Tuesday, September 6, 2011

Felt Ombre Wreath

Happy not-really-Monday-but-it-feels-like-it!!  Hope everyone had a great Labor Day weekend!  Natalie actually ended up catching whatever Lily had but seemed to be a 24 hour thing for her so she was able to go to school. woo hoo! :)  Mama was getting cabin fever!

I am happy to report that my camera is working!!  I guess the rechargeable battery could no longer hold a charge.  I'll take a $25 battery over having to buy a new camera any day!  So I can finally share a project that I have been working on!

I don't know about you guys but I love the ombre look.  For those of you who don't know what that is it's here's the definition:


ombré



adjective
shaded or graduated in tone: said of a color
Origin: Fr, pp. of ombrer, to shade < L umbrare < umbra, shade

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2010 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
And did you know it was also some sort of card game? Yeah, me either.
Oh wikipedia how I love thee.

Here are some examples of ombre:

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 I LOVE the look on furniture!  Like this piece my buddy Cassie recently did.  I was with her when she bought it and I passed right by it.  I guess that's why she is the furniture guru :)

source
I would love to eventually find a dresser and do the same look.  At the moment though I have no money nor space for a new piece of furniture.  Although if something comes around that looks like the above I may have to make an exception :)
With that said I wanted to incorporate the ombre look somewhere in my decor now, using things I had on hand.

While looking through my felt I noticed I had three shades of white and that's when the lightbulb went off.  I have been wanting to make a felt wreath for sometime but wasn't sure of the look I wanted.  I thought I would try to make an ombre wreath!!

Now I am not gonna lie this was VERY time consuming and at times I wondered if this was a major fail but I plugged on.  And i could not be happier that I did.  About eighteen kabillion circles and 5 glue sticks later (kinda reminds me of this project) this is the result...



The aqua ribbon was my other pal Ali's idea.  I didn't have any solid aqua ribbon on hand (shocking, I know!) so I used this polka dot one instead and I must say I'm in love!!

So what do you guys think?  Am I crazy? Should I hang my head in shame or did I make blogging history? ;)

Linking up over here:
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19 comments:

  1. it looks so cute hanging there! it looks nice and fallish, too, with its warm whites. i made a SMALL wreath with felt once. and it took me for-eva. i am so impressed that you did a big wreath. wow.
    thanks for the shout out, too by the way! get out of my... head. ;)

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  2. You already know what I think!!! It's awesome!! And, I was pretty much genius when I suggested the aqua ribbon. In fact, being my ASFL, I'm surprised you didn't think of it yourslef ;)
    Great work!!! xo

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  3. Definitely one for the history books! I love it! Ombre is definitely a fun trend I'm loving on, too :)

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  4. Beautiful, Andi! I like how subtle the ombre is with the whites. Nice job :)

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  5. Nice work Andi! I love the ombre trend too. My auto correct doesn't like the word "ombre" though. It wants me to write hombre. Which has nothing to do with the subject matter--lol.

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  6. It's SO coooool!!! I love it (and want one for my house now!)

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  7. So cute! It was worth the effort!!! BTW, nice frame in the background.

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  8. It is lovely! Perfect idea using white because it will always be in season! Great job- hold your head up high missy!
    xoxo,
    Amy

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  9. I am attempting to self-ombre my hair by not getting highlights. Its actually going really well, I'm shocked! Luckily my hair grows lightning fast.

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  10. That is awesome!! Such great texture!

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  11. Very cute! I haven't ombred (<< that's right, I turned it into a verb) anything yet, but I always think it looks so great.

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  12. Love your wreath. I bet that did take a long time, but so worth it! Especially like the color ribbon!

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  13. Love it! I wish I had the patience for that!

    Dana
    craftedniche.wordpress.com

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  14. Came over from Craft-O-Maniac and I love your wreath! Totally caught my eye! It's beautiful!

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  15. I love this wreath! And mixing the whites was genious! You can keep changing the ribbon each season to change the look!

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  16. SO pretty!! Would LOVE it if you would share this project at my turquoise lovin' party going on right now!! http://www.sweetlittlegals.com/2011/09/turquoise-lovin-4.html

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  17. Hopped over from the Nester. You had me at felt! LOVE IT! Amazing job! I've got about 2 yards of brown felt that maybe needs to get out of the craft closet and be made into a fun fall wreath!

    Thanks for sharing! Loving your blog!

    Stop by and say hello!

    xoxo, Mallory @ www.classyclutter.blogspot.com

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