Ring Display

April 14, 2010 12:20 pm Anitra Crafts, Home Decor, Projects

By Recycled Crafts Contributor, Anitra from the blog “Coffee Pot People”.

Once you start making rings, it’s only a matter of time before you need a place to display them.

For the first one, you’ll need:

1″ thick sheet of Styrofoam, in a size you like. (Mine is about 1″ X 10″ X 12″.)
A piece of vinyl or fabric 2 inches larger all around that your Styrofoam
Ribbon, gimp, belting, or other trim, 1″ wide, and long enough to go all the way around the Styrofoam sheet
A few little trims, if desired

First take your piece of fabric, and cover the sheet of Styrofoam with it. Stretch the fabric over the top and sides, mitering the corners, and using pins to anchor the fabric in place.

Once you’ve done that, take a sheet of graph paper and draw a “map” of the slots you want for your rings. You’ll need to cut slots for each ring that are about 1″ long, and about 1″ apart.Since my piece was fairly large, I opted to leave half of it solid, allowing for other items to be displayed alongside the rings.

Lay the map on top of your covered sheet of Styrofoam. Use a few pieces of double-sided tape to hold it in place, or simply hold it down with your free hand, and use a sharp knife or box cutter to cut right through the map, the cover, and about halfway through the sheet of Styrofoam.

Your slots will probably be too tight for rings to go in and out of them easily. Take a nickel, and just push it into each slot to widen them. It will loosen the fit, without affecting how your display piece looks.

Now take your piece of ribbon or trim, and glue it all around the edge of the Styrofoam, taking special care at the ends. If you like, you can cover the join with a few bits of jewelry, beads, or other pretties. This really won’t show, so it’s just for you. I chose a little charm that said, “Free your heart from hatred,” and secured it with both glue and pins, and added a few other sparkly things.

All that’s left is to add rings!

Now I’m going to show you another way to create a ring display, from a recycled candle holder. I found this piece in a thrift shop, and it instantly struck me as both cool and useful. Turning it into a ring display was so easy, I’m not even going to do the step-by-step thing. I know you’ll figure it out from the picture and a couple of easy-breezy instructions. Here’s the piece:

Instructions: Cut circles the same size as the candle cups from heavy duty foam rubber. Cut slots in the circles, and use a little rubber cement to glue them into the cups. Done!