Christmas is just around the corner – the perfect opportunity to transform your home into a festive winter wonderland. Homemade Christmas decoration ideas give your home an individual touch and make the festive season even more beautiful. It becomes particularly personal when you integrate photos into the DIY Christmas decorations. This creative idea brings a unique and emotional touch to your four walls. Here are tips and ideas on how you can use pixolo to incorporate photos into your decorations and create your own Christmas decorations.

1st Christmas decoration DIY: Photo tree decorations

One of the easiest and most charming ways to integrate photos into your Christmas decorations is to use homemade photo tree decorations. Here’s how:

  • Materials: Miniature pictures, transparent Christmas baubles, small wooden frames or laminating foils.
  • Instructions:
    • To make this special kind of Christmas decoration, first have your favorite photos printed out in small size at pixolo
    • Place them in clear Christmas baubles or glue them onto small wooden frames.
    • Decorate the frames and baubles with glitter, ribbons or miniature poinsettias.
    • Hang the baubles or frames on the Christmas tree.

Tip: Use black and white photos for a nostalgic touch or colorful pictures for a modern look.

 

2nd Christmas craft ideas: Photo advent calendar

Another option for a Christmas decoration DIY with photos: design a photo advent calendar at pixolo with your favorite photo of the year and high-quality chocolate or fruit gums of your choice. Ordering a photo advent calendar from pixolo is super easy. You can personalize the calendar step by step in the pixolo app. First you choose the desired candy inlay – Ritter Sport, Lindt, Sarotti or Trolli fruit gums. Then you decide on a Christmas design and upload the photo for your Advent calendar. Your photo Advent calendar will be delivered directly to your home within a few days and you can decorate your four walls with it. A DIY alternative to the chocolatey photo advent calendar: make your own advent calendar with 24 photos that you can have printed out at pixolo.

  • Materials: Photos, paper bags or envelopes, string and clothespins.
  • Instructions:
    • Print out 24 photos from pixolo showing special moments from the past year.
    • Place the photos in numbered envelopes or bags.
    • Hang them on a decorative string on the wall or a door frame.

So you or your loved ones can enjoy a beautiful memory every day until Christmas.

 

3rd Christmas decoration craft: Picture frames with a Christmas look

Transform existing picture frames that you already have at home into festive decorative elements for your own home or as a Christmas gift DIY for your loved ones:

  • Decorate the picture frames with fir branches, fairy lights and bows.
  • Arrange the frames on a sideboard and add candles and Christmas baubles.
  • Fill the frames with photos that you can have printed out in high quality at pixolo. Alternatively, you can also create collages with photos and winter motifs to emphasize your Christmas spirit.

 

4th Christmas decoration ideas in the living room: garlands made from photos

A photo garland is not only an eye-catcher, but also a quick Christmas decoration DIY:

  • Materials: Photos, string, small staples or clips, Christmas decorations.
  • Instructions:
    • Print photos from pixolo.
    • Attach these to a decorative string.
    • Add pine cones, small Christmas tree baubles or snowflake pendants to the garland.
    • Hang the garland over the fireplace, on the wall, on a shelf or in front of a window.

5th Christmas decoration craft: Table decorations with photos

Personalized table decorations are ideal for festive Christmas dinners:

  • Use small photo stands or mini clipboards to use pictures as place cards.
  • Decorate the center of the table with a combination of photos, candles and Christmas accessories.
  • Photos can also be used as napkin rings: Simply cut the photos into strips, laminate them and place them around the napkins.

6. christmas pixolo frame cards

You can also decorate existing pixolo products for Christmas and adapt them to the season – for example the pixolo Frame Cards. This is a magnetic passe-partout into which your favorite photo can be inserted. You can use it to decorate your fridge or a metal pinboard, for example. The frame card is an eye-catcher anywhere. The great thing is that it can be written on and individually designed and decorated, for example now at Christmas time with Christmas stickers and motifs, with glitter and the like. In this way, you can showcase your most beautiful memories of the season in a decorative way or create a personal Christmas gift DIY in no time at all.

7. magnetic stickers with Christmas motifs

Another option for Christmas decorations with photos: Liven up your fridge or metal pinboard with original photo magnets from pixolo. Simply choose Christmas or winter photo motifs – and you can create a festive atmosphere in your home in an uncomplicated and unconventional way. Perfect for anyone who doesn’t like traditional Christmas decorations.

 

As you can see, photos in Christmas decorations are a wonderful way to add a personal touch. They combine the festive atmosphere with the best moments of the year. Whether as tree decorations, Advent calendars or table decorations – there are no limits to your creativity when making Christmas decorations. Try it out and give your home a unique, personal touch this Christmas with pixolo! Do you have any other Christmas craft ideas? Then please share them with us, we’d love to hear them!