This past Christmas my family went the day after Thanksgiving to cut down our Christmas tree. It was a wonderful experience, playing in the snow in Colorado. Throughout the holiday season, the tree was beautiful, it fit perfectly in our home and we cherished it!  Fast forward to the second weekend of 2019 and the tree was still up – it was too beautiful to take down! After much consideration, I decided to repurpose the tree into a Modern Wood Wreath! Such a great way to remember our 2018 tree and the adventure it added to the season. 

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DIY Modern Wooden Wreath - Spring - Valentines Day

Materials

16″ MDF wreath form (or size of your choosing)

Wood rounds (20-30 for a 16″ wreath)

Greenery

Floral

Wood Glue

Picture Wire

How To

DIY Modern Wooden Wreath - Spring - Valentines Day

To begin, take a moment to sort the wood rounds, largest to smallest. It’s important that the sizing is evenly distributed throughout the wreath so I began by laying out my larger pieces. Slowly I filled in all the space on the wreath form. After playing with the layout a few times I finalized my layout. 

DIY Modern Wooden Wreath - Spring - Valentines Day

Next, I moved each round directly outside of the form and placed in on the table surface. I added a quick loop with wire so the wreath would hang easily.

DIY Modern Wooden Wreath - Spring - Valentines Day

Then I ran a heavy bead of glue around the wreath form. When working with wood glue I prefer to let the glue set for 3-5 minutes to allow the glue to get tacky. After the waiting time, I carefully placed each round back on the form.

I only had three extra rounds after the first layer, so I chose to add some dimension under my floral addition. Glue additional pieces on the second layer, in the same manner, using wood glue.

Once the wood was in place it was time to play with the greenery layout. After choosing a layout for my greenery, I cut the pieces to size and started working with the floral.  The hot glue I had on hand was all temp – I found that this glue was not strong enough to bond to the wood. A hot temp glue might work better. Instead, I just continued with the wood glue. The glue worked great, it was just more interesting keeping everything into position while the glue set. LOL After waiting for the 24hours for the wood glue to dry the wreath felt sturdy and ready to hang.

DIY Modern Wooden Wreath - Spring - Valentines Day

During the first night of this project, I just used a single rose but after letting it dry I opted for the additional roses.

This project was fun and easy to do! I especially like the sentimental factor of it being made from our Christmas tree! The perfect addition to my Valentine’s Day/Spring decor!

DIY Modern Wooden Wreath - Spring - Valentines Day

Let me know if you give this a try, I’d love to see yours!

xo,

C

DIY Modern Wooden Wreath - Spring - Valentines Day

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