Tuesday, November 26, 2013

Christmas Mantle


We are not hosting Thanksgiving this year, so I could get a head start on Christmas decorating. Thanksgiving is so late this year I can't believe when we return from visiting family it will be December. It will be nice to come home to Christmas decorations though, then all we will need is a tree. We always get a real tree so I always try to wait as long as my husband will let me, because the needles everywhere drive me crazy.

I was going to add more color and move away from traditional colors but once I started putting things together I just loved the simple elegance of the gold and silver.

Christmas Mantle 2013 - the colored door

I love all the Christmas tree decorations everywhere. I got some of my ideas from Sarah over at Winthrop Chronicles. They are so easy to do and I just used what I had on hand to make all of mine.

The small tree on the right is silver glitter scrapbook paper I made into a cone, trimmed off the bottom and hot glued. The feathery tree is made with a piece of 12x12 white card stock wrapped into a cone and glued. I used white felt I had on hand, I cut them into triangles and hot glued just the ends on and then pulled them out away from the cone. It came out better than I expected.

Christmas Mantle 2013 - DIY trees - the colored door

The little one was again made with a piece of card stock and I had some left over pom pom trim that I just wrapped around the cone and taped. (I think it is a yard) Doesn't get much easier than that. The middle tree I made last year and actually used a real foam cone, silly girl. I loved the circle trees from the Land of Nod but knew I could make them myself. So I cut a million circles out of white felt and pinned them onto the foam cone. I also added a piece of felt to the bottom so it was totally finished. I love how it turned out!
The last cone was crazy easy. I used a large poster board to make the tree, then wrapped it with gold tissue paper and wrapped a piece of twine around from top to bottom. Told you it was easy.

Christmas Mantle 2013 - DIY trees - the colored door


 I love this mantle and I am so glad I get to enjoy it for the next month.

Christmas Mantle 2013 - the colored door

I made the garland with a 2" circle punch and a variety of gold, silver and tan scrapbook paper. I just taped mine on some string. Someday I won't be so lazy and will pull out my sewing machine to stitch them together, I love that look.

Christmas Mantle garland 2013 - the colored door

Christmas mantle garland 2013 - the colored door

Christmas Mantle 2013 -  the colored door

Have you finished your Christmas mantle or are you waiting until after Thanksgiving?



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12 comments:

  1. SO beautiful, Tammy! Elegant color scheme indeed. I'm in love with that garland. I'm actually making one right now that's pretty similar!

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  2. Beautiful mantle. I really love the pops of gold! I'd love if you'd link up to The DIYers. http://homecomingmn.blogspot.com/2013/12/the-diyers-40.html

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  3. Great job! I love everything about it and will be expecting you over to decorate my mantle too! :-) I've pinned and will be taking inspiration from your gorgeous decorating style!

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  4. I love this mantle layout! The colors are so classic and really pop against your wall. I'd love you to link up at our Link It or Lump It party. http://www.delineateyourdwelling.com/2013/12/link-it-or-lump-it-party-16.html

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  5. Your mantle is stunning! I need to do something like this for my mantle!

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  6. I started the week of Thanksgiving too! I wasn't hosting so why not take my time. I like enjoying the Christmas season for as long as I can. I have trees on my mantle this year too, they are so easy and fun to make.

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  7. This is so elegant. I love the silver and gold. Thanks tons for linking to Inspire Me. Hugs, Marty

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  8. Lovely mantle! The garland is adorable! Love the little touches of sparkle throughout the different pieces.

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  9. I absolutely love the simplicity of your mantel! It's beautiful.

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  10. Hey it's Deonna from the Child at Heart blog! This mantle is so cute...Gray and white chevron makes me happy! This is so pretty! I did the little paper garlands too but I hot glued mine. I too one day will sew them together. :)

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  11. Thank you so much for linking up to the Twirl and Take a bow party. Be sure to come back this week to see if you were featured and to link up again! http://arttisbeauty.blogspot.com/2013/12/twirl-and-take-bow-link-party-and.html
    Hugs,
    Karin

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  12. Hi! Just stopping by to let you know that I featured this post for this week's Merriest Blog Hop. You can check it out here: http://www.aromaofhim.com/2013/12/the-merriest-blog-hop-4-countdown-to.html. Thanks so much for sharing this fabulous mantle with us :-)

    Hope we'll be seeing more of you this week!
    Alicia

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