Spring Wreath

 

I’ve been wanting to make a spring

wreath ever since I took down the

Christmas wreath.  Then I got

motivated, when a few days

ago, Kristen from

Kristen’s Creations

showed a wonderful

tutorial on how she made her

fabulous mesh wreath. 

 

 

 

I went to Michael’s

to buy all my

supplies. 

When you get to the last photo you will see a photo of my front door, it’s very tall door, so I choose a grapevine wreath that had an oblong shape to better fill the space vertically.  I just happen to stumble on this welcome bunny sign.  I’m not crazy about the colors that someone decided to paint it, but I purchased it anyways with a 50% off coupon.

 

I don’t think I picked up the

same tulle that Kristen uses.

Her tulle seamed to have body

and stiffness.  The tulle I used

was from the wedding section

and is soft and limp. 

I cut 2 foot lengths and tied them

around the base of the wreath.

Next, I added the cute little garland.  The end of the garland had a loop at one end, so I thought I could poke the loop to the back of the wreath form and use that to hang my wreath!

Next, I decided to repaint the bunny with some lovely spring colors.  After I painted, I need to add the “welcome” back.  I was going to use my Cricut to either cut vinyl or a stencil, but at 1 o’clock in the morning,  I decided to take the plunge and free hand the letters with black paint.  Aughhh…… now I would have been willing to pay full price. 

I couldn’t find any pretty pastel color eggs either.  I bought a bag of yellow speckled eggs and hand painted them the colors I wanted! 

This would have been a really quick project if I didn’t have to customize the store bought pieces.

 

 I let the paint dry and went to

bed!  First thing the next

morning I hot glued the eggs

 and the bunny in place.

 Michael’s had these really

cute butterflies on sale!  They

have a little clip on the back,

making it super easy to add to

the wreath.

I tied a few small pieces of bright pink ribbon, that I had on hand,

to add a POP of color!

I love how it turned out!  Thanks Kristen for the inspiration.