You've chosen the design.
You've decided what you'd like written on your bauble.
You've even picked the font.
Then comes the question that can bring the whole ordering process to an abrupt halt:
What colour do I choose?
Red feels Christmassy.
But silver would match the tree.
Then there's purple.
And champagne.
And that gorgeous blue.
And suddenly you're staring at a colour chart wondering why choosing a Christmas bauble has become one of the biggest decisions you've made all week.
I understand.
Because at Georgina Kay Designs, I haven't exactly made the decision easier.
My signature personalised glitter baubles are available in 68 glitter colours.
Yes.
Sixty-eight.
Apparently, at some point I decided that offering people four sensible Christmas colours simply wasn't enough.
But there is a method to my glitter madness.
The colour you choose can completely change the look and personality of your finished bauble.
So if you're struggling to decide, here's my guide to finding your perfect colour.
First things first: there is no wrong colour
I want to start here because it's important.
Your Christmas tree does not have to follow a rule book.
If your tree is beautifully coordinated in gold and cream but your daughter's favourite colour is bright pink, buy the pink bauble.
If you've decorated everything in traditional red and green but you've fallen in love with a purple bauble, choose purple.
Christmas decorations are supposed to make you happy.
And when we're talking about personalised keepsakes, I think meaning beats matching every single time.
That said, if you do love a beautifully coordinated tree, colour can help bring everything together.
So let's look at some of the options.
Traditional Christmas: Red, Green & Gold 🎅
Let's begin with the classics.
There's a reason red, green and gold return every Christmas.
They instantly feel festive.
Think:
Christmas trees.
Holly.
Santa.
Ribbons.
Warm fairy lights.
Beautifully wrapped presents.
If your home has a traditional Christmas look, these shades are very difficult to beat.
Choose red if...
You want something bold, warm and unmistakably Christmassy.
Red works particularly beautifully for:
Family baubles
Baby's First Christmas
Teacher gifts
Christmas characters
Couples
Traditional name baubles
Add white, silver or gold lettering and you've got that classic Christmas-card look.
Choose green if...
You love a traditional tree but want something slightly less obvious than red.
Green looks gorgeous amongst real or artificial Christmas-tree branches and works particularly well with gold details.
Deeper forest and pine shades can also feel surprisingly luxurious.
Choose gold if...
You want something warm, elegant and easy to coordinate.
Gold works with almost everything.
Red and gold.
Green and gold.
Cream and gold.
White and gold.
Black and gold.
It's one of those colours that can be traditional or glamorous depending on what you put with it.
Winter Wonderland: Silver, White & Icy Blue ❄️
If traditional Christmas isn't your thing, perhaps you're more:
snow-covered forest, frosty windows and twinkling white lights.
Silver, white and icy blues create a beautiful wintery look.
They're particularly effective if your tree uses cool-white lights rather than warm ones.
Silver
Silver is probably one of the easiest bauble colours to incorporate into an existing tree.
It's neutral enough to sit alongside almost anything but still catches the light beautifully.
It also makes a lovely choice for milestone occasions – particularly Silver Anniversaries.
White
White Christmas decorations feel clean, elegant and timeless.
They work beautifully with:
Silver
Gold
Champagne
Pale pink
Blue
And if your Christmas style changes in a few years, a white keepsake will probably still work.
Icy blue
Blue doesn't always immediately spring to mind when we think about Christmas.
But put it with white and silver and suddenly you've got a gorgeous snowy Christmas palette.
It's also lovely for winter-themed designs, snowflakes and First Christmas baubles.
Pretty Christmas: Pink, Blush & Rose Gold 🎀
Christmas absolutely does not have to be red and green.
Pink Christmas decorations have become hugely popular, and I'm completely here for it.
Soft blush shades paired with champagne or rose gold can create a beautiful, romantic Christmas tree.
Or you can go in completely the opposite direction and embrace bright pink.
Because why not?
Soft pink
Lovely for:
Baby's First Christmas
New baby baubles
Wedding keepsakes
Engagements
Names
Friendship gifts
Pair it with white or silver for something soft and delicate.
Rose gold
Rose gold sits somewhere between pink, gold and copper and can feel very grown-up and luxurious.
It works particularly well if your home already contains warm neutral tones.
Bright pink
This is for the people who don't want their Christmas tree whispering politely in the corner.
They want it to say:
HELLO. CHRISTMAS IS HERE.
And frankly, I respect that.
Purple Christmas 💜
Obviously we need to talk about purple.
Purple can look absolutely gorgeous at Christmas, particularly alongside:
Silver
White
Gold
Pink
Deeper purple shades create a rich, luxurious look, while lighter purples and lilacs can make a tree feel much softer.
And because purple isn't one of the standard red-green-gold Christmas colours, it can make personalised decorations stand out beautifully amongst traditional ornaments.
It also happens to have a rather special place around Georgina Kay Designs.
I may be slightly biased.
Jewel-Toned Christmas 💎
If subtle isn't really your thing, jewel colours can look incredible on a Christmas tree.
Think:
Emerald green
Sapphire blue
Ruby red
Deep purple
These richer colours work especially well with metallic gold.
They create that opulent, almost old-fashioned Christmas look where everything feels warm, rich and wonderfully excessive.
Basically:
more is more.
Which is a philosophy I can get behind when Christmas decorations are involved.
Neutral Christmas: Champagne, Cream & Soft Metallics ✨
If your home has a softer, more neutral aesthetic, you don't suddenly have to introduce bright red because December has arrived.
Champagne, cream, pale gold and soft metallic colours can create a beautiful Christmas scheme.
They work particularly well with:
Natural wood
Frosted greenery
Warm white lights
Velvet ribbon
Gold details
Glass decorations
And because neutral shades don't dominate, the personalisation itself becomes the star.
Should your personalised baubles match your tree?
They can.
But they absolutely don't have to.
This is probably the question I'd most like you to take away from this guide.
There are really two different ways to choose your colour.
Option One: Choose for the tree
Look at the colours you already use and pick something that complements them.
If your tree is:
Red & gold → choose red, gold, champagne or green.
Silver & white → choose silver, white, pale blue or purple.
Pink & rose gold → choose blush, pink, white, champagne or rose-gold tones.
Multicoloured → congratulations, you can basically choose anything. 😂
Option Two: Choose for the person
This is actually my favourite.
Forget the tree.
Think about who the bauble belongs to.
What's their favourite colour?
What colour reminds you of them?
What colour was their wedding?
What colour is the baby's nursery?
What's their football team's colour?
What colour did the person you're remembering always love?
Suddenly, choosing becomes much easier.
And the result becomes much more personal.
Choosing colours for milestone baubles
Sometimes the occasion itself gives you a clue.
Anniversary colours are a perfect example.
Traditionally, certain milestones are associated with particular materials or colours:
25th Anniversary – Silver
40th Anniversary – Ruby
45th Anniversary – Sapphire
50th Anniversary – Gold
55th Anniversary – Emerald
60th Anniversary – Diamond
Using those colours for an anniversary bauble instantly connects the design to the milestone being celebrated.
Wedding colours can work in the same way.
If somebody had a navy and gold wedding, for example, incorporating those colours into their first married Christmas decoration can make it feel even more personal.
What about memorial baubles?
Colour can have enormous meaning when you're creating a remembrance decoration.
You might choose:
Their favourite colour.
The colour they always wore.
Their football team's colour.
A colour associated with a charity or cause that mattered to them.
Or simply something subtle that feels right.
There isn't a correct choice.
When I'm creating a memorial bauble, I think personal meaning matters much more than Christmas colour trends.
If bright turquoise reminds you of Dad, then bright turquoise belongs on the Christmas tree.
That's the end of the argument as far as I'm concerned.
Don't forget the ribbon 🎀
The glitter isn't the only colour involved.
My signature baubles are finished with two ribbons, and ribbon gives us another opportunity to pull the whole design together.
You can keep everything coordinated.
Or use contrast.
A red bauble with gold and green ribbon immediately becomes wonderfully traditional.
A purple bauble with silver and white can feel frosty and elegant.
Pink with rose gold can feel soft and romantic.
Navy with silver can look beautifully wintery.
This is the stage where a colour combination really comes alive.
And sometimes a ribbon colour you wouldn't have thought of turns out to be the thing that makes the whole design work.
What if you're buying a gift?
This can make choosing slightly trickier because you may have absolutely no idea how somebody decorates their Christmas tree.
In that situation, I'd choose one of three routes.
1. Their favourite colour
Personal beats coordinated.
2. A colour connected to the occasion
Wedding colour, anniversary colour, baby's nursery etc.
3. Something versatile
Metallics, whites and classic Christmas shades are usually fairly easy to incorporate into most trees.
But again, don't overthink it.
A personalised bauble doesn't have to disappear seamlessly into somebody's existing decorations.
Sometimes it's supposed to stand out.
Can you mix Christmas colours?
I can't mix the glitter colours but there is nothing stopping you having a purple bauble with a red bow!
Some of the most beautiful Christmas trees aren't restricted to two colours.
They contain decorations collected over decades.
Red.
Blue.
Gold.
Pink.
Green.
Silver.
Things the children made.
Things bought on holiday.
Things inherited from grandparents.
Things that absolutely do not match anything else.
And somehow, when they're all hanging together, it works.
Because the thing tying them together isn't colour.
It's the family they belong to.
I love that.
The colour you choose today becomes part of the memory
Here's something else worth thinking about.
Trends change.
The fashionable Christmas colour for 2026 won't necessarily be the fashionable colour in 2036.
But if you've chosen a colour because it meant something to you, that doesn't really matter.
Twenty years from now you might pull that bauble out and think:
“Everything was rose gold that year!”
And that's part of its story.
Christmas decorations are allowed to show their age.
In fact, I think that's one of the nicest things about them.
Still can't decide?
If you've reached the end of this article and you're now even more confused because I've given you more colours to think about…
I'm sorry. 😂
Here's my simplest advice:
Don't choose the colour you think you should have.
Choose the one you keep looking at.
The one that reminds you of the person.
The one that makes you smile.
The one you think:
“Oh, that's gorgeous.”
That's probably your colour.
And if you're genuinely stuck, you can always get in touch with me. I'm very happy to help suggest colour and ribbon combinations.
After all, I've spent rather a lot of time staring at glitter over the years.
I might as well put that highly specialised knowledge to good use.
68 colours. Thousands of possibilities. One bauble that's yours. ✨
That's what I love about offering such a big colour choice.
Two people can order exactly the same design and end up with baubles that look completely different.
One might choose traditional Christmas red.
Another deep purple.
Another icy blue.
Another bright pink.
Add different names, wording and ribbons and suddenly they're no longer the same product at all.
They're personal.
And that's really what Georgina Kay Designs has always been about.
So whether your Christmas tree is beautifully coordinated in champagne and gold or looks as though Christmas itself exploded enthusiastically across every branch…
there's a glitter colour waiting for it.
Possibly 68 of them.
Although I wouldn't recommend putting all 68 on one tree.
Actually…
Who am I kidding?
I'd quite like to see that.
Georgina x 🎄✨