How to make a grapevine or willow wreath with sola wood flowers

Do you realize that every year, sharks get their week? I felt it was about time that we makers devoted a whole week to making wreaths! We'll go with it even if it's a little odd and silly—that's pretty much my entire feel.

The willow/grapevine wreath is the focus of Day 1 of Wreath Week!

What You'll Need:

What I utilized is as follows:

  • Dollar Tree's 12" willow wreath (you may use these instructions for any size willow wreath). They are also suitable for grapevine wreaths of any size!
  • For this wreath, sola wood flowers (hydrangeas, magnolias, and munchkins from Oh You're Lovely)
  • foliage or filler
  • Warm adhesive

Create Your Greenery Base!

I spray-painted the willow wreath before I got started. Even with the same wreath shape, this optional step can help create highly diverse wreaths!

Choose your most significant, flattest leaves to start your greenery base, then indicate the edges by planting greenery where you want it to terminate. I annotated the side's widest point, bottom edge, and top edge. I hot-glued the end of the foliage piece into the wreath form once I was satisfied with how it looked.

Then, cover that area with the same foliage. You will be filling up the spaces with more greenery and then flowers, so you don't have to worry about covering everything! Hot glue can be applied as you go along, or you can arrange everything first and then glue when you're satisfied.

When your foliage is arranged correctly, it's time to use your longest, wispiest foliage as filler! They can be a touch wild and untamed, but the layers that follow will help tame them, so I do this step second.

Add Flowers and Large or Colorful Fillers

Step 1: Start with the most enormous blossoms. This guarantees space for them and helps make little spaces for little blooms and brightly colored or oversized fillers.

I always start considering flower placement close to my desired "center" or focal point.

Once they are at the desired location, you can glue them there or add them as you add them!

Step 2: Include the most enormous bunches of filler. It's a good idea to include these now because they can also take up a fair bit of space.

Step 3: Include petite flowers. From my center point, I usually like to fan out in the greatest to most diminutive direction.

Step 4: Step back and assess if there are any holes that need to be filled. If so, you're done!

Bonus Wreath!

I painted a smaller willow wreath off-white as I was getting ready for the Dollar Tree wreaths. Then, for no apparent reason, I had to construct another wreath! Here's an additional wreath that demonstrates the striking differences that may be achieved by experimenting with spray paint and different flower/greenery color schemes!