New Year holidays are the most favorite time for many, including me. Shops and shopping centers begin to hang decorations already at the end of autumn, when the street is dark, dirty and slushy. It is at this time that it is worth doing the creation of the New Year's mood. It is it that helps to survive the transition from autumn to winter, even if there is still no snow outside the window.

The whole secret is to make New Year's compositions from branches and cones ahead of time and decorate your house back in November, slowly, slowly, with love. Then the soul is happier and the house is brighter. From my personal experience, I was convinced that the beautiful influences the state of a person and helps to be calm and happy.

Beautiful winter compositions with your own hands

Modern decorators and florists make amazing arrangements of branches, candles, berries, small and various natural materials. They look very original and at the same time not intrusive. And when it's too early to put up a Christmas tree, but you want a holiday, then it's time to make winter compositions for the house. They can decorate your home all winter, not just on New Year's Eve.

If you are creating a winter composition in November and plan to keep it all winter, then it is best to use artificial Christmas tree branches so that the needles do not fall off.

1. New Year's compositions with candles

Bouquet and compositions for the table are very popular. Such decorations are collected in low round vases, of a sufficiently large diameter, resembling ordinary plates.

Large thick candles are placed in the center of the composition, and small fir branches, angels, small toys are laid out around. Artificial snow, or foam balls planted on glue, will help you create the illusion of snow on the branches.

2. Compositions in a box in nature style

By adding a few cinnamon sticks, cones, wooden toys and balls of branches, you can create a rustic winter bouquet.

3. Christmas wreath

4. Winter bouquets

This floristic Christmas composition is presented in a round gift box and will be a wonderful gift for anyone who has a birthday in winter.

A New Year's composition of fir branches can be assembled not only in a round, but also in a square box. Decorate it with all the natural materials you have.

Small white wicker baskets are a great base for a winter bouquet. In this case, toys and Christmas decorations are also better to choose white.

Fresh flowers perfectly complement the New Year's compositions on the table. In a floristic sponge, they stand for quite a long time. For a winter bouquet, choose chrysanthemums, roses, carnations. A bouquet in a hat box looks very charming, and Christmas tree branches can be replaced with small green ones.

Add dried oranges to the New Year's compositions on the table with your own hands, and the Christmas aroma will settle in your home for a long time.

5. Topiary

If you do not plan to put up a Christmas tree this year, you can replace it with a topiary. It looks very original, and no less festive.

6. H do-it-yourself garden compositions for 2018 using branches and other natural material

If you like the natural style and it’s a pity to break the branches of Christmas trees, then just use the branches of trees and shrubs after pruning. Fortunately, there are many of them in the garden. Clean them, dry them and decorate them with small toys. Let it be knitted snowflakes, then your composition will be very winter and snowy.

There are a lot of ideas for decorating the table, and even the simplest will make the festive table setting more interesting. For example, take a small jar (no more than 0.5 liters), pour salt into it, lay a layer of rose hips, and on top of thuja sprigs. Now your New Year's compositions 2018 are ready. Do not forget to put a few nearby and luck will always be with you.

Miniature floristic New Year's compositions from cones, fir-tree bouquets, compositions with candles and cones, outlandish decorations from dry branches can be a spectacular addition to a festive decor or a replacement for a traditional Christmas tree.

And how nice it is to be creative at home with your family, and even with children! With their bold and unpredictable clues, you are sure to come up with something extraordinary, which means you have an equally extraordinary year ahead of you.

Nowadays, compositions made from flowers, dry branches, foliage and decorative elements are becoming increasingly popular. Such compositions look equally good both indoors - at home, office or cottage - and in the yard or garden. Materials for such decorative compositions are easy to find at any time of the year: in summer and spring, you can use flowers, greens and dry branches, in autumn you can dilute the composition with colorful foliage and dried fruits, in winter - with cones and spruce branches.

Branches, both naked and with leaves or berries, are an excellent decorative element and addition to flower arrangements. In addition, branches can also represent independent material for creating a “bouquet”. A beautiful composition will turn out from branches of dry berry bushes, dry branches of heather and forsythia. The choice of a vase for a composition of branches is very important, since the branches are directed upwards, and therefore do not cover the vase. Thus, the vase is also an important element of the composition. In this case, it is better to choose a tall oriental-style vase. Cut off unnecessary or damaged leaves, shoots from the branches, cut the branches to the desired length and place in a vase, according to the intended design. If you are using fresh branches, then make sure that their ends are placed in water. The length of the branches used in the composition may be different, depending on the design of the composition.

Bare branches will look good in a "winter" composition. In a small wooden tub filled with cones and acorns, place 3 or 5 small bare branches in the middle. This will make the composition more original and interesting.

Hazel

Various branches and flowers are used for compositions, but special decorative elements are also needed to complete the composition. It can be artificial plastic berries or fruits, as well as fresh fruits. These elements are fixed in the composition with floral wire and glue. For example, an original composition can be created using light green and dark green eucalyptus, fresh pears, clusters of plastic fruits. The eucalyptus branches are cut to the desired length, lowered into a bucket of prepared floral foam (the right-sized bar of foam must be held in a saucepan of water until it gets wet, and then put in a bucket) and placed according to the intended design, allowing some eyelids to hang freely way down. With the help of wire cutters, separate the elements you need from the bunches of fruits and strengthen them in the composition with the help of floral wire. Insert a flower stick into the lower part of the pear (up to about half of the pear) and place the resulting product in the composition.

Painted branches adorn the composition wonderfully

Glitter sprigs will add glamour, and a sense of celebration.

Bamboo

Twigs with beads - very romantic and gentle

To maintain composition

The use of vases not only removes the problem of fixing the plants included in the bouquet, but also allows you to put fresh flowers in the water. If there is no vase in the composition, then the jar of water in which the flowers will stand will have to be masked. You can also pour water into small test tubes and small medicine vials.

Massive coniferous branches are fixed with a metal holder-kenzan - a lead plate with brass carnations soldered into it. If the kenzan is too small, it can be fixed on the stand with plasticine. The simplest and most affordable substitute for kenzan is a large potato tuber, into which the branches are simply stuck.

Twigs as the main element

When creating winter bouquets, coniferous branches, cones, dried flowers are used. Fresh flowers can also be included in such compositions, because some potted plants bloom in winter, for example, cyclamen, begonia, strelitzia, anthurium. They are also often used in winter bouquets. Do not forget about the flowers sold in flower shops. When used in a New Year's composition, fresh flowers are placed in a small vase, test tube or bottle of water, masking it among greenery or cones.

Coniferous branches before inclusion in a winter bouquet must be washed with cold water, yellowed and broken needles should be removed from them.

In order for the cones to open, it is recommended to hold them over steam or a hot electric stove, and if it is necessary that they do not open longer in a warm room, they are sprayed with hairspray. To attach the cones, a wire is used, the thickness of which depends on the size of the cone. In this case, the cones must be wrapped with wire, passing it through the lower scales and twisting one end around the other

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. Originally decorate the house for the New...

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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Blanks for New Year's creative

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:

1. closed pine and spruce cones that help set the right tone and texture for the composition
2. spectacular cedar cones for decoration
3. open lush cones-Christmas trees
4. natural dry or artificial bunches of mountain ash and viburnum for bright accents
5. pomegranate fruits, as a symbol of life and fertility, and just to create a festive mood
6. vine and thin flexible twigs give the composition a rustic flair, and also serve as an excellent basis for arranging
7. wreath - the perfect shape for a hanging Christmas arrangement
8. natural and artificial branches of coniferous trees (spruce, pine, fir) - the main symbol of the New Year holidays
9. 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 not hunt for cowards 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 creative. The walk promises to be exciting! At such moments, looking out for special twigs and cones, you feel like some kind of sorceress-sorceress, selecting 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!

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 rods, pieces of foam can serve as the basis for the New Year's composition.

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.

So that you can 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, astilbe, 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 come in handy. The central element of the New Year's composition can also be a beautiful Christmas tree toy - a bell, a bird, a fish, a golden cone ...

Photo ideas for New Year's arrangements and compositions

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

I love holidays very much, but New Year and especially Christmas I appreciate the most. Every year all my friends and acquaintances are surprised how I manage to create new Year mood, even in slush and in the absence of snow outside the window.

The secret lies in the fact that since November I have already begun to gradually transform and decorate your home so that the two most important holidays of the year pass brighter and more cheerfully. From my personal experience, I was convinced that the festive atmosphere affects a person and helps him create a festive mood.

Winter compositions

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 decor, bouquets and compositions made from natural materials.

In anticipation of New Year and Christmas miracles, the editors "So simple!" prepared 19 ideas winter compositions for home which you will definitely want to implement.

1. The most popular are desktop compositions. They collect New Year's decorations for the table in round or oblong flat vases that resemble ordinary plates.

   The composition may consist of fir branches, cones, Christmas tree decorations, silver rain and "hoarfrost" on the branches (crushed foam planted on glue). Well, beautiful decorative candles will help to give warmth and sincerity to the New Year's composition.

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3. The Christmas wreath is one of the traditional and favorite attributes of the winter holidays. And needlewomen have recently become very fond of making a topiary tree for the New Year.

   By the way, for those who cannot put up a Christmas tree indoors, a topiary can be an ideal replacement.

   

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5. Ah, what a great composition! How I wish that someone would give me just such a gift.

   

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7. Pine and spruce branches in New Year's compositions goes well with fresh flowers. The most winning option for a winter bouquet is roses, chrysanthemums and carnations.

   Pay attention to how charming these compositions look in hat boxes!

   

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9. Another stylish variation of the topiary tree.

   

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11. Who said that Christmas compositions should only be in table vases or in the form of a Christmas wreath? What do you think of this decorative moss cushion tied with a velvet bow?

    In my opinion, this is a great solution not only for home decor for the holiday, but also for a gift.

    

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13. I think this is one of the best ideas for Christmas!

    

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15. It is very easy to bring the idea to life, and the result is a feast for the eyes.

    

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17. New Year's compositions from branches - simple in execution, but very effective decor. To create such a composition, you will need dry branches.

    You can follow them into the forest. Paint the branches with spray paint in gold or silver, or leave it in its original form.

    

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19. And this is one of those compositions that I did last year to create a festive atmosphere in the house. Beautiful, isn't it?

    

I suggest you familiarize yourself with the creative New Year and Christmas

Nastya practices yoga and loves traveling. Fashion, architecture and everything beautiful - that's what a girl's heart aspires to! Anastasia is engaged in interior design, and also makes unique decorations with a floral theme. Dreams of living in France, learning the language and keenly interested in the culture of this country. He believes that a person needs to learn something new all his life. Anastasia's favorite book is Eat Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert.