Christmas Room Decorations :)
Hey there!
Haha, so yeah, I kind of haven't posted anything on here for a while, so I'm sorry. To tell you the truth, I've just been having kind of a busy few weeks.
Anyways...today, I wanted to do kind of a bit of a light blog post, so I wanted to talk (write) to you guys about something close to my heart...winter! Now, I know, generally not too many people, at least where I live, love winter. I moved over here just over three years ago, and I guess I'm still not really tired of seeing snow.
So, without wasting another minute, I want to share some exciting news with all of you! I'm starting a winter series :) Every week I will posting a winter/Christmas related blog post. Yay :) I do know however, that most of my views come from people who just happen to come across my blog, and over half of the others come from sites that are trying to spam me with views (I know who you are), so a lot of you will not have even read my old blog posts. Seriously, if you're reading this right now, please, please, please follow me! For every Blogger follow, I will happily give you a free Twitter follow! All you need to do is tweet me @SarTheBear22 with #FreeFollowBWS, and answer the question that will appear in bold at the very end of this post.
Anyway, I'd like to start off this winter series with one of my most awaited posts, Christmas Room Decorations! I'd just like to say, two of the ideas in this post were taken from YouTube channels, which I will mention below. Alright, let's get started.
1. Christmas Shadowbox :) (Inspired by MacBarbie07/@BethanyMota)
Materials:
Shadowbox
Acrylic Paint (Colour/colours of your choice)
Glue Stick/Glue Gun Glue/PVC Glue/Tape
Stick-on Letters
Christmas Fillers
Scrapbook/Cardstock paper (One Sheet)
Fake Snow (optional)
LED Tealights (optional)
To start off this craft, you're going to need a clean surface to paint on, and to lay out the rest of your decorations. Also, for the materials, I would recommend going to a local craft store, like Michaels, to buy your materials. Michaels is a little pricy, however, when I went out, I had a bunch of coupons, so I saved over 50%. I would recommend that if you are going to Michaels, bring some coupons.
Step One:
Get out your shadowbox and some of your acrylic paint. Now, when choosing what colour you'd like to paint your shadowbox, remember to consider your Christmas and winter colours. Don't go for a neon pink, rather choose a red, a green, or, like me, a pale blue. Also, try to coordinate the colour that you're going to paint your shadowbox with the colour of your shadowbox fillers. Once again, I opted for blue and silver shadowbox fillers, so it made sense to me. Decide if you want to paint your whole box, or simply the frontal part of the frame.
Step Two:
Once you're done painting your shadowbox, and you've allowed it time to dry, apply your cardstock paper onto the back wall of your shadowbox. If you have a top opening shadowbox, simply open it up, and slide the cardstock paper in. Obviously you're going to need something to secure your paper. Using your choice of material (either a glue stick, PVC glue, or tape), apply it to the back of the shadowbox.
Step Three:
When your cardstock has been applied, it's time to move onto to the next step, LETTERS :) I found that the letters were the most fun of all the steps. I opted for glittery letters, once again from Michaels, and I found that they really complemented my pale blue shadowbox. They were rather large in size, and I had to overlap a couple of the letters, but it still looked great once it was done. You're going to want to pick want you'd to "write" on the front of your shadowbox.
Some suggestions:
Deck The Halls
Baby It's Cold Outside
Merry Christmas
Naughty or Nice
'Tis The Season
Ho Ho Ho
Peace & Joy
Jingle Bells
Fa La La La La
Let It Snow (my personal choice)
Step Four:
Time for your finishing touches! Grab your Christmas fillers, and pour them into your box. I wouldn't suggest filling your shadowbox all the way to the top, however filling it a quarter of the way, or half way would look great. Like I said before, try to match the fillers with the colour of your box, as it gives it a nicer overall effect.
Step Five:
If you would like, spray the inside of your box with some fake snow. Obviously this step is optional, however it would be a nice finishing touch. If you do spray on the fake snow, however, don't spray on too much.
Step Six:
Once again, this step is optional, but LED tealights look absolutely great, especially if you opt for glittery fillers as I did.
Step Seven: What step seven? You're done :) (Just saying, because I chose "Let It Snow", I hung a little snowflake in the shadowbox and painted it a little blue with white ends)
2. Christmas Mason Jars :) I know this was in Bethany's Christmas video, however I actually found this craft on another blog, and recreated it before seeing Bethany's video. I also did a couple things differently. Read on...
This is seriously one of the easiest, and possibly cutest, Christmas crafts ever. Enough said.
Materials:
Mason jar(s)
Christmas ribbon
Tape
Fake mini Christmas tree
Small Christmas fillers
Step One: Fill your mason jar with Christmas fillers. Now, I know that a lot of people find it much easier to put the tree in first, however I think putting the Christmas fillers in first is a lot more logical. I actually bought something similar to Christmas fillers, however, they were actually more like miniature Christmas ornaments.
Step Two: Put in your tree :) Push your tree into your mason jar so that it's roughly in the middle of your mason jar. If it doesn't feel secured, take it out, and use a glue gun to apply a dot of glue where you'd like to put down your tree. Then put it in and secure it in place.
Step Three: Add a bow! Cut out a long strip of ribbon and making a knot, tie it around the rim of your jar. Then tie it into a bow. If you can't do that, pull out your glue gun once again, and glue it into the style of a bow. If you need to, tape the bow into place.
AND...you're done...
FINISHED PRODUCT:
3. Joy Sign (Inspired by Stilababe09/Meredith Foster)
This was actually the first Christmas craft I did, two of three weeks ago. I saw Mere's video (I love her videos) and it really started getting me into the Christmas spirit, hence, the other two crafts...
Materials:
Cardboard
Wall Hook (optional)
Christmas Lights
Scissors
Paint (optional)
Step One: With a marker, draw out the letters "j", "o" and "y" on a piece of cardboard.
Step Two: Cut out the letters "j", "o" and "y" on a piece of cardboard.
Step Three: With your scissors, cut small circular holes in the letters.
Step Four (optional): This should probably be done before step three, but if you'd like, paint your letter with a gold/green/red paint.
Step Five: Thread your Christmas lights through the holes in your cardboard letters.
Step Six: Stick on your wall hook and hang 'em up OR place your letters wherever you'd like to.
Should I have been more descriptive?...
Drumroll please...THE FINISHED PRODUCT...
ALRIGHTY :) Hope you guys liked that little post. Sorry that I didn't have picture for each step, I hadn't actually planned on doing this post, but I figured that since I hadn't posted for a while, it kind of made sense :D For those of you who waited around long enough, here's the question: What are you most excited about for the holiday season? Remember to tweet me @SarTheBear22 with #FreeFollowBWS
BYEE
BlogsWithSarah :)
@SarTheBear22
Links To Beth and Mere:
Bethany Mota:
YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/Macbarbie07
Twitter: @BethanyMota
Meredith Foster:
YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/StilaBabe09
Twitter: @stilababe09
Haha, so yeah, I kind of haven't posted anything on here for a while, so I'm sorry. To tell you the truth, I've just been having kind of a busy few weeks.
Anyways...today, I wanted to do kind of a bit of a light blog post, so I wanted to talk (write) to you guys about something close to my heart...winter! Now, I know, generally not too many people, at least where I live, love winter. I moved over here just over three years ago, and I guess I'm still not really tired of seeing snow.
So, without wasting another minute, I want to share some exciting news with all of you! I'm starting a winter series :) Every week I will posting a winter/Christmas related blog post. Yay :) I do know however, that most of my views come from people who just happen to come across my blog, and over half of the others come from sites that are trying to spam me with views (I know who you are), so a lot of you will not have even read my old blog posts. Seriously, if you're reading this right now, please, please, please follow me! For every Blogger follow, I will happily give you a free Twitter follow! All you need to do is tweet me @SarTheBear22 with #FreeFollowBWS, and answer the question that will appear in bold at the very end of this post.
Anyway, I'd like to start off this winter series with one of my most awaited posts, Christmas Room Decorations! I'd just like to say, two of the ideas in this post were taken from YouTube channels, which I will mention below. Alright, let's get started.
1. Christmas Shadowbox :) (Inspired by MacBarbie07/@BethanyMota)
Materials:
Shadowbox
Acrylic Paint (Colour/colours of your choice)
Glue Stick/Glue Gun Glue/PVC Glue/Tape
Stick-on Letters
Christmas Fillers
Scrapbook/Cardstock paper (One Sheet)
Fake Snow (optional)
LED Tealights (optional)
To start off this craft, you're going to need a clean surface to paint on, and to lay out the rest of your decorations. Also, for the materials, I would recommend going to a local craft store, like Michaels, to buy your materials. Michaels is a little pricy, however, when I went out, I had a bunch of coupons, so I saved over 50%. I would recommend that if you are going to Michaels, bring some coupons.
Step One:
Get out your shadowbox and some of your acrylic paint. Now, when choosing what colour you'd like to paint your shadowbox, remember to consider your Christmas and winter colours. Don't go for a neon pink, rather choose a red, a green, or, like me, a pale blue. Also, try to coordinate the colour that you're going to paint your shadowbox with the colour of your shadowbox fillers. Once again, I opted for blue and silver shadowbox fillers, so it made sense to me. Decide if you want to paint your whole box, or simply the frontal part of the frame.
Step Two:
Once you're done painting your shadowbox, and you've allowed it time to dry, apply your cardstock paper onto the back wall of your shadowbox. If you have a top opening shadowbox, simply open it up, and slide the cardstock paper in. Obviously you're going to need something to secure your paper. Using your choice of material (either a glue stick, PVC glue, or tape), apply it to the back of the shadowbox.
Step Three:
When your cardstock has been applied, it's time to move onto to the next step, LETTERS :) I found that the letters were the most fun of all the steps. I opted for glittery letters, once again from Michaels, and I found that they really complemented my pale blue shadowbox. They were rather large in size, and I had to overlap a couple of the letters, but it still looked great once it was done. You're going to want to pick want you'd to "write" on the front of your shadowbox.
Some suggestions:
Deck The Halls
Baby It's Cold Outside
Merry Christmas
Naughty or Nice
'Tis The Season
Ho Ho Ho
Peace & Joy
Jingle Bells
Fa La La La La
Let It Snow (my personal choice)
Step Four:
Time for your finishing touches! Grab your Christmas fillers, and pour them into your box. I wouldn't suggest filling your shadowbox all the way to the top, however filling it a quarter of the way, or half way would look great. Like I said before, try to match the fillers with the colour of your box, as it gives it a nicer overall effect.
Step Five:
If you would like, spray the inside of your box with some fake snow. Obviously this step is optional, however it would be a nice finishing touch. If you do spray on the fake snow, however, don't spray on too much.
Step Six:
Once again, this step is optional, but LED tealights look absolutely great, especially if you opt for glittery fillers as I did.
Step Seven: What step seven? You're done :) (Just saying, because I chose "Let It Snow", I hung a little snowflake in the shadowbox and painted it a little blue with white ends)
2. Christmas Mason Jars :) I know this was in Bethany's Christmas video, however I actually found this craft on another blog, and recreated it before seeing Bethany's video. I also did a couple things differently. Read on...
This is seriously one of the easiest, and possibly cutest, Christmas crafts ever. Enough said.
Materials:
Mason jar(s)
Christmas ribbon
Tape
Fake mini Christmas tree
Small Christmas fillers
Step One: Fill your mason jar with Christmas fillers. Now, I know that a lot of people find it much easier to put the tree in first, however I think putting the Christmas fillers in first is a lot more logical. I actually bought something similar to Christmas fillers, however, they were actually more like miniature Christmas ornaments.
Step Two: Put in your tree :) Push your tree into your mason jar so that it's roughly in the middle of your mason jar. If it doesn't feel secured, take it out, and use a glue gun to apply a dot of glue where you'd like to put down your tree. Then put it in and secure it in place.
Step Three: Add a bow! Cut out a long strip of ribbon and making a knot, tie it around the rim of your jar. Then tie it into a bow. If you can't do that, pull out your glue gun once again, and glue it into the style of a bow. If you need to, tape the bow into place.
AND...you're done...
FINISHED PRODUCT:
3. Joy Sign (Inspired by Stilababe09/Meredith Foster)
This was actually the first Christmas craft I did, two of three weeks ago. I saw Mere's video (I love her videos) and it really started getting me into the Christmas spirit, hence, the other two crafts...
Materials:
Cardboard
Wall Hook (optional)
Christmas Lights
Scissors
Paint (optional)
Step One: With a marker, draw out the letters "j", "o" and "y" on a piece of cardboard.
Step Two: Cut out the letters "j", "o" and "y" on a piece of cardboard.
Step Three: With your scissors, cut small circular holes in the letters.
Step Four (optional): This should probably be done before step three, but if you'd like, paint your letter with a gold/green/red paint.
Step Five: Thread your Christmas lights through the holes in your cardboard letters.
Step Six: Stick on your wall hook and hang 'em up OR place your letters wherever you'd like to.
Should I have been more descriptive?...
Drumroll please...THE FINISHED PRODUCT...
ALRIGHTY :) Hope you guys liked that little post. Sorry that I didn't have picture for each step, I hadn't actually planned on doing this post, but I figured that since I hadn't posted for a while, it kind of made sense :D For those of you who waited around long enough, here's the question: What are you most excited about for the holiday season? Remember to tweet me @SarTheBear22 with #FreeFollowBWS
BYEE
BlogsWithSarah :)
@SarTheBear22
Links To Beth and Mere:
Bethany Mota:
YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/Macbarbie07
Twitter: @BethanyMota
Meredith Foster:
YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/StilaBabe09
Twitter: @stilababe09
