With Christmas only a few weeks away, I’ve been asked recently about why I add a lot of colour to my Christmas decor each year. I've guess a colourful Christmas isn’t overly traditional, but I adore using lots of blues, pinks, oranges, purples and greens when decorating my home for Christmas.

My home is quite a colourful home; I enjoy living with colour throughout the year, so it is natural to me to want to use colour when I making my handmade door wreaths, dressing my tree, or adorning my fireplace mantel.

Each year, I tend to get inspired by one colourful thing: a roll of beautiful velvet ribbon, a dried floral, or a fabric remnant could the one thing that is the starting point for my decor scheme that Christmas.

Last year, I picked up some sprayed pink fern and placed it in my tree, then added decorations that complemented that pink shimmer! Another year, I made some large bows from some stripy Laura Ashley upholstery fabric, they then dictated my Christmas fireplace styling.

If you are looking to create a colourful Christmas in your own home, my top tip is to source ribbon in brighter colours. I use ribbon everywhere at Christmas; I once used lots of ribbon to create my viral bow tree. The following year, I wrapped my tree in ribbon garlands and I use ribbon in my door wreaths. Ribbon is great to drape off your staircase banister, around doors and also used to hang ornaments in a decorative way (I like to hang small ornaments off light fittings at Christmas!)

Another budget-friendly way to bring in colour is to make your own paper chains in coloured paper. Simply use a craft guillotine to cut down the strips and them staple them together. You can also use fabric scraps to create draped garlands or to them to your tree.

I always make a home made door wreath each year and try and add as much colour as possible. Dried pink peppercorns work so well in Christmas wreaths, as do hypericum berries.

There’s also no need to buy colourful hanging tree decorations. Make your own colourful paper baubles, paper bells or Christmas trees following my handy guides!

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