So what you need:
- Wire coat hanger, I found these childrens ones for $2. Cute colours!
- Hot glue gun
- Pliers
- Ribbon to make bows
- Ribbon or yarn to wrap around the middle
Gather your materials!
The coat hangers I have happened to be covered in pretty fleck patterns, if you only have plain ones it’s not a problem you just need to paint them at the end ^_^
Take your coat hangers apart and remove the hook part.
We will make the stem to hold it all up first. Straighten 2 of the hangers out:
Use the pliers to wrap them into a spiral:
Now is a good time to layout your hangers to decide how many tiers you want the rack to have. I settled on 4, 4 then 2. I decided to use the hooks as a base and one more at the top so it was portable.
Now for each of the tiers you want to take a hanger and wrap it around the center pole. You should have something like this:
Repeat for all of the tiers you want:
Now let’s make a base! Take 4 of the hook parts and use your glue gun to stick them together like so:
It looks like a big scary stick insect but you can at least get where we’re going with this! Attach the base to the pole and secure it with more glue by wrapping the pole ends around it:
At this point you should glue the tiers in place so they don’t fall down while you’re working!
Now it’s time to make the bits to hold the cupcake! Take each end of each tier and using the pliers create a spiral like this:
You want the bottom of the spiral to be flat like a circle so the cupcake base has something to sit on. Then it curves up and around to hold the cake in place.
Next cut the extra of the pole off the top, I also glued 2 hooks in place there so I could transport it easily. So you end up with something like this:
Now let’s clean it up a bit. Using yarn I wrapped it around the center pole to disguise all of the glue ^_^
Then I added some blue trim to make it match the rest!
Lastly to disguise the joins I added some pretty bows ^_^ I also glued beads to ends of each of the tier to finish them off!
And there we go, finished!
So there you have it! Very quick and easy to do, if you’re ever having a tea party and you’re in a bind for cupcake displays it’s time to bust out some coat hangers! XD
What do you guys think?
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Now I want to send you some cupcakes… not sure how well they’d handle Australia Post though :S
Very clever and really pretty! :D
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Hahaha I bet they would make it here half eaten XD
I love it! It looks like something out of Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory. I am totally going to try this out!
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Yay! Please do try it out :D
Eehhh that is so cool!
how do you get this kind of ideas :p never seen something like this!
only one thing: you’d have to eat the cupcakes right away or else they would dry out :p
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Oh really? They are so popular over here at the moment: http://www.google.com.au/images?q=wire+cupcake+rack&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&source=og&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wi&biw=1235&bih=765
Yeah you really do have to eat them right away, best for tea parties when you know they will all be eaten!
OMGOMG I LOVE IT!! :O
seriously how do you come up with these soopa doopa cool ideas?? :D
wonder what else you can make with coat hangers XD
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XD I don’t know, I think I just find ways to make things I cant afford hahaha! Hmm I’m sure I can think of other things with coat hangers!
1 word. A-dor-a-ble. haha
XD Thanks Kiwi!
I absolutely LOVE your DIY’s!
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how creative you are, it’s amazing! very cute, too. ^^
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OMG!!! So Clever… Your cupcake holder is really cute..
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will u be making lots of cupcake holders than? :P since dere shud be a lot of cupcakes for tea party. ^^
Haha I don’t think so, I would only have one cupcake holder with lots of other foods too, need to have variety XD
That is so cuteee !
and extremely creative :D
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Whoa, that’s great! And it’s so cute too. We have cookie racks, but they’re just plain ugly. I so have to make one of these. I seriously have to have at least ten just hanging, unused, in my closet. Thanks so much!
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No problems, you really should give it a try :D
Love this!! I’ll have to try one myself some time ♥
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I would love to see yours!
how a good idea~! *___* cool!
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Violet, I love this idea! The colours look fabulous together; expertly matched by you :) Just too cute!
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So lovely~ Did it take long to make it? It could double as a jewelry hangar too!
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No it was only around an hour, though I spent a lot of time thinking about how to do it XD
Very impressed
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