Christmas Notebook

I made a wreath for my older daughter’s door today. She is using a book theme for decorating her room for Christmas. No big surprise if you know her at all. For help with leaves for the wreath I used the tutorial on the blog The Red Thread, though I changed a few other things. The blogger used a cardboard base and stapled the leaves to it. I used a wire ring and hot glue. And I added a berry garland.

I started with the wire wreath ring and wrapped it with ivory colored felt, using hot glue to secure it.

I had a garland with white berries on it that my sister found at a thrift store last year. I glued that to the center of the ring. Next, I glued the individual leaves, cut from used book pages, to the felt. The pages were various shades of ivory.

Before attaching the leaf to the wreath, I folded the bottom of the leaf and closed it with a dot of hot glue.

Then I started at the bottom of the wreath and went up one side, overlapping the leaves as I glued them down.

After fluffing the white berry garland a bit, a gold bow at the top finished it perfectly.

It turned out beautifully and didn’t take that long to put together. It looks great on her door.

~~Rhonda