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I am so excited to be participating in another round of Cricut Design Space Star. This month’s category is Holiday Home Decor/Gift Ideas and our team theme is Natural Holiday.
I was searching through the image library in Cricut Design Space and found some adorable 3-D pine cones. I decided to make a beautiful holiday wreath that I can use for the fall or winter holiday season.
Supplies Needed:
- Cricut Explore
- 12 x 12 Cutting Mat
- Cricut Scraper
- 1 sheet brown card stock (pine cone)
- 1 sheet dark green card stock (pine needle)
- 1 sheet each – red card stock, yellow card stock, black card stock, green card stock (poppy)
- 1 sheet peach paper (small roses)
- 1 sheet orange paper (large roses)
- 1 sheet dark red paper (small roses)
- Glue gun and glue sticks
- Floral wire and wire cutters
- Grape vine wreath form
Please note, some of the smaller shapes can be with 8 1/2 x 11 card stock or paper or even a scrap sheet.
To start, I made three of the 3D pinecones. All of the images are from the 3D floral home decor cartridge. The handbook was very helpful in showing how to assemble all the different flowers. To make the pine cone, you cut out the pine cone shapes using your Cricut Explore.
Then, cut a piece of floral or jewelry wire. I cut mine longer than needed to be sure I had enough space. You will add your pieces to the pine cone, starting from the top of the pine cone and working your way down.
You start with the little triangular piece on your wire.
Then you will put the wire up through the middle of the smallest pine cone piece. Working your way around you will slip the wire through each of the holes in the ends of the star-like shape. This will create the pine cone shape.
Keep working your way down the wire, adding the next biggest piece as you go. You will finish off with the flower shaped piece. I made a loop with my round nose jewelry wires to keep the pine cone together. Snip off any excess wire.
I created three pine cones, three pine needles, one dahlia flower, two poppies, four small peach roses, two large orange roses and four of the smaller red rose shapes.
Link to the Cricut Design Space cut file: Woodland Fall Paper Wreath
Again, all the shapes are from the 3D floral home decor cartridge. The handbook is so helpful for putting the flowers together. My biggest tip, is if you are going to use hot glue (which I did), use a generous amount! If not, your flowers will pop apart!
Once all the pieces were cut, I started to attach them to my wreath form. To create this wreath form, I actually started with a straw colored grapevine wreath from Dollar Tree. I added dark stain and allowed the wreath to dry. Now, it looks like a more expensive high end wreath and I only paid a dollar!
I attached the pine cones with more floral wire. I looped a piece of wire through one of the bottom pine cone points.
I then looped that through the wreath, tightened the wire and snipped the excess.
To attach all of the flower and extra leaves I used my glue gun. For this entire project I used a low temp heat gun so there was less of a chance of me burning myself. Please be careful when using a glue gun with small embellishments! I started with the larger flowers. Then, I added the smaller flowers and leaves as filler.
I love that this wreath could be displayed for both fall and winter. And those pine cones are just too adorable! I want to make a whole bowl full to display!
Below you can see the rest of Cricut Team 11’s projects for a Natural Holiday:
Wood Leaf Gift Tags by Hideous! Dreadful! Stinky!
Rustic Friendship Bracelets by Among the Young
Holiday Cork Coasters by Sewbon
Burlap Glitter Placemats by The Project Girl
Woodland Fall Paper Wreath by Laura’s Crafty LifePaper Feathers by The Country Chic Cottage
Thanksgiving Hostess Gift Tag by Freebies 2 Deals
Thanksgiving Table Serving Utensils by Stuffed Suitcase
Give Thanks wood banner by Brooklyn Berry Designs
Linked here: Sugar Bee Crafts | Snap Creativity | Carissa Miss | Someday Crafts | The Crafty Blog Stalker | Tatertots and Jello
AhMazing! I love those beautiful flowers you made! Awesome project!
Thank you Therese! I appreciate it. The flowers are so cool. I love how easy they are to make once you cut everything out. Have a great week! xo, Laura
This is gorgeous, Laura. I love how you combined all of the components to create such a lovely wreath. I need a new Cricut ~ I love my old one but these new ones offer so many more possibilities.
Thank you Mary Beth! The new Cricut Explore is amazing! It does so much more than the older Cricut machines. xo, Laura
This is amazing, Laura! I love love love your pinecones!
Thank you Tara! It turned out really nice. I am loving those pine cones. After I figured them out, they were super easy to make! xo, Laura
This is absolutely adorable! I am in love with those pine cones. :)
The pine cones are my favorite part! Have a great week!
This is beautiful! I absolutely love it:)
Thank you so much Ginnie! I appreciate it. xo, Laura
turned out so cute! Maybe it’s just my screen but the pics are suuper fuzzy!
Thanks! Hmmm. Which browser are you using or are you on mobile?
I’d love you to share it at my link party https://www.carissamiss.com/2014/10/outside-box-no-7.html
Off to share right now! Thanks for letting me know about it! xo, Laura
Visiting from the TT & J link party! What a beautiful wreath!
Thank you so much Alex!
Laura, this wreath is absolutely gorgeous. I love all the intricate details and paper crafting wizardry at play here. It’s amazing what these digital craft cutters can do, isn’t it? So glad you shared this at The Creative Spill on my FB page this week. Check in tomorrow evening…”someone” might be getting a feature! Wink wink. Off to pin, too!
Thank you Lauren! I will look for it. ;) Have a wondeful weekend.
xo, Laura
I love the amount of detail in this wreath – it looks great!
Thank you so much Sarah! The paper flowers you can cut with the Cricut Explore are amazing! I was impressed as I was making them.
xo, Laura
Laura this wreath is so pretty! I love it! Time to pull out the Cricut and make myself one. :)
It was so much fun seeing you at SNAP this year and spending some time together. You are such a lovely person.
I included this project in a roundup of some of my favorite DIY and craft projects from people attending SNAP! I’d love for you to take a peek. You can find it here:
https://hellocreativefamily.com/27-diy-projects-from-creative-snap-bloggers/
Best Wishes,
Crystal
Thanks so much Crystal! Making paper flowers on the Cricut is a little labor intensive, but they turn out so pretty. Thanks for adding my project.
xo,
Laura