Today I’m sharing a simple and pretty easy arrangement using green and yellow faux flowers. I really love bright, vibrant colors for the summer but the colors in this arrangement are a bit on the more subtle side with the different shades of green and yellow mixed in.
I have the lime green flowers combined with my smaller light yellow flowers then I added a very bright yellow ribbon to my vase over a Lacey burlap and a kind of army green ribbon that I had actually picked up for spring but have still been making use of now for the summer.
I hope you enjoy this simple summer arrangement!
Green and Yellow Faux Floral Summer Arrangement
I started with a skinny cylinder vase and wired green ribbon.
Using a glue gun, I wrapped two layers of my green ribbon to the vase to create a large band of ribbon for my vase.
Then I took this burlap ribbon with lace and hot glued it over the center of the two strands of green ribbon.
Now a yellow ribbon goes over the lace burlap.
Each layer of ribbon is hot glued around the back but in this next step I’m using a toothpick to add a very small amount of my hot glue under the burlap to keep it from moving around.
You can skip this step if you want. It’s just a little extra glue to keep things perfectly in place.
Lastly, I’m adding a small white bow over everything.
Now the flowers …
(oh happy day, oh happy day, oh happy day. Don’t mind me, I just really love flowers)
I’ll be using one stem of these lime green flowers…
and one stem of light yellow smaller flowers.
Here’s just a closer look of the flowers that I’m working with 🙂
So pretty!
(FYI: Both stems of flowers came from Michael’s Craft Store)
and here is the finished arrangement!
I just cut my stems to a good size for the vase and then stretched everything out here and there to shape my arrangement.
I hope you enjoyed this simple faux floral green and yellow summer arrangement 💙
Sending happy, safe, and healthy vibes your way. May God bless you and your family today and every beautiful day to come!
Hello friends! Today I’m sharing a spring wreath that can easily transition into the upcoming summer days.
I’m kind of at that time of year where I’m still enjoying spring, but I’m starting to also think about summer and all the pretty things that come with that warm, super sunny season.
Are you still working on spring decorations? Have you moved on to summer yet? Well, either way I hope this spring to summer wreath inspires you and gets those creative wheels rolling in your head as you come up with your own spring (and/or) summer decor projects!
Let’s get to it!
DIY Blue and Pink Wreath – Spring to Summer
The main supplies that I will be using for my wreath are:
Pink faux flowers that I pulled off of a garland I picked up at my local dollar store
Greenery that I’ve also had forever
I started by cutting my kitchen towel into three long pieces.
Once I cut my fabric, I started wrapping each piece around my styrofoam wreath frame and hot glued the fabric onto the frame as I went.
Now I’m taking my blue tulle and burlap ribbon to make a simple bow.
First I cut a long strand of the tulle and then a couple of strands of the burlap.
(By this point I stopped working on my wreath and started up again later that evening, hence why the background is different for the next two photos 🙂
For my bow, I layered the tulle and longest piece of burlap together and secured them with a small piece of pipe cleaner.
Then I wrapped the shortest piece of burlap around the pipe cleaner and secured it in place. I used sticky dots to keep it in place but you can also use hot glue for this.
Now I’m taking a wire cutter to cut my bunch of greenery into smaller pieces.
So it may look like everything is hot glued in place in the next photo but nothing is actually glued on yet.
I wanted to get a good idea where to put my flowers and bow so I mapped everything out first, placing my greenery, bow and pink flowers on the base and moving them around to get them to look how I wanted before actually gluing them on.
Once I knew where I wanted my bow and flowers, I took a picture with my phone and used that as my guide once I took everything off to start hot gluing.
I started by hot gluing the greenery first, then I hot glued on my bow over the greenery and lastly I hot glued all the pink flowers.
To hang my wreath I took a long piece of my blue tulle, tied it on either side of the top of the wreath…
And this wreath is done!
Sending happy, safe, and healthy vibes your way. May God bless you and your family today and every beautiful day to come!
I love yellow for almost any season, but peach is kind of a new one for me when it comes to spring decorating. I usually love pinks, yellows, and greens for spring, but this year peach and yellow flowers turned out to be a beautiful combination that worked great for this arrangement.
It’s a bright color combination, perfect for spring, but the soft peach also gives everything almost a delicate touch and even tones down a bit of the intense color that yellow can sometimes give off.
What colors do you like for spring? Do you gravitate towards traditional pastels, bright colors, or do you just love them all?
Well, no matter what colors you love for spring, I hope you enjoy this yellow and peach faux flower spring arrangement.
Let’s go…
Yellow and Peach Faux Flower Spring Arrangement
The flowers that I will be using for my arrangement are faux yellow billy buttons, peach roses and yellow tulips.
I’ve had these flowers for years, but as for where I purchased them the billy buttons were at Walmart, roses from my local dollar store and the tulips came from the Dollar Tree.
For my “vase” I’m using an old hand sanitizer container.
(I have a bunch of real vases that I can use for this but I’m kind of obsessed with making use of recycled containers. It’s a daily struggle trying to keep myself from washing out everything that ends up in our recycling bin)
I also used sisal twine that I picked up at the dollar store.
If you are not familiar with this type of ribbon it looks a lot like twine but its much stronger and stiffer so it takes more effort to create a bow with this type of ribbon but I really like the rustic look that it gives crafting projects.
Lastly, scissors and pliers.
My tulips were looking a bit feathered around the edges so before starting my arrangement I cleaned them up with my scissor. If you are using new flowers you probably don’t have to do this but I’ve had these tulips for a few years now so they were really in need of a little trimming.
This arrangement came together very quickly and easily.
I started by tying two strands of the sisal ribbon to my container to give it a double bow look. FYI: this ribbon can sometimes be a little messy to work with so you may want to place some paper underneath your work while you are cutting and knotting the ribbon, otherwise you’ll have pieces of sisal thread everywhere.
As for the flowers, use your pliers to cut the stems down to fit your vase or container if needed.
Once my faux flowers were ready I placed my billy button stem in first …
then all of my three tulips went down into the left of that.
Then two roses to the right…
as well as one more rose towards the back.
Once all the flowers were in I started moving things around a bit and flaring out a few of my tulip petals to get everything looking the way I wanted and that’s it my friends.
This simple spring arrangement is done and ready to go……to my table of course 🙂
Sending happy, safe, and healthy vibes your way. May God bless you and your family today and every beautiful day to come!
I always seem to end up with a few dried flower decorations around my home this time of year since my birthday is in January and then there’s Valentine’s Day a month after (yay for flowers on those special days)
My husband always tries to pick up some flowers for me on those special days and of course I put them in a vase with some water as soon as he brings them. I try to keep them around and enjoy them for as long as possible but once they start drying I find that some of the flowers and greenery still look very pretty so I start wondering what else can I do with them.
Dried flower decorations may not be for everyone and I have to admit they don’t always work for me either because let’s be honest, they can sometimes look a bit tacky (eek, so sorry to any tacky arrangements out there) But I think if we keep it simple and even add in a few extras like candles, ribbons or even marbles like I did below, we can end up with beautiful long lasting decorations, for those of us that are not completely against dry flower arrangements that is 🙂
Let’s get to it…
Simple Table Decoration Ideas With Dried Flowers
I love how this yellow rose kept its beautiful color once it dried. It was part of a bouquet of roses for Valentine’s Day that were all different colors and this was the brightest in the bunch.
I took my yellow rose once it dried and carefully pulled off a few of its petals, trying my best not to tear them. Then I combined those with a few marbles in a small votive. I topped that with what was left of my rose for a tiny, colorful and oh so cute decoration for any side table, window or anywhere else you’d like to decorate in your home.
I love!
Here I took almost all of the petals off of this dark pink rose and used them to surround a short, white candle on a small white plate.
I thought the rose looked so pretty when I pulled off most of its petals and seeing the center part of it so I decided to place it right in front of my candle making it a focal point for this simple and classic decoration.
I had a bouquet of light pink roses for my birthday that dried to this almost rusty beige shade and surprisingly didn’t start drooping down while they dried out. I ended up removing all of the leaves from their stem and placed them in this cylinder vase.
I think baby’s breath stems can look so pretty all on their own.
These baby breaths were not quite dry just yet so I put them separate in a vase with some water while they dried out some more.
This is one of those really super simple ideas that I think work so lovely for those of us that enjoy simple decorations.
And lastly one more simple baby’s breath centerpiece, this one hanging out in a much smaller vase.
Sending happy, safe, and healthy vibes your way. May God bless you and your family today and every beautiful day to come!
Simple Valentine’s Day Crafts and Home Decor Lookbook
Floral bouquets, chocolates, hearts…and if you have a kid like I do, silly little Valentine’s Day favors for all those school friends, are a few of the things that make Valentine’s day so wonderful. It’s a holiday that I truly love. Even though it’s not actually a true holiday 😉
Hello friends! Valentine’s Day is almost here so let’s take a look at a few simple decorations that you can easily put together for your home or anywhere else that could use some last minute Valentine’s day cheer.
As always, I’m using items that I already had on hand and things that you can easily find in dollar stores, crafting stores or even sections in department stores with crafting and party supplies.
Simple Valentine’s Day Crafts and Home Decor Lookbook
I don’t think I could ever do any decorating around my house without a few faux flowers scattered around here and there. I know faux flowers may not work for everyone but for a black thumb girl like me, faux flowers are an almost perfect alternative to real flowers.
For a very subtle Valentines Day floral decoration I used these pink faux flowers and a light pink satin ribbon to tie three bows onto my vase and although this is so simple and quick to put together I find it so so pretty!
Valentine’s Day always calls for atleast a few roses and these red faux roses have been a favorite of mine for a few years now. I love bringing them out every year and creating a centerpiece with them.
This came together so quickly with three mason jars, a couple of red roses in each jar, a white flower and smaller yellow filler flowers to finish off.
Can that red on those roses be anymore beautiful?
A couple of areas in our bedroom…
This pink floral arrangement came together with four large faux pink peonies that I’ve had for a few years now. Then I simply taped on some glittery heart confetti’s all through out the round vase.
I usually keep things very simple for holiday decorations just because I know they won’t be out for a long time but of course if you want a more permanent or stronger hold you can add embellishments with hot glue.
So I can’t take credit for this three heart decoration on my kitchen wall. It’s something I picked up years ago at a random shop while on vacation with my husband. I always use it for Valentine’s Day and never really have to do much to it other than maybe add an extra bow like I did here on the command hook that it’s hanging off of. It’s made of faux berries, red beads and organza red ribbon holding it all together.
Are you like me and decorate with items you’ve had forever?
The simplest craft ever…cardstock, ribbon, and heart stickers for a simple handmade sign on the kitchen countertop.
My kitchen hutch always gets a sprinkle of holiday decor.
A pink mug, pink bowl and a few extra fun Valentine’s Day knick knacks come together for this area and give it just a bit of Valentine’s decor for my kitchen.
This one may just be my favorite.
A strand of tiny adhesive rhinestones and a red rhinestone heart on a chubby white candle.
Here I’m taking a fuzzy heart pick, a small votive that I added a small red heart sticker to and filled it with a very long strand of crafting pearls.
I hope you enjoyed this Valentine’s Day lookbook of my home. Check out my foam rose wreath as well as this post for more crafts and decorations great for Valentine’s Day.
Sending happy, safe, and healthy vibes your way. May God bless you and your family today and every beautiful day to come!
Hello friends! Today I’m sharing a wreath that I recently made for Valentine’s Day using pink foam roses. I’ve never used foam flowers of any kind for crafting but I saw these at my dollar store when I was looking through the craft section and thought their beautiful pink color was so pretty so I grabbed a couple of bags. I was actually looking for faux flowers to make a Valentine’s wreath but couldn’t find anything that I thought would work so I thought why not give these foam roses a try in place of faux flowers.
I will say, this was a fairly easy craft to do but a bit time consuming. Gluing on the roses one by one did take some patience on my part but the end result was worth it! So you may want to keep that in mind if you try this DIY at home as well as the size of your wreath because of course, the larger the wreath the more foam roses you will have to glue on.
Let’s get to it!
DIY Foam Rose Valentine’s Day Wreath
I started my wreath by making a frame for it out of poster board but you can also use a heart shaped wire frame or even a wooden base instead.
I shared a step by step tutorial here where I made a sturdier version of this frame, but for this wreath I am keeping it very simple…
I traced a heart onto my poster board, using a a large red paper heart that I already had in my crafting collection but you can free style this if you are good at drawing hearts…
Then I cut my heart out, added some twine for hanging (that you can see below) and now I’m ready to start gluing on my foam roses.
Now, I had originally wanted to fill the entire heart with my roses but unfortunately it turned out that I didn’t have enough roses! I measured everything before starting and must have miscounted somewhere (face/palm moment) so if you try this DIY out for yourself please make note to buy plenty of foam roses, unlike me 🙂
I picked up two bags of roses which had about eighteen in each bag and my heart measures 9 by 10 inches so I would say about eighty foam roses, give or take, would have been enough to fill the entire heart.
Since I didn’t have enough roses, I went ahead and cut out the center of my frame with both a scissor and crafting knife and then finished gluing on my roses with hot glue. As I mentioned earlier, this was overall an easy craft to do aside from being time consuming when it came to hot gluing on all the roses. So patience, patience, patience (and maybe a snack) is what it will take while you sit and glue on your flowers.
After that, I made a bow with white ribbon, hot glued that on and added a few small decorative hearts in the middle of that bow.
The last step before finishing my wreath was filling in a few areas where my white frame was showing through.
To do this, I took a pink faux flower and cut up the petals into small pieces to fill in any area where I could see the white frame.
And now I have a beautiful pink rose wreath perfect for Valentine’s Day.
Sending happy, safe, and healthy vibes your way. May God bless you and your family today and every beautiful day to come!
3 Simple Valentine’s Day Decorations (Perfect For a Small Table or Countertop)
Hello friends! Today I’m sharing 3 simple Valentine’s Day decorations that are perfect for small tables or kitchen countertops.
They can be recreated with things you may already have at home or inexpensive items you can find at dollar stores.
Change out the soft pink shades that I’m using for reds or even darker pinks for a Valentine’s Day decoration customized to your own liking!
Ok let’s get to it!
3 Simple Valentine’s Day Decorations (Perfect For a Small Table or Countertop)
This first Valentine’s Day decoration would look lovely in any small kitchen area.
For my supplies, I used a small flower arrangement I already had on hand, pink ribbon, a pink heart rhinestone, a small white gravy boat, and some sticky dots.
I’ve had this tiny flower arrangement for a few years now and decided to use it for Valentine’s Day by placing it inside a white gravy boat that I’ve also had forever.
To recreate something like this I would suggest using a small round vase or votive, fill it with white tissue paper, and then if you don’t have a small arrangement like I do you can use faux flowers and some floral foam in your vase to hold your flowers upright.
Wrap ribbon around the vase, hold it in place with glue dots or a glue gun. Then add a rhinestone or other pretty embellishments to the ribbon.
Wine glasses are so pretty for decorating.
Supplies used here are felt stickers, pink faux flowers, a wire cutter for my flowers, and a wine glass.
I simply scattered felt pink heart stickers around my wine glass, cut my flower stems all down to the same size and filled my glass with them.
I love keeping around recycled jars for decorating and organizing. I probably keep around way too many honestly but sometimes I just can’t help it 🙂
My supplies for this piece are recycled jars, pink basket filling, twine, heart shaped rhinestones, tea lights, pink ribbon, and glue dots.
I filled my jars with layers of pink basket filling (like what we use for Easter baskets) and twine then topped that with small battery operated tea lights.
On one jar, I tied a pink bow and for the smaller one I added rhinestones.
Hope you enjoyed these 3 Valentine’s Day Decoration ideas!
Sending happy, safe, and healthy vibes your way. May God bless you and your family today and every beautiful day to come!
Create a floral arrangement with sunflowers and you have a beautiful centerpiece for fall, spring, summer, or anytime of the year.
I found these pretty and very affordable faux sunflowers at Walmart a couple of months ago and brought them home along with a couple of stems of eucalyptus leaves and figured I could make a centerpiece that would work for summer and all the way into fall with no problem at all!
FYI: I have one pick with 5 sunflowers and two eucalyptus leaf picks but I only ended up using a few of my flowers and leaves, as you will see below.
It took me a number of tries before getting my flowers to look nice in the jar. I’m no expert at floral arranging, so even simple centerpieces can sometimes take a lot of effort. I tried arranging my flowers and eucalyptus leaves without first cutting them down, thinking that would work nicely since I’ve done that many times before with beautiful results but it was such a fail this time around. I had to cut them down and really pay close attention to how the height of my flowers and jar were working together. I was also trying to fit them all into the mason jar but really only needed one stem of leaves and four flowers to look pretty.
Now that I got that out of the way let’s continue 🙂
I started by cutting my faux flowers with a wire cutter.
As for the eucalyptus leaves, I cut those down as well and only used 4 stems out of the two picks that I picked up.
I first added in my sunflowers…
Then as you can see below I placed my eucalyptus leaves all down the very center of my flowers, from left to right. Basically, there’s two sunflowers facing the front of the centerpiece and two facing the back.
I moved the flowers and leaves around slightly here and there until I got it looking good and that was it.
A simple sunflower centerpiece that I think could work for anytime of the year, but especially now in the late summer and going into the beautiful upcoming fall season.
Ok, that’s it for this one. I hope you give it a try for your home as well!
Sending happy, safe, and healthy vibes your way. May God bless you and your family today and every beautiful day to come!
Hello friends! Summer is almost over, but before we get started with all the fall crafts and decorations I wanted to share what I’ve been up to as for summer decorating around my house.
Now of course I know it’s a little late in the season to share step by step DIY’s for summer decorations so I decided that a “lookbook” would probably make more sense for those of you that are still interested in anything summer related. I have to say, I’m still trying to enjoy what’s left of summer and even find myself still working on summer related decorations.
Are you in the same boat as me? Or are you ready to say goodbye to the summer and start pulling out your pumpkins and acorns?
I’ve shared a few of what I call a lookbook here on the blog for the last couple of years now. The word lookbook may sound a little funny since this is not a true book but when I think of a lookbook, I think of a lot of inspirational photos with little writing. Basically something that someone can look through for ideas, inspiration or even just for fun. So that’s kind of the idea that I worked with while making this blog post, something you can hopefully enjoy and be inspired by!
Ok, I hope you enjoy this collection of summer home decorations!
Summer Home Decorations DIY “Lookbook”
Here is a simple table decoration that anyone can easily bring together.
This came together with a few items that can easily be replaced with other similar supplies.
I started with turquoise ribbon from the Dollar Tree, brown packing paper, and white tissue paper.
Then I also have a vase from Walmart and a yellow faux flower for this arrangement.
All I did here is layer my turquoise ribbon, brown paper and white tissue paper in my vase.
FYI: The brown paper is what sometimes comes in delivery boxes. I love saving that paper whenever possible! It’s great to use around the house, great for crafting, and sometimes even for last minute gift wrapping or as a basket filler.
Then I removed the yellow flowers stem and leaves and placed it on top of the white paper for a simple but fun and bright decoration.
Don’t like the paper and ribbon look? Try layers of rocks, marbles or even wooden beads for a similar look.
There’s something about rocks and marbles that really work for me in the summer. I love using them in vases layered with other rocks and marbles of different colors and sizes. It gives everything a pretty beachy look!
Here I used small rocks and marbles mixed together just in the lower part of my vase and then wrapped burlap pink ribbon and twine around my vase.
(Amber votives are from Ikea.)
I filled my (very, very tall) vase with faux pink lilies that I also used last summer on this table. Large faux flowers like this, all on one stem, make it so easy to create centerpieces. You can just drop the stem of flowers in a vase and with a little stretching here and there they can look oh so beautiful.
My vase and votives all went on a Dollar Tree tray that I couldn’t help but add to finish off my centerpiece. I’m not quite sure if this really needed the tray honestly but I really wanted to add something else to bring everything together and thought that worked out great, for me at least.
Twine seems to end up in almost everything I make! It just seems to work so well with DIY home decor and crafting.
For this next one, I used twine to wrap around a long narrow vase (that I’ve had forever) and then added a mix of beads and decorative tiny crafting sea shells that me and my daughter got from the library, of all places 🙂
I used clear packing tape to keep my twine in place right around the back of the arrangement. I know, sounds kind of strange, but it works 🙂
You can hot glue the beads onto the twine but I really try to avoid using my hot glue whenever I can, hence the packing tape for my twine. I just don’t like waiting for it to heat up and find it kind of messy, so I used these adhesive dots cut down to very small pieces, to attach my beads and sea shells.
Yellow is such a perfect color for the summer time! It’s bright and happy and makes me think of the beautiful summer months.
I found these yellow flowers a few years ago at Walmart and have loved them and used them multiple times. You can see them in action here but for this arrangement I mixed them in with a few white flowers for another simple summer arrangement.
Blue crystal gems that remind me of the beautiful ocean water, yes please! Well, beautiful waters from the Caribbean that is, not the waters I see here in New York, sigh…
This arrangement uses a cylinder vase filled with a string iridescent beads, wooden beads, pretty blue gems, all from the dollar store and a few rocks for the bottom layer.
I topped this with a few faux Dollar Tree flowers to complete my centerpiece.
A few felt pineapples from the Dollar Tree…pink, green and white craft paper for the back of the pineapples, a few simple bows and pink rhinestones, and we have a few very cute dressed up pineapples!
I used these adhesive dots to paste everything together. They are pretty easy to work with. I just cut them down to small pieces depending on the size of what I’m working with and for these pineapples I needed very small pieces because of all the little holes shaping the pineapple.
Now my cute little pineapples are adding some summer cheer to my refrigerator with the help of good old masking tape. (Painters tape would work well too, just don’t confuse it for packing tape, that could ruin the paint). I had considered gluing on some magnets to the back of my coasters but figured I should keep it simple since summer is almost over.
Simple beach paintings dressed up with rhinestones, glitter and a raffia bow then framed with a few white mounts that I’ve had forever.
I used watercolors for the water, sand and blue fishies 🙂 then added a few seashells to the sand with colored pencils. There were a few areas that didn’t turn out the way I wanted so I just “fixed” those spots with some glitter to camouflage the errors.
I’m far from any expert when it comes to painting or drawing but I have to admit it’s so nice and even relaxing when I’m able to take some time to paint. I usually only get to enjoy painting when my daughter wants to sit and paint with me. We actually were painting together when I made these beach paintings.
White chrysanthemums in a recycled jar with, you guessed it, more beautiful rocks and gems. So pretty!
Lastly, a limes to lemon DIY gone wrong.
So I have a bunch of faux limes that I found at Target a few years ago. I’ve used them over and over again but now I decided why not paint a few of them yellow so they look like lemons. I picked up some crafting paint at the dollar store but sadly the paint just wouldn’t give me that intense yellow color that I wanted. About 3-4 coats of paint and I could still see the lime green peeking through.
But you know what, I actually still liked them anyway.
So they’ve been hanging out in my kitchen hutch all summer.
Sending happy, safe, and healthy vibes your way. May God bless you and your family today and every beautiful day to come!
Hello friends! Today I’m sharing a summer wreath DIY that I’ve been working on for about a month now. I started working on it after a trip to the Dollar Tree where I found a bouquet of coral pink flowers that I thought were so pretty. One bunch of course was not enough for a wreath so I mixed them with a few more faux flowers and greenery that I had at home and decided to use a DIY poster board frame as the base for my wreath. (You can see the full tutorial for that base here if you’d like but I also added a simple description down below.)
Summer time is so fun and there’s so many beautiful options for decorating. There’s nautical decor, beach inspired decorations, patriotic for July 4th and when I think of summer I always think of a lot of colors. Usually bright, vibrant colors!
For this project coral pink is the summer color star of the show. It’s not a super bright summer color that usually comes to mind for me like maybe a hot pink or sunny yellow but it’s a beautiful color that I really love either way. I actually wasn’t even sure if coral pink could be considered a summer color so I figured why not look up classic summer colors and sure enough, it is! Alongside colors like turquoise, blues and surprisingly even warm browns, it’s a color that could absolutely be used in different shades during the summertime, according to google that is 😉
Ok guys, I hope you enjoy this summer DIY coral pink wreath.
Coral Pink Summer Wreath DIY
For the base of my wreath I’m using a poster board base that I made and shared here a few months ago.
It’s very simple. Basically just cut out your circle, then cut out the center and lastly give it some support with packing tape and popsicle sticks.
You can skip this step and use a store bought wreath frame if you prefer since they are so affordable but I’ve been trying to make use of a bunch of poster boards that I have at home.
(FYI: I’ve been working on this wreath over a number of different days so the pictures will have different backgrounds depending on where I was working. Just in case you were wondering)
As for my flowers and greenery…
My coral pink flowers came from the Dollar Tree and I had a vine of faux eucalyptus leaves that I found on Amazon a few years ago. Unfortunately the vine is no longer available but I linked it anyway If you’d like to compare with other similar items.
Then I picked up these small pink roses from my local dollar store.
And lastly I chose a few white faux flowers that I had in my collection of flowers.
As you can see, I’m only using the white flowers, no leaves or stem. I did however make use of the greenery on my small roses as you will see below.
If you read through my blog you may already know that I don’t like using a glue gun whenever possible but this time around I couldn’t avoid it. The glue gun really was my best option for this project. Boohoo 🙂
Once my nifty poster board base was ready I started hot gluing on my eucalyptus leaves. Before hot gluing my leaves I ended up cutting them down with a wire cutter so that I can evenly distribute them and fill in gaps so that the white base doesn’t show through.
I also made sure that my leaves were covering the base along the sides. As for the packing tape in the picture below, that’s what I was using to wrap the frame so that it’s nice and sturdy.
As for my flowers, I started hot gluing my Dollar Tree flowers first by placing them off to one side of the wreath and all bunched up together.
I followed that by gluing on my largest white flower under those coral pink florals and then I scattered in my other smaller flowers.
I also cut off the greenery that came with the small roses and scattered those through out the flowers but I focused on placing them around the outer side of the wreath.
FYI: Sometimes I have a hard time hot gluing faux flowers down because they don’t have a flat bottom but this time around I just went ahead and used much more glue then I normally would have all around the bottom of my flowers and that really helped. Basically, don’t be cheap with your glue like I was.
Because of the type of base that I’m using for my wreath, it is laying very flat against the wall.
If you think that you may not like that then try using a wire frame or a foam base wrapped with fabric (color of your choice) so that the foam doesn’t show through.
Lastly, how to hang our wreath that in case you didn’t notice, is kind of heavier on one side 🙂
Because all of the flowers are off to one side my wreath would have drooped down that side if I wasn’t mindful as for how I hung it up so what I ended up doing was punching two holes in the base and tying a short piece of ribbon to it.
The trick here is to use a shortpiece of ribbon!
That way, your wreath doesn’t have any slack to slide down the side easily. Keep in mind because I am using a very short piece of ribbon, it will not show once it’s up on the door so you can really use any string here without worrying if it does or does not match.
And there you have it. A summer wreath with coral pink and white flowers…Eucalyptus leaves…Works for me! Hope you like it too.
Sending happy, safe, and healthy vibes your way. May God bless you and your family today and every beautiful day to come!
