Balloon Birthday Wreath {Pinterest Challenge Project}

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For this month’s Pinterest challenge, I finally completed a project I’d been admiring for almost a year. I first came across this pin on Pinterest last summer before I even started pinning things and immediately fell in love with it.

Birthdays are a big deal in our family.  In fact, we don’t have birth days, we have birth weeks!!  So I knew I had to make the balloon birthday wreath shared by How Does She.

I’m not gonna lie to you – this project was very time consuming.  Luckily I was able to convince my super fabulous friend Stephanie that she had to make one with me.  We sat down Saturday night with all our supplies and started working on our wreaths.
We used a wire wreath form and tied our balloons around the wire rings.  We also added pipe cleaners and ribbon.  If we were better prepared we would have had a bottle of wine and enough balloons to complete the project.
For some reason we thought we could make our wreath with fewer balloons than the inspiration piece.  Boy were we wrong!!  So Sunday morning we set out to buy even more balloons and a few hours later we finally finished out wreaths.  After 3 different trips to buy balloons and over 300 balloons, our project was complete .
Now that this beautiful wreath is complete, I will say it was worth the time and effort.
I can’t wait until our next birthday celebration so I can hang up my wreath.
And be prepared – if you invite me to a birthday party, I will be showing up with my birthday wreath to display somewhere at your house because I love it so much!
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32 Comments

  1. This is too cute! I’ll have to remember this idea when my little one’s September birthday starts inching closer =)

  2. What a fun wreath! I love how cheerful it is!
    Thanks for linking up this week! I am so glad you did!
    Stacey of Embracing Change

  3. Wow! This is the cutest birthday wreath I’ve seen! I have seen one using just balloons before, but I love how this one has ribbon curls and a banner! Well worth the time:)

  4. Hi Kara!
    Congrats! Your post was the Designer picked Feature Friday crafty items from our Saturday Showcase the past week! You are included in our Friday Feature post! We will be sharing it on our Facebook page, Twitter and Pinterest today! How exciting! We really love this wreath!

    Stop in and say HI! We will also have a new Saturday Showcase starting tonight at midnight! We can’t wait to see what new things you link up!

    Have a super weekend, Susie @Bowdabra

    http://bowdabrablog.com/2012/05/18/feature-friday-top-crafty-saturday-showcase-picks/

  5. Super cute! How did you make the little birthday banner and is it waterproof, for hanging outside?

  6. I Love were wreath. Can’t you tell me what size the bunting triangles are? ITs perfect but I need some help.