Ombre Felt DIY Valentine Heart Wreath

• The first thing you need to do is decide the size of your heart and draw it. Yup, you heard me right. Let’s use our hands here. As I said earlier, no need for perfection.

STEP 1: CREATING THE WREATH FORM.

• Place your cardboard on a table and draw with a pencil, a large heart first to create your heart wreath form.
• Correct things as you think needed. I did a lot of trajectory corrections until I was happy. You don’t need to be perfect here.
• Then draw another heart inside making sure you have at least 2 Inches between both heart edges, 3 inches would be best because that’s the thickness of your heart.
• Using a cutter or scissors (a cutter is a lot easier) cut your hearts until you get your heart frame.
• Set aside.
• The heart shape wreath form cut out from the cardboard
• Then I divided the heart’s height into 5 since I’m using 5 shades. I drew a line across the heart evenly to fill the spaces with the felt circles.

STEP 2: PREPPING THE RUFFLES

• For this project, I need tons of felt circles. Since I love making my life easier, I folded each felt piece twice to cut in bulk. I got a four-layer fell piece now. Of course, make sure that you can fit as many circles as you can when folded.
• I started with the red felt and then move to each shade.
• Using a large coffee cup as my circle pattern, I traced as many circles as I possibly could.
• I made about 30 circles of 4 Inches each but didn’t use all of them since not every part of the heart requires the same amount. It’s always better to have more than necessary just in case.
• Then I started cutting. The good thing is that I got 8 circles with four layers each. Over 30 circles easy peasy.
• Cut all of your felt shades. Set aside.
• STEP 3: ASSEMBLING THE HEART WREATH
• Your first row would be the darkest color (or lighter if you want to).
• Take one circle, and fold them in half twice to form rosettes.
• Apply some hot glue to the bottom corner of the rosette.
• Then apply some hot glue to the cardboard. To start do this close to the edges and work your way down.
• Attach the felt rosettes to the heart, making sure to group the rosettes tightly enough that no cardboard is showing through the rosettes.
• After you’ve added a few, fluff and open your ruffles as you go along and adjust the rosettes as you like.
• Continue gluing, and attaching the rosettes until you’ve worked your way along each shade space.
• Then move on to the lighter shade and repeat the process until you finish covering the whole heart.
• If you have circles that are slightly misshapen place them toward the outside or inside edges, where they can’t be seen when the wreath is hanging.

STEP 4: MAKING XOXO GLITTERED WOOD WORD

• The final touch is the gold glittered XOXO word.
• Simply brush some glue all over each letter.
• Apply abundant glitter on top and let it sit for a few minutes, while you glue and glitter the other letters.
• Then just lift the letters, tap them a few times to lose any free glitter, and let it dry completely for a few minutes.
• When dry, you can either glue the letter together first by slightly overlapping each letter or gluing them directly to the wreath. I tried both, but working the word first ends up being easier, like in the video.
• Place the XOXO where you think you like it best and add some extra glue where you think might secure it a bit better.

STEP 5: HANGING OUR VALENTINE’S HEART WREATH.

• After you’ve finished adding the felt rosettes and the XOXO, cut approximately a 10-inch length of ribbon, fold it in half, and attach it to the back of the wreath with hot glue to form a hanger.
• Optionally you can create a pretty bow as most DIY valentine’s day wreaths have but I preferred to keep it simpler and let the felt be the main focus.
• You are finihsed