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Mailbox Swag - Mellie Mel

Equipment

  • Scissors
  • Wire cutter
  • hot glue gun or glue pot
  • Mesh Cutter

Materials

  • 1 roll 21" Deco Mesh
  • 2 rolls 10" Deco Mesh
  • Heart shaped attachments
  • 2 rolls 2.5" ribbon
  • 2 rolls 1.5" ribbon
  • Ornament garland or stem
  • Fabric leaves stem
  • 2 Greenery and berry pick 60919
  • 3 Red spray picks
  • section of garland

Instructions

Prep your base.

  • Start with an evergreen garland base.
  • Fluff out the pine needles.
  • Take 1 mesh and make loops covering the top of the evergreen garland.
  • Take 2 types of 10” mesh and cut 4 x 15” pieces of each.
  • Take the mesh and make cruffles by curling in the edges and pinching the middle together.
  • Add the cruffles to the garland base, alternating colors as you go.

Add your picks, sprays and greenery.

  • Add in 2 filler flower bushes on each side of the garland using zip ties.
  • Add in another filler flower bush to the center of the garland.
  • Add in some small glitter ball sprays to the filler flower bushes.
  • Secure it all with zip ties.
  • Add in a glitter heart on each end of the garland using pipe cleaners.

Make and add your bow and half bows.

  • Take 1 ribbon and make a bow with 4 loops.
  • Take 2 ribbons and make a bow with 4 loops each.
  • Layer the bows.
  • Secure the bows with a pipe cleaner.
  • Add the bow to the center of the garland using a pipe cleaner.
  • Fluff out your bow.
  • Dovetail the ends.
  • Take 2 ribbons and make 2 half bows with 1 loop of each ribbon.
  • Layer the bows.
  • Secure the bows with a pipe cleaner.
  • Dovetail the ends.
  • Add the half bow to the ends of the garland on each side.