Whip up a six-step Spring Wreath

Welcome in the new season with this blooming lovely design that’s sure to brighten any room

With flowers made from crêpe paper in dreamy pastel shades, this sweet project is perfect for an afternoon's crafting. The different sizes of petals and the high elasticity of crêpe paper enable you to create realistic flowers with great dimension.

Kit List

◆ Sizzix Thinlits Spring Bloom die set By Jennifer Ogborn (to purchase this head to createandcraft.com and type in product code 459449)

◆ Sizzix Fold & Form tool (639070)

◆ Sizzix glue gun (586714)

◆ Sizzix crêpe paper

◆ Polystyrene wreath form, 10"

◆ Twine

◆ Burlap ribbon, cream

◆ Large wooden beads

Spring wreath

1 Cover the polystyrene wreath with burlap ribbon, using hot glue to secure it at the back as you wind. Tie a piece of twine around the top of the wreath so it can be hung [1]

Elegant palette

2

Die cut the various petal shapes from your chosen colours of crêpe paper. We used 10-12 large petals, 8-10 medium petals, 6-8 small petals and 1-2 flower bases to create leaves [2]

3

Use a scrap of crêpe paper and a glue gun to cover a bead. We used crêpe paper the same colour as the petals for these flower centres, but you could use yellow instead.

4

Stretch and shape the petals with your fingers and the Fold & Form tool. We curved the inner petals around the bead, then the larger outer petals were curved outwards [3]. Once all the petals are shaped, start adhering the smallest to the bottom of the bead with the glue gun, continuing through the petal sizes to create a full flower shape.

5 Repeat to make eight flowers, then adhere the green bases to look like leaves – snip them in half as only part will show.

6 Place the flowers around the wreath to check the spacing before attaching with hot glue so you don’t end up with a gap that’s too small to fit a flower in [4].