Wreath Addiction

It's that time again! I was getting bored walking into the house looking at this wreath so I made a new one. This time using my favorite colors, purple and green. And I luurve it! These pictures don't do it justice.

I used my go to standards for making wreaths on the cheap,  the base, a dollar store Styrofoam wreath covered with Spanish moss again from the dollar store and floral pins to hold the moss in place.

Once the wreath form is totally covered with the moss, now start adding things to pretty it up. On my last trip to Micheal's I found a bag of fun decorative moss in shades of green and burgundy/purple (not sure what to call that color) I also found a garland of wispy purple berries. All which equaled inspiration for my new wreath. The garland is affixed to the back of the wreath form using floral pins. This made the wreath a little larger and added a different texture to the wreath. Can't wait to hang it on the front door in the morning.

Spring Moss Wreath

My name is Emily and I love wreaths, I admit it. Some people have shoe addictions, I think I have a wreath addiction. I love changing the wreaths on my front doors. Have you priced wreaths, they can be spendy but not this baby, this baby was made with things found at the dollar tree which means I made this wreath for about $5.00, not to bad huh.

For this wreath, I used a foam wreath form (say that three times fast) and covered it using some Spanish moss securing it to the wreath form using some floral pins.

I then added a little bit of reindeer moss to add some color. The wreath at this stage is very pretty and could easily be left as is but I couldn't leave well enough alone.

I decided I wanted to spruce it up some so I added a tiny nest with robin's eggs and some tiny blue bobbles. A perfect little spring wreath on a perfectly red door!

Front Door Decor

I love the look of a wreath on a front door, or wreaths as in our case, I just think they are so inviting. I however am very cheap (I prefer frugal but most people call me cheap) and hate the cost attached to most wreaths so what's a girl to do but create her own. Can you guess what these are made of?

Well if you guessed brown paper lunch sacks and a couple of pieces of scrapbook paper and a Styrofoam wreath form, you would be correct.  In total, each of these wreaths probably cost me about $1.25, I got the wreath form from the Dollar tree for $1.00 and I had the scrapbook paper in my stash. Off the subject but, have you ever been in the dollar store and heard someone ask how much something is? It makes me laugh every time.

The base of the wreath is made by cutting out circles from brown paper lunch sacks that are scrunched up around a pencil and glued around a wreath form. I found the tutorial on another blog called MaryJanes & Galoshes. I only covered the front half of my wreath since the back would be against the door and no one would see.  For the flowers, I again used me favorite crafting tool that my cute hubby bought me awhile back and one I will mention a lot here because it is so great, it is called the Silhouette Craft Cutter (and no, I am not getting paid for mentioning this product, I just love, love, love, it.) Basically my Silhouette cut out the individual layers of flowers and then I glued, smooshed and rolled the layers until I liked how they looked. Not to bad looking for paper huh?

I added the little welcome greeting to the door also but I feel like my other door looks naked now. So my question to you is what should I do, leave it plan or add something to the other door. My daughter thinks I should add something like, "to our home" I just am not sure, what do you think? Use your Em-agination and come up with another saying to help me out.