DIY Summer BBQ themed Wreath
This DIY summer wreath is just the thing to add festive cheer to any BBQ gathering.
Yield: 1 wreath
Materials
Instructions
- Take your wreath frame and smash the frame just a little bit. We want it to be more oval than round. Fluff out your wreath frame.
- With the 21" deco mesh, take the cut edge and fold it under, then scrunch it up. When doing 21" poofs, always start on the top. Do 10" poofs all the way around. Now go around the bottom with 10" poofs as well.
- Get your sign. Remove all the stickers. Add the mounting squares to each corner of the sign. Add the pipe cleaners to each mount. To reinforce the mounts, you can use your hot glue gun. Set aside to dry.
- Take your 10" deco mesh and cut 20" strips using the mesh cutter.
- To add the strips, use the "cruffle" method. Curl the ends and scrunch to the center and add to the top wreath ties and then the bottom wreath ties.
- Add sign to the top center of the wreath slightly angled. Start with the bottom right of the sign, and attach the pipe cleaner to the metal frame and wrap nice and tight.
- Next, tie the pipe cleaner on the top left to the metal frame nice and tight. This is so the sign doesn't move around. Tie the remaining corners.
- Make the first bow. Get your EZ Bow Maker and ribbons. Start with 1.5" ribbon and make a 12" tail and (3) 6.5" loops on each side.
- Next, with your 2.5" ribbon and make a 12" tail and (2) 6" loops on each side.
- Next, with your 1.5" ribbon, make a 12" tail and (1) 5.5" loop on each side.
- With your second 1.5" ribbon, make a tail with it facing the top right.
- With the third 1.5" ribbon, make a center loop.
- With a pipe cleaner, take 2 and twist together to make a longer piece. Wrap around the center of the bow and twist off and tie nice and tight. Then add it to the wreath using the pipe cleaner to secure it. Fluff the bow and dovetail the ends.
- Make a smaller bow. Start with 1.5" ribbon and make a 8" tail to the top right, a 6.5" loop to the top left, loop to the bottom right, and tail to the bottom left.
- Start with 2.5" ribbon and make a 8" tail to the top left, a 6" loop to the top right, loop to the bottom left, and tail to the bottom right.
- Start with 1.5" ribbon and make a 8" tail to the top right, a 6.5" loop to the top left, loop to the bottom right, and tail to the bottom left.
- Start with 1.5" ribbon and make a 8" tail to the top left, a 6" loop to the top right, loop to the bottom left, and tail to the bottom right.
- Make a center loop with a 1.5" ribbon.
- Wrap a pipe cleaner around the center of the bow and twist it off nice and tight. Add the bow to the wreath on the top of the wreath sign. Use the pipe cleaner to tie the bow to the wreath frame. Fluff the bow and dovetail the ends.
- Next, use your tailboard to cut (14) 14" strips of your 2.5" and 1.5" ribbons. Cut all ends into dovetails.
- With the other (2) 1.5" ribbons, cut in 14" strips. You'll need 8 strips of each ribbon. Cut all ends into dovetails.
- Get (1) 2.5 ribbon tail and (2) 1.5" ribbon tails (3 total), fold down the middle, scrunch, and add to outer edges of the wreath. Alternate the 1.5" ribbon tails as you add to the outer wreath ties.
- For your next set of ribbon tails, repeat previous step. Add to the left of your big bow.
- Add the next set of ribbon tails to the left of the wreath sign. For the right side, fill in the ties on the right side of the wreath. Add the rest of the tails to the top of the sign.