What crafting supply most of us always have at hand? What material is extremely comfortable for crafting as you can make anything of it? This is cardboard! Even if you don’t have cardboard sheets at hand, you have some leftover boxes you may use for creating some lovely holiday decor, and today’s roundup will show you what you can make.
Cardboard Christmas Ornaments
Grab some cardboard and a couple of sharpies to make the easiest ornaments ever: shape your cardboard as houses, stockings, mini trees or other stuff and add decor with sharpies. If you need a more modern and laconic idea, cut out triangles of cardboard and add thread to them. Corrugated and folded cardboard ornaments with beads are also a nice idea to style a holiday space. Don’t like the look of cardboard? Cover your ornaments with gold foil or just paint them and voila!
Such lovely black and white cardboard and bead ornaments are perfect for a modern or Scandinavian space, and you can DIY them.
These corrugated cardboard and felt bead ornaments are amazing to style a Christmas tree or space, and making them isn't that difficult.
These adorable and shiny Christmas ornaments are made of simple cardboard and are covered with gold foil to give them a glam look.
This folded cardboard ornament with pompoms is a very sustainable idea, and you can easily make it. (via bhg).
This is the easiest modern ornament to make: take a piece of cardboard and yarn of the color you like. Shape the cardboard as a tree and make holes to put the thread through.
Cardboard Christmas Garlands
Make Christmas garlands of cardboard using the same idea as with ornaments – first make ornaments you like, not too heavy ones, and then put them on some thread or twine and style your mantel or console table. The most popular idea currently is a Christmas village garland, and you can easily cut out some houses of cardboard to make it.
Here's one more version of a Christmas village, a cardboard garland that can decorate your mantel, shelf or ledge.
Make simple star cardboard garlands and decorate or paint them if you want or just style your window or banister with them.
Such vertical cardboard tree garlands are very easy to DIY and you can style your window, over the mantel space or entryway with them.
You can make Christmas ornaments of cardboard very easily giving them any shapes you like.
Make gingerbead style pieces of simple cardboard using a white sharpie and style them into a classyc garland for your mantel.
Cardboard Christmas Wreaths
Christmas wreaths can be made of cardboard, and first of all, you’ll need to make some cardboard ornaments or pieces for your wreath. Here I’d offer houses, stars, gingerbread-inspired pieces and mini trees. Paint or decorate them as you like and then attach them all to your wreath form, which can be made of foam, metal or wood, or you can hang your pieces on a thread and attach the thread horizontally to achieve a unique look. Make a Christmas village wreath to get a trendy decoration in a fresh and non-cheesy way.
This wreath is one more take on Christmas village trend as it shows off two rows of colorful cardboard houses. (via byshnordic).
This Christmas village wreath imitating gingerbread is made of cardboard, using a white sharpie and glitter, and it's a cute alternative to traditional wreaths.
This unique Christmas wreath is made of cardboard tubes and is filled with various holiday stuff, which makes it fantastic.
This Scandinavian Christmas wreath is done with paper leaves and evergreens and a row of simple cardboard houses. (via sisterswhat).
I love this Christmas wreath! It's made of a metal hoop, cardboard houses and evergreens plus a bow.
These 3D cardboard stars can be used to fill in a blank wall or as an alternative to a usual Christmas wreath. (via collectivegen).
Cardboard Christmas Trees
Cardboard Christmas trees are perfect as additional ones, as a sustainable alternative to usual ones and for outdoor styling, too. They can be large or small, they can be styled with ornaments and lights or you can just paint them as you like. Some of them are DIYable, others, really big and heavy ones, are easier to buy than to make.
These stylish black and white cardboard tabletop trees are a nice alternative to usual ones, they are perfect for a minimalist or Scandinavian space.
This beautiful cardboard Christmas tree with lights and ornaments is a unique and very eco-friendly solution, and it's styled with trees and houses around.
This modern and chic cardboard Christmas tree is done with paper garlands and colorful pompoms, and it looks gorgeous.
This large modern cardboard Christmas tree is done with glitter and a shiny star on top, and this is a nice way to upcycle some old boxes you might have.
These large green cardboard trees are a cool solution to decorate a windowsill or a mantel.
This modern cardboard tree is done with paper ornaments, and I can't imagine a more sustainable combo than that.
You can make really large cardboard houses and style them with lights to substitute usual ones. (via lovelyindeed).
These cute and stylish cardboard tabletop Christmas trees can be a creative alternative to a usual tree.
This cardboard tree arrangement is very easy and you can repeat it anytime to style your mantel, countertop or windowsill.
Other Cardboard Christmas Decor
A Christmas village, a hot decor trend for the holidays, is on top and making one of cardboard is quite easy. Besides just creating a beautiful village, you can make it an advent calendar or a tree base cover, or just make a beautiful snowy scene with houses and trees for your console table. Advent calendars of cardboard are very cool on the whole, even if you don’t shape them as a Christmas village, and there are many tutorials to choose from. Faceted cardboard snowmen are creative and stylish modern decor, which can be great for a porch or an entryway. Cardboard deer figurines, various buntings and decorations – there are lots of DIYs to try if you have a couple of old boxes at hand.
Christmas villages are a big trend in holidya decor, and this cool village made of cardboard is also an advent calendar.
This is how you can make a Christmas village of cardboard and it will double as an advent calendar. Invite the whole family to DIY it together!.
This extremely cute cardboard Christmas village is accented with pastels and it's a cool advent calendar for a kid's room.
Such cute cardboard deer can be made of usual boxes, and they will be fun decor for any holiday space.
This is a fresh version of an advent calendar, a cardboard diamond one arranged as a hanging piece.
This cardboard fan topped with a cardboard gingerbread piece and some beads is a lovely decoration for a blank wall or a banister.
Make a cool Christmas village imitating gingerbread of cardboard, place it on the mantel and add candles or lights behind it.
If you have open shelving, you can style it for the holidays using ornaments, mini trees and cool gingerbread style houses made of cardboard.
A faceted cardboard snowman is a pretty decoration for Christmas, it will make your tabletop arrangements more eye-catching.
Just look how creative a wintry scenery can be! These mountains, trees and mini houses are made of wooden sticks and cardboard and they are just adorable!.
A cardboard Christmas village can become a lovely tree base cover.
These faceted cardboard snowmen will be gorgeous porch or entryway decorations during the holidays.
This Christmas village and mountains are made of cardboard, and they will make your mantel or console table cooler.
This stylish cardboard Christmas village with green trees and pinecones is a cool advent calendar and decor in one.
A white cardboard Christmas village with pinecones and lights plus stars over it creates a whole winter scene.
Style the space around your tree not only with gift boxes but also with cool gingerbread houses, which can double as boxes, too. (via ellaclaireinspired).
This cardboard snowy Christmas village is a real holiday scene as there are even trees added. (via flaviepeartree).
This cute snowy scenery is made of cardboard, these are houses in a snowy forest. (via craftberrybush).