style and make your front door look beautiful for the spring season!
Have fun crafting! Until next time,
Paige
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