Silk flower wreaths and other silk flower arrangements

[katlnhats]

Hi,

I've been doing this for a long time and it's easy and fun. Grapevine wreaths aren't that expensive and they make a beautiful door ornament, or wall ornament.
Silk flowers can be purchased (in bunches), for a dollar at your local dollar store. Take wire cutters and remove the flowers leaving some of the stem intact. Choose colors for each season, or if inside, colors that match your room. Weave the stem between the grapevine in the wreaths and just keep going till it looks right to you.
These are also really good for craft fairs; especially around the holidays - they sell like crazy, as people buy them for their homes and also for gifts.
You can also do them in (instead of grapevine), wicker, straw and anything else you can think of. Forms come in hearts, wreaths and various other things that all will look different in your home or at a craft fair.


Besides, it's fun!

Kat

[katlnhats]

Hi,

What you need:

1 Silk flower wreath, any size, usually department stores like W-mart have them in their craft department.

2. Silk flowers, don't buy the individual ones, buy the bunches - they're much less money and you can usually get a bunch w/6-7 flowers on it for $1.00 at either W-Mart or a Dollar Store - find colors you like and flo wers that are about the same size. Get about a half dozen bunches or so, less if you have a small wreath.

3. Wire snips, or anything that'll cut the stems of the flowers off, as they're wired.

Directions:

Cut your stems with the cutters, making it so that each bunch has been cut to separate into individual flowers - or leaves. Leave enough of a stem to that you can bend the wire into the grapevine wreath and it will stay for you, about 6", though more won't hurt.
Weave your flowers into the grapevines -- bending the stems as you go. Arrange your colors so that they look the way you like them and also so that they wreath is fairly full.
If you're doing a good-sized wreath, get a bunch or two of large pretty flowers and also medium and small, in compatible colors for what you like, as the larger ones will be the focal points of the wreath and the other flowers will enhance each other.
I've priced these, done, in craft stores and also sold them in craft shows for a lot less than the craft stores get - they're priced, around here, from $50.00-$125.00, and you can make them for about $10.00, sometimes under.

Easy and fun

Kat

[kirsey2121]

Hi Kat!! Can you try to put up some pictures of the ones you've made and possibly a step by step pictoral on what you did...

[katlnhats]

Originally Posted by kirsey2121

Hi Kat!! Can you try to put up some pictures of the ones you've made and possibly a step by step pictoral on what you did...

Hi,

I can't get pictures on here, since I don't have a camera or a way of getting them "on" here anymore! Let me think.....I'll try to come up with something. They also, in the stores, have grapevine hearts (come out really pretty) and various other shapes. So you're really unlimited on what you can make.
A decorated wreath like that around the holidays, is good to give-ahead of time so the person can hang it up and enjoy it right through New Years

Hugs,
Kat

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