How to Make a New Year's Wreath With Pretzels

Video Transcript

"Hi! This is Ginny with Simply Beautiful Crafts on behalf of Expert Village and today we are going to make a New Year’s Wreath. For this wreath I did not weave ribbon throughout the pretzel like I usually do. What I did do once my wreath was dipped in the varnish and still wet, was to take different colors of glitter and sprinkle them on. I used a variety of colors and then let it dry. If your pretzel wreath has already been dried, you can always use spray adhesive, spray it on and spray on your glitter. If you do that, you want to take another sealant; this is a wood finish which works fine for pretzels or any other spray finish, so that your glitter does not come off all over the place. Once you have done that, it is time to go crazy. I found a lot of paper decorations in a package; this martini glass and a little noisemaker and all of the little curly Q's. You can also make your own. If you just take a piece of paper and simply start cutting in a circle and come inside and cut and there you have your own kind of curly Q type decoration for it. You can make them large or small and you can use shiny paper or dull paper whatever you would like to use. Once I get finished picking out all of the different decorations that I wanted to use, I laid them on and I just play with them, experiment, get them exactly the way you want and once you have done that, then you go back with your hot glue gun and glue on each piece as you would have it. I would like to leave some of them loose and dangling. When I finished with that and I decided it need a little more pizzazz so I took some of the little gold balls or silver either one would work and glued them on around the piece, again I laid them on and decided to where I liked them before I glued them on. The last thing I did was to take a piece of gold braid, a piece of ribbon works just as well, make a loop with it, take your hot glue gun and glue it securely to the back. Once you have done that because it is hot glue, once it is cool your Happy New Year’s wreath is ready to hang up and ring in the New Year with you."