Pretty Paper Flower Wreath Tutorial

Tools:

Cricut: Plantin Schoolbook Cartridge - Flowers cut in two sizes, one at 2in and one at 3/4in - both shadowed to make the inner hole small

(if you don't have a cricut flower shaped paper punches would work excellently too.)

Supplies:

12” wreath form.

3 sheets of 12x12 scrapbook paper for the larger flowers

3/4 sheet of 12x12 scrapbook paper for the small flowers

1 pack of 100 color tipped straight pins. With our size of wreath, the 1-1/2” long pins worked wonderfully.

Instructions:

1. Cut out all the flowers and peel them off of your Cricut mat. Lightly fold the petals of the larger flowers upward to make them three dimentional

2. Layer one of the larger flowers with one of the smaller flowers on top, centered.

3. Hold the layered flowers against your styrofoam wreath form and using a stick pin, push through the center of the flowers until the pin is all the way in.

4. Continue around the wreath, making sure to offset the flowers slightly.  It will help fill the gaps and give you a more attractive and random design.  Remember, you don’t need to fill in the back, assuming it will be hanging against a door or wall.  If you decide to fill the back, you will need far more flowers/pins.

5. Pin a looped ribbon to the back in you want to hang your wreath on your wall or from your door, but remember that this is a paper wreath and if you are hanging it outside to keep it protected from the elements.