Christmas garland tutorial - Mel
Equipment
- Scissors
- Hot glue pot
- Stem cutter
Materials
- 1 9 ft lime green tinsel garland used 6ft.
- almost 1 full roll of 21inch mesh for poofs
- 3 different 10 inch mesh for ruffles
- Ornaments
- Red curly short picks
- 1 red and green candy spray
- 1 bush long red glittery leaf spray, used pieces.
- red and green small glittery ball garland used in pieces
- 1 4" wired ribbon
- 1 2.5" wired ribbon
- 2 1.5" wired ribbon
- pipe cleaners
- hot glue
Instructions
Prep your base.
- Start with a 9 ft green pine garland.
- Fluff out your pine needles.
- Take a 21” mesh and add the end into the start of your garland, securing it with pine needles.
- Create poofs along the garland, making sure to go in a zigzag motion.
- Take 3 colors of 10” mesh and cut 5 x 25” pieces.
- Take a piece of mesh, make a cruffle and add it onto your garland.
- Repeat this with the rest of your mesh, alternating colors and sides as you go..
- Start with a 4” ribbon, leave a 9” tail and make 18” poofs along the garland, making sure you are going in a zigzag direction.
Decorations.
- Hot glue some christmas ornaments onto your design.
Add your bows.
- Make 2 small bows and add them to either end of your garland.
- Make one large bow and add it into the middle of your garland.
Extras.
- Take 2 mini ball decoration picks, cut it into pieces and add them in and around the other elements.
- Add in any other fun Christmas picks and decorations.
- Add in some red glitter bush greenery.
- Take 2 ribbons and make a funky bow with 1 loop with each ribbon. Layer them and add them in between the other bows.