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Craft Projects

Flower pins and barrettes

Jessica Smith

I was a crafting machine this weekend! Unfortunately for the blog, I was making oodles and oodles of the same things, all of which I’ve shared with you already. My weekend was consumed with Mod Podged candles and feather pins and barrettes. I did get a chance to try something new that I think will be a big hit at my fair in November — flower barrettes! If I had a daughter, she’d be wearing these things every day. They are so flippin’ cute!

Since I was making these for the Trash to Treasure fair, I was using materials that others my otherwise think of as garbage. So, I pulled out a scrap of blue fabric about 4 inches x 6 inches and some cardboard that came in a package at work this week.

The first thing I did was cut out five petals from my fabric. I cut these petals with a pointy tip, but I think I like the rounded edges a little bit more.

Next, I sewed the petals together. To do so, I started on the bottom edge of the petal and stitched it down through the top, then back and forth three times. This puts a nice little crease in each petal.

Once you do the first, add the rest in the same manner. With all five threaded, put a stitch back through the first petal, then tie the thread in a knot.

Now it’s time to add the backing. I cut out a square of cardboard and a piece of felt and glued them to one another. Then, I glued the cardboard side to the back of the flower.

By glueing the cardboard side to the flower, this leaves the felt side up — this is the part that will touch your hair, so you want it to be soft.

Next step: hot glue on the barrette clip or your pin back. I made this on into a pin.

Clean up the felt by removing the hot glue strings, then flip over your pin and add a button to jazz it up!

All done!

Here are a couple more that I made. This one is another pin:

And this one is a barrette. I added tulle “leaves” to this one. So cute!

Craft Projects, Quick and Easy Crafts

Copper and Silver headband

Jessica Smith

I set out the other night to make myself a new headband. I’ve been holding onto this extra silver headband base for two + years now, and it was long past time for me to do something with it.

I rediscovered some awesome bead/buttons I have at craft night last weekend, so I dug through my tupperware full of buttons to pull our four copper flower buttons. Originally, there were a bracelet that someone gave me to cut up. So cut it up I did, and I sure am glad because these beads/buttons make a way cuter headband than they ever did as a bracelet.

This project was really simple. All you need is some felt, hot glue, flat or hollow buttons, and a headband base.

To get started, I cut out four circles of felt that would fit behind each button. I chose to use felt so that the glue wouldn’t touch my hair.

Next, I added hot glue on my button and placed the headband on top.

Then, I placed an extra dab of hot glue on top of the headband and quickly placed a circle of felt on top. My buttons are metal, so they got pretty hot pretty quick. I rested the button and headband on fabric while the glue hardened before adding the remaining three.

Once all four buttons were on, I cut out a long, skinny strip of felt and glued it down the center.

All that was left to do was let the buttons cool completely and clean of any strands of remaining glue — then I tried it on.

I really like how you can still see the silver in the band. I love the look of contrasting metals.

So what do you think — super easy, huh? I bet you all want to make your own headbands now! You totally should 🙂

Craft Projects

Tulle Wreath

Jessica Smith

This next project was inspired by the wreath my step mom made me (which was apparently inspired from Pinterest). Jill made her wreath out of fabric scraps, but I wanted to try making one out of tulle. I picked up some tulle a  little while back from JoAnn’s, so I set out to make my version of the fabric wreath.

Supplies:

  • Tulle
  • Ribbon
  • Button
  • Wooden, circle frame (for needlepoint)
  • Hot glue
  • Scissors

First, I separated the wooden loom into two different circle sections. I only used the inner part for this project.

I applied a glob of hot glue on the ring and started wrapping a light blue ribbon around the wooden frame.

I chose the blue ribbon because 1) I love blue, and 2) I wanted it to show through the tulle. I didn’t use the hot glue all around the frame, just in random points to secure the ribbon along the way. As I got to the end, I secured the tail of the ribbon with glue and waited for it to dry. I also tied a long piece of ribbon to the frame to make the ribbon easier to hang.

With the frame completely wrapped, I started adding the tulle. First I had to cut the tulle into strips. You can do any length or width, but the wider the strips, the faster this next step will go (It took me about and hour and a half to tie on all of the tulle).

Start knotting the tulle around the edge of the frame. I kept all of the knots on one side of the frame so the front of my wreath would look smooth.

Keep knotting until you make it all of the way around!

Almost there… well, sort of.

I thought I took a photo of all of the tulle… but apparently I didn’t. Anyway, picture the wreath all covered in tulle. Missing something, right?

I thought so. So, I created a blue flower out of the same ribbon I used to wrap the frame. To do this, I folded the ribbon again and again, spreading it around until it created a circle. I then stitched the center of the ribbon to get this shape.

I sewed a button onto the middle of the ribbon flower and I also added four strips of tulle and white ribbon to the back for a little extra pizzazz. Then, I glued the flower to one side of the wreath.

I love it! It is so fluffy I’m gonna die. IT’S JUST SO FLUFFY! (Despicable Me, anyone?)

Here it is hanging on my front door! I’m sure the hubby loves how girly our door just became.