How to Use Dried Flowers on Grapevine Wreaths
Plain grapevine wreaths have a beautiful, rustic-looking simplicity. They can also be adorned with dried flowers, leaves, berries and ribbons to make natural lasting decorations to match the season. Designing your own grapevine wreaths lets you be creative, and it's easy enough that kids can participate. Use dried or pressed flowers from your own garden, or check a craft store for a selection of natural or dyed dried flowers, foliage, ribbon and raffia.
Things You'll Need
- Grapevine wreath
- Dried statice
- Dried baby's breath
- Dried artichoke flowers
- Dried alyssum
- Dried lavender
- Dried feverfew
- Pressed rosemary
- Pressed thyme
- Pressed juniper
- Fresh roses
- Dried mint flowers
- Dried yarrow
- Fresh asters
- Fresh cornflowers
- Dried fall leaves
- Dried cockscomb
- Dried eucalyptus leaves
- Dried rosehips
- Dried rice flowers
- Ribbon
- Bows
- Raffia
- Sisal
- Hot glue gun
- Dried amaranth
- Dried ammobium
- Scissors
- Paper glue
Instructions
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Choose dried or pressed flowers that are strong enough to withstand gentle handling. Pressed flowers such as nasturtiums or poppies might fall apart or break too easily to be used on a wreath. Other flowers such as statice, baby's breath, artichoke flowers, and alyssum are quite hardy when dried, and will last a long time on a wreath.
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Include scented dried flowers such as sprigs of lavender or feverfew, or scented foliage such as dried rosemary, thyme, or juniper to give your wreath a nice smell. Press rosemary and thyme from your herb garden when they're in bloom and you'll have delicate little blossoms on the foliage. Cut and dry juniper when the blue berries are on it for an interesting accent.
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Mix fresh and dried flowers to make a grapevine wreath centerpiece or door decoration for a dinner party. Try mixing fresh roses with dried mint flowers or yarrow for a colorful summer wreath, or fresh asters and cornflowers with dried fall leaves and cockscomb in the fall. Eucalyptus leaves with rosehips and dried rice flowers make a cheerful winter decoration.
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Cover the entire wreath with dried flowers, or group them into mini bouquets to leave parts of the wreath showing through. Accent your wreath with ribbon, bows, and plain or colored raffia or sisal strands.
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Use a hot glue gun to attach the flowers to the wreath. Arrange the flowers on the wreath before gluing them, and then attach the flowers, starting with the largest ones first.
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Tips & Warnings
Make a temporary wreath with long stemmed dried flowers such as amaranth, baby's breath or ammobium. Clip the stems to about 3 inches long and stick the flowers between the vines of the wreath without gluing them so you can remove them later. Try another approach to a temporary wreath by gluing dried flowers to ribbon or raffia, then wrapping them around the wreath. Tie or glue the ribbon or raffia on the back of the wreath so you can remove it later and reuse the wreath for another decoration. You can also glue mini bouquets onto pieces of felt and attach them to the wreath with a small amount of paper glue. The felt can be easily removed if you want to decorate the wreath again.
