Valentine Wreath

 Last week I was contemplating what to do with all my tulle. After making eleven tutus for Christmas gifts, I am a little tutu'd out. Hmmm......all these pinks. AHA! A Valentine wreath! I used a straw form, which I use for the Christmas wreathes I make, for the base.




Christmas wreath transformed for Valentines. Greens went into the compost bin, bow and bell saved for next year, straw form re-used. I cut the tulle in approximately 20 in. strips, I add two strips together (of different shades/colors) and tie onto the wreath form. EASY! I then went around the wreath and cut of the ends that were a little too long....because when I say 20 in., it doesn't mean I measured. Some were 20 inches, some were 25 inches. That's how I do things. I also found that the wreath looked better after I scrunched up the tulle.

I have a bucket full of wooden hearts (leftover scraps from urns my dad makes). My thought was to spray paint these, add "Happy Valentines Day" (one word per each heart) and hang in the middle of the wreath. I spray painted the hearts with a silver "chrome" color (paint leftover from The Boy's Pinewood Derby days.), however my idea didn't work as well in real life as it did in my head so I ditched it. I don't know. The chrome wood just looked too "hard" against the "soft" look of the tulle wreath. Instead I found some felt scrap booking flowers at Hobby Lobby and glued them onto the wreath. I also ditched the pretty ribbon that I was going to use as my wreath hanger. The color didn't seem to jive with the wreath. Instead I took 3-4 strips of tulle in different shades. I knotted it at the top and made a bow. I was going to add more "stuff" but decided that sometimes more isn't better.

The finished product:

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