I was taking down my Valentine’s Day decorations this weekend and realized I had a serious lack of St. Patrick’s Day décor to replace them with. Namely a wreath! I decided I better fix something up and quick – so I made up this new Lucky Shamrocks St. Patrick’s Day Wreath!
One of my favorite things about my Sweetheart Wreath was the little pearls in the jute and so I added some snazzy gold beads around the wreath, to go with the gold glittery burlap. I added a sweet little rainbow pennant too – because you really need a rainbow over your field of shamrocks don’t you think?
It’s so fun and colorful – perfect for adding a little Irish to your front door this month!
So here’s how to make your St. Patrick’s Day wreath!
Materials:
- 12″ foam wreath
- burlap – mine is gold glittered but any neutral will work – about 1/2 yard
- green felt in four shades – about 1 square of each color
- rainbow colors of felt or fabric – small scraps
- gold ric rac
- small pins
- gold beads – two sizes
- glue for burlap
- thread to match felt
Cut your burlap into 3″ strips. Glue the end of the burlap to the back side of the wreath and begin wrapping.
Continue wrapping the wreath with burlap. Make sure the strips start and end on the back of the wreath.
To make your felt shamrocks, cut out small heart shapes from felt. You’ll want to have an open “V” in the bottom of each leaf. For the larger shamrocks, cut out two sizes of leafs in two different colors for each leaf.
To make the leaf, layer the smaller leaf on top of the larger, lining up the opening at the bottom. Fold the leaf in half and sew the opening closed with little tiny stitches. You can glue this too if you’d like.
Make three or four leafs per shamrock. Most of mine have three leafs but I had to add in couple four leaf clovers for luck too!
On a couple of my shamrocks, I added a little stem. I glued the stem to a small circle of felt for the base. For the center of your shamrock, you’ll be using a small straight pin and a gold bead.
Glue or sew the three shamrock petals to the base and stem.
Finish the center of the shamrock with the little gold bead. This will make it super easy to add your shamrocks to your wreath, and also make it easy to change out if you ever want to!
Make up a bunch more shamrocks in different sizes and colors. Some of my smaller ones have just one layer.
Pin all the shamrocks on the bottom side section of your wreath, with gold beads in all the centers.
For the pennant, cut out several triangles of felt in rainbow colors.
Glue the triangles to a length of gold ric rac or something similar and tie a little bow on each end.
Pin the pennant to the top of the wreath, opposite the shamrocks.
To finish off the wreath, add pins to your smaller gold beads. Pin them into the wreath.
Add more pins until you have as many as you’d like. These add such a fun sparkle to the wreath!
That finishes it off!
I just love the way the gold beads look with the shamrocks! So cute.
I hope you’ll give it a try!
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I think all decorations should come with mini bunting! So cute!
I absolutely LOVE this! Can’t wait to make one! Thank you for the inspiration!!
So festive, Bev!! Another beautiful wreath. Ooh, and that mini bunting is perfection!!
xo
Gorgeous! I’m pinning this now!
This is such an awesome wreath. I love, love, love it!!!
I love this! Your directions are so clear and easy to follow! I can’t wait to make this.
i LOVE love too! Went right out this a.m. with supply list, almost have everything….Where did you find the glitter burlap and the gold beads….i couldn’t find either at HobLob.
I’m so glad you like it Shelly! I found both the glittered burlap and the gold beads at Jo-Ann’s. I had also considered painting gold glitter polka dots on the burlap before I found the beads – I think it would be cute that way too if you can’t find the beads. I hope that helps! :)
Love this. Trying to figure how to decorate this to use for Chistmas also. Any ideas?
How fun!! Maybe you could change out the shamrocks for little snowflakes – or even just felt flowers in Christmas colors? Then you could do a red and green pennant, or whatever colors match your Christmas décor. Thanks!
Thanks so much! i will be off to JoAnn’s first thing in the a.m. sooooooo excited!!!!
Eeek! I’m excited too!! I’d love to see a photo when you’re done! :) :)
okay, i found that AMAZING burlap…it’s beeeautiful. However, i couldn’t find the beads. Did you find them in the jewelry section or elsewhere? I looked in the kids crafts to but no luck. That’s all i need and then i will assemble and be happy happy happy to share a pic. :-)
Well shoot! I did find them in the regular jewelry bead section. I hope you can find them, or something similar. I think any small gold beads would work! Sorry you’re having to make so many trips!
well…i sure don’t mind going to JoAnns….it had been awhile. The Burlap selection is WELL worth another trip….i had no idea how much of a variety has come about. I plan to go to another JoAnn’s tomorrow…gladly. Were the gold beads on a string hanging or in a package? i hope i am not being to much of a pain by asking all these questions. :-)
Soooo cute! What a lovely idea! I also have a shortage of St. Patty’s Day decor! Thanks for sharing!
I need to DIY a wreath, I always buy them but all of the DIY ones look so much cuter!! Love those shamrocks!
PS stopping by from ECC, I’m their new blog assistant! :)
Oh, Bev, this is just UBER cute! We don’t decorate really for St. Patrick’s Day (I don’t know why), but I totally need this wreath. The gold beads MAKE it! LOVE!
So pretty–pinned!
Hi,
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Super cute! I love the shamrocks and the gold beads!
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Love this thank you for sharing.
I found this cute wreath on pinterest and I knew I just had to make it. Snow Day=Craft Day at my house and just finished making it. Turned out so cute. thanks for the great idea
LOVE this wreath and the 3 of us in my craft club have started it, but we too are having trouble finding the gold beads. Were they in a package? I have found other colors similar to it, but no gold. Even online. We tried buying some gold Mardi Gras necklaces and cutting them up but that was a mess since the string is glued into the bead. Just wondering if you found them in a bag or were they on a strand? Thanks
Hi Lia,
I’m sorry you’re having trouble finding the beads! I found them on a strand in the jewelry section with all the other bead strands – I believe they were at Jo-ann. You might also try looking on Etsy, I found several shops carrying gold faceted beads that looked like they’d work. Hope that helps!
Bev
This is such a bright, cheery project! I have included it in my latest blog post: http://abusylittlebird.com/easy-craft-ideas-for-spring-celebrations. Thank you!
Beautiful project. Just changed my decorations over this morning. I have a grape wreath up my Mom made for me.
This is such a pretty wreath, Bev! I love the little shamrocks and the rainbow banner. Thanks so much for sharing at Project Inspire{d}.
The gold beads do add the snazz! This post will be Featured at the next Merry Monday party. Thanks for sharing.
This is so cute & colorful! Thanks for sharing with Merry Monday – I’ll be featuring your wreath at our upcoming party. See you again next week!
This is so beautiful! Congrats – you are one of our featured guests at Inspire Me Monday at Create With Joy!
I love your simple and elegant, yet fun and festive design! Thanks for the inspiration!
I love this wreath, thank you so much for your tutorial. Looking forward to putting it together.