Rusty Heart Designs: decorating a mantel for christmas

Thursday, December 13, 2012

Christmas Mantel

Hi Everyone! We hope everyone is having a great week!

Today we wanted to share one of Denise's Christmas Mantels. She came up with some great ideas this year. She used some different picture frames to create a very different and unique look.

You can see that she put a wreath on one of the frames, a deer in one, and a swag on the last. She added burlap bows to two of them and a green satin bow to break up the colors.

I love this swag. She used different cedar and put a berry pic in the middle to add some color.

She tied a bow around a battery operated candle, and made a small center piece for the candle. She started with a cedar candle ring and added some pine pics around it to make it fuller and cascade down the mantel.

I thought putting the deer in the picture frame was such a good idea! I love how it turned out and I think I will steal this idea sometime soon! :)

I also love how the deer matches the picture frame! (she says this is just luck!)

Here she wrapped burlap ribbon around a small tree.

On the bottom of the mantel she added some tall sticks and wrapped it in a piece of burlap and added a bow. She used a lot of natural cedar and pine. She decorated the lantern simply by placing a piece of natural cedar on top.

She used a moss sheet under the burlap baskets, deer, and lanterns to create a natural look.

Putting a burlap bow with a piece of pine on the deer make them show up nicely.

Thanks everyone for stopping by! We still have more to show. Hopefully we will get most of it on before it is all over! :)

Audra & Denise

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Friday, December 7, 2012

Christmas Mantel

Hi Everyone! We wanted to thank you all for all of your wonderful comments on Denise's Christmas Porch! We are newer to blogging and are really enjoying everyone we are meeting. We are so grateful for our followers and everyone who comments! We love blogland! Thanks to Mary and Dave from Front-Porch-Ideas-and-More for featuring our Christmas Porch, you can check out the post here.

So today we want to share my living room Christmas Mantel. When my husband and I moved into our house a little over 2 years ago I was so excited to have a mantel to decorate! But you may not know, he won the battle of hanging the TV above that mantel! Although, I do like the way it turned out and think it fits best for the room. I was really excited when my mom had the idea to buy an electric fireplace for my living room! This is the first year having it and I was so excited to decorate it, even though I stared at it for about two days before I figured out what to do with it! haha Does this ever happen to you?

In my living room I tried to stick with the copper, gold, and green colors.

I used rice lights on all of the pines. I love these lights they give off a good amount of light, they are much lighter then regular lights, and you can hide the cord easier!

I tied a burlap bow around both deer.

I love these green magnolia wreaths! They have a hint of gold in them.

These trees are so different they shimmer with glitter.

I made each mantel piece out of various pines. I started with a swag as a base, which let me secure the rest of the pine.

In the lanterns I used two different battery operated candles. In the cream lantern is a Luminara candle. Which we hope to get up on our website soon. These are so neat! You cannot tell it is a fake flame it is amazing, and it has a timer. The gold lantern is a battery operated taper candle w/ a timer.