Interesting options for the New Year ikebana

You can create a New Year mood in different ways, one of the easiest ways is to do home decoration. This is both a pleasant and useful activity that will help you relax, unite family members and get great results. In addition to the most traditional New Year's decoration (Christmas tree), it will be useful to make small festive "blotches" throughout the house. To achieve the ubiquitous feeling of the holiday, New Year ikebana will help. In this article you will find interesting design ideas that will help bring the spirit of Christmas and New Year to your home.

There are a huge number of do-it-yourself ikebana design options. New Year's theme easily includes vases with floral arrangements, baskets and boxes filled with New Year's attributes, wreaths of fir branches or balls, laconic pendant ornaments and, of course, traditional Western ornaments placed in socks. Let's start with the basics - the color scheme.

• Of course, the most classic color scheme can be called a mix of green, red and gold shades. For those who consider such a set too fanciful, we recommend simply replacing gold with silver, it will never spoil the composition.

• Another good combination is the use of cold colors. All blue, blue, white and silver shades that will remind you of the frost outside the window will be relevant.

• If you want jewelry to look expensive and noble, try using deep shades - burgundy, brown, soft orange, dark green. Dilute this "explosive mixture" can be interspersed with gold details or using transparent elements that will give a light shine.

Nobody forbids you to use more bold combinations, in which case you simply start from the color scheme of your interior and the idea as a whole. It is impossible to make out all the options because of their huge number, so we will focus only on the basic ones and move on to the elements from which you can compose a composition.

First of all, we’ll denote the options for placing jewelry, there are not so many of them, but the shape, size, fastening system and so on will depend on the chosen place. Your Christmas ikebana can decorate the following elements of the interior.

• Windowsill. Most often, such ornaments abound with lights and garlands.

• A door. Of course, we are talking about wreaths.

• Table. Live spruce branches are most often featured here, because it is customary to put a vase with flowers on the table, and in winter, needles are often used instead of flowers.

• Small furniture - bedside tables, shelves, bedside tables. Any surfaces that you want to decorate can be decorated with small Christmas baskets with various contents.

• Fireplace. Now many people put fireplaces not only in houses, but also in apartments. Electronic versions have a very beautiful design, are accompanied by sound effects, and the preset lighting program creates a complete sense of real fire. It would be foolish not to decorate such a symbolic place with New Year's attributes.

Now that you have decided on the location, you can begin to analyze the elements that may be part of the ikebana. Conventionally, they can be divided into 3 categories: natural, natural raw materials, home-made jewelry and artificial elements. Based on this classification, we will choose finishes.

Of course, the first thing that comes to mind is living spruce and pine branches. They will not only become an excellent decoration and will fully convey the feeling of a holiday, but will also fill the house with a pleasant coniferous aroma.

The next "ingredient" is the bumps. They will look great both in their natural color and slightly tinted. As a paint, any dense dense texture is suitable, starting from ordinary gouache and ending with persistent shadows from a women's cosmetic bag. Plowed field for your imagination.

We will characterize another natural decoration as plant branches. Yes, spruce can also be attributed here, but they more often act as the basis of composition, but you can add emphasis using a branch of dry physalis, cotton or berries.

Also, fruits can be attributed to natural materials, both fresh and dried ones are suitable. Neatly dried and sliced ​​oranges and lemons, anise flowers, vanilla and cinnamon sticks ... You can make a very interesting composition of all these elements, and all this is very simple to do at home.

The main advantage of such natural jewelry is that it is almost impossible to overdo it.

All of the above items that relate to natural jewelry can easily be made in plastic. It will last longer, but will not please with a natural aroma and freshness. As for decorations of non-natural origin, there are a huge number of them: Christmas balls of all colors and sizes, bells, artificial snow, ribbons, toys of various shapes, tinsel and rain, candles and, of course, garlands.

I would like to pay special attention to lighting solutions in compositions. Any, even the most unprepossessing composition can be revived with the play of light and shadow. Now on sale you can easily find garlands that are powered not from the outlet, but from batteries, such light ribbons are very mobile and allow you to use yourself even for a wreath on the door, even for a table composition in a basket.

Often the New Year ikebana, especially the central table composition, is decorated with curly baking. You can make gingerbread in the form of Christmas trees, stars, Christmas toys. Decorate a vase or basket with inserts from pine branches, add a neat garland or put a candlestick with a candle (preferably high to avoid fire) and decorate ikebana with cookies and sweets instead of toys. At the same time, the decoration and the dish are a universal solution.

In addition to baking, you can make crafts from cardboard, foil or thick paper. In craft style, such crafts look very cute, and even a child can make them. Try to arrange family entertainment, which also allows you to get an interesting decorative element. If you yourself find it difficult to come up with an original idea, look for master classes on the Internet.

Consider several options that you can easily and easily create at home with your own hands.

An effective option, over which you do not need to rack your brains for a long time. For work you need a vase, bowl, pot or basket. Use containers of any shape and color. In this case, the basis is a classic white vase. We offer to fill it with either artificial or natural dry branches, which can be painted with gouache for the surroundings. Add different balls to the branches that fit your interior in a color scheme.

In this case, the composition is used in cold winter tones.

Since this is still ikebana and make it in the traditional version of fresh flowers, it would be logical to make a winter version using natural raw materials. As a basis, we recommend taking a wicker basket or a wooden box. The plastic at the base will look ridiculous.

Take live spruce, pine branches or larch. To fix the branches, we recommend using a floral sponge or penoflor. You can also use thin wire or thread to set the desired direction.

Next, go to the decoration. In this case, natural lemons and oranges were used. If you decide to put not only whole, but also sliced ​​fruits, do not forget to update the composition in time so that it does not lose freshness.

And the last option I would like to dwell on is a New Year wreath. For frame use:

• thick cardboard that can be upholstered with fabric (the fabric can be sewn or used to attach a construction stapler);
• dry branches woven according to the principle of a wreath;
• wire base, which you will subsequently decorate;
• some fold the paper in a dense layer, pulling it with a rope.

After you have prepared the base, with the help of threads, wire or glue, you can begin to fix branches, decorations and toys. In addition to balls, bells, ribbons, cones, flowers and Christmas toys, a wreath can be decorated with light elements. It always looks spectacular.

Do not be afraid to use different textures and experiment with colors.

Master - class for the manufacture of New Year ikebana, see the next video.