Autumn decoration for house entrance - DIY dried flower wreath

You want to design yourself with your Mr Beam Autumn Decoration? Then we have exactly the right tutorial for you! 2021 is well-known Comeback year of dried flowers, so everything revolves around drying flowers in this blog post. - The perfect autumn decoration for your house entrance.

Dry flower Wreath / Input Sign - Tips

For the first part of our Autumn decoration DIYs Have we already worried a finished wreath. Of course, you can also make the wreath itself. For this, you only have to dry suitable flowers and wrap them together with pampas grass around a wreath.

The wreath blanks are available, for example, in the decor requirement or in the hardware store. Incidentally, you can also do it in the floristry dried flowers to buy. Especially suitable are rodanthen (often called sunshine) and dahlias. In principle, of course your creativity, no limits are set, and you can use all common flowers.

Preparations for the laser job of the autumn decoration

Since we want to beautify our wreath with the MR Beam, we have set ourselves to the file creation. For our lettering, we have chosen a suitable font and then manually edited it and the paths united so that we have a lettering as a whole. Please always pay attention to I-points and umlauts. These will be forgotten quickly! It's especially good if you are a font as in our example chosen, which integrates the I-point already into the previous letters.

When the end result, that looks a lot more beautiful. In the run-up, you should best measure the wreath so that the file fits millimeter accuracy. We have already created the lettering in the right size.

The finished SVG file looks like this in our graphics program:

Before saving, we still assured that the area is not filled and a contour is set. Only in this way does the MR Beam software recognize a cutting line, so we do the Cut-out lettering easily can.

Please eighth necessarily For files that you convert the text into paths at the end of the editing. If you forget this step, you get a warning message when placing the design on the workspace in the BeamOS software.

Already knew

If you want to cut a file in general, you must create them as a vector file (SVG or DXF) in a vector greater designer (e.g., Illustrator or Inkscape).

In our Guide to prepare a laser file, you can read everything well.

In the Mr Beam software, the file looks like this:

And then it's already on the lasers! We select the laser parameters, press Start and after about 15 minutes, our lettering is ready for the dryer wreath from finn cardboard. We simply glued this on the wreath and finished ours Autumn decoration for the house entrance.

Other materials for the perfect house entrance Autumn decoration

Of course you can also other materials like Kraftplex, use poplar wood or even our sign material. If you do not feel like creating your own files, that's no problem, of course.

In the Design Store (integrated in the MR Beam Software) you will find numerous chargeable Design ideas you can load directly into the MR Beam surface. In our shop you can buy coins for the design store. 

We look forward to your personal Mr Beam works! Mark you with Facebook & Instagram with our Hashtag #madewithmrbeam. There will be more decoration ideas soon in our blog.