Easy Craft Ideas: Pine Cone Wreath
by
Lori O'Farrill
(IC: blogger)
$5
1 Hour
Easy
Are you looking for quick and easy craft ideas that create a big impact at your front door? This pine cone wreath is perfect. It can be easily dressed up for the holiday or switch it up for everyday use.
Are you looking for quick and easy craft ideas that create a big impact at your front door? This pine cone wreath is perfect. It can be easily dressed up for the holiday or switch it up for everyday use. I used two types of pine cones: Eastern white pine cones (that I found in my neighbor’s yard) and scented pine cones purchased from Michaels. You can use whatever pine cones you want, but the eastern white pine cones are gorgeous and when you look a bit closer at the picture you can see that they can be quite big.
You can see in the picture that I only filled the wreath in about ¾ of the way. Here’s the reason behind that. I ran out of pine cones… Oops. :) Here’s why it turned out okay. My ribbon filled it in perfectly. That wasn’t the way it was supposed to happen, but I like it. Now I can change my bows out for whatever holiday is going on. About this bow, I have never made one before!!! I went on YouTube and tried a couple different videos before I found one that I liked. I will tell you after I figured out the bow I took a break to make Peanut Butter Fudge… I figured I deserved a sugary treat.
If you are wondering where do I come up with these ideas; this one I saw in BHG magazine. They bought a wreath and just spray painted it light grey. I thought about spray painting it or bleaching the pine cones, but in the end I like the natural, but this is a gorgeous wreath.
What else can I say about easy craft ideas? They don’t take all afternoon and you don’t have to spend tons of money, especially if you find your pine cones like I did. I would say I spent under $5.00 on this project. I love my wreath and it will be on my front door until spring/summer when I’m thinking either eucalyptus or maybe a twig wreath… hmmm. Any suggestions?
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Published December 9th, 2014 10:10 AM
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