Wow! So I have a bit of a fun announcement today 🙂 After the awesome response to last month’s Silhouette Blog Hop, a bunch of us have decided to make it a monthly thing! Today is the first official hop, so make sure you check out all the inspiring projects linked up to this post at the bottom. Today, I’m going to show you How to Make a Wood Shim Wreath with Paper Flowers
First things first, I needed to make my wreath. This is all you need:
- A bunch of plain ol’ wood shims
- A 12″ flat floral craft ring
- A glue gun
- Wood Stain – I like to use these stain wipes from Minwax
- Silhouette Cameo
- Card stock and/or scrapbook paper
I cut my shims down to somewhere between 5.5″ and 6″ – you don’t have to be super precise, but it is important they are all more or less the same length. Then just lay them out on your wreath form with the thin end in and glue them down with hot glue.
Once I had it all glued together, I used one stain wipe and gave the shims a little more colour and depth. While it was drying, I turned to the flowers.
This is where I used my Silhouette, card stock and scrapbooking paper.
I got this design from the Silhouette Studio and just set it up to make a regular cut. These flowers are basically just circles, leaves and one longer ‘ribbon’ type shape.
Once you have your circles cut, you’ll see they have little slits. Cross the slit over and glue it so the circle becomes sorta three dimensional.
Then layer the ‘petals’ on top of each other until you have a flower shape. Curl the long ribbon around a pencil and glue the ends together to form the middle part of the flower and then just add your two leaves.
These can even be made without a Silhouette if you have a large hole punch and can cut the other shapes out freehand.
Alright! This is a hop! So hop on over to these other fabulous Silhouette projects 🙂
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Pocketful of Posies – DIY Paper Olive Plants
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Erin, I can’t even tell you how much I love this wreath! It is perfect! Now I want one! Thank you for sharing. Pinning!
This is just adorable! I could use one in, like, every room of my house!
That wreath looks amazing! I love the contrast of the flowers to the wood.
What a great project! I have a box of vintage wood shims and this has my wheels turning!
This is so cute! Absolutely love it and it could be changed out seasonally. Great job!
SO sweet Erin! LOVE those pretty little flowers!
So beautiful! I love the contrast of the white flowers and the stained shims. Flowers are one of my favorite things to make with the silhouette.
Gorgeous, Erin! Perfect simplicity – pinning to make later!
I’m crazy about minimal wreaths and this one is no different! Absolutely gorgeous!
Such a creative idea with shims!! And the flowers turned out beautiful! Pinning and sharing!
So clever and beautiful! Can’t wait to try this!
This wreath is just perfect!! I LOVE it and think the wood shims make this such an original wreath.
This is seriously gorgeous. I love the unique look of the wood shims and those paper flowers are right up my alley – no watering required 😉
I love this wreath!! The combo of the wood and flowers is perfect!