Make It Monday: Festive Fireplace Garland

By Emma Rinaldi

Every Monday we show you how to put your own stamp on Christmas with tips, tricks and kits to make the most wonderful time of year as unique as you are. Here we have a guide to create this Dobbies’ stunning festive fireplace garland. It’s the perfect choice to add some yuletide magic to your home.

Gorgeous greenery

This glittering display is a guaranteed showstopper and can be made using foliage foraged from your own garden. So it both cost effective and a wonderful Christmas crafting activity for you to enjoy with the family. Dobbies’ Stylist, Rebecca Stanton gives us a step-by-step guide to create your own festive fireplace garland to make Christmas celebrations extra special.

What you will need

To create your garland, you will need real Conifer foliage and branches to act as your base, floristry green wire, lights, decorations, ribbons, and baubles of your choice.

Creating your wreath

Cut foliage and longer branches from your garden, or forage these on a winter woodland walk. Here we have used Conifer, but you can use any type of evergreen, or mix it up by using a combination of greenery for added texture.

Place the cut branches on your fireplace mantel ensuring you have some longer pieces that can drape down at the front and side. If you have small pieces of foliage, you can secure these to the larger branches with some floristry green wire.

Next, it’s time to get creative and begin adding your Christmas décor. We’ve chosen to add lights and candles to give a lovely warmth to the display. To give your display depth, place accessories of different shapes and sizes in amongst the foliage. We’ve opted for our Micro LED tree, £12.99; Micro LED string lights, £9.99; Embossed smoky black tealight holders, £6.99; Metallic star, £6.99.

The finishing touch is to hang individual baubles from the branches using ribbon. You can really personalise this look to your Christmas colour pallet or the décor in your home. For an eye-catching garland, use stand out baubles and hang them at different heights to create drama and interest! We’ve opted for baubles from our Moonlight and Sparkle range.