"Welcome Home" for National Papercrafting Month!

Every January, Close To My Heart celebrates National Papercrafting Month as a way of acknowledging the pure joy of playing with paper! We scrapbook with it, we make cards with it, we decorate with it—in short, we craft with it!

This year, they’re celebrating the joys of paper-crafted home décor with the beautiful "Welcome Home" wreath kit. This kit comes with pre-cut pieces you can simply pop out and attach to the sturdy chipboard wreath base, making a gorgeous décor piece for your home.

 

There are four ways you can get the wreath kit:

1. Buy it for $18.95—no qualifying purchase required!
2. Get it for free with a qualifying $60 purchase!
3. Get it for free by hosting a party that reaches the second level of Hostess Rewards.
4. Get it for free when you sign up to be a Consultant!

No matter how you get your Welcome Home wreath kit—or how many you get—you are going to love how easy this kit makes it to add a little more papercrafted beauty to your life.

Need to see more? I created my own wreath and documented every step, so that you could see exactly what is involved in putting this together - and personalizing it as your own! Here is what you get in the package:

I still can't believe this thing is only $18.95 at full price - I got mine for FREE with my $60 order! OK, first step: punch out all of the pieces (surprisingly easy to do). All of the pieces that form one flower will be grouped together and labeled - keep those together!

Next, adhere the wood-grain circle to the chipboard base:

This is nice already! Then I made all of the flowers. I started with the roses (the white, spiral-shaped pieces). I have a quilling tool that I have been dying to use, so I used that to curl my flower, but you can roll by hand or roll around a pencil or other thin object. Start at the outer-most tip and roll inwards toward the center:

Keep going until you've reached the center:

At this point, you'll want to remove your tool and let the roll spring open. Depending on how tight you rolled it, you may want to spread out the layers a little bit. When you have it looking the way you like, glue the "head" to the base (you can use "Liquid Glass" or a hot glue gun):

You will do this three times:

Aren't they gorgeous?! Next - build all remaining flowers by layering the pieces from largest to smallest and interchanging the colors (if applicable):

Go from above, to this:

Once all of your pieces are glued together, here's what we have:

What really makes your wreath beautiful and dimensional is curling up all of the petals of your flat, layered flowers. I used the tip of my bone-folder and thumb to curl up each petal - this step can be time-consuming, but TOTALLY worth it, as you can see below:

What a HUGE difference! Now, let's put it all together. Start by adhering your banner and roses to the wreath:

After you've done that, adhere all of your greenery (feel free to be creative, but I copied the picture included in the kit as closely as possible):

 Then adhere all remaining flowers onto the wreath (I used a glue gun for most):

Last step - apply your gold accents and lettering:

How absolutely gorgeous!! I can't wait to hang it up - I just need to find the perfect spot so everyone can enjoy it!

I hope that you will take advantage of this month's special - but you'd better do it SOON, because there's only 10 DAYS LEFT!!! After January, it will be gone - so get to my website and grab yours now before they sell out - you won't be sorry!