How to Make a Golden Magnolia Wreath
Make a Golden Magnolia Wreath
A gold magnolia wreath is a very rich addition to your holiday decor, be it for Autumn, or for Christmas. In my part of the country, the leaves don’t turn colors and fall off the trees, they just dry up and fall off. That includes the magnolias. When walking with my husband the other day, I noticed so many magnolia leaves which have turned brown and fallen to the ground. They don’t look nearly as pretty as the shiny green ones still on the trees, so I knew I would have to do something with them to give them a little “lift”. I decided they would look beautiful painted a metallic gold.
I used a straw wreath for my base of my wreath. Just in case any of the base showed through, I wrapped it with gold ribbon and secured it with an S pin. 
I gathered the leaves off the ground and then painted them with Krylon Premium Metallic Gold Paint. I only painted the top of the leaves. The fuzzy bottom of the leaves don’t take paint well, and I really didn’t mind if the brown undersides of the leaves were to show. Then it was time to get out the glue gun and go to work. I glued the leaves onto the wreath form, and kept adding leaves until I was happy with the fullness. 
I hope you enjoy my golden magnolia leaf wreath, I will be using it throughout the Fall. I think I will add some red to it for Christmas.
Love this Chloe! I emailed it my mom. She lives in FL and has a magnolia tree. She loves gold too! I”m going to ask her to bring me some leaves at Thanksgiving.
Thank you Dawn. The leaves are all over the ground, I am thinking about making chargers with them too!
I love magnolia trees and bringing a bit of them indoors is such a great idea. Isn’t it amazing what you can achieve with a simple can of spray paint!
Thanks Sandra! I love experimenting with gold and silver paint.
Beautiful! Magnolias are a favorite, and I LOVE the gold. I’m so happy gold is back in style. For a while it was all silver, and I missed the warmth that gold brings to decor, especially at Christmas. Thanks for sharing your lovely creation.
Chloe, this is beautiful! I miss the magnolia trees from the South now that I’m in Seattle. A couple weeks ago, I even begged people on Twitter to send me some leaves just so I could make a wreath.
Sadly, no one took me up on that offer, so I’ll have to just admire your beautiful wreath! Thank you so much for sharing this with us at Thank Goodness It’s Thursday. Pinned and tweeted!
From one wreath love to another Chloe, this is amazing! I am drawn to its simple elegance and the fact that it an easy DIY! That is right up my alley! I am pinning this super pretty project! 🙂
Thank you so much for your complements and for pinning! I love my wreath!
This is sooo pretty! Thanks for sharing! I think it would be great for my new linky party starting this Saturday at 8pm called “Found & Foraged” Can’t wait to party with you at http://www.houseofhipsters.com
Thanks Kyla! I will head over to share on Saturday!
OK, I truly really super love this. I had high hopes this year of grabbing and preserving the magnolia leaves when they were still green and making all kinds of great Christmas decorations with them…and of course the brown took over before I had the chance. I would never have thought to break out the spray paint! And this looks so beautiful. Amazing job & thanks SO much for sharing at Found & Foraged!!
Laura, I have the same problem, the spray paint was the answer!
I am so happy you stopped by our linky party! I hope you will come by the Found & Foraged Linky Party next week too! (Saturday @ 8PM CST) It is so fun to party together:) http://www.thebigrevealblog.com!
Thank you Grace. I will try and stop by again!
Gorgeous! Gorgeous and gorgeous some more! Thank you so much for linking up at Found & Foraged! Pinned! Hope to see you again Saturday night at 8PM!
Thank you Kyla! I will try and head over on Saturday!
Beautiful does they stay for long time or not My mom have a lots plants there in Fla would love to make one I save this for do it when i go there is beautiful one
Such a great idea Chloe! I love magnolia leaves and the gold makes them so glamorous!
From one Floridian to another Chloe I know exactly what you are talking about. The Hubs just planted a Magnolia tree finally (he is the one with the green thumb) It’s about perhaps 10 inches tall, I have big hope for it. I always loved Magnolia leaves and like to use them in decoration. Your wreath is absolutely gorgeous and very inspiring. Absolutely stunning!
Thank you so much Edmee!
This is beautiful and seems easy enough. Thanks for sharing!
Thank you Pam!
What size straw wreath did you use? Have 2 Magonolia, one with very large leaves and one with the smaller leaves. (dwarf tree). Love your wreath.
Thank you Sara. My wreath was 18″ across. Good luck with your wreath.
So kind of you to respond. I will post outcome.
Fabulous job, and I love this color. I wish I had access to magnolia leaves. I love this post. Thank you!
Excellent art work Chloe.The procedure is easy to understand and all that i need is this tree,magnolia tree for the leaves.Am going to try it and post it when am done.