Fall Leaf Monogram

I saw the dollar store fall wreath that was posted over at Thrifty Decorating. And I really don’t have that many decorations for fall, so I decided that I wanted to do something similar, just with a different spin. I started with a piece of foamcore from the Dollar Tree, as well as 6 packs of leaves from there.
To see how I went about making my W shape you can click on the tutorial I posted earlier here. I made my W here exactly the same way I made the S in the Crepe Paper Rose Monogram. I just prefer a more three dimensional look. If you want a flat wreath, you can skip the tutorial and just cut it out of foam core.

Start with the foam covered with packing tape

So once I used my packing tape and left over foam on my W, I was ready to start hot gluing. And gluing. And gluing. You get the idea. I started by tightly attaching my first layer of leaves. I guess you could skip this step, but I didn’t want to see my packing tape and foam cushion mess underneath, so I put a dab of glue on each point of the leaf until it was completely covered.

After the first layer of leaves was applied

It really didn’t look that bad at this point and I probably could have considered it finished, but I wanted a fuller, fluffier look. So then I went through and loosely attached my leaves going from bottom to top. I only put one little dab of glue on each leaf at the part where a stem would come out on a real leaf and let the rest just kind of hang freely.

That’s it. I spent $7 on leaves and on the foam core, and ended up with a good size monogram. It was over two feet in size. It would have cost much more in the stores!

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