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Sun Flower Extender Swag

Instructions

  • Prep your base
  • Cut mesh strips
  • Cruffle mesh and with the pipe cleaner, twist to the bottom of the base
  • Blend together two bushels of flower stems and zip tie together
  • Taking the flower attachment, attach to the bottom of the wreath base
  • Squish wreath base together, but not so much that it makes it oval
  • Take 10 ½ mesh and make poofs starting in the middle of the wreath base
  • Then make poofs around the wreath base on the outer edge
  • Cut 10 ½ inch mesh strips
  • Ruffle the mesh and twist into the wreath base, alternate the colors of the mesh, start with the outside ring and then work into the inside ring of the wreath base
  • Add ribbon strips to the outer ring of the wreath base
  • Dove tail the ends of the ribbon strips
  • Add ribbon strips by humping over the ribbon and trim the tails
  • Prep your sign and attachments
  • Staple twine to the back of the sign and dab with hot glue
  • Staple two pipe cleaners to the bottom of the sign
  • Attach extender to the bottom of the sign and twist pipe cleaner to extender
  • Dab hot glue to secure the extender
  • Bow
  • Layer one: make tail, pinch, twist and make 6 loops on each side
  • Take one long piece of ribbon and add to the bottom of the bow creating a tail
  • Zip tie bow tightly into place and fluff bow
  • Zip tie raffia together and place at the bottom of the sign
  • Tie raffia and bow into place with a pipe cleaner
  • Fluff around the flowers
  • Attach ribbon strip to the bottom of the flower arrangement with zip tie
  • Hump ribbons over the arrangement of the flowers and tack into place