me...giving a tutorial...funny

I am absolutely not a very crafty person. So the fact that I am about to give a craft tutorial is absolutely hilarious to me.

So in just over a week we are moving in to our new house. Which would explain why I'm here, blogging a craft tutorial instead of packing and cleaning. It's called denial. But the thing is, I'm so excited to be in our new house and to decorate it. I have so many ideas that I know I won't be able to use them all. But one idea I am determined to do is have a "Wall o' Looooove" in our bedroom. It will be adorned with hearts, and flowers, and sweet antique romantic pictures and postcards. Although, I keep thinking that if it's our room, other people won't get to enjoy it, so maybe I should put it somewhere else. But then I wonder if people will just think that I keep my Valentine's decor up all year long. Oh, the decisions. But I digress...

I saw this super cute wreath a couple of weeks ago, and I just knew that I had to make it, or something like it. I went to Michaels last weekend for other things, and went ahead and got the materials I needed. They didn't exactly have the felt colors I wanted, so I ended up getting a huge sheet of red, and I'm so glad I did. Because now I know it will go perfectly on my "Wall o' Looooove".

And just so you know how not very crafty I am, so this must be easy to do...one of the things I had to buy while there was a hot glue gun!

So with all that said...here is how I made this here "Wall of Loooooove" wreath.

I have seen several felt flower tutorials, and finally figured out the best way for me, that is quick, doesn't require a lot of gluing, and I like how it turns out.

First cut a circle with your felt. Some people use something to get all their flowers an exact size, but I prefer to cut freely so I have different sizes and dimensions.

Then starting on an outside edge, cut in towards the center making it into a spiral. Make sure to leave a circle in the center. I like to cut it somewhat unevenly so that the top of the flower won't be flat.

Start rolling the felt starting with the outside piece.

Once I get the rolling started, I like to keep my thumb at the bottom of the flower to make sure the bottom stays flat and even. Some other tutorials will tell you that you need to give dots of glue every so often to hold it together. This killed my hand squeezing the glue and took forever. Turns out if you just hold it, it will stay together, then the last step will keep it all together.

You want the bottom of the flower to look flat like this. Then the top of the flower has more shape and character.
When you get to the end and just have the center circle left, use a hot glue gun to put a dab of glue on the last part of the outside of the flower to hold it in place.
Then put the glue all over the bottom of the flower.
Once it's covered, push the center circle over the back, thus holding the flower together. Seriously wish I would have figured out this way sooner, it would have saved me so much time!
And viola! Your felt flower.
The first one that I saw on the blog had a wreath covered in flowers that I loved. But I loved this wreath that I found at Michael's (for about 7.99 I think) and I didn't want to completely cover it. I made the flowers all different sizes instead of like the one I saw that had them the same size (mostly because doing different sizes helped use up smaller pieces of felt) and after gluing on the flowers, I added some leaves to some to add a little more color. And donezo!