Christmas Craft: Everlasting Peace & Joy Boxwood Signs

Every Christmas, one of the most popular and meaningful messages in the Christmas cards I receive is this: peace and joy. The language of the holidays is especially hopeful, so I imagined up a surprisingly quick, affordable Christmas craft that celebrates these happy and merry messages.

Take a look at how I made them after the jump!

My everlasting boxwood holiday signs required 3 inexpensive supplies:

(miniature baby boxwood garland / 12-gauge craft wire / wire cutters)

To start, I decided to create signs in a cursive style. Looking at various fonts online, I decided to recreate the look of the popular Learning Curve font for my wired message signs. My first wired message: 'peace'. 

I unrolled a continuous piece of wire and shaped the letter by hand.

At the end of the last letter, I snipped the wire and it looked like this:

Next, it was time to add the faux boxwood. This step was especially easy because the boxwood garland is wired! I simply wrapped the garland around each letter in one continuous piece and snipped it at the end.

I repeated the same steps for 3 more holiday boxwood messages, so I had 4 total: 'merry,' 'happy,' 'peace' and 'joy'.

The final step: attaching ribbon to the wire backing of the signs. I opted for gold ribbon but almost any choice would look great with the natural look of these holiday messages. 

All told, these 4 wire signs took me about 30 minutes to complete from start to finish...how great is that? They were easy and, best of all, they'll last forever!

(all via Meet Me in Philadelphia)

Peace, joy, happiness and merriment...what's more important than that? 

What do you think? Would you try making your own to add to your holiday decor?

Happy Friday, friends!