Nutcracker Christmas is a timeless collection. Drawing on the richness and tradition of nutcracker folklore and the popular Nutcracker Ballet, it is a stunning Christmas décor style that will never go out of fashion.
The collection boasts a luxurious, regal feel with the use of gorgeous velvet textures and touches of tartan throughout, complemented by the glamour of antique gold.
It’s heavily based on the elements of a traditional Christmas decorating style, but with a contemporary and sophisticated finish – using navy and burgundy as focal colours, instead of typical bright red and greens. This treasured Christmas theme works beautifully in both modern and more classic homes.
In addition to filling the space with nutcrackers of every size and colour, Nutcracker Christmas also features plenty of other traditional Christmas characters and scenes through whimsical ornaments, toys and light-ups scenes.
According to German folklore, nutcrackers were given as keepsakes to bring luck to the family and protect the home. It is said that they represent strength and power and watches over the family keeping evil spirits and danger away. What better way to bring some positive influence and Christmas cheer, and a gorgeous aesthetic too, to your home than by filling it with nutcrackers.
We are so excited to share with you how we created a Nutcracker Christmas.
Nutcracker Christmas Tree – Fit for a King
The Nutcracker Christmas tree is the epitome of luxury and sopshitication. Laden with gorgeous flowers, glistening ornate baubles and, of course, as many beautiful nutcrackers as you can handle, all set on a backdrop of stunning navy and burgundy velvet double sided wired ribbon garland woven throughout the tree.
At the top, we’ve created an impressive arrangement befitting of this opulent collection. A Tartan and Gold Trim Star Tree Topper is nestled amongst a large navy and burgundy bow with an added touch of glamour from glitter leaf sprays in red, blue and gold to add even more height and texture.
Beautiful Baubles
To compliment the luxuriousness of the billowing ribbons and bow, we’ve included baubles in a diverse mix of shapes and textures.
Continuing with the blue, red and gold theme that we created up top, we’ve got a selection of absolutely gorgeous finials and drops in a number of shapes and finishes. There’s drops in a matte finish with glitter detailing, gloss with gold highlights and stunning finials too.
Offset the intricacy of those decorative shapes with more traditional, round shaped decorative baubles too. But these designs are anything but traditional, and definitely not boring!
A bauble set of red and blue with eye-catching patterns and finishes look amazing grouped together and fits perfectly on a Nutcracker Christmas tree.
Touches of gold enhance the glamour. A set of gold baubles in a variety of interesting finishes and ornate red, green and gold baubles with a diamond press are gorgeous accents amongst the greenery of the tree, the regal reds and beautiful blues.
Every tree needs a little glitter! Extra large sequin baubles are just the thing to add a little sparkle.
For personalised baubles, we’ve used 10cm shatterproof baubles in timeless, traditional colours of red, blue, green and gold to compliment the the colours used through the rest of the collection.
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Delightful Ornaments and Decorations
Of course, your Nutcracker Christmas Tree will need some nutcrackers! Combine large nutcrackers with other ornaments such as gorgeous rocking horses and drums. Then add creatively themed tree decorations, like this top hat that is attached to a headband, so you can decorate your tree or your head!
Bring your tree to life with a few sequinned feathered and winged friends. Elegant peacocks, butterflies and birds perch proudly on the branches.
And if you don’t think you’ve got enough nutcrackers just yet, we’ve got nutcracker baubles and light up nutcracker star tree decorations too!
Luscious and Luxurious Christmas Flowers
Finally, fill your tree and add some softness, and even more luxury, with gorgeous Christmas flowers. Rich in both colour and texture, the velvet is just divine and mustard provides a really interesting contrast to the burgundy and navy, complimenting the gold throughout the tree.
A little extra sprinkle of sparkle with a few glitter trimmed flowers and your Nutcracker Christmas tree is complete.
Decorate with Gorgeous Gifts
Complete the regal style of your Nutcracker Christmas tree, all the way to the floor, with a Deluxe Velvet Tree Skirt.
Gorgeous gold gift boxes finished with ribbons and bows to match the tree above making gift wrapping a breeze, and they look absolutely stunning too. Finish each gift with a nutcracker tree decoration to really bring home the theme.
Deluxe Velvet Personalised Santa Sacks are the obvious choice to round out your Nutcracker Christmas gifting. This year we’ve extended the range to include a snowman design – joining popular favourites Santa, Reindeer and Teddy.
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Refined and Elegant Nutcracker Christmas Table
With deep reds and royal blue, this dining décor will make your guests feel like kings and queens.
In the centre of the table, we’ve layered the navy table cloth with a luxe red velvet table runner, and flanked each end with a series of high quality Nutcracker trios in different heights and designs.
We’ve created a simple, yet stunning centrepiece by filling a Nutcracker Christmas Drummer Pot ornament with striking glitter edged and jewelled flowers. To fill out the space in the pot, we’ve interspersed green velvet leaf sprays. If you have a larger table you could place multiple drums in the same or different sizes.
The place settings feature alternating red and navy charger plates with gold edging to frame your crisp white dining plates and napkin. Personalised green and gold, and red and gold, bon bons and a cute nutcracker tree decorations make a festive party favour for each of our guests to keep.
Alternatively, add a little whimsy with nutcracker, Santa and elf bon bons finished with personalised name tags and fun red and white Christmas tree picks.
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Magnificent Mantle
Continue the luxury and opulence of of your Nutcracker Christmas table and tree to the magnificent mantle with lots of nutcrackers, ornaments and velvety florals.
Starting with a luscious and full green garland, layer plenty of red and green velvet leaf sprays and scatter deep blue glittered flowers.
You’ll see no corner of this room lacks a nutcracker and the mantelpiece is no exception. In fact, the mantle is the perfect place to display your collection of nutcrackers (or at least some of them!), starting with stocking hangers.
There’s 2 options when it comes to nutcracker themed stocking hangers. Choose from 2 designs of Royal Guard Nutcracker stocking holders featuring ornate detailing on their costumes and base. Or style your own nutcracker stocking holders using plain chrome or gold stocking holder bases and placing your favourite nutcracker ornaments on top.
Compliment your stocking holder figurines by adding even more nutcrackers to the end of your mantle display.
For some variety from nutcracker overload (if there is such a thing!), you could place Christmas angels and drum ornaments too.
This stunning Red and Gold Angel is actually a Tree Topper so she can grace your mantle or the top of your tree, whichever you prefer.
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Tactile and Textural Personalised Stockings
Continuing the use of luxurious fabrics, hanging velvet personalised stockings is the perfect choice for a Nutcracker Christmas theme.
We’ve extended the traditional range of velvet stockings, which is our most popular – to include a Nutcracker and Ballerina design paying homage to the classical ballet so popular at Christmas time.
Or if you’d prefer a simpler design to compliment your nutcracker collection, these red and bottle green stockings with pom pom detail have just the right touch of subtle elegance.
You can choose any glitter colour you like for the personalised calligraphy, but we think gold works particularly well for both styles. It adds a touch of glamour and ties in nicely with the golden touches throughout the rest of the collection.
Something for Every Wall – Wreaths, Downloads & Wall Hangings
Decorating your Nutcracker Christmas mantle is not just about the mantle shelf itself. Complete the styling by making use of the wall above the mantle too. There’s a number of options to choose from.
Create your own feature piece by combining an large evergreen wreath, a large Santa Head Wall Hanging and placing a few velvet flowers in the wreath to bring it all together.
A stunning limited edition wreath filled with plenty of bows, flowers and a nutcracker themed wreath plaque is a great way to continue the elements of your tree styling to other areas of your home or space.
Yet another option is our Nutcracker Christmas FREE downloadable print. An ornate gold frame is the perfect way to frame and display your Christmas print and share a beautiful Christmas message.
If you can’t decide which one you like most, these pieces are also perfect for decorating other walls and spaces in your home. Use a wreath stand to easily display a wreath on a console or side table, stand a framed print on a shelf or complete a vignette (perhaps in your entry) with a Santa Head Wall Hanging.
Nutcracker Christmas Craft Project: Teardrop Swag
If you are feeling inspired by all that the Nutcracker Christmas collection has to offer and are looking for something unique that you can create yourself to add to your collection, we’ve created the Nutcracker Christmas Teardrop Swag craft project.
Teardrop swags are a stylish and elegant decorating option using Christmas florals. Our new Green Mixed Leaf Christmas Teardrop Swag has a beautiful mixture of evergreens on a twig base. We’ve combined this with one of our new Nutcrackers that is lightweight, making it perfect for including as part of this swag, with deco mesh, wired ribbons and burgundy and blue baubles to add colour and texture throughout.
Check out Make and Create: Nutcracker Christmas Teardrop Swag to find out everything you need to know about how to create your very own nutcracker themed teardrop swag and then hang it proudly as part of you Nutcracker Christmas collection.
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More is More…Ornaments Galore!
There is so many gorgeous ornaments to compliment a Nutcracker Christmas. After all, even though this theme exudes luxury and elegance, there is also a sense of child-like fun and joy throughout. Embrace the joy and wonder of Christmas through the use of playful scenes and ornaments. Because there are so many to choose from you’ll have no trouble finding enough pieces to fill every corner of your home. We chose to focus primarily on a bookcase and a console, which gave lots of space to create to create 2 distinct displays.
To kick things off, we have added a host of new Light-Up Scenes and Snow Globes to our range this year, so there is no shortage of delightful pieces to choose from and a bookshelf is the perfect place to display them as a stunning collection.
If you love snow globes, a popular and traditional décor piece at Christmas time, you’ll adore these. There’s standalone pieces featuring Santa or a Christmas tree, or opt for a snow globe incorporated into a scene or other ornament with Santa driving a car or a train with a snow globe in the back. For even more Christmas magic, a lot of the snow globes play music too!
There’s something about light-up Christmas scenes that really makes it feel like Christmas and you can’t help but smile and feel all warm and fuzzy inside when you see them, especially when displayed in an impressive collection like this. While light-up scenes such as these don’t always necessarily suit some other Christmas decorating styles, there’s no doubt that they are right at home in a Nutcracker Christmas.
The sparkling, wintery scenes certainly bring a sense of joy to the room and just like the snow globes, a lot of these scenes are musical too. Truly a feast for all of your Christmas senses!
It wouldn’t be a Nutcracker Christmas without another stunning collection of Nutcrackers. We’ve used beautiful velvet soldiers trimmed with braid and embellished with jewels and some traditional wooden ones too. And Mr and Mrs Claus are sitting on a log close by to keep an eye on things.
Add a personal touch to your decorating with a nutcracker themed personalised plaque and frame the display with luscious green garland and a tartan Merry Christmas bunting.
There are no nutcrackers on our console. Instead, we’ve chosen to focus on luxurious florals, traditional red and green ornaments and the man of the hour, Santa.
A stunning floral display in a decorative drum pot ornament mirrors our table centrepiece. Smaller drums, an immaculately dressed Santa, complete with gifts, and this Santa and Elf on Christmas Drum light-up ornament epitomise the elegance and tradition of this sophisticated Christmas collection.
A coordinated personalised plaque is the perfect way to finish off this space and warmly greet your guests.
We hope that you’ve been inspired by the tradition and elegance of a Nutcracker Christmas. Rich textures and colours combined with iconic and much-loved Christmas ornaments and characters is the perfect mix for a magical, fairy tale inspired Christmas.
Watch the Nutcracker Christmas video and check out the Nutcracker Christmas Lookbook and Nutcracker Christmas Inspiration Gallery to find out everything you need to know to make your very own Nutcracker Christmas.
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