How to Make a One Mesh Flower Wreath with Breeze Mesh |8in Dollar Tree Frame

[Music] hey I'm Lori welcome to my Channel today we're going to be doing something super fun with one of these small wreath frames from the Dollar Tree so this is the little 8 in wreath frame from the Dollar Tree and we're going to do something really fun with it and we are going to be wood burning our mesh I want to do something with a kind of petal and and in order to do that I'm going to Wood burn the reason being is that the edges are going to be exposed and with mesh with deco mesh these edges will start to fray so you can use a wood burning tool like this this is just a plaid wood burning tool to cut it and then it will singe the edges so that it won't Fray like it would if you don't so one important thing to have prepared is a tempered glass in order to do the wood burning because it would cut right through your table your mat anything and everything it will burn I also like to use my little hot shot to put it on because it is so easy to drop these and then they will burn a hole in your carpet your floor whatever you have so I can tell you from personal experience that it's happened to me so make sure you have something to put it on so what I'm going to do is put it on top of my mat that has my measurements and then I'm going to use my wood burning tool I'm going to find the 10 in spot so this is 10 in mesh and I'm going to cut it at 10 in so you want a square so if you have 10.25 mesh you want 10.25 for the squares I'm going to cut the whole roll up using this wood burning now these come with lots of tips I like the one that has the little point on it because I find it really does a great job with the mesh and it does it pretty quickly and be careful you don't touch any part of the wood burner because except for this part because it will burn you okay so I'm going to cut up this whole roll and then and we're going to get started so you can see how it sent es those edges so that it won't come out if you have some come out just kind of trim that off okay I'll be back in a minute okay so since we have our mesh cut up we're going to get started so we're going to do be doing um Petals on the bottom this petal's been around a long time um I believe I first saw it on the noble touch she has some really great videos of petals and so what you're going to do is you're going to take your 10-in piece okay so this is your factory Edge this is your burned Edge you're going to pull it lengthwise and then you're just going to overlap these in the middle kind of pinch up and then you can either go across like this which I think is what we're going to do so I just kind of looped it across itself and I I am going to use little rubber bands so I can do this and then I'm not having to try to do them and tie them on at the exact same time okay so we're going to do a few of these okay so the other way you can do this petal is like this so you can pull it straight in like this okay and then you have kind of cut Edge and cut Edge or if you pull it across like I did then you have the cut edges or kind of the little curl Parts together so either way it looks really great so just like that so I'm going to make all of these into the petals and then we're going to put them on our little wreath here now we are going to be using zip ties on here so you can go ahead and start adding in some zip ties on here and if you don't want to use the rubber bands you can go ahead and put them down right on the frame so I'm going to show you one of those and then I'll do the rest of these off camera so you make it just like the other ones okay but instead of putting it in a rubber band you're just going to go to your frame kind of hold it and then tighten that zip tie so you can see just how cute that little petal is okay so I'm going to make the rest of these and then I'm going to come back and we're going to start loading them onto our frame okay so before I put everything on I have all my little pieces ready I'm going to take a piece of plastic mesh and I and I am going to basically measure this inside Circle here okay and cut this out doesn't need to be perfect just needs to be roughly the same size okay then I'm going to take this and I'm going to zip tie it to the center you could also use pipe cleaners or wire but I do find the zip ties to work pretty well that's pretty easy to get through the little holes and I usually attach it in three to four places usually four just because I want to make sure it's going to stay in place okay I'm estimating I'm probably going to need about six in each section so I'm going to go ahead and load on some zip ties and then we'll kind of re-evaluate and see if we need more so there are three sections so that's about 18 [Music] pieces what I do is kind of push the end kind of underneath that second layer right there like just kind of take my zip tie place it inside the zip tie you can see how it is underneath that little wire you should still be able to move them so don't worry too much you'll be able to spread them out or push them closer together yep kind of thought that would be good so it looks like six is a great amount to put in the section okay so I'm going to put the rest in this other section and then we're going to put a few in the second section okay so we have the first layer on isn't that so pretty now don't worry if it doesn't look perfect because we're going to be putting two other layers on it and you're really just going to be seeing the outside of this so we're going to take and put another layer on and what I'm going to do is I'm going to put it in between the ones that I have right so one here one here so on and so forth I'm going to do the same procedure I'll take a zip tie go around just this one bar what this is going to do is going to kind of cover in between these petals and just fill it in a little okay so like right in between those that it's going to go on top and that's where it should be remember you're going to be covering this as well this is going to make a beautiful wreath so this is definitely going to look like a flower okay so this time it'll be more like four in each section instead of six so we're just kind of building on top of the previous [Music] layer so you can see just how pretty this is you cannot see the frame except for this little part in the top but we're going to be doing something to correct that so we did um 18 of the Petals on the bottom and 12 on the second layer okay so now we're down to the last layer and so we're going to take our last of our flower petals and we're going to put them in the center so that's why we added the mesh and you can either do zip ties or you can do pipe cleaners so if you want to do zip ties you're going to run your zip tie up through the mesh it is a little bit more challenging just because it's on the mesh itself there we go and you have to tie it up a little bit higher if you want to use pipe cleaners you're certainly not going to need a whole one and you would take your pipe cleaner tie it around your petal and push it through the m like that okay so that's the pipe cleaner way I kind of like the pipe cleaner way so that's the way I'm going to do mine I find it a little bit easier than trying to do the zip tie in the middle and of course I have my rubber bands on here already sometimes I have to redo the rubber band okay here we go this is going to be so pretty right so you'll roll use your whole roll of mesh but you're only going to use one one mesh I also like to use the ones that tend to want to curl up the most on the top because it's going to force them to lay down a little bit so if you have some of your petals that really just want to kind of curl under they're perfect for the center so you see how this one wants to curl under so when I pull it down I'll just pull that out and then it will stay up and it won't go down so now we're going to look at what we can do to the center there's a lot of different ways that you can make centers for these pretty flowers now I don't think I told you this before but this is the breeze mesh so it is a lot less expensive and you definitely have to burn it because it will Fray very badly if you don't okay so one of the easiest centers is to take a ball so you can either use the whole thing or you can cut it down the half or you can buy a half one this one is about a sixin ball okay so one option is to add a sign right in the center so this is a sign we're going to be using in a wreath very soon the other option is the ball we're going to cut this in half so these generally have a line where they are from a mold so I can use that to start where I'm going to cut it it just kind of helps me keep it in half okay a serrated knife works really well for styrofoam and what I do is I kind of I find that it's easier if I kind of go around and get my line established and then start just kind of working my way down now you can use a styrofoam cutter one of the electric knives but they smell they can be difficult to use and they create a lot of fumes so honestly just if if you have trouble with this you can buy them already in half you can see it's kind of messy it's not going to make a whole lot of difference though because you're not going to see that and if it bothers you that it's not smooth you can take some you can take a sanding block and just kind of sand off any of the pieces you can see it will sand off nicely and it'll get rid of any of those little bumps but honestly I don't really care because you're not going to see that I just wanted you to know in case you wanted to so you can see that's going to fit on there perfect okay so let's talk about what we can do with this Center the first thing you can do is you can paint it and glitter it so I have this glitter called brown sugar that would look so cute you can also take yarn and cover it with the yarn which this is super simple to do you can take rope okay so this is kind of a juk rope and you can see just like doing a little ornament you just glue it all the way up you can use flowers and you just glue the little stems in so you just take them out and you just pop them in like this and then you put that in and you have a flower center so there is a ton of different ways deco mesh and go around you can take Deco tubing and go around so you can take just some Deco tubing and go around it so this comes out super cute you can also take Fabric and go around it so I even have some of this fluffy fabric see if that could go around around it and you could do felt so felt is also a good option okay so a felt Center so any of these options are great you could also use little colored foam balls that comes out super cute so all you would do is just cut off a little piece of this and glue it right onto your Styrofoam ball what I'm going to do is I'm going to use this really pretty yarn I really like it because it has a lot of different colors and so it'll be perfect for spring okay so I put it on my spinning board it just makes it a little bit easier for me to work okay and I'm going to start by putting some glue down now I'm using low temperature glue you do want to use the low temperature glue so you don't burn your fingers and you don't make a problem with the styrofoam so see I can just kind of run my line turn it [Music] around this okay there we go right so once you get it started you don't have to do every little piece but you definitely want to do a few okay make sure it stays kind of taut to the line before it I like to keep it on this board this Lazy Susan so I can kind of go around and make sure it's staying in place where I want it to okay so you can see how it's looking [Music] okay you're just going to do this all the way around till you get to the top go for and then I'm going to trim it off probably more than I need I'd rather have too much okay then I'm going to go around in a circle and before I completely tie it I'm just going to check and make sure that it looks good I'm going to cut it off about right here and then I'm going to take a little pair of pliers and I'm going to kind of push that little piece into the styrofoam there we go now we have our cute little circle and so what I'm going to do to keep this in place is I'm going to take some Greening pins okay so these are just little metal pins that work great with styrofoam okay so you can see what they look like they're just little pins okay I'm going to make sure I have it in the center okay and I'm going to flip it over I'm going to go ahead and put one down kind of in the center just to keep it in place now I can start taking pin I'm going to put a little glue on the ends of them and they'll go right down through that mesh and right into that Styrofoam ball okay all right if you have any trouble you can always use your pliers to kind of push them down in this works really great with styrofoam you can even go across the bar like that and we're going to cover this up so don't worry too much about how it looks because we're going to cover that back oh look how cute that is okay so want to make sure I have it on there securely cuz I don't want it to fall off okay there we go all right oh that's so cute look at that see how cute that is now if you have any pieces you need to adjust you can do that so for the back I used to just take some felt and just cover the back but now I like to give it a little more structure so I keep these Dollar Tree foam boards around and these little frames come two in a pack so I'll just take the second one I'm going to just outline it okay and then I'm going to cut it out so you you can cut these out with xacto knives I like this xacto knife because it has a handle it makes it much easier to get around curves I just find it a lot easier to work with so I don't push exceptionally hard because this these will cut your mat even though they are self-healing they can kind of cut them up a little so I generally just kind of turn it around the back and kind of fix it okay I've got some felt from the Dollar Tree and all I'm going to do just cut a piece of it so this is I think an 8 in circle so we probably need to cut it around 10 in okay then I just take my glue okay I just stretch it across certainly doesn't have to be perfect you're just covering the back okay and this will stretch so you shouldn't have to worry too much about the edges okay so you're just trying to make it nice and neat and clean and it'll keep anything from falling out so all the ugly pieces will be here on the inside and you aren't going to see that cuz it's going to be facing the inside of the wreath this also helps if someone has a glass door you really don't want to see all the mechanics okay there we go all right then you're going just trim off what you didn't use but when you're doing these you want a couple inches on the sides to kind of glue it over then you can just cut off the excess okay all right now we have a nice piece to go on the bottom you see how nice that's going to look so what you can do is take an ice pick or an all and pocah hole through for something like this I will tend to use an ice pick because it is a little bit bigger but I keep an ice pick and an all in my room in here so it'll pop right through it is Styrofoam in the middle I can take zip tie and I'll go ahead and push the zip ties down through the styrofoam okay then I'll just run it under the frame it tight it [Applause] down so and under the [Music] frame so now we have a nice clean backing okay so you will see the zip ties you could get zip ties of the same color if you would like to okay right so before I come do this last one I'm going to take a pipe cleaner I'm going to make a little hanger so I'm just going to run it under the frame I'm going to do it kind of on either side of a cross bar so that way it kind of won't slip around just like that and then on the other side you can do this before you put your thing down but I generally just kind of do it at the end there we go so I just Twisted it on itself okay put this under right all right there we go one completed flower all right let's take a look okay so here's our hanger in the back and then here's our flower oh how pretty is that isn't that pretty look how pretty even from the sides it's pretty all right I hope you enjoyed that let me know what you think and make sure to comment and like And subscribe that's my dog she's sitting right behind me hi baby all right and I will see you in the next video I do upload several times a week and I also go live on uh most Fridays so I hope to see you soon bye y'all [Music]