Paper Doily Wreath

This one had me a little worried while I was making it, I couldn't quite see how it was going to come together - a bunch of doilies smushed together had the potential of looking like an old lady mess hahahah - and I really didn't want to waste all these Stampin' Up doilies Ronda gave me! Once it was done though I'm loving it,  and even though I made it for Ronda's display table I'm having a hard time letting it go :)

To make the wreath backing, I cut out a 7" circle from a piece of white cardboard, then cut out a circle from the middle leaving about a 1 1/2" ring. For each doily I sort of pinched in the middle and made little bundles, adding a dot of hot glue to the center to hold it together. Then hot glue them onto the wreath base - I pretty much added one to the outer side, then one on the inner, then add in between where there were spaces. Continue doing this for about 3/4 of the wreath. To finish I removed the flowers from a dollar store bunch of white poinsettias, cut the backs down so they were as flush as possible and hot glued in the empty space where there were no doilies. Tie a piece of lace ribbon on to hang. Done!

I used 36 Stampin' Up paper doilies, 3 fake poinsettia flowers, 9" of lace ribbon (also Stampin' Up), about 4 mini glue sticks, and some white cardboard.

Isn't this pretty?

I initially thought I was going to apply the doilies to a dollar store evergreen wreath but didn't like how that looked...

...so I made a ring using white cardboard as the base.  The most difficult part of this whole thing
was separating the doilies from each other - those little buggers are really stuck together!

form little scrunched bundles with each doily and hot glue to the base.