Rustic Wood Star Fall Wreath

This past summer I purchased two rustic wooden stars at a garage sale.  Mostly because I liked them so much but I had no idea what I was going to do with them.  So they have sat in my craft room for months just waiting for me to make something with them.  Then inspiration struck – with the help of Pinterest of course –  I have decided to use the smaller of the two rustic wooden stars as part of my fall mantel display instead of a round wreath.  This month for the Monthly Craft DeStash Challenge I have made a rustic wood star fall wreath.

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Rustic Wood Star Fall Wreath

 

The wood used to make the stars was very rough.  I could have sanded them down and painted them but I just liked the rustic quality of the stars just the way there are.  I have decided to use the larger wood star as a future Christmas project so for this month’s project I used the smaller of the two rustic wood stars.

 

 

The only items I purchased for this project was a sunflower floral stem, a fall leaf floral stem and orange raffia ribbon from the Dollar Tree store.  Everything else I had on hand.

 

 

In my stash I had some small natural cat tails that I used last year on my fall mantel display in a vase.  These cat tails had originally been used at my niece’s Hunting Themed Baby Shower so they have been recycled many times over by now.

 

 

So I started the bouquet for the star wreath using some of the cat tails first.  Using small gauge floral wire I wrapped three stems of the cat tails together combined with a sunflower floral stem.   Then I used a heavier gauge floral wire to wire the mini bouquet to the star.

 

 

The last few steps were to cut several lengths of raffia and tie them together in a bow and then attach the raffia to the star with floral wire.

 

 

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