For anyone else wondering how to make a wine cork wreath I thought I'd include step-by-step instructions and pictures.
Supplies are pretty simple - 250ish corks (yeah, I know. And did I have any left when I was done? Sadly (or not) yes. How many bottles of wine have we drank, you ask? I guess more than 250!), hot glue (lots), and a straw wreath form. Since I had all the corks the supplies cost me a whopping $6.
I started by covering the straw form with corks laid end to end. Just put some glue on the cork and stick - easy. I didn't want to end with an orderly-looking wreath but I did it so that when I started gluing them haphazardly the straw form couldn't be seen underneath.
I started on the outside of the circle with the wreath laying flat on the table so that the wreath would sit flat against a door when complete. I also sorted my corks before I started and only used ones from cheap bottles of wine or ones that didn't have neat patterns on them because this layer would get completely covered up.
Hard at work
A few layers in
The straw form completely covered. There ended up being 7 rings. The one on the outside took 24 corks, the inner one took 14. If you like the way this looks, you could be done.
But I wanted to end with a scattered effect. I now started using the nicer or decorative corks I separated at the beginning. I began gluing corks at any angle that gave a flat spot against the underneath layers on which to glue.
I just pieced them in like a puzzle and worked my way around the circle.
The finished product! The straw form had twine holding the straw together so I looped a piece of wire through the twine to make a hanger.
All in all, the project took about 3-4 hours. A pretty easy way to recycle and redecorate!
