Have you seen all those cool holiday wreaths in stores? I have, and I’m also not willing to pay $60 for something thats going to fall apart at the end of the “season.” I enjoy trying to DIY things that I see in stores, it’s very satisfying when it turns out the way it should. So I decided to try and make my own. I hope you’ll try it too!
I gathered a few supplies that you’ll need to make your own Deco Mesh Halloween Wreath. It’s really easy and it looks so good.
The Supplies
DIY Deco Mesh Wreath Step by Step
I always have pipe cleaners in my house. They’re so versatile, even with non-craft daily situations.
For this craft, I cut my pipe cleaners in half. You don’t need the full size of pipe cleaner to tie your mesh. And, you just doubled your amount!
Using your wreath mold, tie your pipe cleaners in a zig zag pattern all the way around.
you will need extra later on, so make sure you have some saved off to the side.
Grab your black deco mesh and pinch about three inches from the beginning of the ribbon.
Tie the pipe cleaner around the area that you pinched.
Continue this process, leaving about 5-6″ in between “pinches.”
I zig zagged the deco mesh around the wreath mold, kipping one or two pipe cleaners in between.
This is how the wreath looked like after one round of deco mesh.
I don’t personally like the mesh I used on this wreath, but I liked a better one in the list above.
The color to me is too light and I would have liked to use something a little wider, like a 12″ mesh.
Once you have finished withe the black deco mesh, start the same process with your orange mesh.
Make sure that you’re filling in the empty areas.
As you can see my orange deco mesh is just as light as my black deco mesh. I had to come back with a thicker better quality multicolor mesh to finish off the job.
This larger multicolor deco mesh is a little bit more challenging to use, but it gives you the best results.
I really loved the orange and black ones, but it just wasn’t giving me all the coverage and fluff that I was looking for.
As you can see, the multicolor deco mesh has really filled everything in and made it less transparent to where you can’t see the wreath form.
Lesson learned for the next one!
You are going to need your spare pipe cleaners for this step.
After adding the layer of multicolor deco mesh, this is what my wreath looked like.
It is really fluffy and looks amazon!
After I finished the mesh part of my wreath, I moved on to decorating.
I whipped out my hot glue gun, poured myself a glass of wine wile it warmed up, and got to work.
I found these really cute glitter pumpkins that I thought would make my wreath look fancy.
After I glued the glitter pumpkins, I found some little skeletons and mini skulls that I added to the wreath.
This gave my wreath a very finished look, like the ones that I saw at the stores.
Isn’t it so cute?!?!?!
I’m no expert by any means, but I do love crafting and I think this wreath came out pretty darn good. It’s going to go great with all of the halloween decorationsI’m going to be putting up this year.
