Best 5 Budget-Friendly Christmas Decor Ideas • DIY Upcycles Using Goodwill Thrift Store Items!

Hey guys, I am super excited for today's video because as I've been hinting in previous videos I've been thinking about changing up my color scheme for Christmas But I'm not the kind of person to go to the store and buy whole new stuff So instead we are headed to our favorite place the Goodwill Vins I'm gonna go in see what I can find see what we can DIY to change up my color scheme for Christmas I know y'all gonna enjoy today's video So let's go ahead and get started and I want to thank Squarespace for sponsoring today's video What are these? Oh, there's some wooden curtain rings I've done a DIY on these a few times, but it's been a while and it's one of my favorite projects So I think i'm gonna grab these and we'll give them a little makeover I absolutely love using these for DIYs Just think of them as small little wooden frames, but I do need to paint them So that way they kind of look all the same i'm going to be using fusion paint in the color victorian lace And i'm going to be using two different size curtain rings There was only four of the bigger ones that I found at the goodwill bins and I need six for this project So I grabbed three that I had out my stash and i'm gonna use three that I just found at the goodwill bins With these curtain rings. I want to create some new initial tags to put on my family stockings for Christmas So I grabbed the iod letterpress stamp, which is a typography stamp you get Several different fonts and numbers in this one and i'm going to stamp The the first initial of each of the names in my family and i'm going to be using the china blue ink And this is just a piece of flower sack cloth that i'm going to be stamping on Sorry guys, I must not film the step where I actually hot glued the curtain rings to the fabric I just hot glued them where the stamp letter was right in the center And now i'm just trimming off all of the excess fabric with my fabric scissors These tags are looking so cute exactly like I imagined Now we need to add some string to hang them and attach them to my stockings. I ordered this Gorgeous blue velvet ribbon and look how perfectly it matches with the china blue ink I am so in love with these i'm going to be using them as tags but i'm also going to be on the lookout for some more at the thrift stores because These would also make beautiful ornaments on my christmas tree This is a cute little pot and it already has foam in it. You know, that's gone in the cart It's easy to take some of my florals and just stick them in there make an arrangement Christmas tree be really cute in there I always grab these pots filled with foam because half the work is already done It's really easy to pull the floral out that is in there and I added a little hot glue to the center Grab the christmas tree that I also got from the goodwill bins and put it right in the center I wasn't planning on painting the pot, but I felt like it was a little yellow and not really going to go with my decor So I just grabbed some dixie bell chalk paint and white and i'm just going to very quickly dry brush this pot This is a very quick easy way to change something up and give it a new look without having to repaint the entire thing Now I need to cover up the holes in the foam. I could have just added more moss But I thought rocks would look a lot better. So I just added some hot glue I had these rocks from the dollar tree and I just covered up all the foam How gorgeous is this blue velvet ribbon with the raw edges, I love it I'll definitely leave it linked in the description for y'all. I'm going to tie some little bows as decoration for this christmas tree This is absolutely an upgrade from the piece that I found at the goodwill bins looks so much better with that whitewash on it with the rocks And the cute little christmas tree and of course the blue bows These are cute Marked usa I don't know if this is like for food or soap But it's the perfect size for soap and I think that's what i'm going to use it for Like I said, it is the perfect size for soap, but we have to make this soap look cute So I took the iod roll scene stamp. They have all kind of different images in here But they also have these adorable little sheep that is what I want to use So I took the iod china blue ink and I stamped these sheep on some white tissue paper Now how precious is that? Then I took some mod podge and I put some mod podge on the soap and then put the tissue paper on top Now this is just going to be for decor I actually got this soap from the goodwill bins as well And i've really been into decorating with soap lately. I'll show y'all a few places I have it in my house at the end of this project Once the mod podge was dry I took some sandpaper and just sanded the edges to get the excess off And it actually looks like the sheep are printed on here. It came out so good You can't even see the tissue paper now. Let's put this piece together I grabbed the siberian hanging greenery from my website I pulled off a few sprigs to put in the white dish. I put the soap on top and this year It's all about the bows So I grabbed some blue velvet ribbon that I ordered and I just tied a little bow and added it into the dish Soap just for decoration may not be for everyone, but it should be because how adorable did this come out? I recently thrifted an entire bag of soap from the goodwill bins I didn't even realize they had these bees embossed on them So I decided to add them in my decor in my dining room I don't know if that's weird or not, but I think it is super cute I just finished decorating these hutches with all of my beautiful thrifted finds I love the way they came out Here are a few ways that I have styled soap in my bathroom and i'm thinking a glass jar Full of blue and white soap would be absolutely beautiful. I might be doing that very soon If you do not know what Squarespace is It is an online hosting platform and that is who I chose to host my website juliesdesignsandsigns.com Squarespace makes it so easy to create a website without any web design experience with their design Intelligence program they help you create a beautiful website with AI technology as well as help you create beautiful and professional listings and with Squarespace payments They are making it easier than ever to accept all your payments in one place There's so many different options for your customers to pay and if you're a business You know, you need as many options for your customers as possible So if you think you're ready to take your business to the next level Make sure you head to squarespace.com to start your free trial And when you are ready to launch your website go to squarespace.com Julie's designs and size to save 10% off your first purchase of your website or domain It is pretty easy to find ornaments for a great price at the goodwill bins at the thrift stores And at estate sales and garage sales when i'm looking for ornaments I'm, just looking for size shape and the texture on there because it doesn't matter the color You can give it a makeover to go with your christmas decor. I am going with a blue and white theme this year So i'm painting these ornaments dixie bell chalk paint and the color yankee blue it matches perfectly With this blue velvet ribbon that I purchased But if you want it to go with a darker blue, then I would suggest dixie bell in the navy So i'm going to give all of these ornaments a quick coat of paint and I find the best way to dry ornaments Is get you some cups and just put the ornaments in there and y'all look how good they look with the ornaments I diy'd earlier. I am so excited to decorate. My tree is going to be so pretty this year Isn't it amazing what just a little bit of paint can do? And this color looks absolutely beautiful with all the decor I already have in my home I really wanted to start off with some white ornaments for this next project So I ordered these off of amazon and it was only 24 For a pack of 24 So I felt like that was a pretty good deal for this project I'm going to be using three different iod stamps iod china blue ink white tissue paper Mod podge blue velvet ribbon and dixie bell gold gilding wax and probably some other things that I am forgetting This is iod's rule scene stamps. It's one of my favorite It comes with two pages full of stamps that you can put together and make a scene Or I think it also looks good as is and that is how i'm going to use it So i'm going to use it just like it's laid out fill it with the china blue ink And then i'm going to stamp the tissue paper And i'm going to do the same thing with the second page of the rule scene stamp Next i'm going to use the ephemeral type stamp This one is filled with different letters and stamps and again I'm, just going to use the entire stamp as is china blue ink and then stamp the tissue paper Basically, what i'm doing is I am creating my very own decoupage paper Next i'm using iod's antiquity stamps, which is a little fun and a little quirky It has all these different labels and images on it and again I'm going to leave it laid out exactly as it is and stamp my tissue paper and I stamped the same stamp Over and over again on the tissue paper until the tissue paper was fully covered I'm not going to be using this to wrap presents, but that would be really cute as well How cool is this beautiful custom decoupage paper that I created using different iod stamps Now we need to decoupage our ornaments using our new paper So i'm going to apply mod podge to the entire ornament I cut the tissue paper down to a more manageable size and i'm going to put it around the ornament i'm not going to worry about folds and wrinkles actually i'm going to encourage it because it's really going to add to The look of this piece so i'm just folding it over to the best of my ability and just slathering that mod podge on there To keep everything in place I did ornaments with all of the different tissue papers that I stamped and they are looking Absolutely amazing. You see how all of the folds and the wrinkles just really add to the look But I want to go with even more layers here So I grabbed my stamped tissue paper and I just cut out some smaller images And i'm going to mod podge these onto the ornaments just wherever I want to add another layer And I am sticking with the same stamp So i'm not mixing the stamps all the ornaments will be from one stamp And this is just going to create more layers more textures and more variations of that blue color I really loved the layered look and how these came out but if you just want to do one layer you absolutely can and that is a great thing about DIYing is you can do it in your own way to get the exact look that you are going for Now we need to get rid of the silver because that does not go with my color scheme I'm going to remove the silver ribbon and i'm going to take the gold Gilding wax and i'm going to add it to the top of this piece It is removable, but I actually find it a lot easier to paint it if you just leave it on the ornament Last step is to bust out this gorgeous Blue velvet ribbon and i'm going to just tie it to the top. It matches perfectly I am loving the white and the blue and the gold and these ornaments were so fun to make Are these not the most beautiful French country ornaments you have ever seen I am totally obsessed And you can just change up the ink color to go with your style I also think these will look really amazing with some red ink So go ahead try this technique and make them in your own style All right, guys, I hope y'all enjoy today watching today's video as much as I enjoyed creating these projects I am so excited about changing up my color scheme, even though it's gonna be a lot more work But if you want to see these pieces actually styled in my home, then you need to come back next week So make sure you're subscribed because we are going to decorate my living room the foyer over there That is still fall decorated and maybe we'll sprinkle christmas throughout the house I don't know We'll just see where the decorating takes me if you're like me you bring the stuff down You think you're not gonna go crazy and then you know things just happen. So We'll see I haven't decorated yet, but i'm gonna do it next week and i'm super excited So y'all come back and join me. I have also picked out the december colors of the month So let me show y'all what I got. We got champlain We have bayberry. 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