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Pumpkin Design -Tammy

Instructions

  • Using a lighted jack-o-lantern,
  • Using a 10” patented pancake wreath base, add 6 pipe cleaners
  • Cut six 20” strips of 10” deco mesh and make ruffles
  • Lay ruffles horizontally into the pipe cleaners
  • Cut a 3” circle in the center of a styrofoam disk
  • Place the disk on top of the jack-o-lantern with hot glue
  • Place the wreath base with the ruffles on top of the jack-o-lantern
  • Add one of the floral stems, cut the stem, add near the rear center of pumpkin stem, fluff out
  • Determine where to place the bow
  • Using 2-½” ribbon, make a 7” tail, pinch, twist, 6” loop, x4, 7” tail, tie with pipe cleaner, dovetail ends
  • Use 1-½” ribbon, 7” tail, pinch, twist, 6” loop x3, 7” tail, dovetail ends, layer on top of previous loops
  • Use another 1-½” ribbon, 7” tail, pinch, twist, 5-½”loop x2, 7” tail, dovetail ends; layer on top of previous layers, tie with pipe cleaner
  • Attach bow to the pancake wreath base
  • Prep florals by cutting off the stems
  • Begin filling in with other florals in between the mesh into the pipe cleaners and into the styrofoam at an angle, hot glue
  • Trim the next 2 floral pick stems, add one next to the center floral, the other on the opposite side, hot glue and fluff
  • Continue with some of the filler florals into the foam, hot glue
  • Take the next floral spray just behind the center floral piece, spread out, hot glue in
  •  Trim the next pick and hot glue into the center front (in between the two floral picks)
  • Trim off the various other picks, sprays, greenery and continue adding them to empty spaces with hot glue
  • Optional: make some funky bows by cutting 22” of 1-½” ribbon
  • Fold in half,  pinch half was down, flip one of the tails to front, place in one of the pipe cleaners in the ruffles
  • Repeat & make 2 more funky bows; place in every other ruffle