Wreaths can be super expensive, often worth it but why pay so much when you could create one yourself for a fraction of the price and have it bespoke to your own colour and flower preferences!
So in this blog I’m going to talk you through making your own wreath with all things easily accessible from local stores. This tutorial is based on a wreath from Christmas but the process is the same, just switch up the things you include! It’s super easy to make it’s the design that can be the harder part.
Below is the wreath I'm going to talk through
Below is the wreath I'm going to talk through
So to start I got the wreath base, a beautiful intertwined twig wreath which I love compare to the plastic or polystyrene ones in this situation because they’re easier to attach things too and if you want to leave some on show as I did then it looks great!
For attaching everything to the base you'll want hobby wire & maybe have some super glue if you’re wanting to add things that can’t be wired on such as single berries etc.
So now the fun part, choose your flowers! Country Baskets, Dunelm and Home sense all have a lovely selection of faux flower stems in a wide variety of types. For my wreath I chose the Ava Cream hydrangea stems from country baskets (click here for product) white roses, eucalyptus and spray blossoms all from Dunelm.
Now you have all your pieces you can get creative!
• So firstly cut all the stems shorter, you still want about 10cm to play with to allow for attaching but the rest can be chopped off.
• I started with my eucalyptus which is my base flower and the one I want to sit at the back that will create the shape for my arrangement. Lay them one by one in the direction you want them to sit and feed the hobby wire around the stem and into and around the nearby twigs in the base. Twist the ends around to secure and continue onto the next.
• Continue the same process for anything you want to be attached in the same way, as you can see I did the same for my sparkly ferns.
• So now the beautiful flowers. I used the hydrangeas first as they’re the largest flower and the other flowers can be placed around without getting lost. However instead of laying these across I just pushed the flowers stem through and then bent the stem around and fastened wherever suitable with the wire again.
• I continued this same process with all the flowers, it’s best just to fiddle around, find where it sits well and then find the closest twig to fasten too with the wire. The white roses I’ve used came in a bunch and are thin wired stems anyway so could just be fastened with their own stem.
• I finished with adding some leaves to the back that were from the stems that were cut at the start.
• It takes some patients and some fiddling and changing as you go but consider where you’re planning on hanging it, for example I wanted mine on the front door so I made sure I secured as well as possible to allow for the wind. Otherwise if it’s inside you can be a bit more lenient and most will hold itself.
• Lastly my wreath hanger was from hobbycraft and with the base being twigs it means I could just slip it onto the hanger without needing for anything else. String, ribbon and most other hanging methods can all be used easily by feeding through the top of the twig base!
So there we go! it’s nots a long tutorial at all, slightly longer to create, but super easy and effective and the same method can be used for any style weather that’s filling the full base with stems or just as section as I did.
Lots of Love
Emily-Louise
xxx
Lots of Love
Emily-Louise
xxx
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