Beautiful Bunnies

Beautiful Bunnies

Welcome back to Mile Wide Crafts.

We are very excited to introduce our first guest blogger today. KC does beautiful work using a wide variety of crafting media and techniques. Today she has brought us two absolutely adorable wreaths that are perfect for spring.  This is KC’s first blog, so let’s give her lots of likes and shares to encourage her to write more. Without further ado, here are KC’s bunny wreaths.

Floral Bunny Wreath

Spring Bunny Wreath

Floral Bunny Wreath

So, my first attempt at writing a “blog,” albeit as a guest blogger… I wanted to try something different than my usual sewing/photography/baking projects and was inspired by some Spring/Easter-themed wreaths that I found on pinterest.  The first is a fabric flowered wreath, which I added bunnies to so that it would be more Easter-ish.  The second was a bunny wreath that I adapted a little bit.  

Step one:  Choose Fabrics

Fabric Options

 I went through my piles and piles of fabric, trying to find colors and patterns that I liked which and which also went together in some way.  I decided to go with more pinks and blues, with dashes of yellow.  Purple just wasn’t really speaking to me that day. 

Step 2: Find templates

Floral Stencil

Ribbon Inspriation

I looked around for something to pattern the flowers with.  This stencil that I used to paint the pantry seemed like a good place to start.   The ribbon’s spool also gave me some inspiration.  I traced both on a variety of fabrics, mostly at random.  I also did some free-hand shapes.  You’ll be able to tell which ones!

Step 3: Stack cut shapes

Cut shapes

Stacked flowers

Once I had a bunch of different sizes and fabrics cut out, I started stacking them.  With some, I placed the smaller shaped directly (mostly) aligned with the larger shapes. With others, I used the same size and shape and just offset the petals.  I like both ways.  I also cut out centers, because I forgot that I had planned to use buttons for that.     

Button Centers Added

Step 4: Stiffen the flowers

I realized that the flowers were going to be too floppy for the wreath and, since I was being lazy and didn’t want to run to the store AND I already had some spray adhesive which I had used for another project, I decided to use up some more of my more sturdy scraps.  I used the spray adhesive to adhere the flowers to the backgrounds.  I thought that using a variety of colors would add interest, even though the background is really not supposed to be seen.

Stiffened Flowers

Step 5: Wrap the wreath form

Wrapping the Wreath Form

I had two ribbon options and chose the green plaid.  Of course, I didn’t have enough, so I ended up using both.  I’ve found that mistakes almost always add interest to my projects, no matter what I’m working on! 

Glue in small sections

I very loosely glued the ribbon in place. I only glued about 4” at a time so that the glue wouldn’t harden as I was wrapping the ribbon.   

Step 6: Place the Flowers

I placed the flowers where I thought they looked best and used pearl-headed straight pins to attach button centers.  Then, it was time for the bunnies!

 

Flowers pinned in place

Step 7: Make the bunnies

Bunny Ears

Bunny Parts

There are lots of tutorials on how to make pompoms, so I won’t repeat those directions here.  I made 4 large and 4 small pompoms with the softest yarn I could find.  Then, I cut ears out of felt, bought small white pompoms for bunny tails, and hot glued all of the pieces together.  I had googly eyes, but decided that the bunnies were cute enough without them!  I hot glued the ears, the body parts, and the tails together.   

 

Completed Bunny

 

Bunny with Friends

 

  

Step 8: Place the bunnies on the wreath

The last thing I had to do was glue the bunnies on to the wreath.  I realized that they were a bit heavy, so I added some extra ribbon in the back for support.  I used floral wire as a hanger.   

 

Extra Support for Bunnies

 

Completed Floral Bunny Wreath

Spring Bunny Wreath

The spring bunny wreath was much less complicated. I bought a 6” inch wreath and an 8” wreath, and wired them together using floral wire.  Then, I hot glued some fake flowers on for ears.

Wired Wreaths with Ears

After that, it was just arranging more fake flowers until I liked what it looked like, then hot-glued them in place.  I’m not entirely sure that I’m finished yet, though.  I might add some flowers to the head and/or a ribbon around its neck.  Hmmm…. 

 

 

Completed Spring Bunny Wreath

Many thanks to our guest Blogger KC for her beautiful bunnies.

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