Making Christmas decorations with your own hands

The miracle of the New Year is to prepare for it. To create a festive mood with a taste of future magic, the easiest way is to start creating jewelery with your own hands. In the house there will be many unique decorative things that can create comfort and a sense of celebration.

Unusual Christmas Wreath

Elegant wreaths are increasingly entering the New Year decor of apartments and houses. Such a decoration made with your own hands can look very rich and unique. At the same time for the manufacture of a wreath does not necessarily use expensive materials from the store. The original decor can be created from what is already in the house - from natural materials, Christmas tree branches and cones, for example.

The basis of the wreath can be made of cardboard, wire, foam or some other material that can hold a shape.

To make a wreath on a cardboard base, you should prepare:

  • cardboard, for example, from the box;
  • paper;
  • rough fabric;
  • materials for decoration according to your own plan;
  • knife;
  • adhesive tape;
  • gun with glue.

First of all, you need to draw on the cardboard two circles of the required size - one in the other. To do this, you can use two plates of different diameters. Then cut a ring on which you can create a future wreath. For this it is convenient to use a regular or stationery knife.

Care should be taken to remove the inner circle. It is important that during the cutting process it does not break. For simplicity, you can push through, and then cut through it first on one side, and then on the other, if you cannot pierce the circle through in one go.

When the base is created, it needs to be given volume. To do this, you can use a paper or newspaper: crumple up to create thickness and stick it to the circle, wrapping it around with adhesive tape. In the process of work, it is necessary to ensure that there are no noticeable hillocks on the surface of the circle acquiring thickness. Scotch tape should be applied in such a way that each new layer slightly overlaps the previous one.

The same principle should be adhered to at the next stage, when the bulk base is wrapped with cloth. It is best to use burlap or flax. In order for the fabric to have no chance of unwinding, it must be glued to the previous layer with a glue gun.

After the entire ring is wrapped, it remains to cut all the remnants of the thread and sew a loop, for which the wreath can be hung on the door or to another chosen place.

After this, the most interesting begins - the creation of the decor. To begin with, it is necessary to think over the composition, to understand what and with the help of what to place accents.

You can use the cones and ornaments in the form of rowan berries (for example, from a shop for needlework). You can also make roses from felt, and from paper - spruce branches and glue them to the base with other elements. It remains to decorate the wreath with ribbons and beads, and interior decoration to create the atmosphere of the New Year is ready.

People who are addicted to creating various things from a vine or newspaper tubes can also make a wreath on this basis. It is enough to use Christmas and textile toys, cones and satin ribbons.It remains to show imagination, accuracy and patience. Such a wreath can be a wonderful holiday decoration for years. It is enough to keep it in a sealed box, where the elements of the structure will not be confused or broken.

Festive candles and candlesticks

An integral part of the New Year holiday - candles.

Creating Christmas candles themselves opens an incredible scope for creativity. This elegant thing can be made from the remnants of the former or unused candles that are in the household. Remains or old stocks can be put on paraffin chips, and as a wick, use a thread of natural origin, which burns well. In order to have a festive source of fire color, it is not bad to add wax crayons to paraffin.

You also need to have a suitable form for pouring and a container in which the paraffin will melt.

A beautiful and convenient jar, for example, from under a cream, will be suitable for creating a form. You can also use thick paper rolled into a cone. An empty egg shell or bakeware will work too.

If, for example, to make a candle, use a narrow box from under the juice, in the bottom of it you need to make a hole for the wick and fix it with a bundle. So paraffin will have nowhere to flow.(To be sure, the hole can be covered with plasticine).

Before you take up the fill, you should ensure that the wick is located strictly in the center of the candle. To do this, it is fixed with chopsticks (for example, toothpicks), which are placed at the top of the box.

The form should stand on a flat surface. So that the nodule at the bottom does not interfere with proper installation, it makes sense to use a stand with a hole into which the form will enter.

The paraffin melted in a water bath with chips from colored crayons should be added to the form gradually so that each previous layer has time to harden a little (this will prevent the whole mass of liquid material from spreading).

The complete hardening of the finished candle will take time. It all depends on its size.

In order not to miss, it is better to postpone the workpiece for at least a day. Then it will remain neatly removed, after which you can begin to decorate.

The candle can be decorated with coffee beans, beads or beads that need to be heated in hot water and imprinted into the candle in the right places.

Those who are interested in decoupage can use this method of decor in this case too.The candle should be wrapped with a thin paper with a pattern on the New Year's theme, heated with a hairdryer so that the napkin is stuck to the surface.

Even the most ordinary candles can be added with such decor, which will create the feeling of a fairy tale in the room. Homemade candlesticks can be made with children from scrap materials. There is nothing difficult in such work.

It is enough, for example, to take several tall glasses, to install such sources of fire in them and to decorate glass vessels with the help of ropes and beads. String the beads on the twine, wrap around the glasses and fix with glue.

Also suitable for decorating dried pieces of lemon or orange, cinnamon sticks. Interesting items can be made from satin ribbons and lace.

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Creating original balls

It will be interesting to make Christmas decorations with your own hands in the form of balls from a variety of materials: from fabric, beads, threads, and so on.

The “disco” decor of a conventional glass or plastic ball (although you can also take a foam piece) comes out of computer discs. Unnecessary disk should be cut into "fragments" and glue the ball with them.Such decorations can be not only hung on the Christmas tree, but also used for New Year's design of a window opening or a chandelier.

Those who love crafts from beads, easily cope with the creation of a magical shiny ball of such material. We just need to remember that beaded jewelry is rather heavy, so you need to think in advance how to use this craft.

For lovers of knitting is not difficult to make knitted balls. For their manufacture will require the usual stocking knitting needles and thread. Here you can use the technique of knitting jacquard patterns. This can come up with yourself or find on the Internet. A variety of schemes there is full.

Then it remains to tie the ball in a circle, making increases and decreases in the right places. Fill the blank with holofiber and close the hinges, adjust the loop for hanging. Such decoration can be hung on a Christmas tree or make it an element of a Christmas wreath. Also, such things can be a great gift to relatives and friends.

A stylish ball can be made of threads. To do this, inflate a balloon, thread, threaded into a needle and passed through a can of PVA glue, wind this base.Grease the sphere with several more layers of glue, wait until it dries, and then carefully pierce and remove the balloon from the inside. The resulting thread sphere can be covered with sequins or decorated in another way in accordance with the intention of the author of this creation, to attach a loop for hanging.

Balls of thread can be of different sizes: small ones are suitable for decorating a Christmas tree, and more - for interior decoration.

Garland do it yourself

Garland remains an integral part of New Year's design. She can decorate the Christmas tree, hang such a decoration above the windows or doorways, as well as stretch across the room.

Color paper, ready-made plastic blanks from a handicraft shop, beads and even ordinary pasta are suitable for creating such a beautiful decoration.

A garland of felt hanging elements looks cozy. They can be given any shape: Christmas trees, stars, bells, ordinary roundels. You can use the material of the same color or make a motley garland.

If you stitch all the parts in common on a sewing machine, you don’t even need to string them on a thread - they will turn out to be a single whole.

You can make such a decoration of light bulbs, but in this case it is better to have skills in dealing with electricity. To make such a garland in retro style, you will need a strong wire, a plug, several lamps and the corresponding number of cartridges.

To create a garland you need to divide the wire into the required number of parts, trim the ends. Prepare the cartridges: remove them from the top and insert the wires into the base. When mounting, it is better to use parallel bonding: this will not allow the entire garland to go out if one of the elements burns out. Attach a fork to the future garland. Screw in the lamp holders.

Garlands of light bulbs can be used as street decorations, and as a decoration for the house.

And you can simply improve the existing LED garland, giving it more "artistry". This will require egg packaging, scissors, paint, stationery knife and the garland itself.

For decoration material suitable from cardboard trays under the eggs. They make flower buds or petals. It is necessary to cut a sufficient number of elements, cover them with paint and leave to dry.In the middle of each “ceiling” make a cross-cut and put the workpiece on the light bulb. For reliability, you can fix the glue.

Such an improved garland will receive a new unusual style and will be the perfect decoration for a Christmas tree or interior.

Christmas socks for gifts

From the American cinema to the Russian way of life came the way to decorate the room where the tree is installed, with beautiful socks for gifts. Those who know how to sew, easily cope with the creation of such decorations, which are best hung in the fireplace. And if such a furnace is not available, you can place the socks against the wall.

You can decorate as you like. It is not necessary to withstand such things for gifts in traditional red tones for Western countries - colorful ones will do. In addition, on such a sock it is convenient to make any application or decorate this “shoes” with ruffles, rims and snowflakes.

Vytynanki on the window

Vytynankami called paper figures, which often become an ornament for the window for the New Year. You can “draw” whole plots of them on New Year's glass, connecting on one plane the image of the city, the figures, for example, Santa Claus and Snow Maiden with different animals, Christmas trees, snowflakes and so on.

Vytnanki can be made voluminous, decorating the window sill.

If you create decorations for the window, it is enough to use the templates that are in large quantities on the Internet. Liked remains to print on the printer and cut. Creative solutions can be obtained through the development of self-patterns.

Decorating the festive table and tableware

Table decoration is an essential part of creating a festive atmosphere in the house. Even little things create elated mood. For example, a tablecloth and napkins in red-green or white-blue tones are already tuned to the desired mode. If you wrap the napkins and decorate them with cones, ginger chopsticks and other New Year's details, you will get the proper effect.

There are a lot of ideas for home, and most of them do not require much effort to translate. If we decorate the New Year's table, in the center on the tray you can set the composition with the branches of spruce or pine, candles and Christmas balls.

You can also make a stylized herringbone in the form of a cone of paper or beads on a wire, gingerbread houses set on each other, while preparing the table for the New Year's Eve, you can dream of fame.

Crafts in the form of large glasses filled with Christmas tree decorations or beads on the table will also impress the guests. For such things you need to find a suitable place so that they can be clearly seen and these things do not bother anyone. Then they really will be a wonderful addition to the festive table.

An unusually presented bottle of champagne can be a bright accent. It can be decorated with sparkles, put in the center of the composition of cones and branches of spruce.

A nice addition will be creatively designed cards for guests with wishes for the New Year. A bit of colored paper, glitter, foil and warm words, written in written form, - and everyone will be in a joyful mood under one roof.

Beautifully, you can arrange not only everything that is put on the table, but also the dining furniture itself. For the legs of the table and chairs you can knit elegant leggings or sew beautiful shoes. It is not only cute, but also practical. During the holiday, the furniture will probably move several times to make room for the dance floor. "Obuvka" for the table and chairs will allow them to move silently.

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