It's Springtime!

I absolutely love Spring. Spring decorations just brighten my day. Especially Easter decorations! I think I can blame my Mimi for this. She has always decorated her house for Easter and it is one of the highlights of spring when I am able to visit her and see all of her adorable touches around the house. She almost didn't decorate last year, so I had to go over there and make sure she didn't slack off :)

To go along with my love for Spring decorations, I have come to love making wreaths! There are so many easy ways to make a wreath that I never even thought about. Thankfully, Pinterest has helped me find several wonderful craft blogs that have wonderful tutorials on how to make easy, yet adorable, wreaths for all seasons.

Today I made a spring wreath to go our front door! I haven't done well with keeping a wreath on the door since Christmas because we have been so busy, but I finally had time today to make our door look a little Springy!

The wreath I made today was inspired by a fall wreath that I found on Linda's Blog. She has some very helpful tutorials on how to make simple wreaths and other crafts! The neat thing about this wreath is that it is interchangeable. The flowers clip on and off so that you can change them out for each season while still using the same wreath! I actually used two of her tutorials to help me out today and you can find those here and here. Using both of them helped me understand a few of the steps that I was a little hesitant on!

I took a few pictures of the process so that I could provide a few helpful hints if you want to try this wreath too!

Materials Needed:

Any type of wreath form you would like

1/2 yard of burlap {Here is a very helpful hint on how to cut burlap in a straight line!}

Three different colors of felt {Linda used burlap for her fall wreath, but I wanted to have spring colors for this one, so I used felt! I works just as well!}

Three dome craft buttons

A small amount of fabric to cover your buttons, or you could paint them

3 Alligator clips

Hot glue gun

See the three extra burlap loops with the alligator clips?? I love that the flowers can be changed and I can still use the same wreath body! So clever!

Linda has a picture of a template on her blog for the petal pieces, so I just free-handed these and cut them out. You will need a small, medium, and large petal template.

To make it easy, I pinned each template to the felt, cut around it, and then removed the template to do the next petal!

Your flowers will need 6 petals in all. I did 3 small and 3 medium petals for the blue and pink flowers. Then, I did 3 medium and 2 large petals for the yellow flower to make it stand out a little!

The petals are so much easier to make than they look! This is what they look like after they have been glued together, but before the buttons are put on! I think I am going to attempt to make some headbands for my niece using these flower designs. They are so easy to make and would be so cute with a stone in the center on a headband!

I did not realize how easy it was to wrap buttons with fabric! It took about 2 minutes to wrap all three buttons with fabric. Then, I hot glued the buttons onto the flowers and the flowers onto the alligator clips. All I had to do to finish was clip the flowers onto the burlap strips!

I know this wasn't a step-by-step tutorial, but I had to give Linda all the credit for this one! I am excited about making different flowers and decor to clip onto this wreath in the future!