30 Days of Handmade Gift Giving Blog Hop ~ Day 2

HI everyone and welcome to the 2nd day of the 30 Days of Handmade Gift Giving Blog Hop!  If you came here from Jill's blog over at the Scrapoholic then you are in the right place!  I am so thrilled to have been asked to be a part of this hop.  I am actually thinking of having a "handmade" Christmas this year and making all my gifts (except the ones to my kids).  We'll see if I can do it:-)  I think I can!
My first project for today is something so simple and fun to do!  I just recently got into making wreaths and my friend Nancy and I are going to make a bunch of ribbon wreaths for gifts this year.  I am excited to get started.

I only have this one photo of the wreath so I'll just walk you through how I did it below. 

• I started out with some foam tubing that I bought from Home Depot.  I wrapped it in a circle then secured it with lots of duct tape.  (I wouldn't actually suggest using the tubing for all your wreaths as it made the wreath a little flimsy but in a pinch it's good to use and a little bit more inexpensive than the foam tubing from the craft stores.)
• From there I went to the craft store and picked out some yarn I thought looked good together.  For this particular wreath I wanted fall colors as I gave it to my sister in-law for her birthday last week.
• I then wrapped the yarn around the wreath, I found it best to hold the wreath in my knees and just wrap.  I did this while watching my favorite tv show so it was kind of fun to do.  When I was done with each color I just tied a knot on the end and then started with the next.  
• After getting all the yarn on I tied the ribbon to the top for hanging.
• I then started looking at putting some embellishments on it.  I knew I wanted to do a couple of felt flowers and I cut those out with my big shot using some dies I had and added some buttons from my stash. I also added some felt leaves cut with my big shot.  I thought about adding some more but I just decided to leave it alone and not go overboard:-).

My next project is to learn how to make flowers on my own out of felt, I need to watch some tutorials on how to do that, let me know if you know of any.

I hope you enjoyed my wreath today.  Be sure to check back tomorrow on Jill's blog to see who the next blogger is with another fun project.