Save Money By Creating Your Own Outdoor Christmas Decorations

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Over the years it seems there has been a dramatic shift from simply enjoying Christmas and spending time with the family, to competing with others on spending more and more money on decorations and gifts. Fortunately, you don’t have to forego the Christmas decorations this year just to save a few bucks. Instead, you can create a range of outdoor Christmas DIY decorations that are not only unique, but will look stunningly festive! From upcycling old bottles, to using Christmas lights in ways you’ve never thought of before, we have seven amazing DIY Christmas decoration ideas below to help you prepare for the holidays on a budget and in style!

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31. How to Make DIY Snowman from Plastic Cups

How to Make DIY Snowman from Plastic Cups
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Turn your yard into a winter wonderland, that too with something that’s probably lying in your kitchen right now, with a cute and winsome Snowman that has been crafted out with lots of lots of plastic cups placed and stacked together in a strategic manner, that is placing them in circles and stapling together, slowly resulting in an adorable snowman. Apart from being creative and cheap this project is really easy to do and will bring your home that beautiful atmosphere that only Christmas has. Check out the below video tutorial shared by Fab Art DIY and follow the steps showcased to make your very own versions of a Plastic Cup Snowman. And yes, what’s great is that this is one such snowman that won’t make you fear about getting it melted in half even before your party begins!

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DIY Details : fabartdiy

32. Starry String Lights – Diamond Lights on Silver Wire

Starry String Lights - Diamond Lights on Silver Wire
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Make your trees stand out from the neighbourhood and glow with bright diamond lights wrapped all around them, paying a bright tribute to Christmas. This one is surely going to be the most beautiful elements of your outdoor Christmas decorations, enhancing your walkaways, wreaths and yard with strings of starry lights. Just bend the silver wires into any shape you like to create gorgeous and elegant decorative accents and let the double-bulb strands offer a mystical sparkle to your space. Take a look at this inspiration by Restoration Hardware and go for these lovely lights when it comes to adding magic to your house, that too in quite a cost-friendly manner. How amazing this decor looks is totally going to blow your mind !

DIY Details : restorationhardware

33. Ways to Make Your Home Festive This Season

Ways to Make Your Home Festive This Season
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Do you feel that the outdoor decor of your house doesn’t have enough charm to steal some attention, and are feeling a bit of short of inspirations? You don’t need to look further and search of each idea individually to decorate your yard anymore, as this guide by The Sun Chronicles actually bundles up a number of decor inspirations together and offers them to you, all in one place to cut that time you would otherwise spend in looking out for some Christmas outdoor decorations. Here are Seven Ways to Make Your Home Festive This Season and let everything dazzle with greenery, bright embellishments and cute elements, such as a grapevine wreath, knitted stockings, colorful painted pinecones, battery-operated lights, and lots of glitter.

DIY Details : thesunchronicle

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34. DIY Mason Jar Light

DIY Mason Jar Light
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The winter nights around Christmas usually make things dull and dark, and you might feel that your outdoor Christmas decorations are not able to get enough light after the sunset to make them grab some eyes and appreciation. If that’s what you are struggling with, this DIY project can come to your rescue, while making your yard or porch an amazingly attractive and glowing element of your DIY Christmas decorations. Make some Mason Jars house a group of tiny white lights, decorated with a burlap ribbon, just perfect to hang from your door or the trees outside in order to brighten up the space in a truly majestic way. The below tutorial by HomeTalk helps you learn how you can recreate these DIY Mason Jar Lights all by yourself following a handful of simple step-by-step instructions.

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35. Pinecone Tree

Pinecone Tree
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This project is something that the kids can also assist you with, while at the same time having lot of fun constructing a lovely DIY Pinecone Tree for adorning the landscape of your yard. Another great things is that it’s a very inexpensive-to-make inspiration costing no more than 10 dollars. All you need is lots and lots of pinecones, a flexible cardboard, wooden or cardboard cake base, heavy duty tape, old newspaper, a glue gun and refills, along with some battery operated fairy lights to decorate your pinecone tree. Having a base structure made out of cardboard, this one is thoroughly covered with pinecones all over, which make it just so rustic yet beautiful. Decorated with bright string lights, this one brings a lovely twist to the traditional Christmas Tree creations, making everyone wonder over your innovation and creativity.

DIY Details : pagingfunmums

36. Simple Elegant Christmas Decor

Simple Elegant Christmas Decor
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Here is one of the simplest DIY Christmas Decorations that you are surely going to fall in love with, as it is a great blend of all the elements of a great craft, including little to no investment, a quick time span to build the decor and not requiring any special skills, while producing some truly fantastic results. Make a variety of gorgeous holiday votives holding lots of candles all around your yard – votives made with twigs; jars and berries; terracotta plants; birch barks; pinecone votives; and ice votives being the most special ones. What you need to craft all these different votives is water, small and large buckets, a weight, twigs, springs of evergreens, holly, birch bark, lots of recycled jars, twines or ribbons, a hot glue gun and some glue sticks, along with this quick and simple guide by Dishfunctional Designs.

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DIY Details : dishfunctionaldesigns

37. DIY Christmas Yard Nativity Set

DIY Christmas Yard Nativity Set
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Introduce a set of beautiful Nativity Characters to your yard, making them stand gracefully welcoming all your visitors for the Christmas party this year. This DIY Christmas Yard Nativity Set is an amazing reminder of everything that this festival is all about, flaunting gorgeous symbols of Christmas, that have actually been made out of plywood, with the help of a few simple supplies, including cans of Rustoleum Gold Metallic Spray paint, one dowel, some 1X2X8 boards and a way to cut them, a few hinges, a jigsaw, some clear transparencies, and an overhead projector. To make the whole process of crafting your very own Nativity Set a lot more easier, this tutorial by All Things Thrifty provides you some easy templates and printable patterns, along with a handful of easy-to-follow instructions. Let this DIY Christmas decor inspiration light up your yard with Christmas spirit.

DIY Details : allthingsthrifty

38. Christmas Mason Jar Luminaries

Christmas Mason Jar Luminaries
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Bid farewell to the dark and introduce lots and lots of lights and shine to your outdoor Christmas decorations. A few Mason Jars painted bright white, decorated with some twines and lots of greenery, are an ideal housing for your Christmas tea lights you intend to place all over your front yard, to welcome the Christmas magic right at your doorsteps. The below guide inspires you to craft out your very own Christmas Mason Jar Luminaries, including little tutorials for painting the jars and showcasing how would the final results look like. It’s not only easy but so budget-friendly to work out this decor element. Consider using these DIY Mason Jar Luminaries to dress up your house with bundles of elegance, beauty and grace this Christmas season, as these are so gorgeous when used as outdoor lanterns.

DIY Details : maisondepax.porch

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39. A “Junky” Christmas Porch

A "Junky" Christmas Porch
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How about adding a junky, but breathtakingly beautiful charm to your outdoor Christmas decorations, all by repurposing stuff lying around the house, and decorating it in the most Christmas-y ways ever? Use lots of cold drink crates to hold a little Christmas planter covered with lights and red berries with grace; a vintage style toy truck painted in red; a red grungy plate displaying some numbers, message or letters, a pair of old ice skates; and a few other cute elements to transform a plain yard into an utterly pleasing Christmas garden. This guide by Cozy Old Farmhouse takes you through all these decor elements that can add that factor of “Junky” yet “Beautiful” to your outdoor space, worthy enough of inspiring everyone who gets a glimpse of it.

DIY Details : thecozyoldfarmhouse

40. Easy Decorating with Pinecones : By The Basketfull

Easy Decorating with Pinecones : By The Basketfull
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Nothing can be as amazing as using all natural stuff to make a stunning piece of outdoor Christmas decorations when it comes to welcoming your guests for a Christmas party that everyone can remember for years to come. One such inspiration is this Basketfull of Pinecones that can introduce a truly cozy appeal to your space. This birch basket, filled with pinecones, along with lots of unseen fillers, such as a block of florist foam or a smaller overturned container looks simply awesome, while being covered with lots of greenery, and other natural finds. Take a look at this guide by BHG and get inspired to work out your very own versions of this Easy Decoration with Pinecones and adorn your landscapes with a little bit of creativity, worthy enough of charming your festive season like never before.

DIY Details :  bhg

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Take the beauty of your yards to an all new level with one or more of the aforesaid simple, super-quick, yet stunning Outdoor Christmas Decorations, and make your X’mas holiday festivities a thing to be remembered forever while grabbing attention of everyone who pays you a visit for some bright celebrations. Merry Christmas!

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