Hi! This is Ginny with Simply Beautiful Crafts on behalf of Expert Village and today we are going to make a Christmas floral wreath. For this particular floral wreath, I used poinsettias and holly and silver bells. The first thing you want to do before you embellish your wreath is to weave your ribbon through it. I used a wired ribbon on this one and it does have a difference in its size, so I want to carefully weave it through making sure that I have the one side up, come from behind, put your ribbon through and go over and make sure you cover up a joint. This way you will make your wreath more secure and it also covers up any areas where the pretzels might not have come completely together. Once you have gotten all the way around with your ribbon, you are going to want to secure it in the back. At that point, you are going to want to cross over your joints and you will lay a bead of glue, hot glue, which you can use now because your pretzel has been finished. Lay a bead of hot glue in that joint, press your ribbon into it, secure it until it is cool and if you have extra, just clip it off and you are going to do that with the ribbon on the other end too. Then you are ready to embellish it. To me it seems to be very pleasing if you are using floral arrangement to put it down one side of the wreath. In this case, I used little silk poinsettias. You could also use bunches of pine cones, but of course you would not want to keep this big stem on it, you would want to take it off but you get the idea. You could use bunches of pine cones down this side, you could use holly and ivy but you lay your silk flowers or your little pine cones on until you feel like it has a nice balance and then you do want to put something on the other side too. So, you can put in your little pieces of your holly and then you might take some of these little red balls and put them in between too. I like to have little silver bells on the top or something to finish it off at the top. I chose not to put a bow on this one, but to simply make a chevron and cross it and put it behind. Last thing you want to do is take a piece of ribbon, make a little hanger out of the chevron, glue it, and then fix it to the back of your wreath so that it is ready to hang and that is how you make a Christmas floral wreath.
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