360 Floral Easter Grapevine

Grab your 18” circular shape grapevine.
In your 4 directional spots on grapevine, NSEW, add pipe cleaners. Fill in between those pipe cleaners as well, creating 8 total spots. We will use these to add some depth and texture throughout the grapevine.

Grab your burlap mesh and drop to the floor - measuring from chin to my belly button to cut my lengths.
Repeat for 8 pieces of burlap mesh. (Creating about a 17 in. piece of mesh)

With your burlap mesh, you will curl in your cut edges inside and tuck it in - about a curl and ½ on each side. Then walk the rest together and make a pinch to make it look like a butterfly. This is a CRUFFLE = (Curl + Ruffle). You will connect to keep smooth and frayed sections as to not be seen.
You will add them to all of the pipe cleaners on your grapevine, some inside, some outside. It will be a full grapevine when all said and done, so don’t stress about placement.

Grab your mixed greenery spray and cut off ends with stem cutter.
Break into sections to add into grapevine. Working clockwise as you dip your spray into hot glue, and place into grapevine throughout your mesh cruffles. The variety of greenery in each section of the spray is so fun.
Fluff your greenery throughout as you insert.
Insert sprays at an angle, careful not to poke through the back of your grapevine. This provides security and protects the door from being scraped from wires of sprays.

Eyeball where you will add bow - it will need big loops to clear the depth of the mesh and greenery combined.
Grab your 4” buffalo plaid ribbon to create your bow with a moderate length tails. With ribbon, squish together, loop from back to front, squish again, twist, and make another loop from back to front, being sure your loops are the same length and tails face the front.
Come over the top with your 2 ½ ” bold bright orange ribbon, pinching at center, and repeating the steps above to make your next layer of bow. You will have 4 loops of orange when complete.
Grab your pipe cleaner to secure in the center to hold your handmade bow together.
Tip* Leave a long end and short end of pipe cleaner.
Adding the bow to the top of the grapevine, simply place the longer side through the grapevine, coming over the top to meet the shorter side, and twist together to secure. Trim the excess pipe cleaner. You can use a zip tie if you prefer to hold the bow together instead. Have your ribbons pop from the greenery by adjusting where needed. Don’t forget to add dovetails to the ends of the orange ribbons. Curl and fluff to your liking.
To make your slightly smaller second bow, repeat steps above. Place on lower right corner of grapevine. Fluff greenery and stems to your liking to add texture.

Eyeball where you will add your sign. (Left side of grapevine.)
Using cable tie mounts and a staple gun, you will attach to the back of your sign with a cross pattern in your staple placement. You will do this on both sides of your sign. Twist to secure.
Attach to the grapevine by pulling one side of cable tie mount through the grapevine to meet the other side. Twist and secure.
Repeat on the other side of sign, being sure not to pull too tight and have the sign pop off. This gives you the best farmhouse look to your 360 Floral Easter Grapevine.

Grab your blue water resistant flowers from Michaels and cut from the spray. You will add throughout your grapevine adding pops of colors. Blue is in y’all.
If by chance you lose a stem, like me, add hot glue and insert into the center of bow.
Using the angles of the grapevine and hot glue, insert the stem all throughout, filling in any bald spots. Eyeball where you think it works best. Have fun with it.
Grab your orange floral bundles, leaving your stems longer so they stand out, to add some pop and dimension.
Repeat steps to add to your grapevine, drawing you in with all of the colors, textures, and dimension. Remember to break up the blue and make it flow.

Since your bundle of carrots are foam, grab a BBQ skewer to poke into them creating yourself a carrot pick. Trim skewer if needed, remembering to hold both ends. Dip into hot glue and add to grapevine.
Check your symmetry throughout.
Add a second carrot bundle pick to grapevine.
With your orange ribbon, create some fun tail streamers to accent. Take the pipe cleaner in the center, leaving 2 long ends to secure to grapevine. Trim ribbon tails leaving aout 1 inch of border from greenery. Dovetail and fluff greenery around “The guts.” Repeat a 2nd time, and 3rd time if necessary, keeping symmetry.
Fluff your ribbons, your bows, your greenery, your cruffles, and fill in any gaps you find.
Tip* If you need a spot in your grapevine, use scissors to carefully part a hole into the grapevine itself, by wiggling the tip of the scissors back and forth. Remember, not too rough to keep your grapevine in tact.