By Ashley Hinker

Need a new fall wreath but don’t want to shell out too much money for changing seasons decor? The answer is simple: create your own! It is less expensive than buying a pre-made wreath and can be adjusted to your own taste. I made this wreath for under $10 dollars and the finished product made a great addition to my fall decorations.

What you’ll need to begin your project is:

• 1 Grapevine wreath
• 3-4 squares of felt in various fall colors (red, brown, yellow, orange)
• Hot glue gun and glue sticks
• Bag of glitter leaves, style of your choice
• Double-sided tape
• Scissors
• Various fall berries  (I used fake leaves and berries purchased from a hobby store to prolong the life of the wreath.)

To start, get your hot glue gun warming while you start cutting out your spirals for the rosettes.  On a piece of felt, using a pencil or marker, start drawing a spiral that you will roll up to be a rosette like the one pictured.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

When you have your spirals drawn, begin cutting them out. The final cut out should look like:

 

 

 

 

 

Starting on the outside of the spiral, begin tightly rolling the felt to the inside of the spiral. When you get to the inside end of your cutout, tuck the curled end under the rosette and secure it with either the double-sided tape or hot glue. The end result will look like:

 

 

 

 

 

For the berries, I bought stemmed berries from a craft store and completely removed the leaves and berries from the stems. They should slide right off the stem as a whole. I don’t suggest trying to cut the stems themselves because they are supported with a strong wire that will destroy your scissors. I know this from experience! After taking all of the leaves and berries off of the stems, I used the open leaves to place my rosettes in. I glued the rosettes in the leaf bundle and set them aside until it is wreath assembly time.

 

 

 

 

Because fall is all about changing colors, I wanted to make multi-colored rosettes. This takes a little bit more time compared to one rosette cut-out, but the end result is worth it! I started drawing the inside spiral design on one color of felt. I only did one or two circles of the spiral then cut it out. I then took the first cut out and placed it on another color of felt to act as my starting point for the second color. After drawing more spirals on the second color, I cut it out, aligned the two cutouts and then secured them together with the double-sided tape.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

After you have as many rosettes as you would like on the wreath, begin the assembly! Start grouping the flowers the way you would like them on the wreath and secure them with the hot glue. I glued the glitter leaves onto the bottom of the rosettes to fill some empty space between flowers. Once my rosettes were all arranged and glued down, I took the stemmed berries and placed the stems in grapevines of the wreath. They should hold without glue since the stems will be tightly held by the vines.

Now you have a new, gorgeous wreath to hang on your door! Nobody will believe you didn’t pay top dollar for it at a home decor store!