With a bit of sugar and of DIY… The house will shine! Ideas for DIY Christmas decorations

The task of being Santa’s helper is almost over and is it time to think about the last decorations? Have fun creating the Christmas atmosphere you wish for your home . DIY is more than a simple way to save money, it often happens that the manual activity leads to a liberating approach from where ideas, style and creativity come out. Find out ideas for your DIY Christmas decorations that you can hang on the tree , put in the living room and on the dining table !

Are you a minimal and natural elements lover? Your Christmas decorations: elegant DIY wreaths

A style characterized by austerity, geometrical shapes and neutral shades to get an elegant simplicity . Often minimal style combines with the love for nature and its elements and materials; for example you can find plants in bedrooms and in other interiors, wooden surfaces for furniture or the natural stone for walls . If you are fascinated by this harmonious and light world, then delicate and natural DIY Christmas decorations are perfect for you.

Fascinating gold wreaths perfectly match with the colours of leaves. After having collected the most beautiful twigs in your garden, you can make your DIY Christmas decoration with a golden circle and a thin rope . In this case it is better to use a nylon thread rather than hot glue in order to make the natural element adhere to the structure.

The elegant and chic advent wreath : where do we start from? Choose how to match Christmas colours that best represent you to create original colour combinations in your living room and in the same way choose dried flowers and leaves to cover the candles base.

Enchanted spheres to decorate the Christmas tree. DIY tutorial to create miniature edition Christmas decorations

The DilliDalli inspiration, the blog or better the colourful box of creative projects of Francesca , takes us into an enchanted mini world . How much winter landscapes and snow make us dream? Thinking about her passion for mountains, Francesca choose to realise an enchanted sphere as a DIY Christmas decoration for the tree.

Here the steps: after getting a small glass sphere with a front opening, open the Christmas nativity scene box: you will need a bit of artificial snow , some mini fir and a little fawn . You can choose to insert the elements you prefer. Here you are! Putting each character in its place, the enchanted sphere will be ready to reflect the lights of the tree.

A cascade of stars with needle and thread: DilliDalli DIY decoration for showcases, windows and Christmas trees

In this way, Francesca, decorated a showcase of a jewelry store and she assures us that it is a simple chore that doesn’t require much experience with needle and thread. After a short introduction to be sure to realise your decoration in the right way, here is what you need: a sewing machine , a golden card (or of the colour you prefer) and a star-shaped puncher .

DilliDalli advices to start cutting stars with the puncher, or with scissors, and then sew them with the sewing machine leaving about 1 cm of wire between them.

You just need to be a little patient with the sewing machine if you are a beginner and in a jiffy you will have made a stars wreath to decor your interiors.

Look and taste: Christmas decorations for the dining table! DIY centerpiece, place cards and biscuits

An old small wreath can become a good centerpiece! How? With a creative conversion project. Why thrown it away, maybe someone gave it to you and it has an affective value, or maybe it has been replaced with a new and bigger one. And so here you are the conversion : cut the ribbon with which you hung it, place it on a plate and if it is bare, you should decor it with some pine cones and tree balls.

Now you just need to find the candles that best match with la mise en place of the table and… Here you are your Christmas DIY decoration for a good Christmas meal. You can also create place cards with a personalised greeting card : simple sand coloured sachets and red ribbons for rustic style lovers, rustrial and shabby chic .

During Christmas time we are all a little sweeter, aren’t we? If cooking is your passion, indulge yourself with Christmas shapes and bake tasteful ginger biscuits ! Cinnamon, sugar paste, orange peel… Imagine the aromas flavor that will fill your home, and with some ribbons, they can become sweet place cards as well!

What kind of Christmas would it be without lights and bright decorations? The DIY idea to light up the holidays!

Have you seen DilliDalli ’s table behind the cascade of stars? If your tree is full of lights but it is not enough… Convert jars and glass bottles in bright DIY Christmas decorations and place them in your home, wherever you want! You can put them on the bedside table for a romantic atmosphere , on the shelves of the freestanding bookcase to light up the interiors among books and music CDs or on the table.

Provide yourself one or more strands of lights and glass containers of the shapes you like more: transparent or green glass bottles, preserving jars or bigger ones… Now you can decor with snowflakes or other elements the glass of your future Christmas decoration and evenly insert the lights inside. Et voilà, very easy, a bit country style and surely trendy and chic .