How to Make a Vacation Memory 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 wreath to commemorate the very special vacation. For this particular wreath, we are remembering a cruise. The first thing you want to do whenever you are making a wreath is to weave your ribbon through it. I found this great ribbon that says journey on it in the scrap booking section of my local craft store. Take your ribbon and come from the backside, come through your wreath and cover a joint, and go all the way around your wreath. If you take your ribbon about one and a half times around your wreath you will know about how much ribbon you need or you can just leave it in the spool and let it come at it goes. Once you have gotten all the way around your wreath, you are going to secure that ribbon on the backside by putting just a bead of hot glue right down the seam, pressing your ribbon to it and holding it till it cools. Now do that with both ends of your ribbon and then you are ready to embellish. What I used for this one was this wonderful little calender that I found in my local craft store for a dollar that had all kinds of ocean designs in it. You want to take something that is circular, a nice large glass that you can see through. You want it to be bigger than your frame but not too big. Center it up, draw around it, cut it out and then fix it to a piece of oak tag or something that will give it some stability. If it is just a thin piece of paper like this and then cut it out again and then you have a more solid piece and that calender on the backside will not show through. Once you have secured that, then you are going to take your embellishments and put it on. I found these wonderful, wonderful stickers in the scrap booking section. So if you took a trip by train or by plane or by boat or by car, there are all kinds of stickers that you can find to put on your design. I put the ship behind because I like to have a 3D effect, then lay out your embellishments kind of the way you would like for them to be, play with them a little bit, center them up. I found this lovely little umbrella, in order to put it on I opened it up and then I cut the back off so that it would lay flat on here. Put your embellishments around where you want them and then just take your hot glue gun, put it on the back of the piece and lay it down. I thought that the three little flowers at the top gave it kind of a Hawaiian lay flavor. Then when you have gotten done putting all your embellishments on, you want to make some kind of a bow or a ribbon for your bottom piece and again I put flowers on it. Then you need to have something on the back to hang it, make a loop out of your ribbon or some other piece of ribbon, nail it with the hot glue, nail it to the back with hot glue and there you have it that wreath to commemorate and remember that very, very special vacation."