Fall in in the air! Make a cute fall flower leaf for your door!
What you will need:
Felt (Got ours on sale 4/$1 at Joann's)
Styrofoam Circle Thingy (aka a wreath base)
Sharpie
Hot Glue or Fabric Glue (Hot Glue=better & cheaper)
Cardboard
Scissors
First, you need to cut out these little cardboard circles that will be the base of the flowers. You can make different sizes like we did if you want different sized flowers.
Then, create cardboard square stencils and use them to trace like a million and fourteen squares onto the felt. We made large, medium and small ones so that we would have different sized leaves.
Next, you need to cut the squares into little leaf like shapes. See the picture below for examples.
Credit: Megan Reardon
When you get them cut like leaves, place a dot of glue at the bottom and fold the two corners to where they meet in the middle so they look like flower petals.
Glue the flow petals to your cardboard base. Place the larger petals on the outer layer and smaller petals on the inside.
We made the little swirly thing in the middle of the flower in the top picture by using a strip of felt and just rolling it up and hot gluing it together....TA DA!
Okay, now for the wreath base. Basically all we did was use out extra strips of felt and wrap them around the styrofoam base. Like this....
And then when you are done it will look like this...
Now comes the fun part! Arrange all your little flowers however you want them and then just throw some hot glue on the back and stick 'em on! (Hot Glue is one of our favorite things if you haven't noticed)
When you are finished, you will have a beautiful fall wreath that you will not want to take down (not looking forward to winter so much anymore...)
And this is it hanging on our door! Obviously everyone on our floor is jealous.
In Caitlin's words, "this wreath takes FALL-eva" ...but it is so worth it! How cute.
Happy Crafting!
