WHIMSICAL SPRING WREATH FROM TATERTOTS AND JELLO

While I was visiting blog sites today I stumbled on to TATERTOTS AND JELLO she had this posted so I asked here if I could post this on my blog so you could see it and I would always have the instructions, this is going to my next project how fun RIGHT?

  YOU NEED SEVERAL OF THESE!

HERE ARE HER INSTRUCTIONS:

To make the flowers, I took the plastic bottle, and poked a hole in it with scissors, or with some of the bottles, a drill.

Then I cut around the circumference of the bottle until the bottom comes off. Then I cut petals in the bottle, with the opening of the bottle being the middle of the flower. I painted most of the flowers yellow, but a couple I painted white so they would contrast with the yellow flowers. I did about three coats of paint, alternating the shades a little to give the color a little more depth.

I used a variety of sizes of bottles. The 2 liter bottles make HUGE flowers. In order to layer the flowers together, it is helpful to have different sized opening of bottles. So the bottle with the biggest opening will be at the back of the flower. You can make the petals on this bottle the longest, then a middle layer with a opening that will fit inside the other bottle. And the first flower will have an opening that is the smallest and will fit inside the other two bottles. In the middle of the first flower and the second, I cut out a flower out of patterned card stock and cut a circle in the middle so it would nestle inside of the first and second flower. I thought that this added a little color to the flower.

To fill up the mouth of the bottle, I took a large button and wrapped it in coordinating material.

Then I hot glued another button on top of that and added a scrapbooking brad onto the mouth of the bottle to make the center of the flower.

After I wired the flowers to the wreath form, I padded the form with a layer of batting, which I cut into strips and wrapped around the form.

Then I cut a 3 inch panel of bright material and wrapped the form with that. Then I cut another 3 inch panel of alternating material and wrapped that over the first, leaving room so that the underlying material would show through.

I thought it needed a little more color, so I added some ric rack and wrapped that around the edges of the second material.

To make the smaller flowers, I used the smallest flowers that I had left over. I cut out a 5 inch circle of material, followed by a 4 inch and 3 inch circle of contrasting material. Then I put a brad through the circles, attaching them together. After that I put a circle of  hot glue on the back of the circle and pressed it into the middle of the small plastic flower. Then I wrapped a strip of material around the base of the flower and hot glued that on top of the wrapped wreath form.

I attached some strips of material and ribbon together with hot glue to hang the wreath and I was done. 

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