-2 large wood beads
-2 medium wood beads
-1 small wood beads
–Re-Fabbed Collection Dark Green Raffia
-Jute ribbon
-Apple Barrel Harvest Orange
-Apple Barrel Snow White
-Kilz Dark Wax
-Various ribbons for my Re-Fabbed bow. Tutorial HERE
First you, take your green raffia and wrap it around your hand. I wrapped mine about 8-10 times, but you can make this as small or as large as you like for fullness. Did you know Fronds is the technical term for the top of the carrot?! The more you know!
Next, grab a long piece of jute ribbon and tie a knot around the raffia. Important: you don’t want to make this piece too short, because this is how we are securing our beads in the next step.
Now for the fun part! I actually decided to make TWO of these carrots, to show what it could look like painted or stained with Kilz Wax! For the painted carrot, I used the color Harvest Orange mixed with a tad of Snow White.
For the stained carrot, I used Kilz Wax. I simply took an old towel and rubbed the product directly onto the beads. Look at the before and after! Seriously, I LOVE this stuff.
You know this project wouldn’t be complete without a Re-Fabbed Bow! Not sure how to make one? Tutorial HERE
I grabbed various prints and textures of ribbons I loved, made my bow, and tied it where my raffia and beads meet! How perfect?!
Lastly, I cut my “Fronds” straight across to give it a more natural look! This totally completed it, don’t you think?!
Well, which one is your favorite?? The orange or the stained? Aren’t they adorable???
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Last Updated on March 3, 2024
They are adorable. I Love the orange carrot the best. Both are cute but I like color. Thanks for sharing your ideas.
So so darn cute, love these carrots and looks so simple to make. Your craft ideas are fantastic.
Absolutely love both but for this particular one I loved the orange painted carrots! Thank you as I might be trying this soon! I have learned so much from you!
I’m look forward to seeing and learning lots of cute new crafts.
As far as the carrots……I love them both and if I made a garland I would alternate the 2 ♥️
I love this, I have everything in my stash to make the orange one. Can’t wait to get started
I love this, my favorite color is orange so I love the orange one more.
Love the stained so cute!
I love the stained look. Super cute idea!
I love your wood bead carrots! The orange carrots are adorable, but for my home decor, I prefer the dark wax ones. I have been wanting to put together some cute Summer veggies in a wooden bowl for my kitchen island, and these would be adorable!
The orange is my favorite!
I love the orange one but the stain is a close second. Thanks for the post as I am going today to figure out greens for the top of a carrot container I am making and the raffia looks wonderful!
They are both adorable …I can’t choose ❤️????????
I think that is adorable !
Like them both but stained is my favorite
So cute! I love the orange carrot the best!
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I love the orange, but both are adorable! Love watching you and your family.
I love it! I always look forward to seeing what you come up with. You are so incredibly talented. I appreciate you genuineness. Good bless!
I love both but the orange is my favorite.
Absolutely loving the carrot
I love the orange carrot!!!!.
The orange is my favorite.
Both are adorable ❤️but I choose orange as favorite because of the time of year!
Love them both Brooke! Stained is my fav though
adorable! i like the orange best~ i honestly can’t believe walmart had something that could provide inspo????????♀️
Love the stained!
The orange paint was genius with the wax. Love them both and I think they’re just adorable together! Thanks for sharing how you made them in such detail, can’t wait to try this now 🙂
Brooke,
These both are so cute I don’t know if I could pick one.
If I absolitely had to it would probably be the orange
Just because I have a lot of natural things that it would be sitting around or on.
This are so much cuter than the Walmart ones!! I can’t wait to make me some!!
Love love the orange. City project. Thanks for the inspiration Brooke.
I like the stained one the best.
I like them both!
Love them both but I’ll say the orange – it’s springy!!
I think this is an awesome craft and love the orange one.
Still have have a long ways to go in my recuperation so Istill can’t drive or use my arm so I can get the materials to make this fantastic diy carrot All of your ideas are just fabulous and achievable. Keep giving us these crafting ideas.Thanks for being there for us.
Well, These are just the cutest! Didn’t seem too hard to make either! I think I will try a make a couple! The orange one is my favorite! I love decorating with bright colors for Easter!
Oh my heck these are adorable, I can’t choose a favorite. I’d make some of both! I have a tiered tray I decorate for each season and I can see some of each color looking so cute on it! Thanks for the tutorial!
Love them! They are so adorable! They look like carrot dragonflies! The Lord didn’t think of that but YOU did! Rock on, girl!
Terese turned out super cute!
I like them both, but the orange is my favorite because orange is my favorite color. It makes me happy ????
Cute, easy project to do with my eight year old granddaughter. Everlee will love making several of these in various colors.
Thank you again Brooke!
Oh my gosh, I love both versions!
Thank you! They are just too cute!