Easy Valentine’s Day Wreath with Dollar Store Supplies

Neutral Valentine’s Wreath for the Front Door

Today I am sharing how to make a Valentine’s wreath diy in a heart shape in simple neutral colours. I am using wire, faux eucalyptus branches, and garlands left over in my craft stash. The supplies were originally purchased at the dollar store. It’s been freezing here the last couple of weeks as in minus 50C so no craft store visits for me. I am using what I have.

Although I created this cute wreath for free even if buying all the DIY wreath supplies it’s still going to be a very affordable and beautiful Valentine’s wreath diy and amazing Valentine’s Day decor.  I chose eucalyptus because I have some on hand, and love that you could use the all-green handmade wreath on our front door any time of year.  

How to Make a DIY Valentine’s Wreath

I have included an easy tutorial with step-by-step instructions, including the YouTube channel video, so you can make the wreath along with me. Let’s talk about what you can use.

DIY Valentine Wreath Supplies

If you don’t have the exact supplies on hand as always I recommend swapping out whatever you can. Don’t have coat hangers, use thick wire, don’t have floral wire or floral tape use green pipecleaners or twist ties instead. If you don’t have fabric ribbon use burlap or cut lace. I’m sure you get the idea. Here is what I used

Step 1 –  Make the Heart-shaped Wire Wreath Frame

Form the Wire into a Circle

If you find a wire heart-shaped wire form, take the easy way and skip this step. Otherwise, I think I found the perfect way to make a Valentine’s Day heart shape form. We start by forming the wire into a circle.

Take any heavy gauge wire you have on hand, and make a heart-shaped wreath form, I used two wire coat hangers. If you’re using a wire hanger, cut the ends off where it’s twisted, straighten it as much as possible first, and then mold it to the bowl.  

The first step is to create a circle with the wire about 14 inches across. I used a metal bowl as the template to form my circle. The solid bowl acts like a form and gives you something to press against. Use duct tape to adhere the start of the wire and then work the wire around the bowl to form the circle, adding duct tape as you go along.

Once you have the circle the way you want it to connect the first two wire ends. The hanger wire is strong so do your best to twist the hanger wire together first, then use craft wire wrap and secure the ends together. Then to prevent it from sliding add a bead of hot glue, and finally some floral tape.  

Once you have a circle with the ends attached carefully remove the wire from the bowl. Add more wire wraps as needed and remove the duct tape.

Form the Wire into a Heart Shape

Once you have a circle with the ends attached remove the wire from the bowl.

Now we will form the Valentine’s heart shape.  Begin with something stable like a nail pounded into wood or the corner leg of a chair. Find the spot almost straight across from where the wires are attached and slowly push it in against the nail.  Work the heart shape with your hands to smooth it as much as possible. It doesn’t need to be perfect.  

Once you have a circle with the ends attached remove the wire from the bowl.

Now we will form the Valentine’s heart shape.  Begin with something stable like a nail pounded into wood or the corner leg of a chair. Find the spot almost straight across from where the wires are attached and slowly push it in against the nail.  Work the heart shape with your hands to smooth it as much as possible. It doesn’t need to be perfect.  

Now we will form the Valentine’s heart shape.  Using a scrap board hammer a nail into one end, make sure the nail is sure.  Place the end of the wood against something very stable (like the wall).  Find the spot almost straight across from where the wires are attached and slowly push it in against the nail.  Work the heart shape with your hands to smooth it as much as possible. It doesn’t need to be perfect.  I was excited at how well this process worked.

Now we will form the circle into the shape of a heart.  Begin with something stable like a nail pounded into wood or the corner leg of a chair. Find the spot almost straight across from where the wires are attached and slowly push it in against the nail.  Work the heart wreath form into a heart shape with your hands to smooth it as much as possible. It doesn’t need to be perfect.  The best part is how great this worked, it made me happy,

Step 2 – Adding the Eucalyptus Greenery

The rest is both an easy craft and a great way to spend some time on Valentine’s Day crafting.  Set one branch of eucalyptus aside. Do not attach the eucalyptus to your heart-shaped frame yet, but shape each branch of the eucalyptus to match the curve of your wreath frame. Continue to bend the eucalyptus to match the bend of the shape of a heart  Valentine frame.  Once that’s done adjust the eucalyptus so that the amount of leaves is symmetrical,  we don’t want the leaves thick on one side and thin on the other.   Adjust the placement if you need to and ensure you have enough greenery.  

Attaching the Eucalyptus to the Wire Frame

Start at the top of the heart where we made it dip in the middle. Attach the end of the eucalyptus stem with some florist.  Repeat on the other end.  

Overlap the next piece of eucalyptus over the previous stem.  Work your way around the wreath base, attaching both ends of each stem to the wire frame.  Work from the top of the heart on one side and then start from the top and work down the other side.  Don’t worry if you have any branch left over, we will bend and trim it at the end.  

Take some floral wire and attach the stems to the wreath every 6 inches, making sure it’s snuck in behind a leaf.

Take some floral wire and attach the stems to the wreath every 6 inches, especially at the top and the bottom of each branch.  For wires near the end of the branches, it’s a good idea to keep them from sliding with a dab of hot glue. Do this for the entire wreath.

I loved creating my own wreath in soft neutral green colors, I think neutrals are a great choice for Valentine’s Day decorations because they can be used any time of the year, and if making a gift you could give it to a man or woman.  

Step 3  – Adding The Pretty Ribbon Hanger and Final Tweaking

I first considered using some leftover burlap ribbon, but still have some sage green ribbon I am obsessed with so I used it instead. Instead of creating a hanger on the back of the wreath I did something a bit different to this Valentine’s wreath.  

Begin by tying the ribbon around your wreath, secure it with a knot,  then make a loose knot an inch above the first one. Ties a second knot.  Finally, leave a six-inch space and tie the third loop with a knot.  Make Cut the ends to make a small fishtail.

Make a long bow by folding a piece of ribbon six inches both ways, secure it with hot glue,  then to di 4 inches both ways, and secure it with more glue.  I had to use the ribbon I had on hand so I then glued the ties to the back of my ribbon before securing it around the middle with a piece of wire.  Once secured feed half the ribbon meaming 1 tail and two looks through the first loose loop you made.  Thats it.

Because the Valentine’s wreath was made using inexpensive eucalyptus branches it could be that many of the leaves are facing backward showing the unfinished or unshiny side.  As a final step take the needle nose pliers twist the leaves around at the stem, and/or secure them with hot glue.  This final part makes your wreath look more polished and only takes about ten minutes to do.

 

If you prefer to watch a full tutorial showing step-by-step instructions and working along with me, I have created a YouTube tutorial for you as well.

If you prefer to watch a full tutorial showing step-by-step instructions and working along with me, I have created a YouTube tutorial for you as well.

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