It's March 1st tomorrow!!!
Can you believe that February is already over??
I'm excited because March means spring break...and my bday :)
So it's always a fun month.
What are you most excited about for spring???
I love St Patricks Day because it's the first holiday that really starts bring spring colors in.
I love seeing fresh green everywhere and since green isn't usually in my colors, I love getting the chance to play with it!!
I'm not big on spreading 'luck' everywhere so I racked my brain trying to come up with other words that could be used for St Pattys...
and I guess you'll have to wait a sec to see what I chose :)
I decided to go with a different wreath base this time around because I had a fun grapevine wreath kicking it in my garage from Goodwill.
A mere .50 cents.
Love a good steal!
And amazingly enough, it didn't even have anything hideous to pull off of it
(which is usually the case)
It was just in plain, somewhat shabby, form.
I trimmed him up a bit and then got out a ton of supplies.
Does anyone else craft like this?
I usually get out pretty much anything I could see myself using and then get to work.
I use probably about a 1/4 of what I get out...but I can see everything and know what works and what doesn't.
It's my little process :)
I ended up using just a few things to make my flowers and embellishements:
*Green T-shirt
*Sheet Music
*Twill ribbon
*Wooden Discks
*Scrapbook Paper
*Green printed Ribbon
*Buttons
I used the t-shirt, music sheets and scrapbook paper to make my chunky four-leaf clovers.
The covered circles were some wooden discs I had that I wrapped the twill ribbon around and hot glued.
I had fun making different flowers and clovers and then hot-glued them to the wreath.
Since the grapevine wreath was more of an oval shape, I wanted to add something to the top too.
Cue in my St Patty's word I wanted to put on there.
I finally decided on 'Charmed' because I just kinda of adore that word :)
Doesn't it fit perfectly?
I made a fun little pennant banner out of scrapbook paper and then used some chipboard letters that I inked black to spell out 'charmed'.
The twill ribbon worked perfectly to string the little mini banner.
Aren't mini banners the cutest?
I 'm in love with all the textures and colors of green :)
Though these grapevine wreaths are finicky little creatures.
I don't think they're big fans of having things hot-glued to them :)
I had to work with it a bit to get all the pieces to fit nicely and not just fall off the crazy vines.
I ended up looping the ribbon on the banner through the vine and then hotgluing the ends together.
I think he turned out charming, don't you?
Have you made any fun St Patty's day projects recently?
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