I'm Feeling Creative - Ribbon Wreath!

After much inspiration from my big sis, I decided that I needed to make a ribbon wreath for my house. A lot of my friends who have seen it have asked for me to post how to make them, so I am taking these directions from Shannon and sharing them. Please check out her two gorgeous wreaths on her blog. Thank you for giving me an idea of something to do and to occupy my (and Kara's) time!

Here is what you need:

12" styrofoam wreath form (Shannon used a 14", Kara used a 10" on one of hers, it just depends on what you want!)

Straight pins - I bought one big package (750) and probably used about half of them.

Ribbon! - You can use skinny or thick, whatever you want! I used mostly skinny so it took more, Kara used all thick so it didn't take as much, but both were really cute! I bought about 10 yards of 9 different kinds of ribbon, but only used a little over half of that.

Rhinestone pics from the bridal department at Hobby Lobby - So cute!

Ruler

Scissors

Step 1:
Cut the ribbon into about 4.5" strips. This takes quite a while,  Kara had a great idea to use the length of her phone (we have iPhones) to approximate the length.

Step 2:

Take a piece of ribbon and form a loop with each piece. The ends should overlap by about 1/2". Place a straight pin through the ribbon, from the inside out, to hold ends together. If your ribbon is one sided, make sure that your design is on the outside. It should look like this:

Step 3:

Attach the ribbons to the styrofoam form by pushing the pins into it.

I'm a little OCD about things being even, so I started by evenly spacing (somewhat) each ribbon. As it gets fuller you just have to randomly push them in and keep going until you can't see the styrofoam anymore.

Step 4: Once you have gotten it as full as you want it, you can put the rhinestones onto pins and push those into the styrofoam.

Step 5: Finally, add a loop of ribbon to the back (I just used a few pins to hold it in place) so that you can hang it on a door.

DONE! Awesome snow day project :) Thanks Shannon for the inspiration! She added wooden letters to hers which is also really cute! Below are Kara's wreaths (the first is for her mom and the second is for her house!)



Overall I am quite pleased with the results! Very excited to have something fun on my front door for the spring.