Easy Patriotic Wreath for Front Doors
Equipment
- Hot glue
Materials
- 1 14" grapevine wreath
- 3 Magnolia leaf spray
- 1 Blue filler flowers
- 1 Berry bush
- 1 2.5" wired ribbon patriotic themed
- 1 1.5" wired ribbon patriotic themed
- zip ties or pipe cleaners
Instructions
Create your bow
- Using your 1.5" wired ribbon, create a 14" tail.
- Next make 2 x 10" loops and 2 x 11" loops.
- Now, take your 2.5" wired ribbon, create a 14" tail.
- Make 2 slightly larger loops, one on each side.
- Secure with a zip tie.
- Attach to the top left hand corner of the grapevine using a zip tie or pipe cleaner.
- Using your wire cutter, remove excess zip tie tail.
- Dovetail ends of tails
Add stems, sprays, and picks.
- Spread out the leaves on your magnolia leaves spray.
- Trim excess stem.
- Insert into the grapevine right under the bow. Place one pick on the top side of the bow and two on the bottom of the bow.
- Secure stems to grapevine with zip ties.
- Fluff out bow and shape leaves as necessary.
- Separate blue filler florals for smaller bunches.
- Fluff out florals curling them up.
- Trim excess stem and hot glue into grapevine in between the bow and magnolia leaves on each side.
- You could stop here if your happy with the design.
- Add additional stems if you want a fuller design.
- Add additional ribbon tails using your 2 ribbons. Zip tie to grapevine and dovetail ends. It creates an illusion of a larger design.