Make Your Garbage Glam With This Cute Ribbon Bangle

If you’re anything like me you’ve got all sorts of junk lying around just because it ‘might be useful’ one day. This tutorial shows you how you can make some sweet bangles using left over cardboard and some ribbon. This bangle design is a great way to recycle old tube and other bits and pieces into some stunning and very affordable jewelry.

You will need the following tools and materials to make these bangles:

1: Cardboard tube or anything you can find that is an appropriate bangle shape. I used tube that was leftover from some knitting yarn.

2: A few lengths of ribbon in different colors. I used some fluorescent green ribbon, pink spotty ribbon and hot pink ribbon.

Why not collect some neon ribbon to use in your own recycled jewelry designs?

3: A hot glue gun and a glue stick for securing the ribbon to the bangle base.

4: Scissors to trim the ribbon ends.

The Steps:

1: Heat up the glue gun. Place it on a safe surface and make sure you keep an eye on it so that you don’t end up with hot glue everywhere!

2: Once your glue gun is hot enough, squeeze a dab of hot glue onto the inside of the cardboard.

3: Carefully press the ribbon into the wet glue being careful not to get any on your fingers.

4: Begin wrapping the ribbon around the cardboard tube, being careful to pull it tight.

5: Continue wrapping in this manner until the whole tube is covered by the ribbon.

6: Add more glue to the inside of the bangle.

7: Attach the end of the ribbon to the inside of the bangle.

8: Trim the excess ribbon on the inside of the bangle.

9: Now the bangle is complete. So easy, cheap and stylish!

This bangle was made using the same steps as the cardboard bangle, but this time the bangle base is a large plastic ring.

1: Adding glue to the bangle ring.

2: Attaching the ribbon to the bangle base.

3: Wrapping the ribbon around the bangle base.

4: Adding glue to the bangle to secure the end of the ribbon.

5: Trimming the ribbon.

Here are all the completed ribbon bangles. Pretty cute for a bunch of junk!