Hello Spring!

Even though the weather here has been crazy (I swear, Mother Nature needs Prozac or something), I'm trying to welcome spring the "Rosie Way."  I know I said I didn't think I would be able to hop on here or work on anything over the next two days, but I ended up staying home with a terrible sinus headache and slept for most of the day.  Around 1 pm I finally dragged my butt out of bed and decided I couldn't sleep anymore unless I wanted to risk not being able to sleep tonight.  Trying to keep myself occupied, I ventured into my "cave" and finished up a project that I've been working on for over a month.

Spring Wreath

Recipe:

• 10" Foam Wreath Base (got mine from JoAnn's)
• Roll of 2" wide ribbon
• Cricut Cartridge: Mother's Day Bouquet - cut over 150 assorted color flowers at 1 1/2"
• Corsage Pins (as many as there are flowers)
• White ribbon from stash, attached with hot glue
• Mod Podge Glossy Sealer Spray

I did the "fill page" option on my Cricut with 5 different colors of paper and I used every last one of them :-)  I wrapped the foam wreath base with the 2" wide ribbon just incase any was to show thru all the flowers.  I took each flower and curled up the petals and then attached them to the wreath with pins.  Once they were all attached, I took it outside and sprayed the crap out of it with the Mod Podge spray.  I think there's about three coats on there.  Since it's on my front porch, I didn't want it to get ruined by fading or if it got a little wet. 

It wasn't a hard project, just time consuming.  I was being a little OCD about the placement of the flowers and didn't want two next to each other that were the same color.  Lol.   I didn't have enough of the base ribbon (it is green satin) to make the bow, so I used some 1" wide sheer ribbon I had in my stash.  A little hot glue and we were good to go.  For a hanger, I used thick gauge floral wire tripled over itself, and then wrapped in floral tape.  I just hot glued it to the back with A LOT of glue, and it's holding perfectly.

Already had a compliment from my neighbor, so all is good :-)