How to make a Halloween Wreath with tulle and spooky lights

hi Lori here today we are going to do a tulle wreath and it's gonna be Halloween themed I had someone request this and I thought it would be a lot of fun to do it you can see it here in the background so the first part of my video somehow was lost so I'm just gonna kind of reshow you what I did in the beginning and then the rest of the video will go normally but you'll get to see what it looks like before we start all right so let's get started okay so what I used is I have a 14 inch frame from the Dollar Tree I have tons of tool I had all the different colors you'll see after I show you how to cut this up I'll have it all piled up here I have black purple orange and then I got these a lot of these little sparkle tools from the Dollar Tree they have a lot of the Halloween colors out right now so I have an orange sparkle a purple Sparkle and a black struggle so I got all those from the Dollar Tree but I wanted to show you especially since it got cut and it was just the very beginning part of what I did so I just want to show you so you just take your tool now tell you the great thing about tool is if you get it on sale like it Hobby Lobby you can wait they'll put it on sale 50% off and a big roll like this it's like four dollars so it'll be like two dollars it does take a lot of tool but it's worth it it's really cute it's a super great way if you're pretty new at Reese or if you really kind of like that filmy look it's really pretty and I can tell you since I've already got it just how much I used so I used three rolls of this and the purple the orange and the black I used three rolls of these sparkles and I used I had another really pretty one that I got from the dog tree and I use three of those so this is what I did so this is my seven inch little cardboard piece and I know someone had told me they didn't think this would work for tulle but I want to show you that does so all you do it's the same thing like you would do with ribbon you just start at the top and then you just twist it just like this and it absolutely does work your tool it does not slide off even the sparkle one so that's all you do and then I just slide my scissors in here to the middle and cut it off and just like that I have a bunch of tulle cut so see it works perfectly great for this now honestly I think the thing that takes the most time with tulle is cutting it all up so these are all cut at 14 inches that's what I did for the entire wreath so I'm going to cut all these up well I didn't cut all these up but that's what I said when I did it originally so when I come back oh and I want to show you how that loaded on one time but when I come back you'll see all the colors already cut up so what you do is you take your tool and you just kind of bend it over like this see how I have my finger here in the middle you go to your wreath form and you put that middle part in so that it leaves a little hole a little circle and you pull it through and what I do is I will put my two ends together and pull it that way I make sure it stays straight I wouldn't worry if it's not exactly straight because tools pretty forgiving I'll show you that one more time just take a piece of tool bend it over just like that make that little loop right there take that loop run it beneath the frame open your hands up and then put your tool at the ends together and just pull tight that's all there is to it this is super simple and all I did was alternate colors all the way around it's just it's really fun and as you'll see at the end I'll oh dude this one up with lights so that's one of the things that I like about tool you can put lights on it and it just looks really cool okay well I'm gonna go on to the next part I hope you enjoy it okay so as you can see I have a ton cut so I may not need all this but I just went ahead and cut a whole bunch up because you really do use a lot when you're doing a tool wreath and I want mine to be full so what I'm gonna do is I'm going to take each piece that I cut up and I'm just going to kind of bend it in half like this I'm gonna go into my frame and I'm making a little hole and then I'm just going to push my mesh through it and pull it out so I'm not too worried if they're not exactly the same length because if it looks messy at the end you can just come and trim it that's why I make it just a tad longer just in case because it can be very difficult and time-consuming to make sure that every single one is just perfectly straight but that's a personal preference so I'll do the same thing I'll grab another one fold it in half go through make my little hole put the mesh in my fingers and pull it through and that's all we're going to do I'm just going to alternate colors all the way around I also have some small ones that I'll do the same thing with some have sparkle some don't but that's what makes it interesting so I won't put I don't have as many of the ones that have the little sparkle as I do just the regular so I'll just kind of intersperse them and the main ones I'll use is the orange the purple and the black and then I'll just alternate some of all these different colors as I go through so see I have some short black some of this black that's down here is sparkly so I will like grab one of those and put that on but first I'm going to put I'm going to go back to orange and I am NOT going to go in a sequence so I'm not going to go orange purple black I'm just going to kind of alternate the colors but I want to try to not put two colors right next to each other if that makes sense that just kind of gives it more interest okay so now I'll do it purple hey little Bella just like this so I'm just going to keep going all the way around the bottom doing this and when I get done I will come back and put in ribbons periodically because I don't have as many ribbons as I do with the mesh I said mash I'm used to mess with the tool so I will put those on kind of at the end so I'm going to keep going around and when I get done I'll come back and show you what I'm going to do next but it'll be the same process I'll do the same process here and same process here in the same process here so I'll be back shortly when I get done with this bottom winner okay I've gotten the first layer on and if you haven't tried tool before I think this wreath is a is going to be a good example of why it is a lot of fun it is very different it is a little time-consuming but look at all these priests sparkly colors that you can get with the tool I like that so I just wanted to show you I'm going to start on the next layer here so I just wanted to go through it one more time I'll probably do it again with these two layers but I just take my tool that I've already cut I fold it over like this and I'm gonna run it through my frame and make a hole and then I'm going to pull it put my little ends through it and just pull so you're just making like a little Slipknot so and the way I'm doing it is I'm just kind of alternating colors I have some Sparkle and some just regular I just do the same thing put it through there's my hole stick my tool through I try to make sure my ends are even and then pull like that so once again fold-over have this little piece see it has a little oh I'm just holding it in between my finger and I'll slide it underneath open up the hole and pull this part three then it split tight so just have hope well it through and tightener so that's all you do it's really easy it is not a difficult one to make it all and if you're just starting with Rhys this is actually a really great way to do it because tool is very inexpensive as a matter of fact some of this tool I even got from the Dollar Tree this tool look at that isn't that cute it has little spider webs on it this came from the Dollar Tree this came from the Dollar Tree so you know and the other part I got from Hobby Lobby and I will wait until they have a sale forty or fifty percent off and then I'll go get some because it's really inexpensive so I'm gonna keep going on this layer and then when I'm done I'll come back and show you what that looks like it's gonna be a lot of fun I have some fun things we're going to do once we get all the tool on I have something cute for the middle and I think we're gonna do lights in between the layers because one thing about tool is if you light it up it's really pretty so I'll be back shortly alright I have gotten three layers on here so there's one two and three see if you see from the back I did three one two three now it's really pretty and full so I thought I don't really need to do the fourth layer so this is the idea that I had and you can get this in several different colors but I thought it would be really cute to put a spiderweb right in the middle so I have a purple one I have an orange 1cr this cute and I have a black one now this one is from the doctrine it's really big so I mean it would kind of squash it if you wanted to do one this big I probably would only do two layers but as you can see this makes of a really full reeds and it's really pretty it's got all this sparkly color I thought the other thing we could do better I got some of these cool white lights and it has a battery pack and if you would do something like this you would want to do cool cool lights because you certainly won't want something to catch your wreath on fire that would just be terrible now you can't get lights from the Dollar Tree and it would be fun to use those but I wouldn't leave them on for a long time because they would they would tend to get hot so let's see I think I probably need to grab a battery for this yep okay let me grab a couple batteries and then when I come back we'll put some of these lights on and attach one of these and then we'll be good to go okay I got some batteries and our lights are working now but I kind of want to put it in the wreath and then I'll show you so what I'm going to do is I am going to push this tool up so I can get down to the first layer and I'm going to take this so this is the battery I'm going to take it back here and I am going to attach it in between the second and third layer so I'll just take one of my handy zip ties and this already has this cool little bow thing that you can use to tie so I'm gonna go to a crossbar I'm just gonna tie it on so now even if it hangs down you're not gonna see it so now I will take my lights pull them through all right so now what I'm going to do is just push that second layer up have the first layer down just like this and you really could do this as you're making this wreath but I just didn't because I didn't want to deal with the weight of that okay so now all you do is I'm just going to tie it on to these little crossbars so I need my small my name a small zip ties so let me see if I can find them oh good worry okay so I have little zip ties but you know you can just use your regular ones so I'm just gonna tie it at these crossbars here this off okay there we go I'm gonna go to the next one I don't want to tie it real tightly because I want there to be some light where this mesh is so I'll kind of let it do this and go to the next one yeah again just go around not super-tight because I want it to come down here some so that there'll be lights kind of all the way down that's all I'm gonna do is go around and tie these lights on sometimes these little ones can be challenged to work with but okay all right just keep going oh and just to let you know I did not end up putting any ribbon on just because it really was nice and full with all the tulle I didn't really think I needed it so I just left it off but that's up to you you can put ribbon on yeah you okay some of the staff all right so I'm almost done with the first level yep see I'm back to where I was okay so I'm gonna make my last long tie here and then we'll do the second layer yeah all right so now we're going to taste this and we are going to do the second level so I'm going to do the same thing I'm just going to pull the second level down and press the third level up okay this i'ma let them hang out here like this take my old zip ties and tie it to the crossbar now I got these lights these are the cool lights I got these from trendy tree they're really cool they have a lot of different settings this is the 48 LEDs and it's the cool white so it's perfect for this project okay so I'm gonna keep going around tying it to the crossbar then we can put our well spiderweb on and we can turn out the lights and see what it looks like that's the best part okay so we're almost done with our strand it was just perfect for two layers so I want to make sure I'm gonna get all the way around so I don't want it to be too loose so I'll just make sure oh yeah plenty I have plenty to get through the tube okay look at that perfect amount how about that it's always nice when things work out that way and that's perfect because I wouldn't want one on the next level because you'd be able to see it a lot more fun if it's more like kind of hit it alright last one just tight here all right so we've got our lights on so we can put our mesh back down just kind of smooth it out tool is pretty darn forgiving so it should not be a problem even if it gets messed up you can just kind of smooth it back out and then it works great okay here we go all right now that we've got all our lights on we can put our spiderweb on so I'm just going to do the same thing I'm just going to take the spiderweb I'm gonna take my own zip ties here I'm going to tie it right to the frame now I've got orange here I really kind of like the purple better that's just because I'm partial purple but I think the orange stands out more I wish the purple stood out more button the orange kind of stands out more so I'll just take my little zip tie and I will just run it right around just a little spider web and the wire frame just tie it off and then I'll just kind of push it down so you can't really see it so you'd have to get up pretty nervous to see that okay all right so I'll just keep going around doing that this is a really easy simple project to do which i think is why it's pretty much so fun and there are a lot of people out there who work with tools so it's a great product to work with I think can be a little time consuming but there's some fun things you can do with it you know you could use this aid process and put it on elastic and make little dresses won't cost him some things that's fun okay so I've got a couple on we'll do a few more yeah so all I'm doing is going around the wireframe here and around whoops that's backwards and around the spiderweb they're tight okay all right I think that I am actually going to tie this down cuz every time I move it's walking around so I think it'll be better if it's tied down so I'll just take one of these and go around a couple of layers here I'm just gonna kind of run it in between the tool and just tie this sucker down then it won't flop around while I'm trying to work of course you would want to make sure that your button is out so that much better now it's not going to get in my way all right now just keep timing so we're just about done and then I'll turn out the lights and turn on these lights let's see what it looks like I think one more ought to do it and I am using zip ties that are pretty close to this orange color just to help hide it but you don't have to do that they're all right there we go so see how cute that is okay now I'm gonna tell you before I turn out the lights I'll show you the lights that are on here there are several things you could do you could glue things on to the tool on the outside here that looks really cute you could do eyeballs that would be really cute you can do eyeballs in all of that I love these little eyeball fuck out these I think Oh a tree but you know you could put like eyeballs in here look at that so cute okay you could put eyeballs out here you know along the mesh you could do yeah other spiders of course and I'm not a web but you can do another spider out here there's all kinds of little things that you can add to this to make it look really cute okay so I'm gonna turn out all my lights and let's see if we can see those flashing oh look here you could also add I got these which lights from Hobby Lobby but you can add little witch legs too that would be really cute and a little witch hat up here oh that would be cute all right here we go all right you cut this on I'll turn the last light off there it goes this is kind of hard to see since I have off of the lot it's off but that's kind of odd you see what little likes let me turn at least one light on so you can kind of see you see how cute that is and how it just comes right through the tool to me it comes through the tool a little bit better than it comes through mesh just because it's it's much thinner so oh this is a lot of fun so I hope you liked it you just have to let me know what you think and what you think about tool you've ever used it and if there is a different method or type of reef that you want me to make just let me know because I will be happy to give it a try alright I will see you again soon have a good time make sure to LIKE and subscribe thanks bye bye