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Hi! This is Ginny with Simply Beautiful Crafts on behalf of Expert Village and today, we
are going to make a Victorian Valentine Wreath. To make a Victorian wreath basically you need
ribbon that is very elegant, may be very ruffly and embellishments that have a Victorian look
to them. For this wreath, I chose these colors. I found these wonderful buttons and I also
have some ribbons and bows. This was actually a Christmas ribbon but it does not have to
be for Christmas. It worked very well for this Victorian valentine. If you have a wired
ribbon especially, just want to fold it, put your ribbon through from the backside, coming
over a joint, bringing it all the way through. When your ribbon is much wider than your opening,
if you want to leave these little puffs, hold it with your thumb and then put it back through
again. Don’t be afraid of the ribbon, remember you are smarter and stronger than the ribbon;
good lesson I have learned many years ago. Put it through, bring it back, going all the
way around until you have completely covered your wreath, you have all the little puffs
that you want everywhere that you want them and before you secure it in the back, go ahead
and straighten out your puffs so that you do not have one that may be like this, would
be too big and you would want to pull it on through. Once you have it just the way you
want it you are going to secure your ribbon on the back by putting a bead of glue on a
seam, hot glue, you may have to fold or crease, your ribbon so that it fits without showing
from the front, secure it for a few seconds and do it to the other side. Once you have
your ribbon all the way through, it is time to embellishment and this one I chose to put
these two together and put one of them behind and one of them in front giving it a little
bit of a 3D effect, but you want to lay your embellishments around, play with them, get
the balance that you want. Once you have it just exactly like you want it, take your hot
glue gun and you can either glue your embellishment or you can glue the pretzel, put it on there.
You need to know exactly how you want to put it because it does dry, does cool very quickly.
Then when you are finished you can take some baby’s breath or some little paper roses
and put them around. Last thing you want to do is to make a bow. I made a single loop
bow for this and that is lovely with the wire because you can fold it and it will be exactly
the way you want it to be and then to hang it, I just took a little piece of gold braid
and made a loop for the back, secured it with hot glue and then it is ready to hang as soon
as the glue is cool and there you have a very delightful Victorian Valentine Wreath.