DIY garlands - aesthetically pleasing, original and economical

Any handmade is now at the peak of popularity. Creating creative decorative elements for your home with your own hands is not only profitable, but also stylish, modern, in the spirit of the latest trends. At the same time, it is not necessary to have special skills, rare materials or special tools - most of the ideas for decor are simple to implement and do not require large expenses. To implement some ideas, you can also get rid of unnecessary things or dispose of household items that only take up space on shelves. One of the simplest, fastest, but at the same time effective ways of decorating a home is the manufacture of garlands. Here are 100 ideas for creating a wide variety of garlands for different occasions - get inspired!

Paper garlands are the easiest, cheapest and fastest way to transform space. A garland of paper can act as an accent element of the interior, zoning a room into functional segments or allocating one or another place, indicate a specific theme or style of execution of a room’s design, or simply serve as a decorative element.

The easiest option to create a garland of paper is flat. Paper blanks (the shape you need) are simply sewn on a typewriter or glued to a twine, thick thread or ribbon. If you carefully handle such a garland, then it will be possible to use it more than once.

Paper fringe is easy to manufacture, but it looks very elegant, festive. Just use double-sided fringe for greater opulence.

Thin paper is perfect for simple and light decor options. Such garlands are literally weightless, they sway from any breath of air, creating an atmosphere of spaciousness, airiness, lightness in the room. Thick paper is suitable for more complex products with a strong base.

Volume garlands with paper elements always have a very festive and even solemn appearance. Of course, you will have to work hard to give the paper volume, but the result will be worth the effort. You can use both regular colored paper (most often double-sided) and corrugated, crepe, cardboard, foil. String elements can be strung on a thin tape, twine, any twine. The denser the paper and the larger the decorative elements, the stronger should be the basis for stringing.

The garland becomes voluminous if ordinary paper blanks are folded or bent.

For a paper garland, you can use family photos. Such a decorative element can become an exclusive gift and a wonderful decoration of the room (not only for the holiday).

Garlands from various types of textiles are certainly more durable than paper products. If you have preserved scraps of unnecessary fabric in different colors at home, then with some skills, patience and free time, you can create real masterpieces of decorative handmade.

For example, recently it has been very popular to make any decorative elements from colored felt. The advantage of this material is that it does not need processing, it is dense and holds its shape well, is sold in all needlework stores and even in the stationery departments.

No less popular is tulle. It holds its shape perfectly and is ideal for the manufacture of three-dimensional decorative elements. Garlands turn out large-scale and even “fluffy”.

Ribbons are a separate type of material that is very often used to make a wide variety of garlands. The easiest way is to tie small pieces of ribbons of different colors on a rope or any other basis.

If you know how to knit and you still have threads of different colors, then the best way to dispose of such residues is to make a durable garland. Not only the multiple use of durable garlands with knitted elements becomes the advantage of such handmade, but also the original design, a variety of options.

Multi-colored pompons, which are easy to make even for children, can be an excellent basis for creating garlands for those who have accumulated a lot of leftover thread for knitting.

Who said manual training needs a lot of money? You can create beautiful decorative elements for your home from improvised means. Some costs will still be - for accompanying materials and, of course, your time. But the minutes and hours spent on a lesson that gives pleasure, can not be attributed to the items of expenditure. So, from which you can make original paper garlands:

• old newspapers;
• magazines
• advertising posters;
• booklets;
• unnecessary maps and atlases;
• playing cards that have exhausted their useful life;
• books that are only suitable for waste paper;
• buttons, beads, beads.

It is easy to turn plastic testicles from kindersurprises into birds or animals. You only need colored paper and twine to make the original garland. It is easy to make garlands of paper coasters for cupcakes or cupcakes. They are sold in large sets, are inexpensive, but they can be bright, have an original pattern.

And plastic disposable plates can be easily turned into imitations of soccer balls.

Decorating any room for any holiday is easiest with the help of garlands. They can be made quite quickly, used more than once, and changed location depending on the desired effect. A garland takes up a lot of space, so any space is instantly transformed if it is decorated in such a simple way. The festive mood, a hint of a certain theme of the celebration, or the particulars of holding an event are easiest to organize with the help of garlands. Well, why buy something that you can do with your own hands, and even from improvised means.

New Year's garlands - a decoration familiar from childhood, which many did as soon as they learned to wield scissors. Paper and fabric flags, chains of cardboard or shiny foil, carved snowflakes and Christmas trees - any attributes of the winter holidays will be used.

Cones collected in the summer can be used in the winter for the manufacture of garlands. It is enough to clean your workpieces (cones) or paint the tips of the "branches" of future Christmas trees with white or silver paint (you can use gouache, acrylic paints and even white glue).

Perhaps the most common case of using garlands to decorate a room is a children's holiday. Not necessarily a birthday, any celebration attended by children, I want to make out especially elegant, festive, varied. You can decorate with garlands the area of ​​the so-called candy bar (a table with refreshments and drinks), the space above the table at which children will sit or the place where gifts will be stacked. Yes, and simply made garlands through the room or decorating the walls with decorative elements made by one's own hands will be an excellent occasion for a festive mood.

From small colored cylinders (thick colored paper or colored cardboard) you can make dynamite (a hint of the explosive nature of the party) or candles - this is an association with candles for a cake.

By combining paper with fabric or thread products, you can create original decor options. For example, paper rabbits with ponytails in the form of pompons, which are easy to make even for a child. Ponytails can be made of cotton just by rolling it into lumps.

On Valentine's Day, it is customary to give valentines made by yourself.But you can go further and arrange a whole area for the celebration, decorate a place near the table, at which a romantic dinner will take place, arrange the head of the bed or any other place in the house that is convenient for decoration. Of course, the main motive of garlands for the holiday of lovers will be the use of hearts and all shades of red. By the way, the use of love themes in the decoration of the premises does not have to be tied to any holiday. The interior of a girl’s room in a romantic style can be decorated with similar decorative elements all year round.

From paper…

From felt ...

Regardless of which holiday you are going to celebrate - the birthday of a family member or pet, an anniversary or a national holiday, or maybe just one of the relatives returned after a long absence and a party is being prepared in his honor - there are many universal options for making garlands for any occasion. It can be balls of medium size strung on a rope or a dense thread ...

Or a floral arrangement, relevant at any time of the year and at any holiday. Moreover, flowers can be made from various materials. Use twigs or twigs for the base and your composition will be closer to nature.