Spring 2019 Heart Wreath!

I bought heart shaped wire wreaths at Dollar Tree during Valentines and knew from the start my spring 2019 wreath was going to be this. So I went to YouTube to see what some had did with these to get inspiration. I found someone who made this but they did a farmhouse one with white or cream roses but I knew I wanted to use the pastel purples and pinks and yellows as I love to use lots of colors.

So the lady took nautical rope and hot glued it around the center of the wreath all the way but since our door has a peep hole any wreath I make I try and not obstruct the peep hole so I can still see out but if you have a window near the door or can see out otherwise then you can just keep going and fill in the whole center section with nautical rope. I used one whole set of nautical rope to get what I did, so a tiny portion of another set of rope would be needed to finish the center section if you choose to.

I’m used to using grapevine wreaths and so I came to the challenge of wire wreaths, lol. The nautical rope was interesting it didn’t glue neatly as I saw with the one YouTube ladies but once the roses are on it’s masked in a way. So the next challenge was getting the flowers to glue to each other and the wreath and oh boy it is not easy or least not for me it wasn’t. I did the pink and purple roses as my main flowers with accents of yellow. The purple and pink and yellow all had tips in a white color to bring it all together, I think they were Queen Anne Roses. So I did it section by section but soon learned I needed more roses so in all I bought quite a few bouquets of flowers but didn’t wind up using them all but I’m glad I got them in case. I think I had like 3 or 4 bouquets left for future crafts.

As I was gluing I used quite a bit of hot glue as well because I was gluing them to each other and the wire wreath and reinforcing with more glue so the back of the wreath is a bit of a mess with glue but the front is beautiful and I love the way it looks. Now to give a pop of green I took some discarded leaves and cut them out and glued them to sections that had holes where roses wouldn’t fit but leaves would and also I added them to make it look more natural and the effect paid off.

I love this wreath and I am inspired to do future wreaths with wire wreaths instead of wooden ones but I’ll be prepared to use lots of glue lol!  

• Heart Shaped Wire Wreath- $1 at Dollar Tree during Valentines 
• Nautical Rope- $1 at Dollar Tree
• Purple Roses- $1 per bouquet at Dollar Tree and all together I bought 4-6 bouquets
• Pink Roses- $1 per bouquet at Dollar Tree and all together I bought 8-9 bouquets
• Yellow Roses- $1 per bouquet at Dollar Tree and all together I bought 3 bouquets