With Christmas approaching, you want to dress your house in a winter theme. It can be done from the inside, with different types of garlands and decorations, but also from the outside with a beautiful flower wreath hanging on your door. Whether you live in a house or an apartment, do not hesitate to give it a festive air with this decoration. If you want a wreath, you don’t need to buy one as you can design and assemble it yourself. Not only will you save money, you can also reuse materials you have at home and have a pleasant and entertaining time, alone or in company, while you assemble this decoration.
First of all, you should keep in mind that the bulk of Christmas wreaths start from a frame. You can make it from any material you want, but it must be robust. We recommend that you start with a metal ring. It is a ring, with a wire that is at least 3 millimeters thick. It can be the perfect base for your Christmas wreath if you are looking for something simple. They usually sell the circumference already formed – we recommend that it be about 30 centimeters in diameter – but you can always make your own metal ring if you have a roll of wire, some pliers and a little skill:
- Stretch the wire and make a circle
- If you want the structure to be more resistant, you can make a circle with several turns of wire
- Twist the ends of the wire into the circular structure. Make sure this part is not exposed, as it can cause you to get punctured
For all the crowns in this article you will need some materials that we recommend you have on hand. As we have already said, you need a structure, which may well be made of metal ring or other material that you see fit. It is also important that you have some pliers on hand, and a type of strong and resistant adhesive tape to mount the ornaments on the structure. For this, we recommend the florist’s ribbon which, with its green tone, has the added value of being very discreet for most of the wreaths in this article. In addition, it is quite thin, which will allow you to be precise.
twig wreath
If you are looking for a very natural finish on your Christmas wreath, we recommend that you make one from twigs. This decoration, which comes back with a bang every Christmas, can have prohibitive prices if we try to buy the wreath directly in a store. Luckily, it’s pretty cheap to make at home. To do this you just need to go to your nearest park or garden:
- On the ground you may find numerous fallen twigs, which will be used to decorate the structure. Avoid collecting them directly from the trees in your environment, as they can damage the integrity of the plant. Remember that the appearance of the twigs will be decisive for the final result of the wreath. If you want a bare look, choose twigs without leaves attached. If, on the other hand, you want the colors of the leaves to decorate your wreath, choose twigs with leaves still attached and also collect leaves from the ground that are as whole as possible. The deciduous tree leaves will give an autumnal reminiscence to your wreath.
- Once you have enough, go home and wash what you have collected. You can do it in the sink at home, giving them a rinse. Let your materials dry in an area with plenty of natural light.
- With your twigs ready, prepare the bouquets that you will glue on the wreath. Gather several twigs, of various sizes, with florist tape. You should join them only from one end of the twigs. If a branch is too long, cut it with pliers.
- When you have made several bouquets, you can adhere them to your wreath. Attach the bouquets to your wreath frame from the end with the florist’s tape. To do this, join this part with several turns of ribbon.
- Place a second bouquet on your frame, so that it overlaps the base of the first bouquet you glued.
- Repeat the process until the crown is filled.
- Once you’re done, you can try different decorations around the circumference of your wreath, such as holly, loose leaves you’ve collected, or other twigs.
Christmas ornament wreath
You probably have several old Christmas decorations in your house that you don’t use. If this is the case, do not throw them away, as they can be used to make a wreath. Like the twig wreath, this decoration is quite versatile, and requires you to adapt to the materials you have available. Of course, at a minimum we recommend that you have these Christmas decorations on hand:
- One or several garlands: they will serve to give volume to the frame and make it thicker. The more garlands you use, the more voluminous your wreath will be.
- Multiple Christmas Ornaments: We recommend having several dozen Christmas balls on hand as you’ll have plenty of room to fill.
- Be careful with the colors: try to make them from a complementary chromatic range. If you doubt whether the colors are complementary and don’t trust your instinct, consult a color wheel online. Colors facing each other at opposite ends of the wheel are complementary. Another option is that your decoration is different shades of the same color.
- Play with textures: it is possible that your decoration, being the sum of years and years of old ornaments, has several finishes. This works in your favor, since you can combine the different finishes – matte, shiny, translucent, etc. – so that your crown looks the best possible. You can form small groups of the same textures and distribute them around your crown, or you can distribute the different finishes indiscriminately throughout your crown.
To assemble this wreath you must start with the garlands. Similar to the twig wreath, you will need to attach one end of the garland to your hoop with florist tape or whatever you have at home. Wrap the garland around the entire frame. If it falls short or you want the base of your decoration to be thicker, add another garland. Tape the remaining end of the garland to an inconspicuous part of the hoop with more tape.
Finally, you just have to adhere the decorations. Most of them will have a string; use it to fix the decorations.
If you have enough garlands, you can make a wreath with just this Christmas ornament. Crisscross various colors and textures of garland along your metal hoop. You can play with your different types of garlands by twisting them together before gluing them to your wreath, which will give a spiral finish to this decoration. Remember that when adhering the opposite end of the garlands to your wreath you will have to be more careful, since you will not have decorations that will hide the gardener’s tape. So that it is not visible, we recommend that you try to hide these joints by being strategic, and gluing the opposite end of the garland to the back of the wreath, since it will not be visible once you stick it on the door.
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