Rethink the average holiday decor tradition with this easy DIY Color Block Ornament Garland to dress up your home for the season!
As to not leave you hanging for too long (no pun intended), here’s the full tutorial for yesterday’s DIY Color Block Ornament Garland from our crafting party with Martha Stewart Living.
Assembling the garland is as simple as stringing the ornament hooks through wired ribbon.. or in our case, felted wool rope.
We offered guests two options so that they could choose either a more sophisticated look with silver wired ribbon or a more playful look with the felted wool rope.
Fair warning though, this bad boy takes a TON of bulbs to make it full.
So stock up beforehand!
(Because even if you have leftover bulbs, you can repurpose them into a unique gift tag.)
Materials and Tools Needed to Make DIY Ornament Garland
Ornaments — We used the holiday frost collection from Martha Stewart and paints.
Wired ribbon or felted wool rope or cotton cord rope
Scissors
How to Make a DIY Ornament Garland
Step 1 — The quickest and easiest way (always good to know, right?) is to loop a set of three bulbs together on an ornament hook.
Step 2 — And then, twist the hook around your rope or ribbon.
We created this one to have six bulbs for each color.
But you can do as many or as little as you’d like.
Step 3 — Once you’ve grouped one color on the garland, continue with groups of the following until you’ve got it as long as you’d like.
Step 4 — Then, clip the ribbon or rope and knot it at the ends of the bulbs.
Now all you have to do is hang or drape it in place!
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DIY Block Ornament Garland
Equipment
- Scissors
Instructions
- Loop a set of three bulbs together on an ornament hook.
- Twist the hook around your rope or ribbon.I created this one to have six bulbs for each color. But you can do as many or as little as you’d like.
- Once you’ve grouped one color on the garland, continue with groups of the following until you’ve got it as long as you’d like.
- Clip the ribbon or rope and knot it at the ends of the bulbs.Now all you have to do is hang or drape it in place!
Did you paint these ornaments? What color MS paints did you use? Love this!
Where did the blue, red & yellow ornaments come from? I google Martha Stewart Holiday Frost and found nothing! Did you make them yourself with the paint you mentioned?
About how many ornaments did you use?
Hi Ashley! What is the easiest way to paint the bulbs?? I’m having trouble getting the bulbs painted with out finger prints! Thanks, Emily
Just my two cents here, but usually with clear glass bulbs you can pop off the metal hanger part and pour a bit of paint inside, swirl it around until it coats the inside and then pour the extra out? That might help with the finger print issue.
sooo cute – I love the nontraditional color palette you’ve got going on!
Wow, this would be a great idea for decorating my classroom!
This is really delightful! I am curious about where you bought your felt wool rope, though.
Hi Stacia! The felted wool rope is actually from Hobby Lobby in the Christmas section. One roll is about $5 :)
I love this! Can’t wait to make it…where did you find the felted wool rope?
Hi Jess! I’m glad you love it! The felted wool rope is actually from Hobby Lobby in the Christmas section. One roll is about $5 :)
This is so cute! Could I also make this into a wreathe?
totally! I would use the thick wire branch style wreath as the base and then just wrap bulbs around that so it holds the weight!
Great, thanks, Ashley!
Never have I seen such a unique way to change it up, I am lovin this garland… Envy of the talent
Oh this would be so pretty on my mantle! Love it!
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