My Charming St. Patrick's Wreath

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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