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    Home » Christmas Decorations And Crafts

    Glittery, Kitschy, Jello Mold Christmas Wreaths

    Published by Pam Kessler | 367 words. · About 2 minutes to read this article. - 31 Comments

    Kitschy vintage styled Christmas wreaths made from jello molds and faux vintage corsages. Sort of like the corsages your Grandma used to wear to church on Christmas Eve.

    I know what you're thinking. It's not even Thanksgiving and she's posting Christmas crud?

    Kitschy vintage styled Christmas wreaths made from jello molds and faux vintage corsages. Sort of like the Christmas corsages your Grandma used to wear to church on Christmas Eve.

    I'm with you, people.

    But those who actually use their glue guns and use their jars of glitter start making Christmas stuff this time of year. They don't wait until the last minute and run around like a mad man trying to find red ribbon on December 10th, like some of us do.

    So I thought I'd put this out there in the blogosphere, so people can get their kitschy inspiration on.

    This is what you need:

    • Bows from Target. $4.00 for 4 bows

     

    Kitschy vintage styled Christmas wreaths made from jello molds and faux vintage corsages. Sort of like the Christmas corsages your Grandma used to wear to church on Christmas Eve.

     

    • Dollar General glitterized ornaments - $1 each

     

    Kitschy vintage styled Christmas wreaths made from jello molds and faux vintage corsages. Sort of like the Christmas corsages your Grandma used to wear to church on Christmas Eve.

     

    • Some festive looking picks (I picked up these picks at a church sale)

     

    Kitschy vintage styled Christmas wreaths made from jello molds and faux vintage corsages. Sort of like the Christmas corsages your Grandma used to wear to church on Christmas Eve.

     

    • Vintage round jello molds or bundt pans. They can normally be found at thrift stores for less than $1 a piece (because no one eats fancy-pants jello any more).

     

    Kitschy vintage styled Christmas wreaths made from jello molds and faux vintage corsages. Sort of like the Christmas corsages your Grandma used to wear to church on Christmas Eve.

     

    • E6000 glue to glue these together -it works really well when gluing on to metal

    For the 1st wreath, way up at the top of this post, I just used two picks and glued them together.

    For these last two, I was going more for the Aunt Bee's corsage from the 1955 Mayberry Christmas pageant look, so I used the Target bows in the mix.

    Kitschy vintage styled Christmas wreaths made from jello molds and faux vintage corsages. Sort of like the Christmas corsages your Grandma used to wear to church on Christmas Eve.

    The "atomic" look of the Target bows is key.

    Kitschy vintage styled Christmas wreaths made from jello molds and faux vintage corsages. Sort of like the Christmas corsages your Grandma used to wear to church on Christmas Eve.

    Of course, you could always use an actual vintage Christmas corsage on these, but then what are you going to wear on your lapel on Christmas Eve?

    Inspiration for this project:

    Erica of Golden Egg Vintage shared some fun corsages that she made with those cool retro looking Target bows. OK, so she uses the word "tacky" to describe the corsages, but I prefer kitschy.

    Shara at Monkeybox had made some wreaths out of jello molds for a Holiday Bazaar recently and I had been thinking about them ever since.

    And Laurel at Chipping With Charm has made something similar in the past, but in a chippy, junky sort of way (junky is a good thing, in this case).

    So I sort of melded the make-your-own-kitschy-corsage idea with the jello-mold-wreath idea and this glitterfest of holiday happiness happened.

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    1. Kerryanne @ Shabby Art Boutique

      November 13, 2013 at 2:28 pm

      Love these Pam!! Such a fun take on the old humble Christmas wreath. Wish I could thrift one of those jello moulds, never see them here in Australia. Definitely sharing 🙂

      Reply
    2. Ivy and Elephants

      November 13, 2013 at 9:22 pm

      Your wreathes are so cute for the kitchen, love those molds and your funny commentary!
      Hugs,
      Patti

      Reply
    3. Olive

      November 14, 2013 at 6:26 pm

      You are brilliant and not tacky. I have been up to my hair follicles in Christmas for weeks. xo, olive

      Reply
    4. 20 North Ora

      November 14, 2013 at 7:59 pm

      Really cute wreaths made out of the jello molds. Really cute.

      Judy

      Reply
    5. Tricia

      November 14, 2013 at 11:08 pm

      You're so clever! I would've never thought to use a jello mold as a wreath.

      Reply
    6. Lara

      November 15, 2013 at 1:51 pm

      Those are so beautiful! And look so vintage, despite the molds being the only thing actually vintage. Brilliant.

      Reply
    7. Ann from On Sutton Place

      November 16, 2013 at 7:39 pm

      I love these! I have never used that glue so thank you for sharing. I always use hot glue and sometimes it just doesn't do the trick. Love your Aunt Bee one!

      Reply
    8. Vickie @ Ranger 911

      November 17, 2013 at 1:08 pm

      I love your kitschy jello mold wreaths, Pam! Do you have a kitchen gallery wall in the making?

      Reply
    9. Erica of Golden Egg Vintage

      November 18, 2013 at 8:23 pm

      What a great wreath! I'm sorry that I missed this post a few days ago. Thank you for the little shout out. Isn't it fun coming up with ways to reuse things?
      Have a great week Pam! 🙂
      Erica

      Reply
    10. Heather - New House New Home

      November 05, 2014 at 7:45 am

      So cute and kitschy!!! You are so imaginative with your vintage finds. Love it!

      Reply
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