A Simple Christmas Project

I was in a crafty mood recently, and as I often do, I took to Pinterest to find inspiration for a project.  My birthday was a few weeks ago, and I decided that as a gift to myself, I wanted to make this for my birthday:

Project by CraftyMorning.com

I went to Hobby Lobby and found all of the items except the lights, which I eventually found at Menard's.  I made some changes to the snowman to fit my personal tastes, and I think he came out pretty cute!

If you want to make a snowman wreath of your own, here's what you'll need:

• One larger and one smaller grapevine wreath
• Spray paint of your choice (the original used white, I used an opaque, shimmery sparkle paint--see picture to the right)
• Floral picks of your choice (you won't need many)
• Lights--mine are battery operated, and the original was a white string that plugged in.  I didn't have an outlet nearby, so I opted for battery lights.
• Roll of burlap for the scarf
• Small Santa hat
• Floral wire
• Hot glue gun and sticks

The first thing to do is attach the smaller and larger wreath using the floral wire.  I simply wrapped it around both wreaths until it wouldn't move any more.

Next, I put some painter's plastic down and sprayed the wreaths.  It took the full can of paint to give it the shimmery white-ish look, but I liked it.  It looks like the wreath has frost on it.  You'll want to leave it to dry for a few hours.  I left it overnight.

Now it's time to assemble everything! 

The next thing I did was wrap the strand of lights around the wreaths. 

I purchased these at Menards.  They look cute, but a warning: the acrylic snowflakes kept popping off of the wire strand and I had to re-glue them back on.

I wrapped them around, trying to space the snowflakes evenly.  After I had them where I wanted them, I tied them to the wreaths on the back with more floral wire.

After that, I tied the scarf on.  I cut a long piece of burlap ribbon--probably about a 5' length-and laid it under the wreaths.  I tied it off-center and let it hang down.

Then, I added the floral picks:

I tucked them in to the wreath, weaving them through when I could.  Once I had them arranged the way I liked, I hot-glued them into place on the back. 

Lastly, I added the Santa hat and hot-glued it in place.  All that was left to do was hang it up!

With the exception of the paint drying, it really only took between one and two hours to put it all together, and I think it turned out pretty cute!  If you give it a try, let me know how it turns out! 

Merry Christmas!