Ribbon Wrapped Candy Canes
Today I'm making candy canes! Not the good ones that you eat but cute ones that you can hang on the tree, decorate a gift, or just fill a bowl.
These are so easy to make and you can coffee stain them to give them a vintage look.
The supplies are simple to get and you can make a dozen in no time!
Take a look...
The first thing I did was to grab some red and white striped ribbon. I had some already but I might look for a vintage looking ribbon if I had to buy new. Or.. you might want to try another red and white ribbon.
As you're reading through this post please pay attention to the bold blue links that will take you to more information and the products I used for this project. Also the READ MORE sections will take you to related Homeroad projects.
To get the vintage look, I dipped my ribbon in a coffee bath.
To make a coffee bath I used a cup of black coffee and added a tablespoon of instant coffee.
All I did was to dip the ribbon in the coffee and lay it out to get some of the liquid off. The longer you leave the ribbon in the bath, the darker the color will be.
Meanwhile, I took a length of rebar wire, the length is up to you. The candy cane I started with used about 2 1/2' of rebar wire. If you don't have rebar wire in your craft room yet, you'll use it a lot!
I folded the rebar wire in thirds and looped the sharp ends with a needle nose plier. I also squeezed together the loops of the wire.
Then bent the tripled wire into a candy cane shape. I made 3 different sizes.
Next, I grabbed the striped ribbon, it was still damp when I did this which made it easier. Make sure it is not too wet or it will turn black from the wire. You can wrap it dry but you may need a little glue along the length of the wire to hold it in place.
I looped the ribbon through the end of the wire then started to wrap.
Because the ribbon was wet it adhered nicely to the rebar wire.
Now rebar wire will rust so don't have the ribbon too wet, though a rusty look on the wire might be nice!
I wrapped the ribbon all the way to the other end of the wire and pushed it through the loop on the other end of the rebar wire.
That's it.
Then I made a bunch more!
I tied the candy canes together in a bundle with jute twine.
I made a tag from a coffee stained ribbon of drop cloth fabric and added a grommet.
.png "DIY stamped ribbon wrapped candy canes")
I stamped NOEL into the fabric using click together letter stamps and my candy cane bundle was finished!
Please pin for later --->>
These will be so cute in a bowl for Christmas.
This is a simple, vintage looking primitive project for Christmas that couldn't be easier to make!
READ MORE: PROJECTS WITH CANDY CANES
Try the same technique using scrap fabric from the donation pile. Just tear ribbons from the fabric and start wrapping! Maybe some red plaid wrapped around the wire?
