SUPPLIES & TOOLS:
- 1 Package green Paperie Lane papers
- 1 Package 12mm unfinished wood beads
- 1 package 16mm unfinished wood beads
- 1 Bottle acrylic paint - cranberry
- 1 Empty cardboard box
- Hot glue gun and glue sticks
- 8" art canvas or 8" piece of cardboard square
- X-Acto® knife
- Metal ruler
- Cricut® machine
DIRECTIONS:
- Select boxwood leaves, holly leaves and winter sprigs from the Cricut® library.
- Layout the leaves in Design Space to be about 3" in length.
- You will need about 20 leaves of each design in different shades of green paper.
- Take the cranberry acrylic paint and dilute it slightly. Pour the paint into the bottom of a cardboard box. Drop the wood beads into the box and roll them around totally covering them with cranberry paint. Let them dry.
- Take the artist canvas and rip off the canvas so that you have a clean wooden frame. Or, use the X-Acto® knife and cut out a 2" wide square leaving the middle open.
- Starting from the top right, hot glue the leaves onto the wreath. Lay them in a descending pattern covering the frame. Mix up the leaves as you hot glue them onto the frame. When you get to a corner, turn the frame and hot glue leaves again in a descending layout toward you. Continue this until you have completely covered the frame.
- Hot glue the bead berries on one corner of the wreath or use a scattered look.
Craft Hack Tips and Tricks:
- Try not to glue the leaves in a pattern but make them appear more random in your selection.
Rated 2 out of
5
by
Debi from
Need to support crafters without Cricut access
This is a lovely project, but without a Cricut machine and access to its design library, this is unusable. Surely you could provide patterns in PDF format for cut out without a machine. Yes, it's more tedious, but not insurmountable!
Date published: 2019-11-28