Coral Pink Summer Wreath DIY
Coral Pink Summer Wreath DIY
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 short piece 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!
