No worries if your room looks plain and boring. In this video I'll show you 10 beautiful winter
inspired decorating ideas, which will make your room look amazeballs.
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Hey loves! ever since I posted my first DIY room decor tutorial I've been getting so many
requests for another episode. So I thought why not! And since we are approaching Christmas,
these decorations are perfect for this time of the year, but many are also more winter
inspired, so you can totally make them when Christmas is over too. I'm going to show you
10 beautiful ideas, including this one, which will make your room look like a proper winter
wonderland. OK, enough talking, let's get down to business.
We're going to kick off with this beautiful pine tree pillow case, which is a great decoration
for all year around plus you can make it for very cheap. We'll need a plain pillow case,
some patterned fabric, a piece of brown fabric or felt and fabric glue. Fold one side corner
in like that. Apply some glue and fold the opposite corner over it. Apply the glue also
on the bottom part of your tree and fold that little triangle up. You get a beautiful pine
tree shape, with perfectly neat edges completely without sewing. I love using patterned fabric
pieces because they just make the pillow more interesting and full. I made one more green
and red tree, but this time using a bit smaller pieces of fabric so I got slightly smaller
pine trees. Of course every tree also has a trunk, so lets cut four rectangles from
a brown piece of felt or any other fabric of your choice. We are now all ready to glue
our pine trees on the pillow. Happy dance, woohoo! Apply a bit of glue on the back of
each pine beauty and place it onto the pillow case. I like that my trees overlap a bit so
it looks more realistic. I'm also I am gluing some trees a bit higher than the others to
add some dimension. In the end we have to glue the four trunks under each of our beautiful
pine trees. Voila, we are finished with this gorgeous pine tree pillow, which looks great
in your bedroom or living room. I had these green pillows on my sofa from before so I
thought a pine tree pillow with some green and red will complement them perfectly. I
wasn't wrong - I love how everything turned out!
A very easy and super adorable winter decor ideas are these sweater candles. All you need
is a candle, a glass and a sock or a sleeve of an old sweater. Put the glass into the
sock opening and cut away the excess. I like to leave some extra fabric, which I then tuck
under the glass. Put the candle into the glass and you have the cutest winter candles ever.
These literally take a minute to make and they look so beautiful, warm and cozy. This
kind of DIYs are my favorite – quick, easy and stunning!
A really cool and inexpensive decoration for the winter time is this pine tree bouquet
with orange and pasta ornaments. To get the pine branches we're going to first take a
little walk in the woods. I'm lucky enough to have one right behind my apartment. Find
a pine tree or any other tree really and cut a couple of branches. Mine are ready so let's
quickly get back home and make a beautiful room decoration! Besides branches you will
also need a couple of oranges, glue gun and string plus bow shaped pasta and spray paint.
First we're going to paint our pasta! Protect the working surface with a cardboard paper
or a plastic bag, place on your pasta and spray it on both sides. In a minute you are
left with beautiful golden bow ornaments. Now we need to make our orange ornaments as
well. Cut quarter of an inch wide slices of orange like that. Yum, I love orange so much.
Especially now that they are in season they taste so good. Place the slices on a baking
tray and bake at 240 Fahrenheit for 3 hours. While baking the orange slices will dry, harden
and shrink a bit. Take them out of the oven and let's work on the hangers. Make a hole
using a needle and lead a string through it. I am using a golden string, which goes perfectly
with our gold bow pasta. Make a knot and we are ready to hang our orange ornaments on
the pine branches. I love how these look. You can also decorate your Christmas tree
using these beautiful dried orange slices. To attach the pasta bows simply apply a bit
of glue at the back of each bow and stick them on the branches. How pretty, right! Using
orange and pasta to create such a gorgeous decoration may seem crazy but I think we all
agree that the result is stunning. I just love making unique and inexpensive crafts
like this one. On top of that oranges smell so nice you won't need to burn any scented
candles at all!
Time to make this gorgeous winter wall art, with snowman and a little quote. We need a
canvas, a palette, blue and white acrylic paint, sponge applicator and optionally - some
water. Let's make a blue gradient for the background. Squeeze some dark blue paint on
a palette. Dip the sponge in the water and then into the paint. Color the upper edge
of your canvas making a wide blue stripe like that. The background should be darkest on
top and lightest on the bottom, so to get a slightly lighter blue shade, mix in a bit
of white. Then color the section below the darkest blue with the lighter blue shade and
blend the two colors together. For an even lighter blue color add more white acrylic
paint and color the section below our previous color. Continue these steps by adding more
and more white paint until your canvas is all covered in the pretty blue gradient. Color
the bottom part using pure white paint to represent the snow on the ground. Alright
now it's time to print out our quote, there's snowplace like home in a big heart. Of course
we also need to print out a snowman. Cut the heart and the snowman out. How cute is he?!
Apply some glue on the back of the snowman and the heart, and stick them on to the canvas.
You can get a lot of snowman pictures on the internet. So just google it and you will find
a lot of results. You can of course be creative and instead of the snowman you can print other
pictures, like a house, a Christmas tree, anything you like! The options are endless!
To make this wall art extra wintery draw a lot of white snowflakes all over the canvas
using a small paint brush. If you want an extra little detail you can add some silver
glitter paint on top of each snowflake. Plus I decided to make a shade under the snowman
using a pencil to make a picture more realistic. To bring together the canvas with the printed
snowman and the heart cover the entire canvas with a very thin layer of mod podge. I do
suggest using a photo paper when printing out your pictures instead of a regular paper.
This canvas is a great winter decor for your room or the entrance of your house. Here in
Norway it can get pretty cold outside so I am always so happy when I get home from the
wind, rain or snow. So for me the quote "there's snowplace like home" is absolutely perfect.
Another DIY and another walk in the woods. This time I am picking up pine-cones, acorns
and these balls, which I don't even know what they're called. Have some fun exploring and
pick whatever you find where you live. I decided to spray paint just the balls, while I am
keeping pine-cones and acorns natural. Leave the paint to dry for a minute and mix all
of these beauties together. Put them into any kind of transparent vase or even a bowl
and you get a gorgeous decoration perfect for fall and winter. I love going outside,
and bringing home pieces of nature. I think such natural decorations give so much life
and joy to my apartment.
Now I am going to show you how to make this pretty and warm sock. Just kidding we are
making a stocking! Because, where will Santa otherwise leave all our presents, right?!
You will need any fabric of your choice, some white furry material, which is optional, stocking
stencil and fabric glue. First we need to cut two stocking shapes from our fabric. You
can just do it directly but I like to use a stencil to get a perfect shape. Place some
tape pieces on the stencil and then stick it on your fabric. Cut it out using scissors
or an exacto knife. Take the other piece of fabric and now we have to cut out a mirror
image of the first stocking shape. To do that we need to peel of the tape pieces on this
side of the stocking, flip the stencil around and stick the tape pieces on that side. Cut
out the stocking shape. If you want you can totally have the same fabric on both sides
of your stocking. I happen to have slightly different pattern, but that's OK! When both
stocking sides are cut out it's time to glue them together. Apply a stripe of fabric glue
all around the edges of one stocking side. Oh no what a troll, of course I shouldn't
apply glue on that upper part because that's where the stocking needs an opening. How else
would Santa put the presents into our stocking if it would be sealed all around. After about
fifteen minutes the glue should be completely dry and you can flip your stocking inside
out. Cut about ten inch stripe from your fabric. We will use it as a hanger for the stocking.
Glue the stripe ends together. While the glue dries let's apply an awesome fur ending to
the socking. Or you can use some other fabric that you find, like white felt for example.
Apply two parallel stripes of glue on the top edge of the stocking where you have the
opening. Do this all around the stocking so that the entire top part is wrapped in the
cozy faux fur. In the end tuck the part sticking out into the sock for an even neater look.
The only thing left to do is gluing the hanger on the back part of the stocking and we are
done. Now we are all ready for the Santa's visit. So.. we're waiting, Santa, we're waiting
for you! I really like how this stocking turned out, it looks so professionally made. You
can also use this as a gift wrapping idea and fill this stocking with little presents
for a friend or boyfriend. Everyone would be so happy to receive such an awesome gift!
Clay stars are such an awesome and versatile decor idea that you can actually make all
year around. Hang them on your window, wall or even use them to decorate your Christmas
tree. We're going to need different colors of clay, star cookie cutter and dough roller.
Roll the colors of your choice into strips like this. I have white, minty green, glittery
grey and blue. I went for more wintery, frosty colors as you can tell.
twist all the strips together and note that the more you twist, the more marbley your stars are going to be.
I want my design to be pretty full so I decided to roll my clay again and twist it like that.
Have fun and play with it so that the clay colors mix together. Then form the clay into
a little marble ball. Place it on the flat surface and use a roller or something rounded
like a vase or a bottle to flatten it. Take a star shaped cookie cutter and press it on
the clay to get beautiful clay stars. I seriously feel like I'm baking cookies, no joke, I just
want to eat these so badly. To make these stars easy to hang once they harden, we also
need to make a small hole using a needle. My clay is air drying so I have to wait for
a few hours for the stars to dry and harden, but you can bake them and speed up the process.
These beautiful stars are now all dry so use the hole we made earlier to tie on a piece
of thread. We are finally ready to decorate the room with these beautiful marbley stars.
I already plan to make these using bright clay colors for the spring and summer because
this DIY is just so much fun.
Want your room to look like a real winter wonderland? This frozen candle will help you
get just that. To make it we need a vase, snow spray, artificial snow, and a candle.
Now let's put our winter wonderland candle together. Take a piece of paper and sketch
a zig zag line all along like that. We are creating a stencil that will help us make
the perfect ice stalactites. Cut along the sketched line using your scissors. This shape
really reminds me of scary teeth of a shark or some other beast. Relax, Sara, it's just
a paper. Ok, take your vase and wrap the stencil around it. As you can see the top of the vase
stays uncovered and this is where we will apply the snow. Take your artificial snow
and spray it all around the vase until the top edge is completely covered and you can't
see any transparent parts. I really love this spray as it makes everything look so wintery
in a second. After a few minutes the snow on our vase sets and we can remove the stencil.
Here we have them - perfect ice stalactites all around the edge of our vase. Now what's
left for us to do is to pour in some artificial snow and place a candle in the middle. This
is such a fun DIY to make and I think it really turned out epic. In the evenings I like to
turn all the lights off and I light this candle - it seriously looks so gorgeous. This could
also be a great gift for a friend, your mom or anyone that likes candles and pretty decorating
pieces.
Now let's make this beautiful mittens pillow, which is a perfect decorating piece for Christmas
and winter on general. You will need a cheap pillow case, some patterned fabric, a piece
of white fabric, yarn and fabric glue. First we need to cut a mitten shape out of the fabric.
Find a stencil of your choice on the internet – I typed mittens stencil, got many pictures
and chose this one. Print it and then cut it out with scissors. To keep the stencil
in place while cutting the fabric, we need to stick some tape pieces on one side. Flip
the fabric so that the wrong side is facing up and stick on the fabric. Now we can easily
cut a perfect mitten shape and the stencil will stay in place all the way. Here we go
our left mitten is all done. Now we have to make a mitten for the right hand too. Remember
that now you have to cut out a mirror image of the first one. And here they are our beautiful
knitted mittens ready to decorate our pillow case. Apply some fabric glue on the back of
mittens, hot glue should work fine too, and stick them on the pillow. Fancy pillow cases
can be very expensive, while you can get such plain cases like this one for a few dollars.
I chose red one which makes it a bit more Christmassy but you can use white or blue
one and your pillow case will be perfect for all winter long. Next step is optional but
I happened to have this white faux fur fabric so I decided to cut two little pieces and
stick them on the wrist part of the mittens. Instead of such fur material you can totally
use white knit or cotton fabric. Now they look even more soft and cozy. To make our
pillow even more interesting and full I am gluing a piece of white yarn, making sure
that the ends are attached to the mittens. This string makes the pillow look so retro.
I still remember having such gloves when I was little. Here it is our mittens pillow
case is all done and it looks amazing, right?! I mean, you can't even get such a cool design
in a shop. This is a great decoration for your bed or a sofa. It just adds a warm and
cozy feeling to any space. I absolutely adore it.
Even if you don't have a proper Christmas tree in your room, you can still make it look
super festive for the holidays. These yarn trees are easy to make and so inexpensive.
All you need is some thicker paper, all purpose glue, yarn, paint brush and buttons. Make
a cone shape using a piece of thicker paper. Cut away the excess to get a flat bottom edge,
so that our tree will stand nice and straight when finished. Get your yarn and glue ready.
Before we start wrapping the yarn around the cone, we need to attach it in place firmly.
So stick the yarn end on the tip of the cone using a piece of tape. Now we can apply glue
on a small section on the top part of the cone and start wrapping the yarn around like
that. Make sure to wrap the yarn rows closely one by the other, so you can't see the paper
below. Add more glue and do some more wrapping. What I like about this DIY is that all the
things you need you most probably already have around your house. So you don't have
to spend any money for this beautiful Christmas decoration. Our cone is now completely wrapped
and we can cut away the excess working yarn. I also decided to cut off a few milimetres
of paper to make our tree even neater. Time for the fun part - decorating the Christmas
tree! I am going to use these green buttons in a shape of flowers, because they are the
only buttons that I have, but of course any buttons will do. Apply some glue on the back
of each button and stick them on the tree. There we go – how gorgeous right?! But we're
not finished yet. You guys know my obsession with pom poms so of course we have to put
one on top of our Christmas tree! I show you how to make a pom pom in my DIY gift Ideas
tutorial so check it out if you don't know how to make it. Our Christmas tree is finished
and it looks beautiful. I loved it so much that I had to make another one, this time
using green yarn and white buttons for the baubles. I finished it off with a red pom
pom on top. These little Christmas trees are so adorable and inexpensive – you really
have to try them, guys. They will look beautiful on your night stand, desk anywhere. A lovely
Christmas decoration for sure!
Now you guys are all ready to spice up your rooms for the holidays! If you try these ideas
out, please send me your pictures on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram because seriously,
nothing makes me happier than seeing your masterpieces. I hope you are having and amazing
December so far, surrounded by the people you love. Thank you so much for watching this
video, I am sending you a bunch of kisses and I'll talk to you really soon. Bye!
You really don’t need to spend a ton of money to make your room look awesome. All
you need is some crafty spirit and imagination. I am sure you will have a lot of fun designing
and creating your own dream room.