~~~A New Spring Wreath and Tutorial!!!~~~

HI! I decided I wanted to make a new Spring/Easter wreath, so I gathered my supplies and thought I would do a tutorial too. Please excuse the things in the background, my work table is here in the storage area of our basement.:) In the picture above, you can see that I started with a plain grapevine wreath. Then, to that I added another twiggy, moss covered wreath. I just wired them together. Putting 2 wreaths together gives you a nice, lush look. Then I took a bush of forsythia and cut it into 3 large pices and placed them around the wreath. I wanted to make the finished wreath much larger than the size of the 2 wreaths. NOTE: Since I did this I cut the forsythia into more pieces and placed them ALL around the wreath to make a more circular design.

Here you can see the "twigginess" of the top wreath.

I then took a bush of spring flowers and cut that all apart too. This is a good designer's trick, use bushes whenever possible. You get MUCH more bang for your buck!

Here are the pices after I cut them off the main stem. You can see my glue pot in the background. That is another designer trick. NO GLUE GUN. The pot os so mch faster and easier.

I then made my bow.

and attached it to the wreath on the left side. I am usually right to left oriented. I have observed that some peole are right to left and others are left to right;)

I then added the largest flowers from the bush and then filled in with the others.

You just dip your flower stem into the glue and attach to the wreath. Or, see the stick that is wrapped with a pipe cleaner? You can dip that into the glue and add glue to a pick.

I cut this bush apart for a filler flower.

These egg picks I found at CTS for just $1.00!!!

I forgot to get a picture of the other egg pics from Michaels. They had 5 smaller eggs per pick and I used 7 of them. You can see them in this shot. It ALWAYS takes more material than you think it will!!! I also cut apart a yellow filler bush and added it to the wreath.

Here it is on my front door. It is a very nice pick me up with all this cold, dreary, windy weather we are having!!!! NOTE: since I did this post we have had 2 BEAUTIFUL days!!!