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- To make the base layer of your garland,

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you're gonna start with some floral wire.

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Take about a six-inch length of floral wire,

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and cut it with wire cutters.

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Then, grab one of your leaves and a glue gun.

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On the bottom of the leaf,

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add just a dab of hot glue.

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You don't need much.

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Put your wire into the glue,

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and then pinch around the sides.

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This gives your leaf some dimension.

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It makes it really come to life

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when you put it together on your garland.

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Continue doing this

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with each of the green leaves on your garland,

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and then we're ready for assembly.

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Now that I've got all of my leaves done,

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I'm ready to add them onto a piece of cotton rope.

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Here's how it's done.

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I'm gonna take one of the leaves.

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Hold it with one thumb kind of onto the cotton rope,

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and then I'm just gonna twist.

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Twist it on there,

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and now it'll stay into place.

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Keep going,

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and keep adding leaves.

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The more you add,

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the more you'll hide that cotton rope beneath,

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and you won't even see that it's there.

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Don't worry too much about the order of the colors.

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Just have fun with it.

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It'll look really natural

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if you kind of have a random assortment

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of shades of green throughout.

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Continue going until you have a garland

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that looks like this.

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You will notice that on the bottom,

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there is a wrong side.

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You won't want to show this,

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but because your leaves are so full on top,

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you've hidden that cotton rope,

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and no one will know it's there.

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That's it.

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We've finished the base of our garland,

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and now we're ready to add some pops of color.