Door Swag Makeover
Equipment
- glue gun
- Zip ties or pipe cleaners
- wire cutter or stem cutter
Materials
- 1 Angel hair swag with magnolias You can use any pre-made swag
- 1 2.5" wired ribbon
- 1 Filler greenery Lamb's Ear and Ruscus
Instructions
Prep
- Perk up your swag base by fluffing out the flowers and greenery.
Bow
- Create a 7' tail with the 2.5" wired ribbon. Twist and create approximately 7"-8" loops. (Adjust to your taste based on your specific swag.)
- Next add 2 more loops about 1/2" shorter than the previous ones
- The last loop will be a center loop. Make it about half the size of the previous loop.
- Do not cut the final tail so you can create a cascading tail on the swag.
- Secure ribbon together with a pipe cleaner. Twist it nice and tight.
- Add the bow to the swag.
- Fluff out your loops and ribbon tails
- Dovetail ribbon tail.
- Secure longer tail to the swag base using a pipe cleaner. Leave some extra slack so it flows in between tie downs.
Add Greenery
- Trim your filler greenery stems and hot glue to into swag to fill in the empty spaces.