Great Ideas — 25 Fall Wreaths!!

Felt Flower Wreath @ Nest of Posies

Brass Thumbtack Wreath @ Madigan Made

 Yarn Wreath with Felt Flowers @ Home Stories A2Z

 Paper Plate Wreath @ Blue Sky Confection

 Ruffled Felt Fall Wreath @ K.I.S.S

How to make a Yarn Wreath @ My Blessed Life

Candy Corn Wreath @ The Cards We Drew

 Striped Burlap Wreath @ Life, Made Interesting

 Back to School Pencil Wreath @ Organize and Decorate Everything

 Fall Coffee Filter Wreath @ Craftberry Bush

 Witch Chevron Wreath @ CraftOManiac

Welcome Wreath @ Miss Lovie

Sweater and Burlap Wreath @ Today is My Someday

Burlap and Felt Flowers @ Quiver Full of Blessings

Halloween Embroidery Hoop Wreath @ The Thriftress

 

Grocery Bag Wreath @ Loo-La-Bee Simplicity

Fall Paper Medallion Wreath @ O. Alouette

Fall Burlap and Rosette Wreath @ The Tanners

MU Wreath @ Life is Better Messy

Alma Mater Wreath @ Vintage Gwen

Fall Felt Wreath @ Lady Anne

Coffee Filter Fall Wreath @ Mary’s Meanderings

Spray Painted Wreath Redo @ Lookie What I Did

Shimmery Leaves Fall Wreath @ Crafts ‘n Coffee

Autumn Fall Wreath @ Homespun With Love

Wow – I am AMAZED at the ideas linked up!!! Seriously, I get recharged every weekends by looking at YOUR ideas!! 

Come link up YOUR ideas and win a $40 sign to Signs by Andrea. 

Have a SUPER Saturday!! 

xoxo

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Halloween Chevron Wreath {tutorial}!!

{{Happy Halloween}}

lol – I know it’s a little early but I just can’t help myself!
I think I’ve ordered every chevron color that is in existence. 

Yes, I
may have a problem. 

But I thought — how cute would it be to make a
Halloween wreath out of THREE of my favorite things — CHEVRON, BAKERS
TWINE and GLITTER???

So that’s what I did. And let me tell you — this is a fast and easy project. And the end result is a whimsical tribute to one of my favorite holidays!!

Here’s how to make one:

  

 1. Supplies — Wreath Form. Fabric cut into 3 inch wide strip, black cardstock, bakers twine, black glitter and coordinating fabric to hang the wreath. 

2. Wrap the wreath form with the chevron fabric. 

3. Hot glue bakers twine onto the wreath. I get my baker’s twine from Twisted Sugar Twine. Pull the twine tight.

4. Cut out bats. I made mine with my Silhouette. But you could punch them out with a punch too. 

5. Glitter the bats. I Mod Podged them and then sprinkled the glitter over the top. 

6. Hot glue the bats to the twine.

7.Hang the wreath with some ribbon, or I hung mine with a couple strips of black and white chevron. 

8. Hang up the wreath. I used 3M Command Hooks. That way if I want to take it down later, there is no hole or damage to my Aqua Pantry Door!

 

So tell me — have you started making Halloween projects? What are YOU making?? I would love to know. I made ANOTHER Halloween Wreath today — with materials all from the Dollar Store. I’ll be sharing that one next week 🙂 It’s kind of a Gothic/Glam Halloween Wreath!

xoxo

{No Biggie}

And speaking of Halloween — have you seen the Haunted Mirrors floating around blogland?? I made one the other day and it inspired me to make a Spooky Mirror round up over at Babble. Check them out – they are SUPER spooky and fun!!

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Summer Wreath and Mantel {tutorial}

Do you go through periods where you are super inspired to do projects and then other periods where you feel burned out and don’t want to do anything?? I do. Yesterday I felt super inspired. And I am an impatient crafter. When the feeling strikes, I dig around and find whatever is in my cupboards to make a project.

I was looking at my mantel and I really wanted to make it look 

“Beachy” and “Summery”.

So I went out in my garage “stash” and found some grapevine wreaths from the Dollar Store. I decided to use the small size. Then I found some black and white pinstripe material. And I crafted up a quick summer wreath with things I had laying around.

This is a 15-minute project. 

Here’s what I did: 

• I cut a long piece of the pinstripe fabric 2 inches wide. 

 

• Then I wrapped it around the grapevine wreath. I wrapped it pretty tightly and overlapped it so that it was pretty cushy with material. 

• I secured the end with my trusty glue gun. 

 

•  Then I took the material and cut a long strip that was 4 inches wide. And I folded it in half and ironed it so it was flat. So now the material is 2 inches wide with a closed end. 

•  I folded the material in pleats, into a flower shape and hot glued in between the pleats. Then I hot glued the flower onto my wreath. 

• I did the same thing to make two smaller flowers, except instead of a folded 2 inch width, I cut a 2 inch section of fabric and then folded and ironed it so that the folded width was 1 inch. 

• Then I glued those two fabric flowers on each side of the bigger flower. 

 

• I covered two big buttons with fabric and attached them to the smaller flowers. 

 

• Then I hot glued a star fish to the bigger flower. 

 

That’s it!! SUPER simple and fast AND inexpensive. 

Then I set about making my mantel more “Summery” and “Beachy”. I got out my glass covered vases and put vintage doorknobs inside of them. 

And I talked my son and neice into spray painted an old frame beachy blue for me. I also took a rope bag that I had kept from Target and “framed” it in between an embroidery hoop. I also did this with some doilies. 

I made a canvas pennant banner that I thought looked kind of beachy. 

I’m not going to show you the whole mantel today though, because I just decided that it needs one more element. 

I have a project in mind that I think will be perfect. I’ll work on it today. You know when you finish a project and it just doesn’t feel complete. That’s how I feel about the mantel. I need to work on that last element.

So until then, here’s my partially finished Summer Mantel 🙂

 Ooooh, I almost forgot… I found some cute little lamps at Home Goods a few weeks ago for my buffet table in there. Aren’t they cute?? 

I think I am going to paint that buffet table — what color do you think I should try??

 I hope you are having a great week!!!  

xoxoxoxo

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Summer Wreath and Mantel {tutorial}

Do you go through periods where you are super inspired to do projects and then other periods where you feel burned out and don’t want to do anything?? I do. Yesterday I felt super inspired. And I am an impatient crafter. When the feeling strikes, I dig around and find whatever is in my cupboards to make a project.

I was looking at my mantel and I really wanted to make it look 

“Beachy” and “Summery”.

So I went out in my garage “stash” and found some grapevine wreaths from the Dollar Store. I decided to use the small size. Then I found some black and white pinstripe material. And I crafted up a quick summer wreath with things I had laying around.

This is a 15-minute project. 

Here’s what I did: 

• I cut a long piece of the pinstripe fabric 2 inches wide. 

 

• Then I wrapped it around the grapevine wreath. I wrapped it pretty tightly and overlapped it so that it was pretty cushy with material. 

• I secured the end with my trusty glue gun. 

 

•  Then I took the material and cut a long strip that was 4 inches wide. And I folded it in half and ironed it so it was flat. So now the material is 2 inches wide with a closed end. 

•  I folded the material in pleats, into a flower shape and hot glued in between the pleats. Then I hot glued the flower onto my wreath. 

• I did the same thing to make two smaller flowers, except instead of a folded 2 inch width, I cut a 2 inch section of fabric and then folded and ironed it so that the folded width was 1 inch. 

• Then I glued those two fabric flowers on each side of the bigger flower. 

 

• I covered two big buttons with fabric and attached them to the smaller flowers. 

 

• Then I hot glued a star fish to the bigger flower. 

 

That’s it!! SUPER simple and fast AND inexpensive. 

Then I set about making my mantel more “Summery” and “Beachy”. I got out my glass covered vases and put vintage doorknobs inside of them. 

And I talked my son and neice into spray painted an old frame beachy blue for me. I also took a rope bag that I had kept from Target and “framed” it in between an embroidery hoop. I also did this with some doilies. 

I made a canvas pennant banner that I thought looked kind of beachy. 

I’m not going to show you the whole mantel today though, because I just decided that it needs one more element. 

I have a project in mind that I think will be perfect. I’ll work on it today. You know when you finish a project and it just doesn’t feel complete. That’s how I feel about the mantel. I need to work on that last element.

So until then, here’s my partially finished Summer Mantel 🙂

 Ooooh, I almost forgot… I found some cute little lamps at Home Goods a few weeks ago for my buffet table in there. Aren’t they cute?? 

I think I am going to paint that buffet table — what color do you think I should try??

 I hope you are having a great week!!!  

xoxoxoxo

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Great Ideas — Fourth of July {Red, White & Blue}

 {Sugar Tot Designs}

 {Funky Vintage Lovely}

{Tales of a Trophy Wife}

 {Hogwash}

 {Craft-O-Maniac}

 

 {First Lady of the House}

 {Positively Splendid}

{Busy Home Adventures}

{Madigan Made}

 {Polka Dots on Parade}

{Pressed Down, Shaken Together}

 {The Crafting Fiend}

 {Miss Lovie}

 {No Biggie}

{The Pretty Bee}

{Leslie’s Life}

{Michelle Paige}

{Our Forever House}

{She’s {Kinda} Crafty}

{My Wonderfully Made}

{Bacon Time with the Hungry Hippo}

{Sassy Sanctuary}

There are more Fourth of July ideas at the Weekend Wrap Up Party AND tons of other great ideas!!!

Come over and be inspired. 

 We would love to see YOUR ideas too!!

Link up and you can win a Personalized Family Canvas {$129 value} from

LILY Gene Prints!! 

Have a wonderful day!!

xoxox

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Great Ideas — Fourth of July {Red, White & Blue}

 {Sugar Tot Designs}

 {Funky Vintage Lovely}

{Tales of a Trophy Wife}

 {Hogwash}

 {Craft-O-Maniac}

 

 {First Lady of the House}

 {Positively Splendid}

{Busy Home Adventures}

{Madigan Made}

 {Polka Dots on Parade}

{Pressed Down, Shaken Together}

 {The Crafting Fiend}

 {Miss Lovie}

 {No Biggie}

{The Pretty Bee}

{Leslie’s Life}

{Michelle Paige}

{Our Forever House}

{She’s {Kinda} Crafty}

{My Wonderfully Made}

{Bacon Time with the Hungry Hippo}

{Sassy Sanctuary}

There are more Fourth of July ideas at the Weekend Wrap Up Party AND tons of other great ideas!!!

Come over and be inspired. 

 We would love to see YOUR ideas too!!

Link up and you can win a Personalized Family Canvas {$129 value} from

LILY Gene Prints!! 

Have a wonderful day!!

xoxox

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Great Ideas — Spring Wreaths {1}

{Natsprat}

{Polka Dot Bungalow}

{The Stories of A2Z}

 

 {A Diamond in the Stuff}

{Jane of All Crafts}

{Kim Castillon}

 {Health, Happiness, Hamstrings}

 {Little Apartment}

 {Momnivore’s Dilemma}

{Loving Every Second}

 {Krafty Kat}

{My Blonde Ambitions}

{My Third True Love}

{That’s My Letter}

{Every Crafty Endeavor}

{A Turtle’s Life for Me}

{Sweet Chicken Little}

{The Magic of Ordinary Things}

 {Copy Cat Crafter}

{Living With Punks}

{Crafts & Sutch}

{One Woman’s Haven}

{Wolfe Pack}

{Apple Loves Orange}

{Did Someone Say Party?}

{Felt So Cute}

{Ring in Spring}

 {Crafty Hair}

{Spare Time Sanity}

{Southern Scraps}

{Poofy Boutique}

{Barb Wired}

{Creations From the Heart}

{Fast Daze}

{Keeping it Simple}

 {2 and Thru}

Wow –

I am loving all of the Spring Wreaths that have been linked up this week!! And there are more wreaths too — come over and see! And link up YOUR ideas so I can spotlight YOU!! And you can also enter to win this fun book: 

Have a Happy Saturday!!! 

What are YOU doing today?? 

We are taking the kids to this movie – so fun!!! 

PS – stay tuned — another Great Ideas Feature post is coming up tonight!!!

AND, 

Austin’s Fundraiser ends tonight. PLEASE Go over to Crystal’s Craft Spot and see how you can help. Please!

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Great Ideas — Spring Wreaths {1}

{Natsprat}

{Polka Dot Bungalow}

{The Stories of A2Z}

 

 {A Diamond in the Stuff}

{Jane of All Crafts}

{Kim Castillon}

 {Health, Happiness, Hamstrings}

 {Little Apartment}

 {Momnivore’s Dilemma}

{Loving Every Second}

 {Krafty Kat}

{My Blonde Ambitions}

{My Third True Love}

{That’s My Letter}

{Every Crafty Endeavor}

{A Turtle’s Life for Me}

{Sweet Chicken Little}

{The Magic of Ordinary Things}

 {Copy Cat Crafter}

{Living With Punks}

{Crafts & Sutch}

{One Woman’s Haven}

{Wolfe Pack}

{Apple Loves Orange}

{Did Someone Say Party?}

{Felt So Cute}

{Ring in Spring}

 {Crafty Hair}

{Spare Time Sanity}

{Southern Scraps}

{Poofy Boutique}

{Barb Wired}

{Creations From the Heart}

{Fast Daze}

{Keeping it Simple}

 {2 and Thru}

Wow –

I am loving all of the Spring Wreaths that have been linked up this week!! And there are more wreaths too — come over and see! And link up YOUR ideas so I can spotlight YOU!! And you can also enter to win this fun book: 

Have a Happy Saturday!!! 

What are YOU doing today?? 

We are taking the kids to this movie – so fun!!! 

PS – stay tuned — another Great Ideas Feature post is coming up tonight!!!

AND, 

Austin’s Fundraiser ends tonight. PLEASE Go over to Crystal’s Craft Spot and see how you can help. Please!

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Guest Project — 10-minute Easter/Spring Wreath!!

First off—thanks so much Jen for the opportunity to share with your readers! What an honor!!

I’m Tracie from Cleverly Inspired. 

I was on the hunt for a fabulous, large, springy wreath. 

 I wanted it to last past Easter—so I chose to make it simple and classic…and springy!

Super easy—and I made it in 10 minutes!

Think spring!

Start with 2 grapevine wreath forms (one is 24inches, one is 14inches…)

Set the small one inside the large one—makes it look nice and full! Take some floral wire and wire the wreaths together in 3 spots.

I found this paper butterfly in the gift wrap section of Hobby Lobby—thinking outside the box right!?! And these soft florals are so springy!

I attached 3 large hydrangea blooms around the butterfly–attach with floral wire. Twisting it tightly around the back of the wreath.

That’s it! Perfect to keep up all spring!

I love it!

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Thanks Tracie — beautiful Spring Wreath. 

and your home is so amazing!!
I am loving Tracie’s blog – 

{$2 Candle holder Transformation}

{$3 Lazy Susan Project}

{Thriftshop Sweater Vase}

{Molten Chocolate Dessert}

Don’t miss out on Tracie’s Great Idea and Projects 


at Cleverly Inspired!!

xoxox

PS — If you follow TT&J on Facebook — you might have seen that Juli is making quilts for Japan. Check out her latest post to find out how you can help!!
Please spread the word on this worthy project!!

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Guest Project — {Bow and Arrow} Valentine Wreath Tutorial

TGIF Tatertots & Jello readers!

I’m Maggie, your guest blogger today from Black and White {Side by Side}.

Black and White {Side by Side} is my growing collection of do-it-yourself home, wedding and party ideas + random other things that catch my eye 🙂 Come by and check it out!

Today, I’m excited to share with you my “Bow and Arrow” Valentine Wreath tutorial. YOU are the crafty ones I admire every weekend at the Tatertots & Jello Weekend Wrap Up Party and I can’t wait to see what you will do with the little bit of inspiration that I hope this tutorial provides 🙂

1. Start by wrapping a 12″ straw heart wreath in yarn. I’m not going to lie, this part takes awhile. Turn on the TV, watch a movie, call a friend! It’s easy, mindless crafting, so do something fun at the same time 🙂 Also, save yourself a step and don’t bother taking off the plastic wrapping around the wreath.

2. Make “Cupid’s Arrow”. Standard 12″ dowel rods available at your local craft store are just a tad short for this project. You will need one full 12″ dowel rod and a small piece of another.

The dowel rods are easy to push through the straw wreath frame. Push the full 12″ one through first. This should cover the bottom left portion of the arrow, through the middle. Cut a small piece of a second dowel to complete the upper right portion of your arrow. Embellish with felt to complete the look you want!

I used hearts for the point of my arrow and a semi circle for the bottom fin.

3. Create a custom banner.I had this “love” vinyl decal laying around, so I applied it directly to a long strip of cream felt. But don’t let me stifle your creative ideas! Individualize your banner with something special for you and your Valentine!

These vinyl decals are not intended for fabric application, but hey – it worked for me! Give it a try!

4. Finishing touches. I snipped the ends of my banner to make prettier tails and then attached it to the wreath with straight sewing pins. Use a hot glue gun to attach stiffened felt to the back of your banner before pinning it on.

Applying stiffened felt, only to the middle of the banner.

Add more of the stiffened felt to give the tails of your banner some structure.

 

Hang with some decorative ribbon and a lovely bow!

Get it? BOW and ARROW wreath? 🙂

The little fin gets lost in the black background, but it shows the rest of the wreath so well, I had to include it!

I hope you’re feeling inspired to make one for your front door 🙂

Have a great weekend and Happy Valentines Day!

P.S. Jen, Thank you so much for allowing me to guest post on your amazing site! Your positive and do-it-yourself attitude inspire me! I feel encouraged everyday when I stop by Tatertots and Jello to see what’s new! Thank you and keep up the great work!!!

xoxo – Maggie

Maggie – that is amazing!!

I love the arrow through the wreath. So cute!! 

I have loved Maggie’s blog Side by Side for so long. You will love all of her awesome projects!! 

{Love this Quick and Easy Valentine Decor}

 {Glittered New Year’s Crowns}

{DIY Fabric Vases}

Be sure to check out all the fun happening at Black and White {Side by Side}!!

xoxo

PS — I am getting organized over at Brooklyn Limestone today!  

PPS – And am sharing a fun organization post over at Brown Paper Packages today!!I’m getting so organized!!!!

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