Ornaments aren’t only for decorating a Christmas tree, they can be used in thousands of ways to make your home holiday-ready. Garlands and table runners, centerpieces and arrangements, door decor and posies – these are only some ideas to use or upcycle your ornaments. Today’s roundup is about one more idea to use them, about ornament wreaths.
Vintage Ornament Wreaths
Most of us have some thrifted ornaments at hand, and there’s no need to throw them away when you can turn them into lovely decor. As vintage ornaments are usually quite colorful, the result will be bright, too, and it’s a good idea to find various shapes and colors to create something unique, this is all about sustainability.
The easiest solution is to make a quick ornament wreath without using anything else. You just take a cardboard form or a foam one, a hot glue gun and then make a piece in minutes. If you need something more eye-catching, add evergreens and tinsel as a backdrop for your ornament wreath, and voila. The size, shape and color of the ornaments are totally up to you.
Upcycle your vintage ornaments creating a lovely wreath accented with tinsel and voila, lovely decor is ready!.
This extra bold holiday piece shows off all the traditional colors taken as ornaments of various shapes and sizes, this is pure classics.
This is how you can make a retro wreath but with a modern feel: take white tinsel, add metallic glitter ornaments as a backdrop and then spruce it up with color adding green and blush. (via semiglossdesign).
This bold piece is made of vintage ornaments and it's accented with a Santa Claus head. (via hometalk).
Choose Christmas ornaments of the colors that match the color scheme that you are using for decorating.
You can easily make such a cool and bold Christmas mini wreath yourself using just some old ornaments, a ribbon bow and a tinsel one on top.
Not only evergreen branches are a nice base for a wreath, these can be tinsel pieces, too, add vintage ornaments to them.
An embroidery hoop as a form paired with colorful vintage ornaments create a lovely piece for a farmhouse space. (via thisisourbliss).
Get old ornaments from your attic and use them to create chic and bold holiday decor for indoors and outdoors.
This oversized Christmas wreath is a fantastic decoration and a nice way to upcycle vintage ornaments, add lights to accent it.
Modern Ornament Wreaths
More modern wreaths show off various colors as modern ornaments come in all the shades possible, so it will be easier for you to vary the colors. Ornaments aren’t always the star of the show, and you will see a lot of other pieces. Besides, here you will usually see an evergreen backdrop or something like that and many other items: pinecones and leaves for a woodland look, bows and lights for a glam feel, dried grasses and blooms for a boho effect and almost anything else that can come to your mind.
Such a wreath usually features an evergreen form, so you either glue it to a regular metal or foam one or get a ready evergreen wreath and decorate it. The idea is pretty much the same as with vintage styling: hot glue the desired elements where you want and add interest with various textures and designs, for example, a cascading part or different finishes.
This gorgeous bright wreath includes lights, colorful ornaments, deer head, evergreens and branches and is perfect for a bright space.
This gorgeous wreath made of evergreens, lights and red ornaments, shows off an interesting cascading design.
The wreath is composed of evergreens and greenery, burgundy, silver and gold ornaments and some berries.
This statement Christmas wreath shows off woodland aesthetics paired with glam touches: pinecones, evergreens and twigs are combined with lights and gold ornaments.
This decoration is Christmas classics of green and red, with evergreens and eucalyptus, snowy pinecones and red ornaments.
This is a modern version of a traditional decoration, made of lovely muted color matte ornaments and fresh green twigs.
Smaller ornaments will let you include more textures and colors into the arrangement, so get them all of different shades.
This is a fresh and elegant take on traditional decor, with a gold himmeli form, vintage ornaments and fresh evergreens. (via marthastewart).
Go woodland but modern with pastel dipped pinecones and matching ornaments plus a couple of berries and poinsettias on top.
This large wreath is composed of lovely and chic ornaments in a lovely and delicate pastel color palette that vary in shades and sizes.
I love the colors of this decoration: lilac, pink, blush, yellow and white are definitely non-traditional and will give a modern feel to the space.
Sometimes ornaments aren't the main star, here the main piece is a beautiful backdrop of evergreens, and pinecones that bring a woodland feel and a traditional red bow for more elegance.
Red and silver isn't as popular as red and gold, which makes such holiday decor much more unusual and bold.
This lovely piece is accented with snowflake-shaped lights, which look absolutely ultimate and festive.
To make your decor more unusual and modern, create a wreath styled as a posie hanging the ornaments and ribbons down.
Here's another idea of non-typical color scheme for Christmas: violet, pink and red. Such jewel tones are unusual for Christmas but work perfect for NYE.
To make your arrangement bolder, place the ornaments in an unexpected place, for example, at the bottom.
This small and cute wreath shows off usual pinecones and unusual pinecone roses, I'd never guess I can make such pieces of pinecones.
If you want something special, make a wreath in jewel tones, wiht lights, gold twigs and even feathers and leopard print. Wild but chic! (via elledecor).
While gold and red are classic holiday colors, you can make your wreath fresh and modern with lights and snowy pinecones. (via glaminati).
Unique Ornament Wreaths
If you need something really special, you can make it! Whether it’s a Mickey Mouse or moon-shaped wreath, there are tutorials for everything. If it’s a unique woodland piece, it may include cinnamon bark and twigs, berries and leaves, pinecones and nuts and only some ornaments. Like blooms? Include them into your wreath! Prefer minimal aesthetics? Then go for a hoop wreath with only a couple of ornaments hanging down. Feel free to get wild while crafting your decor!
Who said that ornaments can be only baubles? This piece is composed of colorful gift box ornaments, and it looks jaw-dropping! (via designimprovised).
This is a unique and personalized combo of vintage and modern ornaments, colorful deer, unicorns, rainbows, baubles and much, much more. (via mitfarverigeunivers).
If you prefer minimal aesthetic, go for an embroidery hoop wreath with pearly ornaments and a fabric flower.
This is a fresh take on classics, made of a metal hoop, red and green ornaments used as mini vases for leaves and blooms.
This colorful decoration is a fun Mickey Mouse wreath composed of burgundy, pink and gold ornaments and a bow.
These minimalist Scandinavian wreaths are composed of wooden beads and hoops, green ornaments as vases and plywood mini trees.
If you feel like creating something whimsical and totally out of the box, get inspired by this unique piece. It includes cinnamon, nuts, pinecones, berries, china-inspired ornaments and bells.
This is a lovely boho decoration that consists of colorful ornaments, paper blooms and leaves, candy canes and mini mushrooms.
Create a fun piece for your porch making it of red and blue pompoms and yarn balls, ornaments and stars, a large blue snowflake and tassels.
Go for a bold statement attaching not usual but oversized and even giant ornaments and adding a matching bow on top.
Besides ornaments, you may add various items to the piece: dried orange, dried flowers or just faux ones, and this will make your decor unique.
This colorful moon-shaped wreath is composed of various pastel ornaments, mini figurines and toys and is accented with bottle brush trees.