Rose Gold tutorial
Secure the reel wire to the copper wreath ring.
Place a handful of moss on one side of the copper wreath ring. Loop the reel wire around the moss to attach it to the frame. The wire should be pulled tight. Keep adding handfuls of moss, using the whole bag until you have covered the entire ring. Leave the reel wire attached ready for the next step.
Take your evergreen foliage and cut the whole pack down to useable sized pieces of approximately 20cm - around the width of your handspan.
Add bundles of the evergreen foliage and use the reel wire to secure it to the copper ring. Ensure you only wrap wire round the bottom part of the stems so the top of the foliage is free to create the shape of your wreath. Layer the next bundle on top of the first bundle, again only wirings around the bottom part of the stems. Keep layering and fixing the evergreens on until you have everygreens around the entire wreath.
Turn the wreath over so you are looking at the back mossed side. Cut the reel wire and fix it back to the copper wreath ring in exatly the same way it was fixed on at the beginning. Ensure it's well fastened so your wreath doesn't fall apart.
Now you have the evergreen wreath base, it’s time to start personalising your design with the fresh rose gold foliage. Cut down the mixed foliage into usable sized pieces. Cut the stems diagonally so the tip is a sharp slant as this will make it easier to insert into the wreath, as well as assist with moisture uptake from the moss. Strip any leaves from the bottom inch of the stem and feed through the evergreen foliage and into the moss base. The layers of reel wire and moss will mean that the foliages are well fixed in the wreath. Keep adding all of the mixed foliages, considering how you would like your end design to look.
Next you need to add an anchor point to each of the decorations. This is done using the stub wires and much easier to see in the video (linked above!).
Thread the the loop of the ball balls onto a stub wire then fold the wire in half and twist the two ends of the wire together. Use the same motion for the script decoration.
Gather together a few citrus fruit slices. The wire will piece straight through the flesh and you can twist the wire together in the same way.
For the whole citrus fruit, push the wire all the way through the fruit using the slits as an entry and exit point. You can then twist the wires together.
Once you have wires on your decorations you can then attach them to your wreath. You do this by pushing the wire all the way through your wreath from the front so the wires come through the moss at the back. When these wires come through, bend them any which way to secure them in place. If you wont bed the wires at the back, they will slide straight out the front again when you lift your wreath up!
To make the bow you can use the stub wire as a base. Half way down the stub wire, place the ribbon and twist the wire together. You can then tie a bow on the wire, just as you would tie a bow on your shoelace. You can tie a second bow from the threads at the end of first one to create a double bow.
You can then put the bow in the wreath in the same was as you did the decorations. You will probably want to tidy up the bow once it is attached to the wreath.
Loop the ribbon through the middle of the wreath and tie in a double knot to create a hook. The length of the ribbon will be dependent on the fixing available on your door. Cut any excess ribbon off and fasten so the knot is behind the mossed back of the wreath.
