Tuesday, January 25, 2011

Tutorial Tuesday - Valentine's Burlap Wreath

Just like everyone else in blogland these days, I am having a love affair with burlap! It comes in so many fun colors, and the possibilities for what you can do with it seem endless. I found the cutest tutorial from Life on the Ridge Side for a burlap wreath around Christmas time, but unfortunately I already had waaaaay too many wreaths, and not enough places to hang them, haha!

Sooo... I decided to go with the red burlap and added a sweet little felt flower for a simple and easy-to-make Valentine's Day door decoration!

Um... excuse my ugly, ugly door... we rent, but I may just refinish it anyway!! ;)

It's hard to tell from the photo, but I used the sparkly white felt for the flower just to give it a little extra pizzaz! I mean, really can you ever have too much sparkle?? :)

One thing I would suggest to further your success with this project is: Don't be shy with the burlap. Especially if you live in a humid or rainy climate {like me}. After about the first week, and 2-3 days of hard rain, my pretty wreath was drooping to the bottom and I had to add about another yard of burlap to fill things back in. Apparently burlap relaxes!! LOL


and to see her pretty wreath too!!


XOXO


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4 comments:

Susannah said...

This is really cute! I love finding new blogs. I'm following now!

Susannah
www.uvinyl.com

Rachael @ The Little Birdie said...

Thanks Susannah!! I am loving your site! {I'm a total vinyl junkie!!} Now I'm following you too! :)

angie said...

visiting from the csi project ~ love the red burlap!! great job!

Anonymous said...

Really like it a lot - visiting from CSI and followed your blog!

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