Toilet Paper Wreath

The great part of doing crafts and getting ideas from others is that it should inspire you to be creative, yet resourceful with what you already have! I try not to fall into the trap of getting an idea in my head then going off to two craft shops and a home improvement store to buy everything. Thankfully 

this DIY, inspired by Pinterest (https://www.pinterest.com/pin/488781365784508530/), incorporates items I already have on hand.

Toilet paper: we all use them and we all can reuse the rolls. I've seen some really cheesy ideas for reusing toilet paper rolls and I was so happy to find one that wasn't complicated, but beautiful enough to display.

Just because we use plenty of toilet paper doesn't mean we have 10 spare rolls laying around the house for my every crafty whim. After finding the inspiration, I needed to save up enough rolls. It took more months than I'd like to admit to not only get enough toilet paper rolls to use, but to realize that I could stop saving the rolls and move along with the project.

Materials:

hot glue gun

10+ toilet paper rolls

black spray paint

Methods:

1. I flattened the rolls to create the crease for the basic shape.

2. I then used a ruler to mark the rolls where I wanted to cut them. I made them each an inch wide and got 3 pieces out of each roll.

3.Next step is to orient the rolls one ring at a time. I got them all lined up on the floor and hot glued the rolls together one by one.

4. After the first ring is solid, I oriented the second ring and attached it to the existing ring one at a time. Repeat for a third layer and continue for as long and as large as you want your wreath.

5. I spray-painted the rolls black to make it look more presentable and a little less like its toilet paper origins. The nooks for the wreath were harder to reach, so I gave it a good long spray and prayed that it would dry soon despite that heavy layer of paint.

Additional:

By this point I decided to get started on the additional decor. You could honestly do anything to accent the wreath (flower, bow, beads, etc.), which is why I veered from my original inspiration to incorporate that which I already had around the house. I used newspaper, hot glue, and a black button to put together my flower. The hardest part was giving the petals some volume so the flower was more fluffy than just 2-D petal-shaped paper glued together.

I attached the newspaper flower to the wreath using a Velcro sticker meant to adhere posters to a wall, but that's just what I had available to get the job done.

I display the wreath proudly at my front door using an over the door hanger and some string.

I hope this gives you inspiration to make your own crafts using toilet paper rolls, or a wreath, or even a combo of the two.

The only warning I wish to give about this project is that the rolls hit the wood of my front door hard enough to make a knock/crack noise loud enough to make it sound like the door was being slammed. Other than that, I will keep it on display for the foreseeable future!