Fits of all, I apologize for the quality of the image, and by extension, the quality of the wall I ended up photographing. We have drywall issues.
Last week, just after Thanksgiving here in the US, I decided that I wanted to do some decorating, but I was feeling all too lazy to crawl into the storage space and try to find the box of decorations or the tree. What I did have at hand was a stack of scrapbooking paper I’d just picked up at my local craft store (10 sheets, used a coupon, came to less than $10.00.) In this case the papers are from the Merrymint line by American Crafts. I also had a spool of just twine, also just purchased at the craft store. (2.99).
Now here’s the part where some would say that I cheated. I used my Cricut to cut out the same Christmas ornament shape over and over ranging from 2 inches to 4. If you don’t have a digital die-cutter you have a lot of options. You can trace a bowl or glass and then add on a loop and punch the hole with a hole punch. You can trace a cookie cutter. You can go to your local scrapbooking store and rent some time on their die-cutting machine. Or you can recruit your local children to help.
After cutting I ended up with an overly large pile of cut out ornaments. (Photo to come.) I measured the length of my hallway and then added a few feet to account for pulling certain parts of the garland up to create scallops. I cut the twine and knotted on each ornament, about 4 inches apart. Mr. FC helped me hang it, and since we live in an apartment we decided we didn’t want more nail holes, so ours is taped up with my handyman’s tool of choice, gaffer’s tape. (Hence the little white squares you see at the top of the scallops. )
It’s a quick and easy project, and the longest part of it for me was tying on the ornaments. I think the easiest thing to do is to start at the middle, tie the ornaments on one half and then do the other half. This means only having to string each ornament over half of the twine, instead of all the way down the length.
You can alter this project so incredibly easily. Don’t like ornaments? Use Santa, dreidels, snowflakes, snowmen, or surfboards (for my Australian friends.) Don’t have twine? Try string, yarn, thread, or wire. (I like linen, just, or hemp because they have a nice natural look and a little heft to them, but your garland is not my garland. Do what you like!)
You can also drape one of these garlands around your Christmas tree or wreath.
I would love to see your seasonal garlands, so please leave me a comment with a link to yours.
The My quick and easy paper garland by FasterCraft, unless otherwise expressly stated, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.
