Wreath Making Ideas

Holiday decorations are fun, but you also have to spend a lot of money on them. Wreaths are a part of these decorations, they look pleasant when hanged on front doors, walls, or over a mantle. These days, wreaths are not limited only to festive seasons. Many people are going for unique wreath making ideas to hang some permanent wreaths in the home, as a part of interior décor. Making wreaths by yourself saves your money and you can come up with some special customized ideas to prepare them. Given below are some wreath making tips and ideas.

Supplies to Make a Wreath

The basic requirement to prepare a wreath is a ring like structure that will hold the complete art. These base rings are made up of variety of materials like, wire, grapevine, styrofoam, straw ring, etc. All these types of rings are very easy to handle. With its thin and sturdy wire rings, grapevine ring is considered to be the most easiest ring to work with. You just need to glue the accessories over it and tie a bow to complete the wreath. You can paint this ring or keep it natural. Even wire rings and straw rings are easy to work with. You can pin, tie or hang the accessories to these wire rings to prepare the wreaths. Decide the wire ring depending upon the accessories that you will be using to prepare the wreath. Let us see some simple wreath making instructions.

Pinecone Wreath

Pinecone wreath is one of the famous home decorating items, used specially for winters. You will require pinecones of various shapes and sizes, pine boughs, some wire and white acrylic color to prepare this wreath. The pinecones used to prepare the wreath should be dry. Once they get dried, open them and color them with white acrylic color. Use the medium of color that is lustrous and shiny. The color and the medium of color used will help to create a snowy look to the pinecones. Paint the open tips of the pinecones with this color. After coloring the pinecones, use pine boughs and place them at specific distance on the wire ring. You can use artificial or fresh pine bough. After that, wire the colored pinecones at various places on the wreath. Tie a red colored bow at the bottom of the wreath. Your pinecone wreath is ready to hang!

Ribbon Wreath

Ribbon wreaths are simple and easy to make with very few accessories required. To prepare a ribbon wreath, all you require is a green florist ring and ribbons of different colors with different textures and widths. While choosing the colors of the ribbons, see that you choose them in such a way that their combination looks great. Now, the first step in preparing this wreath is to take the ribbon with dominating color and wrap the ring with this ribbon. Use a hot glue to secure the ribbon in the ring. Later, use a ribbon with contrasting color to the previous ribbon and wrap it on the ring such that the ribbons are wrapped in a twisted pattern. Continue in the same way with remaining ribbons. Make variations in the wrapping with some innovative ideas. You can tie some small bows at specific intervals of wreath. In the end attach a large bow at the bottom of the wreath. This completes your simple ribbon wreath.

These were some simple and easy wreath making ideas. You can visit a craft store and use your favorite craft item to include in your wreath. There are no rules of making a wreath, you can use any raw material and come up with a beautiful elegant wreath, made by yourself.