Christmas is fast approaching and we're bringing you the coastal vibes this
Christmas! Hi guys, I'm Belle from Hampton Your House and welcome to my channel.
I love creating Hamptons Style DIY projects and helping you achieve the
Coastal Hamptons vibe in your house, so if that sounds like something you'd be
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notification bell so you don't miss anything new. Today we're going to kick
off our Christmas DIY projects with some Coastal Hamptons monogrammed Christmas
Stockings. Hamptons inspired Christmas decor is perfect for anyone who loves
the look and especially anyone near the beach
or anyone who lives in the Southern Hemisphere and always has Christmas in
summer. These stockings are super easy to make and very effective, I hope you enjoy it.
First, you need some self-adhesive glitter foam. I got mine from Cheap as
Chips for $6 and I just picked out the colours that go with the Hamptons theme.
Next you need some of these awesome Hessian stockings from the Reject Shop. I
picked these up for only $3.50 each.
You'll also need to print out some letters for your monograms, so, the
first letter of everyone's name, and then cut them out. I've used a classic-looking
font called "Castellar" in size 450 so basically go as big as you can. I love
this font because of the little cut-out bits,
it really looks fresh and classic. Next, put a sheet to glitter foam face down,
and place one of your letters face down on top. It's super important to make sure
that you put them face down, otherwise you'll end up with inside out letters.
Trace around them, and if you have cut-outs like me, you can actually just
trace over them so it leaves an impression and then trace over the
impression so you can see it better. Then on a protective surface, carefully cut
out your foam letters with a Stanley knife.
Once you're ready to stick them on, grab some scrap paper, fold it and put it
inside your stocking just in case, then warm up your glue gun.
Peel off the paper backing and put a few dabs of hot glue on any sticking out
parts of the letter to make sure they stay on really well.
Next we're going to put some ribbon around the edge of the cuff. Measure
out your first piece, make sure you have around four centimetres of overlap and
then cut the ribbon for all your stockings using the first piece as a
guide. Make a crease in the centre of your ribbon then glue that bit down and
from there, you can glue the two sides down and around the back. Before you glue
your last end down, put a little bit of glue right on the end and then fold
it over like a seam, then glue the rest of it down. I've decided to lay a navy
bias binding over the top of the white cotton ribbon to get that classic
Hamptons look.
And here are the finished products!
I'm really loving these Christmas stockings. I love their simplicity and
the fresh coastal vibe and the fact that they fit in nicely with the other decor
in our house. Well please let me know what you think and let me know if you
tried them yourself - I would love to see how they turned out. I'm now on Instagram
@hamptonyourhouse - I would love to see you over there,
I'll leave a link for that below. Don't forget to like this video, subscribe and
share it with your friends, thank you so much for watching and I look forward to
seeing you again in my next video. Bye guys!