Saturday, July 9, 2011

Sew Crafty Saturday: Summer Wreath





This wreath, like many projects, was not planned. Dan went to see a band play, the girls were asleep, and  I had just finished the book I was reading. So what's a girl to do? I had purchased the wreath form for something else, but it's from the Dollar Tree, so it's not like I can't get another.
I simply ripped some fabric and wrapped it around the wreath, cut circles of varying sizes with pinking shears to make flowers, and used scrapbook paper & letters for the welcome bunting.
I made a simple template for the pennants by folding a square of card stock twice, and then I drew a straight line from the right folded edge to the the bottom left corner. I'm only telling you this detail because I briefly searched online how to make pennants, and many of the tutorials involved a ruler and math, which was just way too much thinking so late at night! Once I was ready, I folded a scrapbook paper square in half along the top and traced the little template. I did wind up making two templates in order to achieve the size I wanted, but now I have two different sizes, so it was well worth it. A few buttons were added to the flowers, and viola!  I used the glue gun for everything, so it went pretty quickly.

3 comments:

  1. yeah for summer! i have the supplies to make a wreath ... if i ever get around to it!

    popping in to say hello to the other sugar babies! yeah blog sugar!

    i'm hosting a july giftaway - anthropologie pillow and some goodies! i hope you'll enter!

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  2. What a cute and quick project. Love the colors. Thanks for linking this to Scrappy Saturday. Featured this here: http://www.scrappy-gifts.com/2011/07/friday-favorites-58.html

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