Burlap Wreath

Today I'm excited to share with you a burlap/flower wreath I made to hang on my door. It was extremly quick and easy. I used a foam wreath for the base, i cut two long strips of burlap, fabric hextagons, felt and a glue gun of course!
I started by cutting the strips of burlap using my Simplicity Rotary Cutter. My hubs got it for me and I'm not sure if he knew what he got but it is awesome! It cuts fabric and paper at different sizes all with a push on a foot pedal. The result is always straight and fast!

Simplicity Rotary Cutter

After I had cut my strips ( I just eyeballed how long I thought they needed to be to cover the entire wreath). I hot glued one end and began wrapping it around the wreath gluing it periodically.

After that was done I began to work on the fabric flowers. I had recently purchased a pack of coordinating hexagon fabric scraps from Joann Fabrics and used those. I have made these same flowers by using circle cut outs of fabric in all the same size. I used 8 hexagons per flower and glued them to a felt circle. I folded each hexagon into a triangle, then folded it into another triangle and glued the point to the felt.

The bottom layer

The finished flower!

After I made six different flowers I glued them onto the wreath, added a ribbon for hanging and was done! It took about 30mins. start to finish!

Hope you enjoyed the tutorial, Have an awesome day!

Barn Wood Sign

Hi Everyone! I wanted share a quick post with you today and show you a barnwood sign I made. The hubby has been ripping apart our basement and found a lot of great barnwood, which of course he knew to save for me! I quickly made this sign by picking 8 boards that were roughly the same size and laid them out to my liking. I then took a two pieces of scrap wood and screwed them onto the back side. I mixed Minwax Sedona Red stain with water (half and half) and very lightly brushed it on, then wiped off the excess with a dry rag. I then painted on the letters and lightly sanded the whole piece to give it a rustic look. I hung it up and was done!



I'm sorry for the less than exciting pictures, I'm still working on learning to edit them!


Have a great day!