Valentines swag made with dollar tree candy canes|Poof ruffle and curl

[Music] hi I'm Lori welcome to my Channel today we're going to be making a really pretty swag we're actually going to take two Dollar Tree candy canes so when I went over to my Dollar Tree recently they had these candy canes on sale for like 63 cents and so we're going to take it and we're going to make it in into a swag for Valentine I super love this rose gold and it's such a great color for Valentine's I also have this beautiful rose gold and gold and gold the great thing about Valentine's is you can use some of your leftovers from Christmas if it's red gold pink white for Valentine's it's still winter time you can still use a lot of the same colors and so that's what we're going to do this mesh is absolutely gorgeous so let's get started okay so you can see I can take the two candy canes and I can line them up now I'm going to bend them just a little bit around this corner here and around that corner so that they line up a little bit better and make almost kind of like a racetrack and then I'm going to take couple zip ties I'm going to zip tie these together at the cross bars that's going to hold them together there we go all right so we have our frame put together I'm just kind of pushing that zip tie underneath and I'm going to take out some pipe cleaners and I'm actually going to go down the middle so I'm going to kind of start using one of the crossbars cross like this and then use this crossbar so I'm going to go all the crossbars first I just thought this would make such a fun little Center piece or swag you can use it either way so you see how I'm just kind of going under both [Music] okay so right now we have one two 3 4 five 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Ties on here I'm going to put a little extra right here around these Corners I'm going to make those a little tighter just to kind of keep that in place so we'll end up with 16 ties so very similar to a round wreath are very close Okay so we're GNA they're going to be spaced out about 3 to 4 in around all the way around so I'm going to take this mesh I'm going to put it on my mesh roller okay so you can see I have it loaded on and what I'll do is let the mesh roller hold it up while I'm going around the wreath it just keeps it up and out of the way so I'm going to start about right here and I'm going to start by using a zip tie I like to use zip ties when I start a wreath with the poof method because it allows me to have a nice clean look so I can use the zip tie as my first tie then when I come back around I can use that tie and you won't be able to tell so okay so right here I'm using the crossb because it's just more secure okay so I want about 8 in or so so what I'm going to do is I'm going to go to this first tie the second tie and then I'm going to come back and this is going to give us about an 8 in poop and then I'm going to spread it out okay so this is a 10in mesh so again one two and back spread it out one two and back spread it out isn't that so pretty one two okay and back we're going to do this same thing all the way [Music] around okay so we have made it back to where we started and I am going to do this last one but I did want to point out a couple little things you want to make sure when you're making your poofs that you have this sharp edge tucked underneath and then I just kind of use my hands like this to keep it kind of together underneath so that my poops will all look uniform so now you can see I can use this tie and then we're not going to be able to tell where we started and where we stopped so that's why I like to use a tie there okay and then I'm just going to trim it off and I'm going to take this little piece I'm going to kind of push it underneath the frame and I'm going to tie it down with another zip tie this just keeps it from popping out this just kind of helps it look nice and neat okay we can trim off any excess so we have our basic shape now we're going to put in some more more mesh to kind of fill it in and just make it look really pretty I have another roll of the rose gold with gold this actually has stripes on the edges so we're going to take this and we're going to cut it into 20in pieces we're also going to cut up some of what's left over so for this beautiful mesh here we're going to cut this into curls so we're just going to cut 10 in [Music] pieces then we're going to take this mesh we're going to cut 20 in pieces [Music] so what we're going to do is we're going to take our 20in pieces and we're going to make Ruffles and we're going to take our 10 in pieces and we're going to make curls so to make a ruffle you want your mesh to lay flat the direction that it comes off of the Roll so you can see this is the pretty side this is the opposite side so if I put it on this opposite side you can tell it's upside down so you want it to want to curl inside itself you'll know you have the right direction I'm going to just kind of Tuck a little Edge under and I'm going to use my tool to make the Ruffles I'm going to push it with my thumb and kind of just use my fingers to keep everything straight then I'm going to curl under that edge I wanted to do something with ruffles because I really like the look of the Ruffles but this mesh at the bottom is so pretty I want it to be back up top so I'm going to use both I'll take the curl and put it right on top of the ruffle so we'll have kind of The Best of Both Worlds then we're going to take this beautiful ribbon this would also be wonderful for Mother's Day this is a great color combination for mother's day as well I'm going to cut 13in 16 13in [Music] Tails I like to use my uh ribbon comb but you can use your mat or whatever else works I also do mine at the same time I'm I'm also going to dovetail these so I'm going to fold it in half and I'm going to cut up towards that wired Edge I'm going to take my two ribbons I'm going to fold them in half so find the middle pinch get a little bit of curl underneath and then place it right in on top of my curl then I'll pull the whole thing out and bring it over and add it on just like this so I'm going to curl these a few times or twist these a few times and then tuck it down and then I'm going to kind of spread out my ribbon just like that okay let's do another one so tuck Under The Edge go straight up the center tuck again take one of our curls place it down grab a ribbon pick the whole piece up put it down right there at the tie and I'm going to lift up both Ruffles and let them push each other up so that everything will be nice and full and then we'll spread out our ribbons look how pretty that is okay so let's do it once without the deco mesh tool okay so I have to use the decam mesh tool because I have problems with my hands and my hands will cramp up if I'm doing a lot of this okay so you're going to do the same thing but you're going to push with your thumbs and pull with your fingers so you're just kind of gathering it by doing the pulling motion with your fingers now it is harder to do this part so you can take your ruffle go ahead tie it down then take your curl tie it down and then your ribbons so I'm going to do this same process all the way around [Music] okay we have the basic part done look how beautiful and full that is now you could easily get away with doing 14 you really don't need three on the end I like my RO super full but this is so pretty okay so I made a little heart to go on this okay and then we're going to do a big pretty bow down here so let's get started on the bow I have some 4 in Gold ribbon and then of course I have our our pink with the gold and then our gold so this is just going to give it a nice backing we don't have to use a lot of this we're going to do about a 16in tail I am going to doveet tail it so fold it in half cut toward that wired Edge so 16in tail I love this it's glittered so it's nice and stiff okay so we're going to do 7 in Loop so what you do is you go I like to go sideways down in the bow maker I will use the measurements on the bow maker to figure out where my Loop goes so I can actually hold my finger there go down sideways and if you are go down sideways and then you're going to twist it on the opposite side you're only twisting it once okay we're going to do three Loops so that we have a little bit coming up to the top I'm just going to pull it out and duv tail it now your Tails do not have to be the same length Okay now we're going to come in with this beautiful pink we're going to dub tail that we're going to make this about 18 in okay all right so there we twisted and we're going to do 6 in Loops so all I do is move that ribbon aside and then I can see where that 6 in is on the bow maker okay move it aside and then I can see where it is so I go down sideways I twist on the opposite side of the loop okay there there we're doing three of these okay there I can just pull it out trim it off this ribbon is so pretty it does kind of almost look like lace pointed out by Z so we did three Loops at 6 in now we're going to do two loops with this gold we're going to do these a little bit longer so about 20 in because we're going to put a little curl in them all right so twist the reason you're twisting is to get a really nice full bow okay so I just measure it out to these Loops we're going to do two of these so see how I just kind of measured out to that loop I go in sideways twist it you're just twisting a half turn so just to get the right side of the bow back up okay then we'll trim it off I'm going to add one in one extra ribbon this has the rose gold down the edges okay so I'm just going to do one loop with this just to add in a little bit of Interest so right now they have all of the Christmas stuff on sale at Hobby Lobby and things like this you can use for Valentine so now we're just going to grab our zip tie you want a longer zip tie this is about 12 in you want to run it underneath one side make sure you have it under all the ribbon and just get it started so one little click okay and then use that to pull it out might click up a little bit more and that's okay and then it's very easy to see where that indention is from the bow maker you want to hold your bow on one side slide it around that way none of your Ribbon are going to move and then you can put it in that channel to keep it in place I'm just going to run a pipe cleaner underneath the zip tie recheck and make sure it's still in that indention and then I'm going to tie it really tight if you have trouble with that you can get these zip tie guns and what you do is you put the zip tie in and then you use the little lever and it will tighten it and trim it okay so before I do anything I am going to pull my ribbons out so I'm just going to kind of separate them it's easier for me to do that first make sure I get things where they want to or where I want them to go okay and if I have any pieces I need to correct this is the time to do it okay once I do that I'm going to start fluffing so you can see how this is kind of stuck down in there I want to break that out so if you hear me say break the bow that's what it means you pull those pieces out it's much easier to do it if you've loosened it so to loosen it you kind of fold it back and forth and that helps loosen it from that zip tie so that's why I do that then I can get nice big loops otherwise your Loops are not going to fluff out as well as you want them to oh this ribbon is gorgeous there we go let's do the other side another thing is make sure when you're especially if you're new to Bow making that you do one side and then the other if you're going back and forth and you're a new bow maker you are going to get confused and then you're going to have problems where your Bow's not going to look like look right and you're going to be frustrated trying to figure out why and it's going to just be that you got confused going back and forth it's very easy to do okay so now I'm gonna take my one and a half inch and I'm going to curl it up I'm just going to use my thumb and just kind of go around my thumb like this and pull it down just like this this is one of the reasons that we use wired ribbon the other reason is it's just easier to fluff it up later there we go okay okay all right now we can trim off our zip tie okay oh how pretty is that so our Bow's going to go down here and our heart's going to go up here so let's put the heart in first okay I have a pipe cleaner on here but it is going to be difficult to get it all the way down so I'm going to take a second pipe cleaner just kind of add that on and then I'm just going to kind of go down in between the mesh find the frame okay so just like this I'm going to go around the frame and then I'm going to tie these other two together and I went around all the way around then I'll just tie those off together and this will help hold this in place all right and then the bow I'm going to take the bow and I'm going to go right down around the frame just kind of in between the mesh and I'm going to twist it around the frame I'm going to show you this way I can keep my bow in place okay so I pulled it down tied it here now I'm going to pull it down and I'm going to tie it here this way I can keep the bow in place where I want it there we go now the bow will stay exactly where I want it and it won't move and then I can just kind of FL up it a little bit and make sure it's where I want it to be okay let's take a look at there we go look how beautiful that is we've got our bow on here I did pull one of the loops up top then we have our heart right in there there we go isn't that pretty now if you wanted to put this as a centerpiece on a table then you could make several of these and kind of go down the center um a sign would also look really good okay so the other alternative is to use a sign so I wanted to show you what it looks like if you do a sign so I'm just going to take a 10in sign I'm going to get two pieces of about 20 in of 26 gauge wire I'm just going to use my metal hole punch to punch a hole in the bottom and in the top I'm just going to run the wire through the hole I like to double it up and then just kind of tighten it right at the sign okay so with a sign I like to use a weaving needle it's a little bit easier to get it through so I just kind of load the wire on the weaving needle and I can go right down through the mesh and then I'm just going to twist it around the frame just twist the wire right around the [Music] frame okay and then this side I'll be able to kind of run through the middle go to the frame and twist it around okay okay and here it is with a sign I really like it with the sign you could even still add in your little heart somewhere even down in here so that just looks super cute so I hope you enjoyed this uh make sure to like And subscribe subscribe and hit the Bell icon to know when we're going to be uploading content and when we'll be going live thanks for watching bye y'all 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