Christmas lights all year around seems to becoming quite a trend in teenage girl's bedrooms lately. Many use them to embellish headboards, boarder door frames and use icicle lights above windows to mimic a starry night. If you're lucky, you'll have white coloured Christmas lights, which will match any bedroom colour scheme. But if you're like me and got stuck with Christmas tree lights (you know, the dark green ones you wrap around the tree) and have a colour scheme no where near green, you'll really need to think outside the box on creative ways to use the lights to match the theme of your room.

The way I originally arranged my lights was like a web going across from one wall to the other in a narrow corner where I place some of my artwork. It looked really out of place, especially during the daytime, and when the Christmas lights weren't on. I still kept it however, because when the room was dark at night, and the lights were plugged in, it looked like floating stars, and I thought it looked cool. But obviously I still hated how it looks either way, because it was just a web of green cord in a pink and purple room. Thats until I realized the dark green made it resemble a vine, and flowers could be added onto it...

STEP BY STEP DIY ROSE CHRISTMAS LIGHTS:
*I really do apologize in advanced for the horrid quality of most of the photos. I only had my phone to take the pictures, and the lighting in my room was very uneven*

SUPPLIES:

One or two pencils, tissue paper of your choice (to use for the petals. I used two colours, but you can also just use one), scotch tape, scissors, safety pin or toothpick (or anything with similar shape), glue.



STEP 1:

Cut out your petals from the tissue paper. You can freehand it like I did or use these stencils as a reference: Inner Petals Outer Petals (Stencils via http://www.favecrafts.com/Valentines-Day/Crepe-Paper-Rose-Bouquet  I used this DIY as a reference when I was experimenting for this DIY. Do go check it out)

Honestly, you can probably make this DIY without the outer petals, but I have never tried. They are quite hard to work with, and a lot of tweaking is needed to make it look proper.

STEP 2:

Using the safety pin, curl the ends of the petals by rubbing your index and thumb together to roll it in. For the outer petals, curl both bumps in (see provided reference link above). This takes awhile to get used to, but keep trying! You'll get the hang of it eventually! A helpful tip is to do all your petals now before you use the glue; sticky fingers is your enemy when it comes to this step.