Make a Suncatcher Quality Street Wrappers Craft

Step 1: Supplies to Craft with Quality Street wrappers

As I have a stash of the Quality Street cellophane wrappers, let’s make a beautiful crafty suncatcher with them.

As I have a whole tin of wrappers to craft with, I think this will be the first of many crafty projects with them!

Step 2: Create Frame For Suncatcher

To start, you need to make a frame for the plastic wrappers to sit in. To make this durable and strong, I’m using oak veneer plywood.

As I have a laser cutter, I’m going to create a pretty design with that. But you could use any material with a window-like shape in it. 

For a simpler, toddler-friendly craft, you could make this with the sweet wrappers and a paper plate.

The XCS software that comes with the xTool laser cutter has a selection of ready-made shapes to play with. I found a great option with this flower.

It works because it has several windows for the Quality Street wrappers to sit in. It has thick edges around each window to secure the wrappers to the wood.

The only adjustment it needed was to attach a circle as a hanging hook at the top.

To do this, you can make a small circle shape, select unite and that now cuts as one connected piece of wood.

You need to cut out two flowers, with the Quality Street wrappers as a sandwich between them.

It’s helpful to use masking tape over the wood to help reduce char marks from the laser. With this simple design, it’s easy to remove the tape after cutting.

Later on, I decided to add holes to the bottom of the sun catcher. I could have used the laser cutter to create these holes too. But drilling them was simple.

I might do these with the laser in another version, to save the extra step.

Step 6: Cut the Chocolate Wrappers to Fit the Window

With so many wrappers to choose from, there are lots of coloured designs you could go with.

From red, orange and yellows for a sun theme. Or deeper colours of greens and purples for beautiful jewel tones. As I had all the lovely bright colours of a rainbow (except indigo), I went with a rainbow colour scheme.

To flatten the chocolate wrappers slightly, you can iron them. I put a cloth down and used a low heat to protect the cellophane.

The wrappers were still quite wrinkly, but the overall material was much flatter. The wrinkly look is still lovely. It gives a nice texture and gem-like appearance. 

Step 7: Attach the Wrappers to the Suncatcher Frame

To attach the wrappers to the wooden frame, you can use double-sided tape or glue.

I chose tape because it would be less messy. Also it avoids any glue squeezing out of the many window gaps.

Then to attach the two pieces of wood together, you can use wood glue and clamps.

Step 8: Fill in all of the Suncatcher Windows

There was space for one of each colour, red, orange, yellow, green, blue and purple.

But for the centre, I didn’t want to repeat a colour. The only extra Quality Street Wrapper colour in the tin was pink. Which didn’t look right for the centre.

So for the centre, I double-layered pink over purple. Which gave the most beautiful rich colour. 

Step 9: Attach Raindrops With Chain

Chain is the best way to attach the raindrops as it’s reasonably heavy. If you use crafting wire, it might not be heavy enough for the raindrops to hang straight down. 

I drilled holes in the top and bottom of each raindrop. With the bottom raindrops only having a hole at the top.

It’s important to drill these holes close to the top so that the jump rings can attach to them. But not so close to the edge that the drill snaps the wood.

​Each length of the chain was the same size apart from the first chain in the middle. This was longer to create an offset shape with the raindrops.

Suncatcher Craft with Quality Street Wrappers

Suncatchers are such a happy piece of decor. They’re so pretty and enhance a room with their sparkle.