The most beautiful ideas for the Christmas season
Christmas time is decoration time! Finally, the dusty box with the Christmas tree balls, reindeer and fairy lights can be taken out of the attic and your own apartment can be transformed into a winter wonderland to your heart's content.
Of course, the picture frames should not be ignored here. Framed palm trees and dream beaches must now give way to winter motifs to make the decoration perfect and get into the right mood. We have collected the most beautiful craft ideas with picture frames for small and large Christmas elves!
Christmas Shadow Box: The creative trend idea from America
If you are bored of classic two-dimensional prints in picture frames and want to give your wall decoration more depth, you can try your hand at a shadow box. Here, real objects are draped behind the glass pane and, if necessary, a matching lettering is added. This turns a classic picture frame into a three-dimensional eye-catcher. The only prerequisite for this craft project is that you choose a Distance picture frame with sufficient distance between the back wall and the glass plate.
In the winter months, of course, Christmas and snow motifs are particularly popular. How about, for example, a pictorial implementation of the Christmas classic "Jingle Bells"? To do this, design the back of the picture frame with a Christmas motif and then fill the frame about halfway with small bells in various sizes. Either on the back wall or on the glass of the picture frame you can illustrate a concise song line such as "Jingle all the way" - this way everyone will recognise your artistic allusion to the wintry evergreen.
A three-dimensional winter landscape behind glass is just as beautiful. Choose a grey-blue colour or a starry sky as a background. On the floor, place small figures, such as those you can find in model building stores. Snow-covered trees, reindeer, Santa Claus, hikers or joyful children - there are no limits to your creativity. If you sprinkle the whole thing with artificial snow at the end and then put the glass pane in front of it, you can dream yourself into a dreamlike winter landscape again and again - especially when the real snow is waiting again ..
Stylish Christmas decoration in black and white
The following design suggestion for picture frames shows that it doesn't always have to be classic Christmas colours such as red, green and gold and that you can also create a stylish Christmas decoration in restrained black and white: How to create a wintry picture collage.
First select individual picture motifs in black and white. These can be photos of your loved ones, wintry landscapes or even graphic representations, prints of reindeer, pine cones or macro shots of icy leaves etc.. Single words or song lines in the hip lettering trend can also be a motif.
Create a concept of at least four thematically coordinated motifs that you print (or have printed) in different sizes. Then frame these images in classy black picture frames that you arrange on your wall.
Create an individual picture frame with silhouettes & co
Not only can the contents of a picture frame be adapted to the Christmas season, but the frame itself can also be included in the winter DIY project. Depending on the type of frame, you can embellish it with different decorative accessories to give it an individual character. A nice idea for black frames is to decorate them with silhouette elements. To do this, transfer the outlines of the desired motif or lettering on black cardboard and cut them out. It is important that one side of the motif remains straight so that the finished cut-out can be clamped under the edge and visually merges smoothly into the frame. Houses, fir branches, candles and Christmas expressions in silhouette can transform black frames into atmospheric Christmas decorations in no time at all.
Wooden frames can also be transformed into three-dimensional eye-catchers by gluing on elements. All you need is a hot glue gun and decorative material to suit your taste: for example, cinnamon sticks, dried orange slices, star anise, decorative stars, small Christmas tree balls and much more. Choose the decoration of the frame to match the picture motif and create a very personal Christmas frame - by the way, also a great gift idea!
Picture frames can be used in a variety of ways, especially at winter time, to give the Christmas decoration the finishing touch. In addition to wintry pictures, which really come into their own in a matching high-quality frame, more unconventional uses are also a real eye-catcher!