Ice Skates Christmas Wreath

by ConcordCottage.com with Lisa Walsh Huff Kroll

Today I’m sharing a new Christmas Wreath with and Ice Skate Snowy theme.

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Welcome to our home! I have to tell you it was POURING rain yesterday when I was taking pictures so I couldn’t even stand back and get a picture of our house or more of the door but the inside is pretty cozy so I thought you might enjoy a sneak peek of our tree. I’ll share more of it next week.

You have to see how this wreath started out……are you ready?? I found this at a thrift store for $3.95 last year….. but I knew it had great potential.

Isn’t she a beauty??? Someone went crazy with the gold sparkly garland!! So I removed all that and underneath were some good pinecone bones.

I shopped my house and found some things I knew would be perfect. I had the silver ornaments, pine cones, wire ribbon with green trees on it, pulled out my fabric stash for the skates and I made some snowballs the other day for my mantel (Come back Friday) and so I made a few more. So this cost me $6 to make.

I took my white craft paint and with a brush I painted all the pinecone tips or edges with white paint and then dusted them with some coarse sea salt to look like snow.

For the snowballs I used Styrofoam balls from the Dollar Tree and rolled them in a mix of half mod podge and half white craft paint and then rolled them in Epsom salts.

I love how they look like actual snow balls too. I tied on my extra pinecones to the wreath and hot glued on the snowballs.

For the Ice Skates I drew a pattern onto construction paper and cut them out. You don’t have to be an artist when you do a Diy project. Just go for it and let your creativity go.

I then cut out some thick drop cloth fabric and sewed with black stitching so you could see the outlines.

I left an opening in the top and then lightly stuffed them and then sewed the tops closed. As you can see I wasn’t going for perfection. I want them to have that raw edge looks to them.

Then I applied a layer of mod podge to the skate blades and then poured the silver glitter over them.

I buy these packs of glitter at the Dollar Tree and they have come in so handy as I love to add glitter to everything…lol.

I used twine and some pom poms (also in a bag from the Dollar Tree) and made ties for the skates.

Then I took my wired ribbon and tied a pretty bow and hung my skates on the wreath.

I love the way it turned out and it was fun being creative on a rainy cloudy day. Wreath

For full tutorial (there are lots more steps to ice skates and Diy) come on over to the blog just by clicking the blog link and it will take you right to it. I love new visitors.

Thank you so much for stopping by and have a great day, Lisa

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Hannah V on Dec 03, 2014
What a fun wreath! Love the little ice skates.

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- ConcordCottage.com with Lisa Walsh Huff Kroll on Dec 03, 2014
  @Hannah V Thank you sooo much Hannah!!! Have a great day!!
  
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