DIY Yarn & Christmas Lights Wreath

Lately I have noticed that my eye has been gravitating towards the more non-traditional styles of wreaths!

 I have been experimenting a lot the last few weeks trialing different styles/methods of creating Wreaths for Christmas - Vine, Paper, Mesh, as well as abandoning the typical round design & playing with different shapes!

This Wreath, created using just Recycled paper & Yarn is the first of many DIY Christmas Wreath Tutorials 

I plan to share this year!

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Supplies:

• Old News Papers / Advertisements / Magazines / Whatever you have lying around
• Tape - Of any kind as this will not be visible
• A Hot Glue Gun
• Scissors 
• I spool of Yarn
• Ribbon - Again of any kind
• Coloured Paper - including black
• Festive String / Rope - I used silver

How To:

Creating your Yarn Wrapped Wreath 

You are going to want to begin by creating your basic wreath shape / skeleton using whatever recycled papers you have rounded up! 

You will do this by simply rolling the papers, using tape to secure it into a rough circular shape as seen in the image below.

Note: YOU CAN FIND A MORE DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THIS PROCESS IN A PREVIOUS TUTORIAL  HERE

Once you have your rough shape made you will want to begin wrapping it using ribbon of any kind to secure & stabilize your shape! - This will all be covered in yarn & will not be visible once completed! 

Once you have finished this step begin wrapping your wreath with Yarn & secure using Hot Glue as you Go.

 - I did mine using a Sparkly Red 'FunFur' Yarn - Continue this process until the entire Wreath has been covered as seen in the images below. - mine took just under one spool to complete!

I apologize for the different lighting - the photos were all taken at different times of day.

Creating Christmas Light Detail 

Draw & cut out your Light's out of coloured paper & tops using black as seen in the series of images below!

Once all your pieces have been cut out Glue them into shape & onto which ever string you have set aside to use as your Lights cord, again as seen below!

Now that you have both your Yarn Wreath created & Christmas Lights strung - drape them accorss your wreath & secure at the back using your glue gun. 

Tie a small loop of rope or create a bow out of ribbon to Display & you're Done!

 

I created this Printable of Custom Upcy Christmas Gift Tags to use & share this past weekend at a Christmas Craft Show & have decided to share it here as well! It will be available as a  FREE Printable to all of my amazing followers until Dec 10th 12:00 *Midnight) EST.
I can't thank you all enough for your continued show of support & encouragement in all of my ventures here in the Blog over the past year!

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