Ways Designers Add Ribbon to a Christmas Tree

hello everybody my name is Jennifer Davenport I'm an interior designer and in today's video I'm going to show you a few ways that designers add ribbon to a [Music] tree before we get started if you're somebody who loves Christmas I have a Christmas course in this Christmas course I'm going to teach you everything about Christmas design even the business side of it so if you love Christmas and you would love to do Christmas designing for others and make money doing it then this course is for you so how does it work well typically your very first Christmas job will run about $500 and your business will snowball from that point on people will see the designs you did when they have their Christmas party or maybe you did a mailbox swag and everybody in the neighborhood is like H who did that every year your business will grow and grow we did a Christmas job this year that was $10,000 so the course is pre-recorded and once you purchase it it's yours so maybe next year you're like o what did Jennifer say about that you just go back and watch it and another thing you can make payments on this course it is $200 you will get that money back with your first Christmas design so where do you find my course you can go to Jennifer Davenport courses or I'll leave a link in the description of this video all right let's get to ribbon oh by the way don't forget to subscribe to my channel and follow me on Instagram at Jennifer decorates today I am in my store and I'm going to show you several ways that you can add ribbon to a Christmas tree like a designer so let's jump into it I'm going to use three different ribbons I've named this tree my raffler in tree which you'll get to see the finished product later but first ribbon very wide a little bit of white a little bit of gold and then the next next two ribbons beautiful mocha colored velvet with the back of the ribbon same color but they're wired they're going to be super easy to work with and then my third color is this beautiful navy blue with gold edges and a beautiful gold backing what I'm going to love about this is when this ribbon twist in the tree that gold is going to look stunning going to start with the very whitest ribbon first I'm going to start at the top and I'm going to take my ribbon and kind of fold it a little bit like that and go under like this I'm going to come into the tree and grab that plastic branch and wrap it around the end of that [Music] ribbon now I'm going to take it Loop it in and bring it into the tree again find a branch and wrap it around that ribbon now make sure you pull that Loop down so it hides where you have tucked the ribbon in and twisted it to a branch on the tree now I'm going to keep looping down the tree do not keep all of them the same you want to add a little bit of a waterfall effect but the key is don't Loop it just and put it on the edge of the tree it's really not going to look good you really want to tuck it in to the base of the tree and grab the branch closest to the base of the tree so bigger Loop this time bringing it in this is the best thing about artificial trees all right and I'm going to do that again another loop now you don't have to go straight up and down with these Loops you can even do your tree at an angle if you like that look that's as far down as I'm going to go with the ribbon and I'm going to trim that tail and I love a kite tail so you're going to fold your Ribbon in half start trimming from the fold and that's it now I'm going to do the brown and blue ribbon I'm going to put the blue right on top of the brown this is one way to create a really unique design is to pick a ribbon that's wider that pairs with a more narrow ribbon now I'm going to use floral wire for this since I've got two of them I really don't want them to slip off that branch and I'm just going to take that floral wire and twist these two ribbon pieces together I'm going to come in about halfway and again always going into the base of that tree and wiring it as close as I can [Music] so do just like you did before make a loop come into that tree grab a branch just make sure you're making that ribbon that's smaller and you're putting it on top of the wider one do your best to kind of keep it in the middle of that all right I'm going to go a little bit lower than this ribbon right here with one more loot I'm just going to cut my ribbon at an angle [Music] there you [Music] go for this next ribbon style I'm going to going to use two different ribbons one's a very wide ribbon beautiful blue velvet with a gold backing and the second ribbon is a more platinum color very shiny very beautiful and remember Platinum goes well with gold or silver when you do a designer tree it does take a lot of money to make a beautiful tree one of the places that I do like to put my money is in really really good ribbon because it really does make a difference and especially if you can get ribbon that is wired good ribbon is like a pair of good shoes it lasts a lot longer for the design of this tree I'm going to take the wider ribbon with the color and I'm going to make bows and place them throughout the tree some I'm going to have long tails some I'm going to have really extra long tails and I'm going to create a loop then I'm going to come in with that Platinum ribbon and fill in between each one of the Blue Velvet Ribbon having an artificial tree makes this so much easier create one Loop and create another loop the biggest thing is to make your Loops the same size now that I've created two Loops I'm going to take it into the tree and I'm going to use one of those branches and attach it to the tree like so now that you've attached it to the tree take your loops and your Tails straighten them out twist it around and bring it down and then create a beautiful loop on each side and kind of push it in to the center and it camouflages the fact that you used the branch to attach your Ribbon now I don't worry about each one of the Tails being exactly cut the same because it just looks like a block of ribbon all the way around I like to create a waterfall effect it doesn't have to be perfect to be beautiful so let's cut the tail it's called a kite tail cut you fold it in half and you're going to cut from the fold [Music] down perfect you might notice I have a tag on both sides of my scissors that says ribbon only I keep that in the store so nobody uses it to cut paper or anything else when you have good thick ribbon you need a good pair of scissors and you want to keep them sharp so only use them for ribbon all right I'm going to cut that next tail and it's going to be a little bit longer doing the kite tail again folding in half cutting from the fold down perfect I'm going to do the Blue Ribbon all the way around the tree first when you're going to put bows on a tree an easy way to make sure you're going to disperse it correctly is what I call layering it in a diamond pattern super easy so if I have one bow here I'm going to come across over here next one will be here and that last one will be down here and that is how you disperse it evenly around the tree now that I've got all the blue in place I'm going to take this Platinum ribbon and I'm not going to make a bow on this one that'd be too much so I'm going to come into the tree and I'm going to make some Loops stop cut a tail make a few more and give another waterfall effect to this whole design all right just create a loop and don't do it like this you want to go into that [Music] tree grab another branch and then come out and it's okay your Ribbon Loops can go a little bit at an angle or straight does not matter and I'm going to do one more because I don't want to cut a tail actually I think that might look good let's cut a tail right [Music] there yep I like that so basically even though I'm going to be adding a lot more to this tree I'm going to take the Platinum ribbon and I'm wanting to fill in the gaps in between each blue bow now when you're doing this everyone does not have to be the same and every cut doesn't have to be the same one tail can be a little longer next to another tail don't worry about making it the same you're just filling in the Platinum ribbon in between the blue [Music] [Music] all right next tree this one's my traditional tree I'm using three different ribbons on this one all three different sizes so I've got the first one that is a diamond shaped gold ribbon beautiful on the back and the front and this beautiful plaid ribbon with a touch of blue and then for the third ribbon a very narrow green forest green with gold on the edges for this ribbon design I'm going to take three of the ribbons and I'm going to Loop them all together and put them on a tree which I'll show you in a minute but what I want to tell you first is you want to make a pattern of the same length ribbon so cut one of them and I'll usually do about 20 or 22 in and just cut it straight across keep this ribbon as your pattern and then cut the next ones the same [Music] length take that ribbon fold it in half take your second one and go over it as well do not worry if they are all not cut the same length it will be fine and then take that third ribbon and go over as well now you're going to make a loop about this big and you're going to take your floral wire and you're just going to twist that [Music] together now this doesn't look pretty at the moment but trust me keep working with me trust the process all right each tail we are not going to do a kite tail we're just going to cut in an angle and it doesn't matter which way you [Music] go what does matter is a clean cut otherwise it looks sloppy now the way I add ribbon to the tree in this process it takes a lot of ribbon but here's the thing good ribbon again I've said that lasts a long time well you know what in a year or two if if I decide I don't want to do this style again I'm going to repurpose this ribbon in another design so it's an investment time to put it on the tree take that Loop and fold it in half and come into the tree about halfway and wire it to the [Music] branch once it's on the tree you're going to take each Loop and spread it out and you're going to take each tail and spread it out and making sure the tails the top side of the ribbon is showing [Music] the trick to the the trick to adding ribbon to the tree this way is you don't want to put it on the edge of the branch you've got to tuck it in a little bit so that it pushes the loops down and creates this beautiful look and that's it [Music] here is another fun tip if you have ribbon that's about an inch wide and it's wired get yourself a fat marker and take that ribbon and wrap it around that marker keep going okay and that's about good right there look what it makes isn't that fun so then and I'll trim it and then you just take that cute little curled ribbon because your ribbon's already wired just pinch it and put it on a branch and look how super fun that is now on the end trim that too at an angle and that's it how [Music] fun ribbon is everything when it comes to making a Christmas tree beautiful all right I will see you in the next video more Christmas headed your way [Music] oh [Music]