St. Patrick's Day Paper Shamrock Wreath

Super easy quick craft for St. Patrick's Day - you could pin this up somewhere, make into a card and send to someone, use as decoration for a party, prop in the windowsill, make a few of them and put at everyone's place setting for your corned beef dinner...really it's just a little thing that can be used numerous ways. Have fun!

I punched out little hearts from white, darker green, and silver glitter paper (all from Stampin' Up but use whatever you have!). Lightly trace a circle on lighter green paper, lay out the hearts in patterns that look like overlapping shamrocks and glue down on the circle so it looks like a wreath. Mine ended up being 4 leaf clovers more than shamrocks cuz I messed up on the placement and it was lopsided! Whatever, it's still cute ;) Embellish if you want with sequins, I added a little ribbon because it was just laying lonely on my craft desk and caught my eye. Sometimes it's hard to say "enough is enough" and I just keep adding things!

Sending this to Ronda for her seasonal display table, we'll see how she uses it!

St. Patrick's Day Indoor Wreath

I found all the supplies to make this cute wreath at a dollar store - check out how simple and inexpensive this is to make:

All you need is a styrofoam wreath, pre-cut foam shamrocks, ribbon for the bow, something to hang it with (I used a zip tie, you can use anything - a chenille stem, ribbon, twine, wire...), and adhesive (I used hot glue). 

I wanted the wreath base to be flat on the side where I was gluing the shamrocks - not rounded,  so I sawed the styrofoam wreath in half with a serrated knife. If you can find one already flat on one side get that, it was kinda messy sawing the styrofoam but it's totally do-able.

Attach whatever you are using to hang it with at the top, and tie on a long piece of ribbon at the bottom before you start gluing on the shamrocks. 

Lay down the first row of foam shamrocks, alternating colors and which way they are facing and glue them down. Add 2 more layers the same way. 

To finish, tie or knot the ribbon however you like. I looped it back and forth 4 times and tied a small piece around the center to hold the loops in place.