Make a Christmas Wreath with Christmas Buttons

I can't stop crafting with buttons as they are my creative materials. And today I will going to make beautiful wreaths with Christmas buttons to decorate my home before Christmas. All Christmas wreaths will be used for decorating bedrooms, door handles, living room, etc. They are very easy to create. Here I will take one for example.

The Supplies

1 Polystyrene wreath, mine measures 18cm Green felt, any color of your choice Pva glue and something to spread it Glue gun or any type of strong glue like UHU Various size buttons in Christmas colors (or not, up to you) Ribbon and some tools to cut the felt

Tutorial of Making a Christmas Wreath

Step 1: Cut your felt into strips about 2cm wide roughly, my felt here is 45cm long and i cut 7 strips and that was enough to cover my wreath.

Tutorial of Making a Christmas Wreath

Step 2: Pour some pva into a suitable container and then start spreading the glue down a strip of felt.

Step 3: Start wrapping your wreath, here i have already put two strips on. It doesn't matter too much about neat ends as we are going to cover it all with buttons!

Tutorial of Making a Christmas Wreath

Step 4: Once the wreath is covered with felt its time to heat up the glue gun! Start gluing the buttons on, i put at least two blobs of glue either side of the holes. Bigger buttons i covered the whole of the back as i want them to be secure.

Tutorial of Making a Christmas Wreath

Step 5: I organized my buttons so i could easily see all the designs and sizes and that way my wreath has a good variety of buttons.

Final

All the buttons are now glued on, make sure to keep wiping away any glue spider web things. I have only put buttons on the front as the back won't be seen and will be a waste of buttons. Next attach your ribbon or string and make sure to test how it hangs before you commit to gluing it on. My ribbon is quite thick so i wrapped it around the wreath once and then made a loop and glued it into place so that it will always face forward. I hope I explained everything ok, if you have any questions don't hesitate to ask! All Christmas buttons are purchased online from http://www.pandahall.com/