How to Make a Summer Wreath of Pretzels

Video Transcript

"Hi! This is Ginny with Simply Beautiful Crafts on behalf of Expert Village and today we are going to make this very sweet summer wreath. What you want to do is take your already prepared pretzel ring, put your ribbon around it, one and a fourth to one and a half times, so you have about an idea of how much you want to use; I like yellow, to me that just really represents summer. You take your ribbon and put it through from behind over a joint, back down again, through and over a joint, this ribbon is satiny on one side and not as smooth on the other, so I want to make sure that I am keeping the satin side up. I also do not want to pull it real snug because I want to leave a little bit of that puffiness in there, it gives it just a little more 3D effect and it is a little more dramatic that way. When you have come to the end of your ribbon, I’m going to turn it over, take your hot glue gun lay a bead of glue in the crack and you might need to pleat this a little bit, because you do not want it to show over the front, so you just pleat it, squish it down in there and now you have a seal and then you do same thing on the other side and then before you put your ribbon on this one, you want to design your wreath. What I did was to take baby’s breath, which I have already sprayed with a shellack or a sealant to keep it from falling apart and lay it across like this and then you can put the glue. What I did was stick the end of it right in the glue gun to get glue on it and lay it across this way and odd number always seems to look best when you are doing flowers, so as you can see I went up three pretzels with it, taking your baby’s wreath and laying it up here and then pick your flowers and lay them in, right in there with your baby’s breath and you will have the side of it and then take another flower and put it on this side. Then when you are finished, that is when you want to make your bow from your ribbon and put it down here and then as you can see, I also used one of the roses for the middle of my bow, very last thing you wanted to do, is make something to hang your beautiful wreath with. You can use your ribbon, you can use wire or you could use a smaller ribbon, perhaps a white one or a little bit of a green one to show the contrast. When you are finished, you will have a very simple, very beautiful, very refreshing little summer wreath."