Here’s the thing: it doesn’t take much to work me up. I’m the type of person that operates at a pretty moderate level of anxiety at all times. Most days, I’m around a 4 out of 10 on the frantic-o-meter…then I got the email, and I quickly went up to a 9. The email was from Martha Stewart Living asking if I’d like to partner with them and Home Depot to deck my halls with boughs of awesome. Well…that’s not exactly what the email said, but that was the gist. Of course I said yes…because, well…how do you turn down a opportunity like that!?
Then the freak out started. When I think of Martha Stewart holiday decor photos, I think of sprawling entryways, beautiful wood flooring, roaring fireplaces and a formal sitting room housing a 9-foot-tall tree flanked by two canapes and a one of a kind coffee table.
Now, me? I live in a medium-ish apartment in the middle of Miami. We don’t have a huge sprawling entryway. We don’t have freshly lacquered wood floors. No fireplace. And we most certainly do not have a formal sitting room…although we do have a one-of-a-kind coffee table. I got it from the “As Is” section at Ikea for $7. Then revamped it with some batting, fabric and tufting buttons. All this considered, I was completely intimidated by the idea of doing justice to the Martha Stewart Holiday Decor Collection in our home. Enter: Freak Out Mode.
After hours of planning, decorating, crafting and photographing, I’m excited to share the results. Our house is all decked out for the holidays and I love every bit of it. The bright colors in the Jingle Bright Collection are exactly my style and the chalkboard accents gave me an excuse to add a few touches of handcrafted goodness. So if you’re still with me, let’s do this. It’s gonna be a long post.
We don’t have a fireplace in our apartment and quite frankly, with these Miami temps, a fireplace would make exactly zero sense. To create a fireplace-inspired feature, I used the buffet as a centerpiece for our cheery, chalkboard Christmas decorations. I’ve also had the pleasure of having several wreaths stolen right off my front door, so by keeping this pretty wreath indoors, I thwarted the terrible efforts of all the wreath-snatching Grinches out there.
I anchored the Jingle Bright wreath with an oversized frame that I created using supplies from Home Depot, some matte black gift wrapping paper and a little crafty know-how. Here’s how it came together:
Once you’ve assembled the frame and the paint has dried, you’ll want to mount it around a piece of matte black wrapping paper to create an authentic chalkboard look. To hang up your oversized frame, just use Command Strips. Two or three on each side of the frame should hold it up nicely…and make it easy to take down.
Being the paper crafter that I am, you know I had to incorporate some handmade papercrafty-ness into these decorations. Turns out, Home Depot sells ginormous rolls of kraft paper for only ten bucks! I cut a banner from the paper and used my very best handwriting along with my very favorite white gel pen, to add a pretty Christmas greeting.
WREATH DECOR SUPPLIES
Jingle Bright Ornament Wreath | Jingle Bright Gift Boxes Decor | White Gel Pen | Kraft Paper | Matte Black Wrapping Paper | Moulding | Metallic Silver Spray Paint | Flat Corner Braces | Wood Filler | Apothecary Jars | Cake Stands
Imagine my excitement when Santa arrived a little early…specifically October 16th, 2013 when THIS baby showed up in the mail! There might have been some excited squeals in the mailroom. Once the helpful guys from the front desk helped me get this behemoth of a tree into our place, I immediately went to work setting it up in the corner of our living room.
I’m no professional when it comes to decorating a Christmas tree so, I kept it pretty simple by using the Jingle Brights 2″ Ornaments and the 3″ Ornaments with Pattern . A roll of silver wired ribbon was great for making some pretty cascading garlands down the tree.
TREE DECOR SUPPLIES
Jingle Brights 2″ Ornaments | Jingle Bright 3″ Ornaments | Clear & Simple Stamps Polaroid Die
The last part of my holiday decor includes our dining table which I jazzed up with easy placesettings. Instead of using the Star Ornaments on the tree, I put them onto the plates as a pretty favors for our guests…you know….the one’s who will be showing up in about a month or so!
TABLE DECOR SUPPLIES:
All of the holiday decor product featured in this post was provided by the Martha Stewart Living team to celebrate the ‘Tis the Season of Doing holiday campaign going on now at The Home Depot. All project ideas and opinions expressed are my own.
Very, very nice!
Aack. You consistently floor me
All of this is gorgeous stuff. As I’ve said before, you are AMAZING!! Congrats on partnering with Martha and Home Depot.
Good job! I love your table centerpiece idea and plan to do it for Thanksgiving.
Yes…You are amazing! Everything…so gorgeous! Are you sure you’re in the medical field? I think you’d be great next to Martha! lol
AMAZING! Congrats on the teaming up with Martha Stewart Living & Home Depot.
Amber, I don’t know why you’re frantic. I think you could teach Martha a thing or two. These are beautiful and so well explained. Love your humor too.
How exciting and amazing! Your project are fabulous. And congratulations for being selected for such awesome projects.
Wow, Amber – so very excited for you and you have done a FANTASTIC job, just like you always do. Bravo xxxx
So prettay!!!! Very creative, tasteful, and fun! Can’t wait to see you in January! xoxo
How exciting CONGRATULATIONS on this collaboration. You didm a LOVELY JOB, I am super inspired to decorate. I start to decorate my home on black Friday. I think its time for me to make a plan for this year.
Amber,
Congratulations on this wonderful honor. Everything was just fabulous. I really like your banner since I love calligraphy type writing.
Beautiful! Everything works together so well! Now I hope you can take some time for yourself–you have been BUSY! Big congrats on this project, as well as your Gift Guide, Toile, and everything else on your Blog! Wow!
Hello Amber, I finally had a minute to stop in and wowowoow. Amazing and incredible post. My hats off to you !! 🙂 Happy Holidays
How cool is this. Love that you can make those wonderful, bold colors work. Ingenious to combine them with chalkboard.
Gorgeous. Loving the big turquoise bow! You keep those grinches away from your wreath!
Gorgeous! Love the non-traditional colors and chalkboard look! Can you please tell us what stamp company the “Merry and Bright” sentiment is from?
Oh ya! You are pretty awesome! Love all that color and sparkle and the chalkboard elements are perfect!
Gorgeous! Love all of it. Great job.
Hi love your decorations! That wreath really stands out. Where did you get the that beautiful ribbon. I would love to try this look in my home.
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