I have loved Valentine's Day for as long as I can remember. I remember waking up early to decorate the box I'd put on my desk to collect valentines from classmates. Getting to stop doing classwork and just have a party was the best thing ever. Pink and red and glitter and hearts and kisses? These are my favorite things. When I was in junior high and high school my dad brought my sisters and me flowers we got to carry around at school. More recently I have made an effort to bring flowers or a little flowering plant to all of my coworkers on Valentine's Day.
Spreading my joy of this holiday makes me happy.
This wreath is a quick and inexpensive way to bring a little Valentine's Day joy to your home.
All you need:
metal wreath form (available at Dollar Tree)
crepe paper
ribbon
glue
hot glue
I made two sizes of crepe paper rosettes, the larger in the darker pink, the smaller in the lighter pink. For the larger ones I tore a strip of crepe paper about 2 feet long, and the smaller ones were half that.
Wad up the crepe paper to get it nice and crumpled up. This makes it more malleable and just looks better in my opinion.
Smooth it back out and fold the last few inches at about a 45 degree angle.
Next fold the last inch or so down at a 90 degree angle. This gives you a tail to hold on to and the little bulb in the middle of your flower.
Begin rolling the paper a few times, then roll and gather. Add a little glue to help it stay together. I found that adding a little line of glue down the bottom edge paper at this stage helped cut down on the time I spent stopping to glue it.
Continue to roll a little and then gather and pinch it together in tiny sections.
It is more difficult to hold as it gets larger, as you'll be holding and gluing the very edge of the paper by then.
Follow the same process for the smaller ones. These little guys went so much quicker and easier than their larger counterparts.
I let these dry overnight, just to make sure they'd hold shape while I threw them around while decided how I wanted to arrange them on the metal form.
I found it easiest to decide placement of each rosette, hold it in place as I turned the wreath over, and dab a little hot glue on the back of the flower where it met the metal. This didn't take long at all.
When I got the metal frame covered a little more than 3/4, I folded several sheets of thin tulle ribbon until I got a bow shape, duplicated it with a smaller section of another ribbon, then wrapped it together in the center and glued it in place.
Overall this project cost me less than $2! If you don't have supplies on hand already, it'd be about $6 to gather them, but you would have so much leftover for more fun projects later.
It really makes me smile when I am greeted with this happy pink wreath every morning.
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