Spring Goth Wreath

Hey ghouls and creeps! Spring has sprung up here in the PNW, which consequently has me itching for vibrant blooms paired with pastel skulls! I love how this wreath makes you do a double take, because at first glance you may miss the three pairs of eye sockets gaping right at you! If you are a fan of the macabre in a Spring friendly color palette, this project is for you! Let’s get started!

I rated the Spring Goth Wreath project as easy! This project can easily be constructed in a day to provide some spring flair to your decor or front door! Some skills/ techniques required for this project include X-Acto knife cutting, painting, floral bush trimming, wire wrapping, and hot gluing.

Step 1: Skull Cutting and Painting: Mark a visible line down the center of all three skulls behind the temple and jaw hinge.

Then take your X-Acto knife and carefully cut along the marked line of all three skulls.

Using sandpaper, sand down the seamed areas of each skull. The most visible seams on the skulls I purchased were located inside the mouth and on the top of the skull.

Once my surfaces were mostly smooth, I then began applying paint to each skull with a foam brush. In total, I applied 2 coats of paint before I was satisfied with the paint coverage. Allow the paint to dry in between coats, and then follow the manufacturer’s instructions when allowing to dry after the final coat.

*Disclaimer: I decided to paint the yellow skull white after comparing color to the yellow blooms going on the wreath.

Step 2: Floral Prep: While the skulls are drying, take your floral bushes and snip the flower heads off with wire cutters. When cutting, I made sure to leave a roughly four-inch wire extension on each flower. This will be used to attach to your wire wreath frame!

Bend the wire extension right at the bottom of the bloom for all your flowers.

Step 3: Wreath Making: Taking floral wire or floral tape, begin attaching your flowers to your wire frame. Simply wrap a piece of floral wire or tape around the stem to the wire frame.

As a way to make sure that I had enough flowers to cover my frame, I attached my flowers in clusters using the perpendicular wires on my frame as a reference. This technique was also helpful in positioning the different colors evenly throughout.

Basically, any clusters created on the right half of the wreath were mirrored on the left side. Make sure to leave gaps in the floral for your skulls later! To do this, I divided the wreath into thirds. One skull at the center top and the other two a third down on each side.

To help maintain the wreath’s shape, I hot glued the sides of my flowers together.

To attach the skulls, hot glue the surrounding flowers to the sides of the skull.

There may be some gaps surrounding the skulls, simply fill any gaps or areas lacking fullness with additional flowers. Hot glue these flowers to the sides of the nearest skull

Congrats, you’re finished! Hang your new wreath in your home or on your front door for instant springy-goth flair!

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