It’s time for April’s DIY Challenge. Can you believe that it is already April? Our challenge this month is Grapevine Wreath Inspiration.
I want to give Terrie from Decorate and More with Tip a huge shout out for hosting the DIY Challenge. I love that each month she puts out a fun, creative challenge that makes me stretch my creativity.
Yay, Terrie!
If you are coming here from Through A Vintage Door, Welcome!!!
Now, on to the challenge!
The rules of this months challenge were simple. Take a grapevine wreath, any shape or size, and create something fabulous! No pressure there! lol!
The first thing I did was to determine my color palate. Since I recently painted my front doors black, I thought that I’d stay in the neutral zone. After checking out my craft closet, I came up with these pretty ribbons. Black and white check, a neutral ribbon with a gold beaded trim and raffia.
For greenery, I used some eucalyptus garland that I already had. I simply cut 6 inch sections off of the garland, then hot glued them to the wreath.
Next, I wanted to make a small welcome sign out of wood to put in the middle of my wreath.
One small problem, I didn’t have the correct size of wood. However, I did find several blind slats that we had removed from our living room blinds when we installed them.
The blinds have these notches where the blind strings go. Fortunately for me the middle sections were the perfect size to make a small sign!
Using a small miter saw I cut the excess wood off, using the notches as a guide.
Now that I had my faux wooden sign for my wreath, I needed to put my wording on it. I could have just hand painted welcome on it, but thought that it would look better if I used vinyl. I designed and cut out my welcome using my Silhouette. If you don’t want to hand paint and don’t have a vinyl cutting machine, you could always use a stencil for this part of the project.
Once my Welcome was cut out, I simply applied it to my faux wooden board.
With my sign ready to go, I hot glued it to my grapevine wreath! After that was done, I made a bow from my ribbon and glued it to the wreath also. For the life of me, I thought I took a picture of this step. But, no! Serioysly? For the love!
This is what my wreath looks like finished.
I think its the perfect addition to newly painted front door!
I love how simple and clean it looks, as well as how easy it was to put together. I don’t think my wreath took more than an hour from start to finish to complete. And, while I didn’t intend to do this, I used everything I had on hand. So my wreath cost my nothing!
Next on the hop is Paula from Sew Sassy! Please hop on over and check out her beautiful wreath and when you are done join me in visiting the other talented DIYers.