Pinterest week! {wreaths} - Julie Measures

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Today’s crafts are wreaths. The wreath that I made for the event was this book page paper wreath which was inspired by the wreath I saw here. This is my completed wreath

I started by cutting out the base for my wreath. I used a metal bowl that was almost 16 inches in diameter. I traced around it, and then measured two inches in all the way around. I then used an exacto knife to cut out the inside circle. And there I had my wreath base.

Then it was time to cut out my paper squares. I substituted old book pages for the paper for my wreath. Because of the size of my book I also made all of my paper squares the same size, at 4 inch squares.

I folded my squares into a sort of cone shape (folded into thirds, but on the corner). I also flattened my pieces. I taped my pieces together and then began hot glueing them to the base. Here it is after the first round. I glued these down so the point was about halfway down the base.

As soon as the first round was done I started glueing the second round. These I glued so the points touched the inside of the base.

Then I glued down the third round. These were attached so that the points could fold over and be glued on the back

I then added an extra piece to the wreath. I inserted the paper cones one into another to form a circle piece. I wanted it to go around the inside circle part of the wreath.