We love seashells and we love succulents, so when we saw them together in a seashells and succulents wreath at Gump’s, we gushed! Then we saw the price. And we gasped! So we made our own version and we love how it turned out! Starfish, sand dollars, and shells mixed with faux succulents. Our two favorite summer trends in one!
How To Make This Seashells And Succulents Wreath
Materials:
18” grapevine wreath
1 sugar starfish, 7”
3 sugar starfish, 2½” – 3”
6 sand dollars, 3” – 3½”
4 giant scallop shells, coral, 6” (called “Irish Deep”)
4 large scallop shells, white, 3½” – 4½”
3 flat scallop shells, coral/orange, 3½” – 5” (called “Pecten” or Irish Flat”),
3 flat scallop shells, orange and white striped (called “Pecten” or Irish Flat”), 3”
5-7 various scallop shells, 2½” – 3”
3 white turbo shells, 4”
1 large round artificial succulent, 6”
3 medium round artificial succulents, 3” – 4”
16-18 various artificial succulents (we used 8-10 stems with 2 or 3 succulents on each)
1 bag green moss
wire cutters
floral wire
glue gun & glue sticks
Steps:
1. Hot glue the scallop shells to the grapevine wreath starting with the largest shells first. Layer, tuck, and hot glue smaller shells, turbos, and sand dollars on and around big shells. Hot glue small starfish on top.
2. Fill in the rest of the wreath by hot gluing the largest succulents first, then tucking and hot gluing the smaller succulents in the spaces between shells (we snipped the succulent stems apart with wire cutters).
3. Hot glue clumps of moss into the gaps between shells and succulents.
4. Make a wreath hanger out of wire and secure it to the back of the wreath, twisting the ends together.
We love getting pinned!
We just can’t get enough of these summery materials! Do you plan on making your own Seashells & Succulents Wreath? We’d love to know! It might be cute to make a mini version too!
Cheers,
Jennifer & Kitty
If you love shell crafts, here are a few more:
Seashell Picture Frame
Where do you find the starfish? I love the wreath.
We got them at Hobby Lobby. Joann Arts & Crafts and Michael’s usually carry them too. If you can’t find them at a craft store, you can order them online. Hope that helps! Jennifer & Kitty
This is just beautiful I Would like to make it but one question are the succulents going and how are the in the moss?Please let me know!
Hi Barbara,
We used faux succulents. The moss is real, but it is a dried and treated when you buy it so it doesn’t really age. Does that answer your question?
Jennifer & Kitty
Where did you find succulents at a affordable price
We found some small ones at Dollar Tree. Others we bought at Joann’s with a coupon. They can be very expensive. Did you see where we made our own faux succulents out of pinecones? They look great and they are FREE! Here’s a link: http://runningwithsisters.com/make-your-own-pine-cones-succulents/
Happy Crafting!
Jennifer & Kitty
Thank you for the inspiration! I made my own wreath and it turned out very nice. I can’t figure out how to post a picture though.
Wonderful Laura! You can email us oneilsisters at runningwithsisters.com
We’d love to see it!
Jennifer & Kitty
I tried to send pictures of my wreath but it says I need a email address to up load and send Susan Crabtree let me know how I get the photos I want to use as a shell wreath
We just sent you an email. Can’t wait to see your wreath!
J&K
I love your wreath and all your shell projects.
Thanks Rebecca!
J&K
Super cute. This would be so cute in my beach house.
So glad you like it Keira!
Cheers,
Jennifer & Kitty
Love this wreath. Going to attempt making it. Thank you for sharing. I love anything beachy!
We love it too! So glad you are going to make it!
Jennifer & Kitty