Yarn Wrapped Striped Modern Floral Wreath Using Painted Laser Cut Wood Flowers

My friend Amanda asked me to make her a new wreath after the one I made for her here (Felt Flower Wreath) broke.  I searched Pinterest for Pinspiration and nothing jumped out at me.  So then I wandered around Michael's and kept coming back to these laser cut wood flowers.  I could just picture them painted and on a wreath.  Also I'm really into black and white stripes this summer Exhibit A 

 Exhibit B

so I decided I wanted the wreath to be black and white striped.  I found this ribbon that I deemed perfect.

But then when I wrapped it around the wreath form, I didn't like it.

So then I decided to create my own stripes by wrapping black and white yarn. I used double sided tape to secure the beginning and end piece of each yarn stripe.

In the meantime I painted the flowers and had so much fun mixing colors and painting!

 

When the yarn wrapping was done and the flowers were dry, I just arranged and hot glued the flowers on.

 

 

Kind of interesting - after I had made my wreath, I searched online to see if anyone had ever posted anything similar and found this blog at Little Red Window that used pretty similar laser cut wood flowers from Michael's and since she was going for a spring look - the final painted flowers and wreath turned out very different than mine.  Which tells you that you can really put your own personality and style into it.

 

Amanda was happy with the wreath and I think it looks very cheery on her front door!!

Modern Striped Succulent Wreath

Pretty Providence Wreath

While searching for a unique wreath to make on Pinterest - I found  this one and was obsessed with it - I used the Pretty Providence blog instructions to make my own and made my own adjustments in some places.

I got my materials from Hobby Lobby and bought two embroidery hoops, black and white striped fabric (I am using this as an outdoor wreath, so I really wanted to find laminated fabric.  Hobby Lobby had some, but I determined the stripes were too wide), a roll of cork and succulents.  The hoops I used were 4 inches apart and I think that looks about right.

This was way more difficult to make than I expected.  One problem - the cork is pretty thin and tears easily.  Another - the blog says to cut out the circle from cork and fabric and then hot glue the embroidery hoops on.  I tried this and even though I traced around the outside of the hoop, the cork ended up too small.  So I mod podged fabric first then hot glued the hoops on, then cut off the excess, which was really challenging.

With the hardened hot glue right at the edge, it was really difficult to cut the excess off.