You knew this was coming – -jumping right from Halloween to a Christmas post. But you need to see the post so you have time to pull ideas from it that you may want to implement 🙂
This year I was SUPER excited to be part of the 2nd Annual Michael’s Dream Tree Challenge – I’ve never had free reign on a tree (normally we just load our tree up with all the ornaments from the kids – which I do love) and it was so fun to put together a more “grown-up” tree. But my style isn’t super “grown-up” – it’s still loud and fun. But with that, I am pretty traditional and love traditional holiday colors.
And so let me present my tree: Red and Green BLING!
This tree is done in a fun red, a limey green, and silver, with glitter blinging up EVERYTHING! I love it! It’s super fun but still traditional – just what I pictured. And, it’s my first ever PRELIT tree. Yep. Awesome.
The start of the show are these baubble things – I couldn’t get enough of them. I love the extra dimension they give, and their sparkle. You can bend them and they’ll hold their shape. I have them sticking out every which way:
I even bundled up a bunch with some sequin strands and used them as the tree topper:
In addition to the baubles sticking out, I used a bunch of these glittery twirly stick things – they’re really thin and I’m sure they have a name. They’re in the flower section and you buy them in a bundle but I pulled them apart into individual sticks and stuck them all over the tree. So fun! Anyone know what they’re called?
I’m weak for a great deal and this big glass vase was on mega-clearance. I grabbed it for some added interest and added blingy balls and sequin strands to it.
In the ornaments section at Michael’s you can find tons of fun glittery ornaments in red and green – I grabbed a few of these spikey balls, a few spring-looking balls, and some words like “joy” and “peace” and “hope” and spread them throughout the tree:
The prettiest thing on the tree is this sparkly poinsetta garland – it is just so amazing in person – you must check it out! I also added green ball garland. And another love is the spring baubble things that you can bend into shape – it all worked so well together!
With all that store-bought awesomeness, which I love, there still needs to be some handmade things to make the tree more personal and more “me”. So you may have noticed the circle glitter garland, or the mason-lid ornaments – stayed tuned for a future tutorial post on making those!
A little more info about Michael’s Craft Stores:
I like that you used the bubbles for the tree topper. And I’m always a sucker for paper garland. Thanks for sharing with us!
I love the things that stick out! Are they plastic? I have a toddler so I’m in the market for some new (plastic!) ornaments this year.
yes! those balls-on-sticks stick-out things are plastic – love that
I was just at Michaels today. I saw all the Christmas stuff, and wondered when we were going to see your tree.. 🙂
I love how it turned out Mandy! And now all of the sudden I’m in the mood for Christmas music. 😉
So cute, Mandy! Very fun tree!
I think it looks fabulous–colorful, right up my alley!
Your tree looks great! In my family, we call those glittery twirly things happy doinkers!
Your tree looks awesome!!! Love it. 🙂