30 Cheap Christmas Decor Ideas That Look Expensive (Dollar Tree, IKEA & Amazon!)

Here is my hack for a full luxe garland on the mantle. First, I stick command cord bundlers along the front edge of the mantle. I use about three to five depending on the heaviness of my garland. They hold the garland securely, they come off clean, and there are no nails in your mantle. Garland number one hangs across the front of the mantle tucked into those cord bundlers. They work so well. I have been using these for years. Then garland number two goes right on top of the mantle and layering two garlands is the absolute secret here. It's going to give you depth and fullness so it looks like a designer did it. It already looks so much better and keep this technique in mind because I'm going to come back to it at the end and decorate the whole thing and you're going to love how this turns out. I spotted this rattan basket at Michaels for $56 and immediately thought I can make that with Dollar Tree supplies. Here is my secret and it's a woven basket from Dollar Tree. If you flip this upside down it's already a bell shape. The only problem with this is the color. It's a little too light and a little too Dollar Tree so I gave it a coat of darker stain to make it look richer and more like real rattan. You simply stain the whole thing with a foam brush, wipe off the excess, Let's test and let it dry completely. Next, I took two Dollar Tree Christmas picks and I just simply bent them and pushed them in to the bottom of this basket. Make sure to fluff them out so they cover the top and look nice and full. And you can use whichever picks you like. I'm going for classic red berries and greenery with some little oranges. And for the finishing touch, a rattan napkin ring from Ikea glued right on top of the picks. And that's going to be your hanging loop and it ties the whole look together. I think mine looks just as good and I paid a fraction of the price of the Michaels one. I love it sitting on a stack of books on my ottoman. I think it looks so cozy and so festive. You could also use it for some shelf styling or even as the beginning of a centerpiece on your table. Christmas cards are one of my favorite parts of the season but they always seem to end up as clutter all over surfaces but an Ikea picture ledge can turn them into a gorgeous display especially in your entry. You can lean the cards in a row on top of an Ikea picture ledge, tuck in a little greenery, you can add some twinkle lights and when the season is over it can go right back to holding your artwork or your entryway essentials. Pearls are everywhere for this year's Christmas decor and I wanted to recreate this gorgeous pearl ornament. It actually was super easy, just time consuming, but the results were absolutely worth it. These look elegant and expensive but they're literally just pearl beads glued onto clear ornaments. I simply used random sizes of pearls I found on Amazon as well as these clear ornaments and a bunch of hot glue. Make sure you buy a lot of hot glue sticks for this project. I started by applying some hot glue in sections onto my ornament and then adding the pearls on top of that. I simply alternated between different sizes so that the look was what I wanted. For a finishing touch, I added some of this thin, deep red velvet ribbon on top for hanging, added these to my tree, and they look absolutely gorgeous and a lot of fun to make. Start with a dollar tree stemless wine glass and then hot glue a bottle brush tree or really whatever little Christmas elements you want on the inside so that it stays in place. Then sprinkle down some faux snow into the cup before you close it up. Now take a dollar tree candle holder, I like the black one but gold ones would also work, and hot glue it onto the top of the glass. This is going to become the neck of your lamp. Now wrap a set of Dollar Tree wired twinkle lights around the candle holder. These are battery operated which is going to make this lamp cordless so that you can use it anywhere. Place the battery pack on top of the candle holder and then for the shade I'm using a dollar tree basket. I found this in the floral section. I'm staining it darker once again just like the bell I created earlier and then simply turn it upside down and set it on top of the candle holder. And look at how cute this looks! The light filters through the rattan and lights up that little snowy tree underneath. It's perfect on a side table, on a nightstand, on a shelf, or really anywhere you don't have an outlet. i love this tree-shaped card display and i actually bought this one last year last year i used it for an advent calendar for my girls i put some crystals inside some little containers put them on the shelf you can also use it as ikea intends for christmas cards but i think i want to use it to make a wall christmas tree and i think this is a great solution if you have a smaller space and you don't have room for a traditional christmas tree so to make this i I just have a screw in my wall and I'm hanging this IKEA Christmas shaped shelf. Next, I found these inexpensive garlands at Dollarama. I love these. I've had them for years, but you could also use IKEA's garlands. They have some great options as well. I'm wrapping them on either side of the tree shape and securing them by just kind of wrapping them around the rope on either side. I'm not a huge fan of this black rope, so I'm kind of hiding as much as I can with garlands. Next I'm taking some copper wire twinkle lights. I found these on Amazon. I will link them down in the description box below as well as everything that I'm using in today's decorating video. These are battery operated, so you can hide the pack on the floor with either some presents or some more Christmas decor. Once these are wrapped around the tree, I'm using these Christmas balls. These ones were actually from IKEA last year. They have the same ones this year. I'm going for a traditional color palette of red, green, gold, and white. And I love these VINTERFINT hooks that IKEA has this year to hang Christmas ornaments. They're gold and they're the perfect size. So I'm attaching these to each of the Christmas balls and then hanging the balls off of the tree shape. There's a little slit on each of the shelves on this wall hanging so I can attach the hooks inside here. I'm hanging enough Having enough ornaments to fill the width of each of these shelves and then as a finishing touch I just had this velvet ribbon on hand. It's two inch wide ribbon tying in a bow and attaching it to the top of this decoration. I love how this wall decoration turned out and I think what I'm going to do is move this to our tiny lake house this year. I want to decorate that for this season and this would be the perfect solution for that space because I don't have room for a traditional Christmas tree in there. Let's style the centerpiece of the season and it is so easy even though it looks absolutely designer. Start with a round wood tray then grab a thrifted vase. I love looking for handmade pottery at my local thrift store. Then add these faux Norfolk pine stems from Amazon. Just make sure to bend the branches outward and inward so that they look tie a little velvet ribbon bow around the vase add a few of these beautiful brass bells also from Amazon and suddenly this looks like a professionally styled vignette it's classic minimal and so cozy and i love how it looks here on my breakfast nook table i'm picking up this christmas house from Dollar Tree you can get a few of the same one like i'm doing or get several different ones i'm also picking up this espresso colored brown acrylic paint from Dollar Tree it's It's the perfect gingerbread color and I'm using some baking soda. I'm placing the paint inside of a bowl and then adding about one part baking soda to one part paint and mixing that up with a foam brush. I was inspired by these gingerbread house place card holders I saw at Pottery Barn. I think we can make some similar ones for only a few dollars each. I'm taking my foam brush and the baking soda paint and painting the houses. You're going to have to do about two to three coats of this paint to get the coverage that you want. Just make sure that you let the paint dry in between coats before you do another Now I'm taking this Make Market puffy fabric paint. I tried all sorts of different puffy fabric paints and this one was the best one for this project. Now I'm just outlining the gingerbread houses after they're dry and highlighting all of little trim work and the windows and the doors. You don't have to be perfect with this. You want these to look handmade and cute. That's the whole allure of this DIY inspired by the Pottery Barn houses. I'm adding some polka dots and some hearts on the front of this house with the puffy paint. On the roof I'm adding some scallop detail. I found the best way to dry this puff paint is to use a hair dryer on the cool setting and just make sure to dry it as much as you can with a hair dryer. I found if I didn't do this first and let these dry sitting up straight all of the puff paint kind of fell down so make sure to use a hair dryer on the cool setting to dry the puff paint before you let these sit. Now I'm just taking an old Ikea serrated knife. You can also use another type of knife for this and cutting a little slit in the top of the house to hold my place cards. Now these are really adorable sweet place cards for a Christmas morning breakfast table. These little cedar trees are a great price from Ikea. You can make a beautiful Christmas centerpiece out of these. Just take a dough bowl or you can even take a long cutting board or a charcuterie board, any sort of wooden base. Then add some moss inside and then add these trees. The resulting look is a beautiful nature-inspired centerpiece that's perfect for your Christmas or your winter tablescape. These red wax bow candles are one of the prettiest things Pottery Barn has released for this holiday season. They're little white taper candles with sculpted red bows that look so sweet and would be the cutest for a table centerpiece or on your mantel. To make these, all I used was some white taper candles and some red wax strips. You can buy these on Amazon and sometimes you can find them at craft stores as well. I simply took one of these strips, cut it in half, and warmed it up gently Gently with my hands, then I looped it into a bow shape And placed it where I wanted to on my white taper candle. Then I used a hair blow dryer to gently warm both the candle and the wax bow so that they would meld together. These look like designer candles, but they were so easy to make. They look so cute on the mantle and imagine tying these with a velvet ribbon and giving them as a hostess gift this season. You could also change out the color of the wax strips and use these for really any season of the year. I'm taking these Christmas balls from Dollar Tree. You can get large ones or small ones or any size. I was inspired by these Crate and Barrel ornaments. I'm going to try to replicate them. I'm using a variety of different colors of acrylic paint, some baking soda, plus some foam brushes and bowls. I'm placing the paint inside of the bowls. I'm going to mix my own colors here, but you can find paint that you love and just use it as is. I mixed some green black and white to make this soft green color adding some white into the brown to make more of a beige and then adding about one part baking soda to one part paint and mixing them up to once again create some nice baking soda paint. I'm taking some skewers and putting them inside the balls on some floral foam just so that I can hold these balls as they dry. Taking a foam brush and brushing that paint, that baking soda paint, all over the balls. You're going to need two to three coats of this. Just wait for the previous coat to dry before you put the next one on. I'm doing three different base colors but you can experiment with one, two, three, or more. You can also use some old ornaments that you have on hand. These ones were older from Dollar Tree. They don't have to be the clear ones. They can be any color because the baking soda paint provides quite a bit of coverage for this craft. Now, before the balls are completely dry, take some cocoa powder and just kind of dab it on with a nice firm brush all over the ornaments. And then if you want on the darker colored ornaments like this brown one here, you can also sprinkle some baking soda on top. While those are drying, you can take the tops off of the ornaments and use some metallic paint. This one is a champagne gold color and brush that on to give them a little bit more of a glam look. Once your ornaments are completely dry, take a nice stiff brush and brush any of the excess cocoa powder and baking soda off of them. Then take some metallic paint and you're going to be dry brushing that all over the ball like I'm doing here. I'm just taking some of the paint, putting it on the brush and then dabbing the excess off on a paper towel. And then you just gently dab that metallic paint all over the ball just like this. I am loving how these are looking. This DIY is probably one of my favorites pretty much for this whole year. You don't have to be perfect with this step. You want to kind of make it look natural. I'm also using this bronze colored paint and adding some metallic accents with this as well. So two different colors of metallic paint work really well for this just to give these some once they're all dry you can place the toppers back on and look how beautiful these look i love how textured they look i love the glimmering metallic paint on them you can use them on your tree of course or you can also use them in a centerpiece like i'm doing here i have a thrifted wooden bowl a garland with lights on it and i'm placing the ornaments inside for a beautiful centerpiece on my table ikea's wreath game is so strong again this year look at all these amazing wreaths I especially loved this hoop wreath with the cedar on the bottom for only $4.99 Canadian. What a deal. So this is a really easy DIY, but I think it turned out so elegantly. I'm taking the hoop wreath and then I have these bells. I found them at Canadian Tire, but you can find similar trios of bells at the dollar store or other home decor stores. And I'm simply tying this trio of bells to the top of my wreath just like this. now i'm taking some thin moss green colored velvet ribbon i found this on etsy and i'll link to one of my favorite ribbon shops down in the description box below and just tying a very simple bow on the top of the bells if you're doing this too just leave nice long tails on your bow and cut each of the tails at an angle i love this beautiful simple look i think these wreaths would look so pretty in windows at christmas time Pottery Barn's gold framed ornaments inspired me to make my own. I found similar little mini frames from Amazon and then I cut out small rectangles from my gingham sheet set, placed them inside of the frames, then I printed out some photos of our pets that are only about two inches by one inch and then I layered these on top of the gingham fabric in the frame. Then I simply closed the frame and that's it to these DIY ornaments. They're so easy and look how cute they look on my Christmas tree. These would also make great gifts. Or you could put a family photo in here and give them as gifts to your extended family. These had such a personal touch to my Christmas decor, and they were far less than the $20 each that Pottery Barn was charging. When I saw this bow garland at Anthropologie, I fell in love. But I found the perfect hack hiding in the hair accessories aisle of Dollar Tree. These big red satin bow clips are from Dollar Tree. You can also find them at Dollarama here in Canada, and I used five of them. Line your bows up side by side then hot glue the side edges together so they're joined in one continuous row. Take your time here so they sit straight and evenly spaced. Now to hang it I added a zip tie onto each end of the garland. They're nice and strong and if you buy these clear ones from Dollar Tree they disappear right into the decor and you can attach them to almost anything. I'm going to hang mine up here on my coffee station shelf. I love how chic this looks it gives that classic high-end Anthropologie look and nobody would ever guess it started as hair clips. If you want it longer simply add more bows to your garland. So you know I love these I love this eucalyptus hula wreath as well only $14.99 Canadian super cute for fall Christmas and winter and this DIY wreath I think could work for all three of those occasions as well. so first of all just take some dried orange slices if you don't know how to make them check out the link in the description box below so easy place them all the way around the wreath just like this and then take more hot glue and attach them to the wreath after the orange slices are placed you can take some cinnamon sticks and glue them and put them onto the wreath as well we want to make this look as natural and whimsical as possible so don't keep everything too perfectly symmetrical you can kind of play around with the placement of everything Now take some pine cones and wrap some floral wire around those and tie them onto the wreath in different spots as well. Finally you can add some little white berries to the wreath just to give it even more texture. I think I found this branch at Michael's a few years ago but I know Dollar Tree has similar things as well. I'm just pulling off the actual berry part of this branch, putting some hot glue on the base and then tucking those in various spots throughout the wreath. And now we have this beautiful, natural looking wreath for Christmas, for fall, for winter from this beautiful, affordable eucalyptus base. And I'm also making this dried orange garland. These are really simple to make. You can dry your own orange slices or you can even buy them off of Amazon. Just make sure there's little holes in each one or you can puncture holes if you want with just a pencil or something like that. I'm taking this red and white twine, threading it through the holes in the oranges and hanging hanging this on to the garland as well Now let's make another wreath. I'm using the straw wreath form from Dollar Tree and I'm using this white acrylic paint. You can kind of be lazy like me and blob this paint all over the wreath and then use a brush to get it in all of those little nooks and crannies. This paint job doesn't have to be perfect because it can kind of have a rustic look. Once your paint is completely dry grab a tube of the smaller sized ornaments from Dollar Tree. I grabbed the gold ones and the white ones and I also had these red larger ornaments on hand but I know Dollar Tree has red large ornaments as well. Now take your hot glue gun again and just blob some more glue on the back of the ornaments and place them onto one side of the wreath. You do have to hold the ornaments for a little while as your hot glue dries to make sure they stay in place. You'll be able to glue the first bits of ornaments right onto the wreath but then you're going to want to kind of glue each ornament to each other and that's going to give your wreath a little bit more of an interesting shape. My idea was to have sort of a larger width to my little ornament blob I guess I'll call it a blob in the middle and then sort of taper the design out at either end and I really did love how this red gold and white combo turned out You guys, I love this red velvet wreath this year at Dollar Tree. I don't think I've seen it there before and it was such a beautiful red. sort of that deep scarlet red that is just so pretty so cut four pieces of this ribbon that are about 12 inches long Take some hot glue, put it on the ends and create loops out of three of those pieces. Now layer these pieces on top of each other with the one tail piece at the bottom. Fold the middle just like this so you have sort of this crease again in the middle and then wrap a pipe cleaner around the center and just make it nice and tight and twist it at the back. Now you're going to open up all of those beautiful loops and kind of pull them up and down to make a full looking bow. I think I'm going to make a few of these bows for my Christmas decor this year. this would look beautiful on the bottom of a greenery wreath as well You can fold the bottoms of the ribbon and cut them diagonally to make these nice little triangular ends and then fold a smaller piece of ribbon in half vertically and attach it to the back of the bow with hot glue. You could place this bow anywhere on the wreath that you like, top, bottom, but I decided to place it on the top of my little ornament cluster on the left hand side. This wreath also looks good without the bow so adding this is completely optional. i love how festive and sparkly this wreath turned out and i'm excited to add it to our decor this year. it is this nice doormat that IKEA has. it's very inexpensive and we're going to add a really pretty sort of grain sack stripe to it to give it a farmhouse inspired look. So take a ruler and put a piece of tape about three inches up from the middle. Please disregard how lopsided my first piece of tape is. I'm going to fix it in a couple seconds here Then put a piece of tape underneath that about three inches down. Here's where I realized my first piece of tape was so crooked. I'm just using painter's tape. It produced nice clean lines, which you'll see in the end. Make sure to push that painter's tape really firmly into your mat. Now, put another piece of tape about one inch from your bottom piece of tape. This is going to create a second stripe that's a little bit thinner. You can use a ruler to make sure that your stripe is nice and even. and then finally put a last piece of tape about one inch from your top piece. I'm using Fusion Mineral Paint, this red color. They sent me a sample of this last year in this tiny little pot, and I'm using a stencil brush to dab it in between those pieces of tape. So you just want to use this dabbing motion like I'm doing here. I found that two coats of paint was perfect for this project and I was actually so lucky because that was pretty much exactly the amount of paint I had in this tiny pot. You could do a more elaborate stenciled doormat. You might remember I did something like that for fall where I did a little saying in a graphic and use your Cricut to make that. Check out my tutorial for that and I'll leave that down in the description box below. definitely a fun option for this IKEA mat as well Finally, my favorite part is removing all of this painter's tape and you can see the nice clean lines you have here. I love this simple grain sack inspired stripe. you can finish this off once the paint is dry with a Varathane top coat and that's just going to protect your paint, especially since this is something people are going to be stepping on often. And here is how this DIY mat turned out. So simple, so classically Christmas and I can't wait to have this at our front door this year. Now let's get into my favorite cozy finds this season. I love this pillow. I've been looking all over for the perfect accent pillows to add to my decor this season. Love this one because it looks like an antique tapestry. It has this deep moody red floral pattern that feels so collected and vintage. If you love traditional Christmas decor, like I'm going to do this year, this is the pillow. It goes perfectly with plaid, brass and greenery, and it makes my whole room feel warm and cozy. This one screams Christmas to me. From Dollar Tree, pick up a variety of different ornaments. They're ball ornaments. So you want different sizes and different colors. You can experiment with the color mix here. My centerpiece, I'm going to be using about five sleeves of ornaments. Pick up two blocks of floral foam, two faux candles. I'm actually going to use some that I already have on hand at home but you can use whatever pillar type candles that you want for this DIY plus some more of Dollar Tree's Christmas stems. You can also use some LED copper lights for this DIY as well. Start by gluing those two foam blocks together just like this and then trim those top two corners to make this more of a round piece. Then place your candles on top. You're not going to glue them or anything. They're just here for placement. And then start taking your ball ornaments and gluing them and pushing them into the foam. You want to alternate between colors and sizes. Don't worry if there's little holes of that floral foam showing, because we're going to fill those up later. For my centerpiece, I'm using a combo of a red, gold, and a little bit of pink. I actually had these pink ornaments on hand, but Dollar Tree does have pink this year that you can grab. Now you're going to fill any of those holes with faux greenery. You can take Dollar Tree stems and cut them with wire cutters apart like I'm doing here and just place the greenery and the faux oranges, faux cranberries, whichever picks that you love into those holes in the centerpiece. Now you can place this on your table and wrap some of Dollar Tree's twinkle lights around it just like this. Take those candles off, turn them on, put them back in place, and look at how festive and perfect this centerpiece is. This piece has such a high-end feel, but it's all from Dollar Tree and this is definitely one that I think would impress your guests. Use the IKEA girly cushion cover. Love all of these, all of the different colors. I grabbed this brownish red one you might remember in the fall. I'm going to use my Cricut for this DIY, so I found this merry and bright graphic on Cricut Design Space. And when you use this graphic, you're going to want to make sure it is mirrored because you're going to be cutting it onto iron on heat transfer vinyl. I'm using white for this DIY because I love the way that white looks against red, especially for the holidays. I'm using my Cricut Explore Air 2. I will leave the machine that I have down in that description box below. Once you cut your design onto the heat transfer vinyl, simply weed out all of the excess vinyl. I use my hands and then I use this tiny little Cricut tool. Here is the finished cut out design. Next, take your cushion cover and fold it in half vertically and press it with an easy press or just a plain household iron. Then fold it the other way horizontally and press it again. This is going to create a little mark in the center of your cushion so you know where to put your design. Then use a lint roller to make sure all of the extra lint is off of there, center your design and then follow Cricut's instructions on how hot you should set your EasyPress to make sure that that design is transferred well into the velvet fabric. this is cotton velvet fabric i believe so the heat transfer vinyl did transfer really nicely onto it if you don't have a Cricut and want to decorate this cushion a different way i think an embroidered cushion would look fantastic and that would be a great option as well this is such a simple DIY so after you're done you can just place a cushion inside the cover and you can enjoy your festive beautiful cushion that hardly cost you anything at all Next up is this rattan vase. When I unboxed it, I thought it looked straight out of Pottery Barn. They have a really similar one for so much more. The weave is tight and well made and it has that warm natural texture that I love. On its own it's really beautiful but I've got the perfect thing to put inside. You've probably seen the viral berry stems all over your feed this season. These are the red version and I think they are so pretty. Look at all this texture and they look real and not plastic. I'm just dropping a few into the rattan vase and kind of crumpling up the ends so they fit nicely inside. Then I'm bending the branches so they go in all different directions which is what's going to make these look natural instead of stiff. And here's how this arrangement looks on the shelf in my home office. I love these red berries against the dark green walls. It is such a good festive combo and the best part is I don't think this is too Christmassy. Red berries can work all winter long and honestly I'm probably going to keep this out all year. It looks so gorgeous. For this next DIY, I'm taking these sparkly stems I found at Dollar Tree as well as these pipe cleaners aka chenille stems, taking a gold pipe cleaner, making it into a circle and twisting the ends together. Now I'm taking some scissors and cutting off the top parts of the sparkling greenery stem and then adding some glue, some hot glue to the top of the circle and adding the stems onto the hot glue, layering them over one by one until the whole pipe cleaner is covered. Now I'm taking these other stems I found at Dollar Tree last year and cutting off the little gold balls and I'm taking some hot glue and adding them to this little mini wreath. I'm going to put five of these gold balls onto the wreath. Now you can use these as a really sweet decoration for your Christmas tree or I love using them on place settings for Christmas. I love how they add some greenery and sparkle to each setting. Now back to IKEA's hurricane vases from number one and this time we're going to use all three sizes that come in the pack. Pour faux snow into the bottom of each one and set a pinecone candle down in that snow. You can group all three on a tray, tuck some faux greenery around the bases and weave some beautiful twinkle lights through. The three sizes together always look so good. Three is the perfect number for most displays and it's a beautiful winter centerpiece you can leave up from December right through till spring. If you like a little bit of glam at Christmas but not too much you're going to love this find. Look at these faux crystal berry branches. The berries look like little crystals, the stems are all glittery and gold, it just sparkles in the light. You can tuck these into a garland or into your Christmas tree but today I'm going to add them to my faux cedar wreath. i'm just tucking them in all the way around this wreath using five of these stems so the sparkle is spread around the whole thing looks so pretty especially with the light glimmering through the crystals the natural green of the cedar with that pop of glam it's the perfect amount of sparkle without being too over the top i found the snowflake hanger in the christmas section and i thought it'd be interesting to try to create another ornament from one of these all you have to do here is just remove one of these snowflakes and then take all of that tinsel off I think I'm going to save this and use it for something else, maybe as some sort of addition to my Christmas village this year. So now you have kind of a beige colored plastic snowflake, which actually matches the Dollar Tree wooden beads quite well. So take a dab of hot glue and put it onto the back of one of the beads and start lining this plastic snowflake shape with wooden beads. You can place them in sort of the spaces between the plastic arms of the snowflake and really Really anywhere that you think works. If you want, you can follow along with my design that I'm doing here, or you can make your own little bead design. Once you're finished filling all of the holes in that plastic snowflake with the wooden beads, you can layer some of the beads on top of the snowflake arms. I don't know if they're called snowflake arms, but that's what I'm calling them today. Once you're happy with your beaded snowflake ornament design, you can take some more twine and place it in one of the loops on top of the snowflake and tie it together to create Create a little hanger for your ornament. This one turned out pretty cute. I was wondering as I went along how it would look and I really like the finished look. I love how the plastic matches the beads and it has sort of a really cute boho farmhouse vibe. Now that I'm back at home, I'm using my blow dryer trick to get all the sticky labels off. I'm also using E6000 and this Dollar Tree ornament. I simply remove the top. i also have this faux snow from Dollar Tree and i'm placing it inside this round vase i'm popping in this little camper ornament and this mini tree from Dollar Tree as well you can tack those down with the E6000 and then i'm just placing some of that around the rim of the jar placing that flat glass tray on top and this would be the perfect little snow globe tray for cookies but i'm just going to use it for my decor for now with some faux greenery from from amazon and this faux candle from my own shop Cozy Prairie Linens. i love how this turned out. I love this faux fur throw, feel how luxurious and soft it is, I love this creamy color and it's so much more affordable than the viral brand name one everyone's been buying. If you remember making paper chains as a kid this is the grown-up version and I think it's so much prettier. All you need is a couple of rolls of three inch wired ribbon from Dollar Tree. I grabbed a couple rolls in two different patterns so I could alternate them. Start by cutting your ribbon into 10 inch pieces. I cut one piece and used it as a template for all the rest. Take your first piece, bring the ends together into a circle and hot glue the edge. Then thread your next piece through that circle in the other pattern of ribbon and glue it closed. And that's all there is to this DIY. Keep going, alternate the patterns until it's as long as you want. Pro tip, because it's wired ribbon, you can pinch and shape each loop afterward so they sit nice and full instead of flat. Look how full and cozy this is. It's so easy to make as long as you need. Drape it on the mantle, wrap it around the tree. I put it on a shelf in my entryway and it adds so much color and fun as soon as people walk in the door. It's finally time to style my mantle for this year. All right, so remember our double layered cedar garland from the beginning? Let's decorate it. First, I'm going to add some picks to just one end. I want to go asymmetrical this year instead of perfectly even because I think that looks a little bit more natural and designer. Next, my aged brass bells from the tray. I'm hanging the other set of three I have on this side of the garland. Then a few bows made from that same red velvet ribbon. I'm spacing them on this side for a pop of traditional color. Now here's a little budget secret. I found these gold lanterns and candles from Dollar Tree. I'm mixing them in with everything else and nobody would ever know. My favorite faux taper candles go inside these gold candlesticks also from Amazon and the different heights are going to add a little bit of interest. I'm flanking them on either side of my gold framed mirror which I've had for several years. It's from Struck Tube here in Canada. And finally, I'm hanging the stockings that we've used for the last several years. You don't have to buy everything new. Don't forget to shop your house first when you're decorating for Christmas this year. All right. And look at the finished look. I think it looks so high end and gorgeous, beautiful, traditional look. And I love that it was all done with affordable finds. I've linked every Amazon find from this video in the description box below and on my Amazon storefront. So you can recreate any of these looks this year.