Cicco Creations

I’ve seen a lot of really cute ribbon chandeliers out there and most of them are made on needle point hoops or wire hangers.  While all of them are totally adorable, I don’t exactly have and spare hoops lying around as I am not really into that particular craft (and I’m a hanger snob, so no wires!).  But, I was wanting to make a pretty little chandelier without going to the craft store to buy any new materials. 

Over the holidays, we had acquired a wire snowflake Christmas card holder that I thought could work.  But, alas, DH had already claimed it for his classroom (its being used to hold vocabulary words).  So, I needed to think of something else.  As I wondered around my home, looking in closets and cabinets, I had the great idea to use my wire cupcake tower.

Now that I had my base for the chandelier, I realized, I didn’t want to buy as much ribbon as it would take to cover all three tiers.  But I came up with a different idea.  I made sheets of paper ribbon and then cut them out.  If I wasn’t handy on the computer, or simply wanted a different look, I may have just used scrapbook paper, or hand colored some bits.  But the point here is that I have a sheet of paper with slits up to about an inch of the edge.

I printed these ribbons, and then cut them out.  Once I had all my paper ribbons ready, I simply taped them on to the cupcake stand.  I started on the top tier of the stand (meaning the bottom tier of the chandelier). 

Once it was completed, I simply had to find a place to hang it.  I originally wanted to hang it from my kitchen ceiling, but decided to put other decorations there.  Instead, I hung it along the walkway up to our front door.  I think if we were having an outdoor party, something like this would also look really cute hanging from the center of an ez-up.