28 June 2020

Summer Floral Wreath

Bring the summer inside with this floral wreath made from card


The sun had come back out this week which inspired me to make this cheerful wreath. It's made from cardstock with dies and punches. It will take you a little while to make this one but you can spend a few evenings cutting out the parts whilst watching your favourite tv program.
Green leaves with pink flower wreath made form card


My finished wreath is about 23 cm in diameter but you could make it larger or smaller and use any embellishments you like. I nearly added some stamped and die cut butterflies to mine and also thought how pretty it would look at Easter with pastel coloured eggs instead of the flowers. If you made them smaller, they could go on the front of a greetings card or you could use them to decorate a box or maybe hang them on your Christmas tree.

Follow the below link to find out how my wreath was made



You will need
  • 5 sheets of A4 green card in various shades
  • 3 sheets of A4 pink card in various shades
  • 3 leaf dies (my dies were about 5 . 5 cm long and I bought them cheaply at The Range)
  • 3 flower dies (the largest flower die I used was 2 . 5cm wide bought from The Range)
  • 30cm length of ribbon
  • Compass (you could use nesting circular dies or something round from your cupboard like plates)
  • Some small pink gems
  • Shaping tool and sponge mat
  • Stapler and some glue
  • Die cutting machine and scissors

  1. Set your compass legs to 10 cm apart and draw two circles on pieces of green card. The circles will be 20 cm in diameter. (Make sure to really mark the centre as you will need to reposition the compass to draw another circle within)

  2. Change the compass so there is only 7cm between the compass legs, reposition the point of the compass back in to the centre hole and draw a smaller circle within the larger circles you drew earlier
    20 cm circle drawn onto green card with a 14cm circle within

  3. Cut out the large circles. Then cut out the inner circle. (I find the best way to do this is put your card circles on the floor and stab the tip of your scissors into the centre of the circle - this gives you a starting point and the card doesn't crease as much because the carpet is soft)
    Push point of scissors through centre circle to be able to cut out the centre circle

    Put scissors in the hole made then cut upto inner circle

    by cutting the inner and outer circles you get two green hoops

  4. Make a loop with your length of ribbon and staple it to the top of one of the hoops - this will be your hanging loop.
    staple a hanging hoop of ribbon to the top of one of the hoops

  5. Glue the other green hoop ontop, encasing the ribbon between the two and matching up the circle the best you can. (It doesn't matter if your cutting is a little off and the circles don't quite line up - they will be covered by foliage and flowers later on)
    Glue the other hoop ontop encasing the ribbon

  6. Die cut 3 different types of leaves in 3 different shades of green - you will need quite a lot of leaves to cover the hoops.
    Cut lots of leaf shapes out of 3 shade of green card

  7. Now we are going to start creating the wreath. If you are like me, I like to have symmetry and I can't just randomly place things as I feel doesn't look right. Just bear with the process, it may look a little messy as we go along but by the time you add the flowers you will have a pretty natural looking wreath. I had a solid leaf, a skeleton leaf and a sprig. I first of all covered up as much as I could of the green hoop with the solid leaves. Lay them on the ring until you are happy with the colours and positioning then glue them in place. Try and lay them in different directions so it looks a little more natural. I also cut the stems off before I stuck them down.
    Glue one set of leaves to the front of the hoop to cover it as much as you can

  8. Next I attached the skeleton leaves. I placed them down first to move them about until I was happy with the positioning and then I used a little bit of glue near the base of each leaf to stick it down. Once again I cut off the stem before gluing it down.
    Glue skeleton type leaf shape onto the hoop, randomly spaced

  9. I next attached the sprigs, gluing them just at the base of the stem. This makes them spring up a little and look more 3d
    Glue sprig type leaf randomly onto the hoop

  10. Using 3 flower dies and 3 different shades of pink card, die cut lots of flowers.

  11. Use a shaping tool and sponge mat to gently shape each of the flowers.
    Use a ball end shape tool to shape the flowers

  12. For each one of the larger flowers, glue a smaller flower to it's centre.
    Layer pink flowers with smaller flower into the centre of larger flowers. Mix the colours up

  13. Place the flowers onto your wreath and move them about until you are happy with their positioning. I placed my larger flowers first, so they covered any gaps left by the leaves. Then dotted in between with the smaller flowers. Once you are happy with them, glue them in place with a small dab of glue.
    Randomly glue the flowers onto the wreath

  14. I then glued some small pink crystals to the centres of the smaller flowers.
    Glue crystals into the centres of the small pink flowers


Once it's all completely dried, hang up your wreath, stand back and admire your beautiful creation.
Summer wreath hanging on the front door
I'm rather proud of myself with this one as I really am not very good at random placing. In the end, I tried not to think too much about it and just placed leaves and flowers without looking at what colours, sizes they were. Although - a little secret - I did have to move a couple of bright pink flowers as they were too close to other bright pink flowers! But only a couple :)

I hope you enjoyed this project. It was nice to spend some time just cutting and sticking. This project could so easily be enlarged or reduced in size just by adjusting the size of leaves and flowers. It can also be adapted for different occasions or colour palettes.
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