This blog is long overdue for a craft, and since I’m a total sucker for burlap and rainbow (see our wedding) I made my own version of this Lucky Shamrock St Patty’s wreath I found on Flamingo Toes blog. I love her wreath, but I wanted to play up the rainbow and take out the sewing thing.
My sewing machine is a hot glue gun.
Supplies:
- Foam wreath
- 15 feet of 5 inch burlap
- small gold brads
- Floral wire
- Felt (a square of purple, blue, dark green, light green and kelly green, orange, red)
- Cotton balls
- Scissors
- Hot glue gun
Steps
For the Wreath:
- Wrap foam wreath in 15 ft of burlap, hot glue the beginning and end pieces of your burlap
- Add gold brads, just pressing them into the foam where you see fit
For the Rainbow:
- Cut out 9 triangles of each color of felt, your pieces should look like a snow cone shape and be about 3/4 inch tall. The triangle will hang down like a bunting flag and the top rounded part will fold over the wire.
- Hot glue each of your triangles to its own separate piece of floral wire
For the shamrocks:
- I cut green felt hearts out for each shamrock and then placed a dot of hot glue in the middle of each heat and gave it a little squeeze to make the leaf shape.
- I used a penny to hot glue all the leaves to, because I had to incorporate some “gold” in there somehow.
Assembly of the wreath:
Push about one inch of the floral wire of each color of the bunting flag into the middle right side of the wreath. Keep them about half an inch apart.
And tah dah…its a burlap and felt st pattys wreath!
Rebecca says
I didn’t see this one either. How CUTE!! Good job.
thegingerlifeblog@gmail.com says
Thanks Bachs! Ill have to make one for you!