Glittery Advent Wreath

 WOW! December is here! This is Elizabeth form 217 Creations. Besides papercrafting, I enjoy doing floral arrangements. So when my mom asked me to make her a new Advent Wreath, I went crazy with ideas.  It has taken me a month to edit my ideas, but I love the final piece!

  I stated with a metallic charger plate from Michaels. I used 4 glittery green sprigs from Joann for the base of the wreath. I applied many layers of hot glue to hold the floral sprays to the plate.  I then hot glued shallow votive holders to the plate.

Next I cut 4 borders from Ribbons and Rosettes Cricut cartridge from AC Metallic Cardstock.  I had to trim about 1 inch off the 4th border cut to make a perfect fitting around the edge of the plate. I chose the 1 by 11 Border. So to get a full strip I left the sizing at 1 inch. Then I added a 5 more sprays with a more traditional look to fill in and add depth.

 A traditional advent wreath has 3 purple and 1 pink candles to represent each Sunday in Advent (Thanksgiving Sunday to Christmas Day). Boy did I have a hard time finding a sturdy taper in the correct colors and height.  Finally I gave up and chose to use these amazingly glittery candles from Michaels. I have them stand in the holder, I used a generous amount of hot glue to make a sturdy holder.

 Finally I clipped the poinsettas to the candle holder base.  I bought 3 purple and 1 pink poinsetta to represent the Advent Sundays.

Each Sunday as a family, we will light the previous week's candle and the current weeks candle.  By Christmas week, we will have all 4 tapers lit.  Finally on the joyous day of Christmas we will light the center. 

I hope my mom likes my contemporary take on a traditional Advent Wreath.
 Don't those border cuts look amazing?!?!!? It looks like metal!

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