I love Halloween. I just think its a fun way to end fall and move into the crazy holidays, all of which I adore! I love to see all the kiddos (and adults, sometimes) dress up and have a great time, usually high from candy!
Since the girls are getting older and Avery loves to dress up I decided to make some Halloween decorations this year. I have always done fall decorations in the house and on the day of Halloween decorated our front door! I love to make our house stand out just a bit and remember loving houses that made an effort when I was a kid on outdoor decorations. So that is all I have focused on. Here is a picture of our outside decor...once it gets dark I have a strobe light, fog lamp and creepy music playing to really spook it up a bit! I wanted to have a little Halloween fun inside for the girls to enjoy now!
When I found Riley Blake, Boo To You Fabric, I knew I had to use it for my Halloween decor (and also a few Halloween Shirt Appliqués..those I will show soon!) My first thought was to make a wreath. I loved a fabric Christmas Wreath that a saw a few months back, so I thought I would try my own version with this aborable fabric!
The Supplies
- Foam Wreath
- Fabric Fat Quarters
- Colorful Brads
- Satin Ribbon
- Hot Glue
I took one of my fat quarters fabrics and cut a little mark every 1 inch alone the bottom of the fabric. At the mark I than ripped the fabric to create long pieces of the fabric to wrap around the wreath. You can tear or you can cut. I like tear cause it gives the fabric a little distressed look.
Starting on the back of the wreath, I took my hot glue gun made a little dot and attached my first piece of fabric. I than wrapped the fabric around wreath overlapping a little bit until the wreath was covered. As you add your next piece of 1 inch fabric, add some more hot glue to secure the pieces onto the foam wreath.
I wanted to add some height to the center of the wreath so I took some of the foam from the back side. I took a basis kitchen knife and cut a chunk out of the back. Than I took the hot glue gun an attacked to the foam to the inside of the wreath. I used a lot of glue to make sure that the foam was not going to fall off. As you can kind of see in this picture I made an arch look so I could only attach the two end pieces. You could also use a toothpick to secure the middle.
Next I cut little tons of different size circles out of my different fat quarters. On the fabric that had cute little spooky Halloween faces I just cut around them individually. All in all I cute about 60 pieces of circles to lay on top of each other.
This part is where you can get creative, pick out the different circles you want and lay them. Take a pair of small scissors and cut a slit in all three of the layers. Take a colorful brad and connect the three pieces together. Do not unfold the brad because that is how you will attach it to the foam wreath. Take your wreath and place your brad into the wreath, start laying circles all on your wreath. You could do like I did and just the bottom corner or you could do the enter wreath, its all up to you!
Once you are done hot glue a fabric ribbon onto the sides and hang!
Thanks to the Lemon Tree Creations for creating this fabulous link page of blogs parties I will be linking this tutorial too! Also linking to eighteen25 halloween party!
