Valentine Wreath

It is the month we celebrate LOVE! Love is in the air. Love is in the flowers. Love is in the chocolate! Chocolate always says, “I love you!”

I saw this wreath on Pinterest and thought I would make one to decorate my door with. I will have to use it inside because it is so light the slightest wind will blow it off the door, and then Mojo will think he has a new chew toy.

He would not feel the love if he chewed up my wreath!

God gave us a Valentine’s.

Isn’t that great!!!

You could make this wreath with either scrape material or paper. I used scrape material, so I will give you the directions for that. If you use scrape paper just use mod podge to glue it onto the cardboard.

Whatcha Need

• Some scrape material or paper
• Heat bond (if using material) or mod podge (if using paper)
• Hot glue gun and glue sticks
• scissors
• cardboard (any thin cardboard will do. I used a tissue box, cake mix box and a white gift box.
• pencil
• glue
• glitter
• ribbon

How To Put It Together

Make heart patterns out of scratch paper. I made three different sizes.

Apply Heat Bond to material following the labels directions.

Trace the hearts onto the Heat Bond the cut out hearts.

Sorry this is blurry.

Lay the cut out hearts on the cardboard. I positioned mine down before I took the paper off the back to see how many I could get on the box.

I followed the directions on the Heat Bond to stick the hearts to the box. They are the same directions as for fabric. Cut the hearts out.

I really cheated this next step. We happened to have had pizza (frozen) for dinner the night before, so I used the circle piece that came under the pizza. I laid a large plate, as best I could, in the middle of the cardboard and traced it. Then I cut out the center circle to make the wreath. If you don’t have a pizza circle, you can use a large piece of cardboard and popcorn bowl and large plate to make your circle. It there is a bend in the cardboard, be sure to brace it with duck tape so it won’t bend and break the hearts off the finished wreath.

I laid the largest hearts on the circle first. When I like the way they looked I glued them down.

Then I positioned the middle hearts and glued them down.

The smallest hearts were used to fill in any places where cardboard were still showing.

I cut a piece off the gift box to make the “Love” sign. I wrote the word “Love” in glue then sprinkled glitter on top. Dump the extra off and let dry.

To add the ribbon…

I used a small screw driver to make holes. A hole punch was too big. Be careful not to hurt yourself.

I stuck the ribbon in through the back side of the hole, then tied a knot.

Last, I glued the love sign to the back of the big heart at the top of the wreath and hung it on my door.

You can add as much to this as you like. You could use some glitter glue and outline the hearts, and glue gems or buttons on it. Use your imagination and go wild! Or keep it simple.

It’s a great project to do with kids or grandkids! Have fun making yours!!!