Our cluster lights make for a great addition to your Christmas greenery, whether in the tree, or in a wreath or a garland. Long-lasting, controllable, with different functions, and extremely durable, they are just the perfect lights to add to your greenery.
The Step By Step Process to adding Cluster Lights to Garland
What’s the best method to get the amazing twinkly look on your garland for your mantle, staircases, or both? This short guide will show you how, with a few great tips along the way!
- First, you’ll need at least one strand of our cluster lights, and a Christmas garland that you want to add them to.
- Get yourself a nice flat working space, unravel your strand of twinkle lights, and lay out your garland. Flatten out the branches as well as you can. It’ll take a few minutes but it’s well worth it.
- Take the end of your cluster and attach it to one the end of the garland. You can either wrap the cluster light strand around the end of the garland to secure it or twist the points of the garland to hold the lights.
- Then, stretch out your cluster light stand and attach it to the other end of your garland in the same fashion as already indicated. Find the middle of your twinkle light strand and attach that to the middle of the garland in the same manner.
- At this point, you will have a lot of excess light strand on both halves of the garland (depending on the length of the garland). Doing it this way makes it easier for you to see if one area of the garland has too much light density (or too little) so you can make it all look beautifully balanced.
Start on one of the half-sections of the light strand, find the halfway point of that, and secure it to the halfway point of one of the halves of the garland (halfway from the middle to the end). Repeat that on the other side. Then, start zig-zagging the lights back and forth through the body of the garland, securing them by twisting the needles around the light strand.
Once you have the lights secured, take a step back to see if there are any dark areas on the garland, or any areas that seem to have too high a density of lights. You can fill these in or then them out as needed.Then go back and use the needles/points to secure the cluster light strand at approximately one-foot intervals.The great thing about this technique is that at the end of the season you can store the garland with the twinkle lights on it so you don’t need to re-add them year after year! Storage is simple, too. Lay the garland out, press the needles and branches flat, and then roll the garland up into a ball. This will condense it and secure the lights.
Next year, all you need to do is unroll it, fluff up the garland, and you’ll be good to get to decorating!
Getting the Most from Your Natural Greenery: Beyond Twinkle Lights
Cluster lights may be a perfect complement for our Christmas greenery, but they are also only the beginning. You can accent your natural greenery in a variety of other ways, including with the following decorations.
● Christmas ribbon
If you add nothing else to your natural greenery, add someChristmas ribbon. This will give your decor piece extra color and flash and will help align the theme with the rest of your Christmas decorations,underscoring the natural beauty of our exceptionally artificial Christmas greenery.
● Christmas ornaments
Ornaments aren’t just for the Christmas tree! You can add Christmas ornaments to your natural greenery, too. Here’s a tip - save some ornaments from the tree and use those in your garlands (and Christmas wreaths, too). Or, you can select ornaments from the same collection on our website so you can create some thematic balance. Worried that the garland will drop ornaments? No worries - shatterproof ornaments or our jewel ornaments are perfect for that!
● Christmas florals
Not all garlands need Christmas flowers, but when you align the color and feel of florals with the rest of your theme, the whole scene will look better together!
● Picks and Sprays
For most Chrismtas greenery such as garlands, lights, ribbons, ornaments and Christmas flowers are all you need to set a beautiful scene. Still, adding some picks and sprays to fill out the garland fully will make an even more impressive display. As we’ve already suggested, select picks and sprays from the same collections as your ribbons and ornaments to create harmonious aesthetics, or use the same picks in sprays in your garlands that you use in the tree! Here’s an awesome tutorial by Kristin that shows how to add lights to your greenery and decorate it to match your elegant design!
● The extra Christmas decorations
Lastly, don’t forget that other Christmas decorations, like Christmas resin, signs, or nutcrackers, can be used around your natural greenery to complete the look. For instance, if hanging your garland on a mantle, you can add some nutcrackers to one end or even place stocking holders right in front of it.
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Ready to add a touch of natural beauty to your Christmas decor? Decorating our Christmas greenery with twinkle lights and then completing the scene with the other decorations mentioned here is the right way to go, and can create beautiful focal points throughout your home.
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