DIY | Dollar Tree | Deco Mesh | Valentine’s Day Wreath

Well, today I'm going to show you how to make a decade

mesh

wreath

using

deco

rative

mesh

from the Dollar Tree. I'm just showing you now all the items you'll need. I bought all but the pipe cleaners at the Dollar Tree I bought the pipe cleaners at the

dollar

target place, they were also one

dollar

, but Dollar Tree has them too and it doesn't really matter what color you use because you won't really see them now, here I am. Simply taking my

deco

rative mesh, I unrolled it or I am unrolling it and cutting it into pieces of approximately eight inches and I will continue to do this until I complete all the paper and I will do it for each color that I have and the colors that I chose were red, white and pink, and you can certainly make whatever colors you want with the decorative mesh that was in the Valentine's section at Dollar Tree.

I didn't like the white because it was intertwined with red so I bought the white in the Easter section but like I said you can make pink and red, pink and white, red and white, all red however you want and after cutting those pieces , I'll just show you how. I roll each one and it doesn't have to be perfect, just roll it. I try to roll it as tight as I can because once you start putting them together they will loosen up a little bit, but I'm going to roll each one individually. piece of decorative mesh and then I will put them together and you can put them together in any pattern you want, you can do the same pattern for each of them, you can alternate them in different ways and once you put them together, just wear them in the new time along with a pipe cleaner and I usually give it a couple of turns and then once you have the pipe cleaner or put them together on the pipe cleaner, I'll just show you how I'm going. to take the frame and I'm going to put these on the outside edge of the frame just because it's going to make your

wreath

s a little bit bigger and give you more room in the middle now if you want your space in the For the middle to be completely closed, you're going to want tie them on the inside frame and you don't really have to worry about making too many adjustments at this point, the main goal is to just tie them all in there and then you can fluff them up. as you go and what I've decided to do is it's easier for me if I go ahead and make all my bundles ahead of time so I go ahead and make all my bundles and I made three patterns.

I made pink, white and red. I made another pack of white, red and pink. The last package I made was the red one. Sorry, pink, white and red and like I said you can make any pattern you want. I just like to mix mine. I went up a little bit and didn't make bundles to cover the entire wreath at once, although you could do that, I just did it, honey, you know, five to ten a piece and then once I did that I would put them in the frame . and then I would start and do five to ten more and then add, but you know, whatever works for you is the best way to do it, so here I'm just adding all my decorative mesh to the wreath and you'll be able to see that the pipe cleaners don't They are so long.

I cut them off to try to preserve my pipe cleaners. I cut them in half and it works, but I'm tying them to the two larger frames and when you do that you have the smaller one. The pipe cleaners are a little tighter, but as you put them in, you continue to push them in to make room as you go around the wreath. Okay, now that I've added the decorative mesh to the wreath, I'm just hanging around. and I'm just trimming off some little leftover pieces that have unraveled from the platform, a mesh and it'll do it, but it's okay, it just adds up.

I just like to remove the longer pieces and now I'm just going to turn the crown over and I'm going to show you the number of bundles that I added to each one at the highest peak. I think I had put four in there, they're like two and two and I tried to move one of them a little bit more towards the center but it's going to be so clustered together that it's not really going to matter and then on the outside of the top frame which is rounded I used twelve of those and then at the bottom of the frame that's straight I used eight and then again at the bottom point I use four and you know you might want to add more or less it just depends on how full you want your wreath.

I like mine really full and you know once you have all of that, you can just fluff that up so what I'm doing now is adding the embellishments to my wreath and I decided I wanted to use some ribbon. You can use different widths of tape. Different patterns. I bought these three at Dollar Tree. Now I wish I had bought another tape that was a little wider. They didn't sell them at Dollar Tree, but I could have bought them at Walmart or somewhere else, so I'm collecting them so I can make them. Make sure they are all the same length and you will want to make them a little long because they will be recessed into your wreath and you will need to have something left that can stick out of your wreath so that After cutting all the pieces, measuring them and cutting them together, I am going to cut the ends of my ribbon so that they remain.

I don't know the word, but you'll see that you just fold the ribbon in half and then you just cut out like a little V shape and it gives your ribbon a little extra touch on the end and I'm going to do that because every ribbon that I have doesn't i would recommend putting them together and doing it because they might slide and then your bee will be ruined and the more you cut the ribbon the shorter it will be so anyway it's just to show you what it looks like and after all of this is over one of these tricks i have learned with the tape and you have to be careful, but if you take your lighter and just shake it lightly over the ends, it will actually create a seal so it doesn't come apart, you know, like I told you.

You have to be careful when you do it, you don't want to get the front flame too close and you don't want to keep it on too long because if you do it will turn black and it could also catch on fire, but you certainly could leave it like that and that's fine too, but I like to seal my tape. Now I'm just putting my ribbon pieces together and I'm going to tie them with a pipe cleaner just like I did with some decorative mesh when I made the Make a bundle of rolls and I'm going to cut it in half just to save a little bit and I'm just going to tie it , it doesn't matter if they have any kind of shape because once you put it on your crown. you're going to fluff it anyway so I'm just going to find an area or a space on my wreath where I want it to go and I'm going to spread the decorative mesh apart until I can reach the frame of the wreath and I'm going to do the same thing I did with the decade mesh and I'm just going to tie the pipe cleaner to the ring on the back and it helps to have a different color of pipe cleaner because when you put it through you I can see it easily and once I have it on you'll see that I'm spreading it out so it looks like I said.

I wish I had made my ribbon a little longer and maybe had some water to make it look a little better. You can put in as many of these as you want or throw up. It depends on you. Whatever you want, do it. Now that I have my ribbon on my crown, I'm alone. I turned it over so you can see what it looks like once it's all spread out and I probably added three or four more bundles of ribbons to my wreath, as you can see, this is what it looks like when it's completely done.

Now I decided. I wanted to add a few more things to my wreath so I bought some little hearts at Dollar Tree and I wasn't sure how I was going to do it. I tried looking at some reefs on Pinterest, this seems much easier. It was a little difficult to place those wooden picks on that decorative mesh, but I used the frame as a guide so I could place some of the sticks, but I just glued the little red hearts in different places. On my wreath I tried to glue them where they really stuck out or stood up and the reason I mean the hearts weren't in a weird position so I put them more around the outside edges of my wreath and did it on both sides. and I put some on the bottom, but it doesn't really matter how you want to do it, you can go to any craft store and I'm sure they have all kinds of things you can add to your wreath, but you'll see I'm just pushing them down to see what it looks like and you want them to be pretty sturdy because if you don't tighten them enough then they'll move and you'll know they won.

It doesn't look good and here I'm just adding some to the other side and I also bought some of the lighter pink hearts because I wanted to have a little bit of contrast and the light pink hearts are actually a little bit bigger. than the red ones and if I hadn't put those spikes in at all, I still think the wreath would have been pretty, since my goal was to find a sign or the word love or happy Valentine's day or something like that. and I put it in the center of my wreath, but after I finished I decided I didn't want to do that.

I just felt like it was pretty and had enough decorations for you know, writing and stuff on it. so I chose not to do that, but you'll see I'm having a hard time getting my little spikes on the back the way I want them. It took me a while to do this, hopefully if you do it you can do it. I'm much luckier than I am with that. You know, I decided I wanted to add a ribbon at the bottom or a bow. I'm sorry, and when I first made this tape I didn't like it very much, but then.

Once I put it on, you know it actually turned out pretty good. I decided to use a solid red because I felt like I already had a good mix of colors and I didn't want to make it so full that the bow would turn around. They don't stand out and here I'm just showing you how I make them. I just fold them back and forth and it looks great if you don't have to worry about a pattern on one side of the ribbon I bought. You don't know the same pattern or it's solid on both sides, so it doesn't really matter and I don't have to twist the center, but you know, I'm just making whatever loops you make, however many loops you want.

If you want, I think four on each side and once you get those loops together and how many you want, I'll go ahead and cut the tail off. I don't necessarily have to have the part hanging if you want that. You can always add that to it later, but you keep your finger in the center and then just because the ribbon was so wide, I cut little slits in the side so I could have a little more room to tie, because if I tied it as wide as it was , it would have gathered the ribbon too much in the center and might have affected how the actual loops could stay flat, so I only got a few small indentations. not all the way just to make it a little bit narrower and I had a piece of gold thread left over from my Christmas decorations so I just tied it into a knot to hold the center together and made it pretty tight. and once I secured my center, I just took the ribbon and held it in the center and just pulled the pieces to the side and twisted them and this is a metallic ribbon and that's what you would really want to work with. because when you use metallic tape you can shape it and any way you want, so it took me about five minutes because you really have to play with these things and after opening everything up, I started pulling on them. on the sides I did the same amount on each side now you will see that the piece I had that was like at the beginning I rolled it down to make the middle part of the bow and you can secure that with a small touch of glue or you can tie it with the leftover tie which you had because the tape was made of wire.

I just rolled mine underneath and it actually turned out nice once you got your bow looking the way you want, you just stick it to your wreath and do the same thing you do with the other ribbons you put there. I had like a little piece of the tail that I had saved earlier, so all I did was take that piece and push it where I wanted it. go and just wrap it around the back and that was all it took to secure it and I was actually very happy with the result and that's how I made my wreath and I hope it was helpful to you and if you guys are able to make any corona, post them in the comments below, thanks for watching