If you haven’t seen or worked with gorgeous Clematis flowers, have we got a treat for you! I love this lavender clematis wreath because of the big and beautiful florals, and you are going to love working with these wired stems. They help you make them pop right off the wreath. Watch and learn how to use wired florals in your next wreath creation.
Lavender Clematis Wreath Video Tutorial
We have a few different colors but are using a stunning lavender Clematis for our Garden inspired design. There is so much variety of greenery in texture and color that build a gorgeous background for the star of the show, the Clematis. These stunning flowers seem to soar over the greenery and steal the spotlight.
I love working with these pretty Clematis flowers, especially with the movement and drama we can add to our design. They are going to pop up to six inches off the base of our wreath, can you handle that!
As if that wasn’t enough drama, we are going to use a natural looking button leaf hanging bush that adds so much flow. The hanging stem draws your eye downward and adds such a nice, flowy dimension to the piece. Who doesn’t love a wreath that feels like it’s dripping with greenery?
We also use a mini Ivy bush which has a darker green leaf that mimics the dark green leaves that come on the Clematis stems. This dark green is also a nice contrast to the lighter green shade in the hanging button bush that adds such flowy depth and dimension.
You can add a bow if you’d like to the design, but today we are going to stick with florals and have the Clematis be the star of the show. Ya’ll know how much I love my twigs, so we’ll add a few in there to finish it off. Let’s make our own Lavender Clematis Wreath!
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Directions
- Add a wire hanger onto the top on the backside of the grapevine wreath base, twisting the ends tight.
- Take your button leaf hanging bush and cut into smaller stems. Dip the ends in hot glue and add some on the bottom left hanging down. Cut one stem into two pieces and add one on the right side. Cover any hot glue with Spanish moss. Add the third piece in between.
- Add a couple more button leaf hanging stems on the top left area of the grapevine. Hot glue another hanging stem on the top coming down towards the left.
- Cut a few stems from a mini Ivy bush and hot glue in between the button leaf hanging bush on both sides of the wreath base.
- Grab the lavender Clematis bush and cut into smaller stems. Use your wired stems and flowers and “shake hands” with each piece. Cut so it has about a 4” stem and bend into the lower right side of your base.
- “Shake hands” with another Clematis stem and cut the extra length from the stem. Dip the ends in hot glue and insert into the top to trail down over the greenery.
- Take another button leaf hanging bush and cut into smaller stems and pieces. Add a few hanging stems in between the Clematis flowers.
- Cut some more stems from a mini Ivy bush and add into the mix of hanging greenery around the Clematis flowers.
- Let’s add one more Clematis stem in between the previously placed flowers. Cut the extra stem off and curve the stem to come up and over the greenery in your base. Cover any hot glue with Spanish moss and turn your leaves and flowers to face the front.
- Separate the Willow spray twigs and bend them to add motion. Add three twigs throughout your greenery and florals with hot glue.
- Fill in any holes with small pieces of mini Ivy or button leaf hanging stems.
How to Prep a Grapevine Wreath Form
When you are creating a project that uses a grapevine wreath base that you know will end up having a space that will be open as part of your design, decide how you’d like the grapevine to look. You can “clean it up” by trimming off any stray stems or twigs that may not fit into the look of your final design.
I like to keep it natural and not do too much to take away from the organic look. A few extra twigs or pine needles add to the organic and natural look that I’m going for most of the time in my designs. Decide what look you think is best and go for it!
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