Hi! Suzz here. I was inspired by wreaths that my mother and I made years ago for holiday craft shows. It was fun picking out different flowers, garland, and embellishments to decorate the wreathes.
Next up was making the beautiful colors on the flowers and branches. The flower pieces were all sponged with a red dye ink. After that they smaller pieces received a distressing with a brown dye ink and the larger flowers were sponged around the edges with the brown dye ink.
The branches were sponged with versamark and embossed with a shimmery silver. (I am still glittering in random spots on my face and hair!)
I next cut out a circle to hold onto my wreath from cardboard.
I sponged the front of the circle to match the flowers in case any of the cardboard peeked through the flowers.
Then I heat set the flowers before attaching the layers as the distress ink can remain damp and cause the tape to not stick properly. I attached the layers to the flowers petals. Then the flowers were alternated on the frame of the wreath using tape for the bottom flower and pop dots to create depth on the alternating flowers.
After all the flowers were placed on the wreath the various branches were tucked into the wreath around the edges using tape and glue dots. Then a lovely little sentiment was placed on the banner on the front with a few extra twigs.
The centers of the flowers were a mixture of embellishments.
Have a happy holiday!
Suzz
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