Garland Wonderland With Styled
So when we chatted to Hazel about doing a little DIY project for this magazine, our hearts went straight to garlands. Garlands are on our favourite all time list of decorations. They can be strung up at home above your bed, in front of your fireplace, at a wedding in front of a head table, anywhere you really want to make a statement. The nice thing about garlands is you can really play around with the colours and materials - from tissue, crepe paper, ribbon, fabric the options are endless. For this project, we used a lemon yellow and pale purple with a pop of silver as an accent, and we were pretty chuffed with the result. Everyone has their own way of doing things and we have road tested a few ways to make garlands, but we think this is the best way - it’s easy and it only took around 2 hours from start to finish, well that’s without the cat getting in the way! Here’s a little step by step guide on how to make your own dreamy garland….. Step one – Pick your colour palette. We are always big fans of complimentary colours in the same palette, e.g pastel, brights, natural etc. Then we always recommend a pop of shinyness gold or silver. Step two - All you need is tissue paper, scissors, ribbon and if you want, a pop of silver or gold some shiny awesome stuff. About the shiny stuff, we have hunted high and low for silver foil that’s easy to work with, we are yet to find this! As crazy as it sounds, we found something even better than silver foil sheets. Kids silver cheerleading pom poms. Yes you read it right! These can be found at The Warehouse and in most $2 shops! They are already pre-cut and you just break them apart and seperate them! So how much tissue do you need? For big garlands (long length) you get get around 5x garland pieces from one tissue pack of say 10 sheets, so work out how long you want it and wa-lah.