New Year's decor from coniferous branches. Winter bouquet and Christmas compositions. Master Class

25.07.2019

Decorating your home for the New Year holidays is a common activity for many. Probably, this activity brings no less pleasure than the holidays themselves. You can not only follow long-term traditions by hanging a family collection of decorations on the Christmas tree, but also learn new ideas for decoration. Materials for creativity can be searched during a country walk. For some types of decor, you do not need to cut down entire trees - branches left after sanitizing the forest will do.

Branches of all sizes can be used in home decoration for Christmas and New Year. Not only the usual spruce and pine, but also other conifers will be used. In some compositions, for example, juniper or thuja will look great. The main thing is that the plant belongs to the so-called evergreen. You can decorate every room in the house with crafts made from needles and cones. Something, however, is more suitable for a country house. But, if you like the idea too much, try to implement it on the balcony or decorate the front door.

1. Decor for the front door.

A wreath on the front door is traditionally considered a sign of trust and invitation of passers-by to your home. Now on sale are many factory-made wreaths made from artificial branches. But you can create a similar decoration yourself to create a festive atmosphere for passers-by. Any message can be written on the door! Maybe you, on the contrary, want to ask strangers to bypass your house?

Instruction:

1. Pick up the branches that will become the basis of the decoration. Fluffy spruce branches with long cones will look very impressive in such a “bouquet”.

2. For a plate with an inscription, you need to choose a board of a suitable size. Pine wood is the best for processing.

3. Saw off the corners with a hacksaw so that they have a more interesting shape.

4. Drill holes for which the plate will be attached to the wreath of pine needles.

5. Print out the inscription with the selected message. Then take a ballpoint pen, pencil or other pointed object and circle the inscription by pressing on the wood. On the plate there will be a trace necessary for work.

6. Circle the inscription with paint. Water-based dyes, such as acrylics, work best.

7. After the paint has dried, cover the plate with stain or varnish.

8. If you used a stain, cover the plate with acrylic varnish from a spray can.

9. Pull the twine through the holes.

10. Fix the sign on a bouquet of fir branches. You can complement the composition with burlap or other natural fabric.

Decoration is ready!

2. Composition with candles.

Candles are traditionally used in New Year's decor. If you use pine needles and cones as a stand for them, you get a full-fledged decor item. You can fasten the structure with wire and mounting foam. You can add bright ribbons and shiny balls. The decoration will look even more interesting if you combine branches of various coniferous trees in it.

Prepare all the necessary materials - white or red candles, bright satin ribbons, wire, or a special mesh for crafts, foam for floristry (you can use polyurethane foam), cones, balls, skewers or sticks for attaching candles.

2. Pick up coniferous branches. Pine, juniper and mistletoe look great together.

3. If you have special flower arrangements, use them. Build a structure with foam and mesh, which can be purchased at specialized stores. But these materials can be replaced with mounting foam and ordinary wire. In addition, ordinary clay can be used as a base.

4. Fasten the branches to the base, starting with the largest.

5. The result should be a rather lush bouquet.

6. Attach candles with wire or colored tape to colored wooden sticks or skewers. Install the candles on the base.

7. Attach cones to the composition. Ideally, if you have green wire at your disposal. Attach other decor in the same way.

8. Choose a place to place your composition. If you put the decoration on the windowsill, not only your household members, but also passers-by will be able to admire it.

3. And one more option for a wreath on the door ...

You don't have to stick to standard Christmas hues. Instead of red and gold, complement the coniferous branches with silver balls and ribbons in the color of spring grass. This decoration will look great on a bright door without too much decor.

4. Balloons with natural decorations.

We used to hang balls on the Christmas tree. Or you can do it in an original way and place the Christmas tree inside the ball. You can replace spruce branches with any other needles. In extreme cases, you can even make a similar decoration with artificial needles. Just pick up a transparent ball of the right size, remove the mount and fill it with the selected branches.

5. Mistletoe for kissing.

According to tradition, if a free guy and a girl accidentally find themselves under mistletoe branches, they should kiss. Sometimes lovers can spend hours waiting for their soul mate under a Christmas decoration... You can make your own Kissing Ball and don't rely on luck!

Instruction:

1. Pick a base for your ball. It is more convenient to work with special balls from a floristry store, but you can simply make a wire frame.

2. Fasten the branches of the needles to the base.

3. Complete the composition with mistletoe leaves and other herbs of your choice.

4. You can decorate a kissing ball with cones and dried flowers.

5. You can add a golden or scarlet flying balloon, for which the composition, among other things, can be fixed in the right place.

6. Laconic decoration for the kitchen.

Thuja or juniper will perfectly refresh any interior. You can not be smart, and just arrange the branches throughout the house in beautiful festive dishes.

7. Another variation on the theme of wreaths ...

If you love Christmas wreaths very much, you don't have to limit yourself to just one on your front door. You can hang homemade decorations anywhere, arrange accordingly. For example, a composition of wreaths made from different coniferous branches looks very harmonious.

Instruction:

Pick up branches of different coniferous trees of approximately the same size.
Make a ring out of thick wire and paint it white.
Secure the branches to the base with wire or with a glue gun.
Hang the wreaths on a wide red ribbon at different heights.
If desired, you can add decor from ribbons and balls to the wreaths.

8. Mini Christmas tree

For those who do not have enough one Christmas tree in the house. A mini tree will decorate your desktop, kitchen or hallway. Just tie a few small branches together around the base and decorate with the smallest piece of jewelry you have. Great alternative to branches in a vase!

9. Garland of branches.

If you really have a lot of small pine or spruce branches at your disposal, just tie them into a huge garland. You can add it with luminous lanterns or any other decor.

10. Another option for decorating a Christmas wreath

Can't choose between silver and gold decor? Use both at the same time! Just paint the buds collected in the forest with acrylic spray paints. Pine cones will add volume to the decoration.

11. Tags for gifts.

So that your guests do not confuse the gifts placed under the Christmas tree under the chiming clock, you can write the names of the recipients on such original tags. Unlike torn packaging, few people raise their hands to throw them away!

12. Aroma of needles in the house.

A simple and incredibly successful solution for everyone who has only an artificial tree in the house. You can create the aroma of a real Christmas tree yourself!

You will need cinnamon (sticks are best, but powder will do) and other Christmas spices such as nutmeg, cardamom, cloves, and pine or spruce needles. Boil the spices together with the needles and store in a warm place. If necessary, the mixture can be heated. If the house has a fireplace or stove, place the mixture in them. If you can’t get the needles, just add a few drops of fir oil to the decoction, which you can buy at the pharmacy.

13. Candlesticks decorated with greenery.

A very simple idea, for which you only need glue and medium-sized coniferous branches. It is better to choose water-based glue, then after the holidays it will be easy for candlesticks to give their former look.

14. Bowls with greens.

Any copper or earthenware is associated with holiday bells. Therefore, a simple combination of beautiful glasses or glasses with small branches looks very festive!

15. And again a garland ...

The usual garland of pine needles is perfectly complemented by juniper berries. If there are no natural ones, you can use artificial ones! And rowan berries go well with needles.

16. Star from branches.

For those who are tired of the usual forms ... These stars can be hung around the garden or used as a wreath at the entrance.

17. Basket with flashlights.

An elegant composition for decorating a garden or balcony. Flashlights can run on a battery hidden in a basket.

18. And again a composition with a message ...

This time, large red letters were used.

19. Mistletoe frame.

Strictly speaking, evergreens for Christmas and New Year will look appropriate when decorating absolutely any item. Create a festive mood and please your loved ones!

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It so happens that No time to put up a Christmas tree, or maybe it seems - that there is no one, if the New Year is celebrated by adults. Of course, on New Year's Eve it is not advisable to remain completely without decorations, because you need to create a festive atmosphere for yourself!

We take a couple of spruce branches, you can take another sprig of mountain ash, a few cones and Christmas toys, and other decorations. We strengthen the branches in the flower pot so that they hang almost horizontally, and we put cones, decorative branches of other plants, toys in the pot (as shown in the photo).

And if there are kids in the house, then they are especially happy to prepare for the celebration of the New Year and help decorate the apartment.

Suppose there is no Christmas tree, then you can make Christmas wreaths, to do this, collect more branches of coniferous trees, as well as cones, toys, tinsel, even a garland with multi-colored light bulbs.

The first option, how to strengthen the branches in the form of a New Year's wreath, is shown below in the photo

you need to cut a circle from a cardboard box according to the size of the desired wreath (with a hole in the center) and the same circle of foam rubber, glue them together and wrap them with an ordinary bandage for strength, this will be the base on which you and your children first attach the branches, then toys, wrap around wreath garland and sun is done!

The second option is how to make the basis for a Christmas wreath

for the base, you can use a thick wire from which to make two circles, outer and inner, fasten them with pieces of wire and wrap with a bandage (see photo), we attach twigs and decorations to your taste and imagination on this base.

Very nice can decorate the window with Christmas tree branches and pines, there are a lot of ways.

It will be symbolic make Christmas bouquets in a vase for the festive table, they will decorate the house and give such a pleasant smell of pine needles! To do this, just one branch of the Christmas tree and a couple of other branches or fresh flowers are enough, and New Year's toys near the vase will add mood.

I also really liked this idea, if there are large floor vases at home, then you can make them New Year's compositions from coniferous branches, colorful balls and any decorations that you love.

If you apply imagination, you will get an original composition instead of a traditional Christmas tree!

I wish you good ideas and a happy new year!

A bouquet of spruce or pine twigs (you can take any coniferous plant) is created to decorate the design of the room. The options for where these bouquets are placed are:

festive table
window sill so that the bouquet can be seen from the street
hallway
hang in front of the entrance
put in front of the entrance at the threshold on the side
decoration of the hall or living room where the bouquets are on the floor and stands (you can use cabinets).

Creating a bouquet includes the presence of branches of a coniferous plant, large beads or small balls for a Christmas tree, a medium-width satin ribbon, a decorative mesh of aluminum wire or other soft metal.

As a basis, it is better to take a vase with a wide neck, low, having a stable footboard, beautifully insert the branches into the vase according to the principle - shorter on the edge, longer inside. Decorate to taste with beads, ribbon. A decorative mesh can be used to cover minor imperfections in knot branches or the void between a bouquet and a vase.

I liked one idea, a New Year's bouquet with fir branches, toys, cones and snowflakes. Although, this is more of a composition than a bouquet.

This arrangement looks great if you can hang it from a chandelier or just from the ceiling.

The beginning is almost traditional. We make a very dense frame of wire or cardboard.

We glue spruce branches to the frame, so that there is no wrong sidequot ;, or at least remember that you will look at it mainly from the bottom. You can also attach some cones and Christmas tree decorations to spruce branches.

Cut out small snowflakes from thick paper. Snowflakes can be painted gold or silver, or left white or... blue (depending on your color preferences).

We attach snowflakes, toys and cones to the spruce wreath with thick threads or rain.

We attach your composition to the ceiling or chandelier.

Much depends on your imagination. So don't be afraid to experiment. Add electric garlands, make snowflakes look voluminous, or replace fir branches with mistletoe, add holly... Whatever comes to your mind.

Making a bouquet of spruce branches is not difficult at all, take a few spruce branches, three flowers and a packing net or paper. Make flowers in the middle, and surround these flowers with sprigs of spruce, pack with paper or mesh. For example, as a basis, you can take such a bouquet

A Christmas tree bouquet will help to give the room a festive look and will be a wonderful decoration for any room.

For example, here is a Christmas tree bouquet in a vase.

We combine light green paper with spruce paws, toys, a bottle of champagne, Christmas tree toys and we get not even a bouquet, but a still life, which also looks very artistic.

And you can make such a bouquet from one Christmas tree. If you add, decorate the glass with snowquot ;, and pour shiny fittings inside the glass, it is elegant and unique. And add real needles to the artificial Christmas tree for a smell. I would be happy with such a souvenir for the new year.

New Year's bouquet is made in a wide vase. A coil of wire is inserted into the center of the vase, and the wire is also wrapped in several layers around the vase. With the help of wire, you can easily fix the branches at the right distance. Space them evenly throughout the vase. Attach red artificial flowers and Christmas tree balls to the center of the composition.

A bouquet of coniferous wood to decorate a festive New Year's table can be done as follows:

We take beautiful New Year's balls, better unbreakable plastic, in order to avoid injuries during the celebration of the new year :)

We take twigs (spruce, pine) of suitable length and form a bouquet in such a way that twigs stick out between the balls. We tie everything with a rubber band for money and put the finished bouquet in a jar of water.

We decorate the jar itself with ribbons or something else.

Here is a video tutorial on making a New Year's composition with your own hands:

If you don’t put a live New Year’s Luke at home, then be sure to do beautiful bouquet or wreath of coniferous branches!

The simplest thing is to put a few fir branches in a large beautiful vase and hang a few local toys on them. Do not forget about the main symbol of the upcoming 2014 - the horse. It will be great if you do do-it-yourself local toy-horse. For example, this one:

On this site I found a lot of ideas for creating New Year's compositions. There you can read the advice of florists and watch master classes on creating such New Year's beauty.

From spruce (from a Christmas tree, pine) branches, you can make a New Year's decoration for the house in the form of a wreath or a composition with cones or natural / artificial flowers. Such bouquets will decorate the house when there is a Christmas tree, and especially if there is no Christmas tree. It is also a great New Year's gift that is associated with this holiday. It is better, of course, to use live twigs, they will also give a unique aroma.

Variants of bouquets and compositions from branches of spruce, pine, etc.:

bouquets

candlestick

For the New Year, it is customary to give bouquets not from flowers, but from Christmas tree branches. They symbolize the new year, and it would be very nice to receive such a bouquet as a gift. In addition, it would be a beautiful addition to the New Year's interior of the house.

On New Year's Eve, everyone strives to transform and decorate their home so that the main holiday of the year is even brighter and more fun. And this is very correct, because the festive atmosphere creates a festive mood. Not only the queen tree will help to decorate the house in an original way for the New Year, but also a variety of New Year's compositions, bouquets and arrangements made from natural materials. Miniature Christmas trees, Christmas tree bouquets, compositions with candles and cones, outlandish Christmas trees made from dry branches can be a spectacular addition to a festive decor or a creative replacement for a traditional Christmas tree. When you admire New Year's compositions on the pages of interior gloss or in florist shops, it seems that only real floristry gurus who have comprehended all the subtleties of craftsmanship can create such beauty. The devil is not so terrible as he is painted! Even if not so complex and pretentious, but no less interesting and fantasy compositions, you can make it yourself. And how nice it is to create at home with your family, and even with children! With their bold and unpredictable tips, you are sure to come up with something extraordinary, which means that you have the same extraordinary year ahead of you!

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Before you start creating a New Year's composition with your own hands, you need to think carefully and select all the necessary materials. Most in demand in festive winter bouquets and compositions:

closed pine and spruce cones that help set the right tone and texture for the composition
spectacular cedar cones for decoration
open lush cones-Christmas trees
natural dry or artificial bunches of mountain ash and viburnum for bright accents
pomegranate fruits, as a symbol of life and fertility, and just to create a festive mood
vine and thin flexible twigs give the composition a rustic flair, and also serve as an excellent basis for arranging
wreath - the perfect shape for a hanging Christmas arrangement
natural and artificial branches of coniferous trees (spruce, pine, fir) - the main symbol of the New Year holidays
dried tomato fruits - for piquancy

Having caught fire with the idea of creating an original festive composition for the New Year, you will have another wonderful reason to go with the whole family to the forest ... to hunt! Only we will hunt not for cowardly bunnies and other living creatures, but for all sorts of things: useful and useless, beautiful and wonderful ... everything that can be useful for our New Year's creativity. The walk promises to be exciting! At such moments, looking out for special twigs and cones, you feel like some kind of sorceress-sorceress, picking up magical components for her witchcraft rituals, or maybe like a kind sorceress or a forest nymph ...

If you are lucky, during the forest treasure hunt you will be able to get colorful clusters of mountain ash and viburnum, which the birds have not yet had time to feast on. Take a look around! Real treasures are right under your feet and under your nose! This, at first glance, the most ordinary and inconspicuous bump in your man-made masterpiece can become a Christmas tree or a funny hedgehog. A tinder fungus can make a wonderful vase-stand. Such walks are a great way to develop the imagination!

The basis for the New Year's composition can be dry branches, bark, decorative pieces of roots, cuts of tree trunks, knotted vines, metal pallets and trays, ceramic and glass vases, a frame made of wire or twigs, pieces of foam.

Sprigs of pine and spruce, mossy branches, dry branches of larch and linden, decorative branches of berry bushes with preserved fruits, dry roots, flowers and herbs, dried fruits, berries and vegetables, as well as fresh flowers - cut or in pots, are perfect for arranging, moss.

Of the additional materials, glue, nails, plasticine, sand, thin wire, needle holders, a floral sponge, test tubes, small containers, Christmas decorations and candles, satin ribbons, serpentine, rain and other tinsel can be useful.

It will not be superfluous to stock up on spray cans with silver, gold and white paint for New Year's chic-shine. You can gild and silver branches, cones, nuts, which, as if by magic, will instantly turn into something fabulous and magical.

In order to include fresh flowers in the New Year's composition - hyacinths, freesias, carnations or rosebuds, buy a piaflor floristic sponge or green floristic flasks in a flower shop, into which you can pour water and insert live flower stems or branches so that your the composition remained fresh for as long as possible and delighted you with its original appearance.

Winter floristry in New Year's compositions

Simple holiday decor

The simplest, but very warm and touching composition can be made from a decorative candle in the shape of a cone, surrounded by a round dance of beautiful natural smaller cones. To enhance the effect, the cones can be covered with golden or silver paint. If you want the buds to open up, hold them over the steam. If, on the contrary, they must remain tightly closed in a warm room, generously spray the buds that have not yet blossomed with strong hold hairspray. Cones and leafless twigs can be originally decorated in a snow-white winter style by dipping them in a hot saturated salt solution, then taking them out to the cold (you can go to a balcony or veranda) and leave them there for a day. Amazing metamorphoses will occur with cones and twigs - they will be covered with amazing sparkling "ice" crystals.

Christmas compositions with branches

If you don’t have any special outlandish materials at hand, and you don’t pull for forest treasure hunting or simply don’t have time, use dry branches painted with white or silver paint and decorate them with cute Christmas decorations. Who would have thought that dry bare branches could look so amazing in New Year's decor! From large branches, you can figure out a funky creative Christmas tree or an anti-Christmas tree. If you do not have a suitable stand or vase, you can use a regular glass jar. Put a piece of foam on the bottom to stick branches, and decorate the jar by wrapping it with a beautiful piece of fabric and tying it with a satin ribbon.

Delightful desktop masterpieces

The most popular are desktop compositions. They collect New Year's arrangements for the table on round or oblong flat vases that resemble ordinary plates. In the center of the vase, a pot with flowers driven out for the holiday (crocuses, muscari, hyacinths) will look great, or you can place a bouquet of fresh cut flowers on a needle holder. To make the composition harmonious, the highest element should not exceed 30 cm. Complement the New Year's arrangement with fir branches, candles, toys, silver rain and “hoarfrost” on the branches (crushed foam planted on glue). Holders and a pot with distillation are masked with moss.

In order not to be too smart, you can simply plant beautiful cones in pots and cover the “soil” with moss. Simply masterpiece!

Particular attention should be paid to the selection of a stand for the composition, since it itself can become a decorative element. For exquisitely solemn compositions, a glass or crystal vase or dish is ideal. Stands made of tree cuts, tinder fungus, or intricate roots and snags look very original. Under the stand, you can adapt the most unpredictable items, ranging from painted caskets and tureens, and ending with felt boots and vintage boots. If the stand has an unsightly appearance, it can be decorated with a cloth, sprigs of needles, fluffy rain, or sprinkled with foam “snow”.

Christmas bouquets look great in a stemmed glass vase. Branches are strengthened on a needle holder or on a moss pad. On the bends of the branches, candles are fixed with a wire. The wire is covered with moss. The bouquet is decorated with Christmas decorations, tinsel and flowers.

Pine and spruce twigs in New Year's compositions go well with fresh flowers. The most winning option for a winter bouquet is roses, chrysanthemums and carnations. If freshly cut flowers are used, most often the arrangement is complemented by a beautiful vase or vessel, which allows you to put the flowers in water and conveniently fix them. If there was no vase in harmony with the composition in spirit, you will have to put the flowers in an ordinary jar of water and skillfully mask it. Also in the flower shop you can buy a floral sponge and special cones, or replace them with small test tubes and medicine vials.

Sprigs of coniferous trees look great in winter bouquets with dried flowers: immortelle, astilba, yarrow, kermek, eryngium, physalis, mordovnik, cattail, nigella, flax and various cereals. Dried flowers are so spectacular and decorative that in a festive winter arrangement you can do without needles altogether, giving the role of the first violin to dried flowers. Even if you did not have time to prudently stock up on dried flowers in the summer, do not despair. Who seeks will always find! Go to any wasteland. Take a closer look at the blackened grass sticking out from under the snow - this is exactly what we need! Angelica, quinoa, reed, yarrow... Real treasures! Do not be afraid of their unsightly, far from festive appearance. Here is another opportunity to let your imagination run wild and turn on the wizard in you. At home, dry and transform the plucked herbs by painting with light gouache or tempera, silver or gild. It is more convenient to do this with a spray can, but you can get by with a regular brush. And you will be happy!

Light plant elements, such as dried flowers or small twigs, can be fixed by sticking them into special porous oases, a moss pillow, or regular foam. The foam is attached to the base with carpentry glue. Pieces of moss, tinder fungi and individual branches are fixed in a similar way. For massive branches, it is most convenient to use kenzan - a metal holder in the form of a lead plate with brass studs. If it is not possible to get hold of a real kenzan, at home it can be replaced with a large potato tuber, into which composite branches are stuck. If a wicker basket serves as the basis for the composition, its bottom should be lined with plastic wrap, and a holder should be placed on top and the bouquet should be carefully assembled.

Beautiful decorative candles will help to give the New Year's arrangement warmth and sincerity. They go well with needles, cones, Christmas balls, natural pebbles, glass, water. In the composition with candles, you can also use the original candlestick, decorating it in a festive way with beads and small New Year's toys. To create a fabulous unity of "ice and flame" will help candles, complemented by coniferous twigs, sprinkled with "snow" of foam or salt.

Figures of animals are appropriate in New Year's compositions - symbols of the coming year according to the eastern calendar. Soft toys with a long pile do not go well with fluffy needles, but porcelain, plastic, glass, stone and clay figurines will be very useful. The central element of the New Year's composition can also be a beautiful Christmas toy - a bell, a bird, a fish, a golden cone ...

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Interesting New Year's compositions can be made without plant elements ...

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Christmas wreath

Beautiful decorative candles will help to give the New Year's arrangement warmth and soulfulness.

Candles go well with needles, cones, Christmas balls, natural pebbles, glass, water

To enhance the effect, the bumps can be silvered, gilded or painted in any suitable color.

In the composition with candles, you can use the original candlestick or chandelier

Drawing lesson on the theme of winter and New Year. In this lesson, I will tell and show you how to draw a spruce branch (Christmas tree) in the snow with a New Year's toy with a pencil in stages. The lesson is very easy, you should not have any difficulties. You can also do it in color, only if you draw with felt-tip pens or paints, you will have to leave a place for snow in advance, it is better to sketch the drawing with a pencil with very, very light lines, for example, only where there will be snow and where is the base of the Christmas tree, and then decorate in color. In this case, everyone has their own approach.

Let's start. We draw the basis of the spruce branch, i.e. this branch will consist of the main one and additional ones come from it. Then we begin to draw needles with separate lines, first we draw on one side.

Then we draw on the other side of the branch. See the direction of the needles, they are located at a certain angle to the branch, and if the branch also has a slope itself, then the direction of the needles will also therefore be different, not like, for example, the main branch. Then, to make the branch look more realistic, we apply additional lines, giving it fluffiness.

Now, in places where the snow lies, we will go over the top of the spruce with an eraser (eraser). The location of the snow can be any and the amount, the height of the snow layer can also be any. Now trace the outline of the snow on the branch. That's the whole secret of drawing snow on a spruce branch.

And in order to make our New Year's drawing, it is necessary to draw, you can not just one, but several and of different shapes. Our snow is rough, so put down small dashes very, very weakly and shade the edges of the snow barely noticeably. The drawing of a sprig of spruce with New Year's toys is ready. It was also possible to make sure that there was snow on the ball, it just occurred to me, it's a pity it's too late. If you want the same principle, you can do it.