Repurposed Mini Gift Bow Ornaments

I actually found three bags of 1" mini gift bows at the dollar store last year and didn't do anything with them.

Fast forward to this Christmas season, and I had an idea, but when I went to my local dollar store to see if I could get more they didn't have any.

I guess I should have bought more, but no worries, I decided to make do with what I had.

I'm not sure what kind of gifts these bows would be used for because they're very small, but they are perfect for making gift bow ornaments.

The first mini gift bow ornaments that I'm making are wreaths, and for them I needed a frame so I cut out some little circle wreath frames from cardboard.

As is obvious by my circles, they don't have to be perfect. lol.

Perfection is highly overrated so don't stress it. Besides when the frames are covered no one is going to see them.

Just figure out what size you need and go for it. 

Then just hot glue the cute little gift bows onto the frame.

You can remove the little sticky pads on the bottom of the bows, or leave them on.

Here are my three finished mini gift bow ornaments in easy wreath shapes.

They're super cute just like this. They could be used to decorate packages or wreaths, or whatever really.

Or you could make them into ornaments.

When I was done adding the bows on the front I glued some jute twine on the backs for hangers, just like I did with my repurposed drinking straw tree ornaments.

I like the contrast of the rustic jute with the shiny little bows.

Aw, who am I kidding? I just love jute twine... on almost anything, anywhere.

When I was done my gift bow wreath ornaments I still had the green bows left, so I decided to create a tree ornament.

I cut out a cardboard tree shape, and just started gluing on the green bows.

When I had all the green bows on the tree I realized that I needed a trunk, so I just glued a piece of cardboard onto the back.

And, of course, some more jute twine for a hanger.

And just like that I have a cute little tree. I had one left of each of the red and gold bows so I used them to finish it off.

And here are my finished repurposed gift bow ornaments.

They probably took about 30 minutes to put together and I think they're such fun.

You could embellish these any way you like, but I like the simple look. I'm just letting the gift bows do their colorful shiny thing.

If you enjoyed this project you can find more DIY Christmas ornament ideas on my blog here.