I made this coffee filter wreath a couple of years back and although I have loved it, it was time for a change. My mom requested a coffee filter wreath for her bedroom and I thought there was no time like the present to give mine up and make something new and fabulous for my gallery stairwell. I found this brass ring at our local dollar store for $3.50 and I have a massive stockpile of fake flowers that I have picked up over the last few years (all of the ones I used in this wreath came from Value Village, score!!) So this ended up being an extremely inexpensive and quick wreath to make but I love the look it provides to our stairwell. Spring appears to be firmly here, so I’m all about the florals at the moment!
They have these brass rings in lots of different sizes at the dollar store, and I still have to come up with uses for some of the smaller ones but the large one worked really well for this wreath. I just made sure to put the leaves and flowers over the seam where the ring was joined.
I started by hot-gluing some leaves onto the wreath. I knew I wanted lots of the brass ring to show, so I chose to only cover about 1/3 of it with the leaves/flowers. A new glue gun is one of the things on my shopping list, I have 2 of these, and they are terrible. They get so hot that I have to unplug them every 10 minutes for a while otherwise they actual burn the glue. I am constantly burning myself with this glue gun, but I never remember to buy a new one when i’m out and about so I guess it’s better than nothing.
After I had enough leaves I glued a couple of larger flowers. I love these flowers, they have burlap in them and are just perfectly rustic enough for me.
And, of course, I had to add some pink flowers. It just wouldn’t be something I made if it didn’t have pink in it. But I kept it rustic looking with some dusty pink flowers instead of something bright.
Using a glue gun is so fast but it always leaves the little glue strings behind. Over the years, I have tried several methods to get rid of them, someone once told me that if I kept the glue sticks in the freezer it wouldn’t do that, but I don’t find that very convenient so I just run my blow dryer on a hot setting over the whole things and they shrink right up! So quick and easy!
I had intended to make an easter wreath today for our front door but I had already used all of my wreath forms and I didn’t think to pick one up when I was at the store, so instead, I made this floral wallhanging. Easter wreath will have to be Friday’s project…stay tuned!