Wednesday, August 24, 2011

Ruffled Flowers



Remove Formatting from selection This flower is really simple. What you will need:




Any color of thin fabric



Hot glue gun



Needle



thread



alligator clip



headband (optional)





First cut some strips of fabric with the width 2 and 1/2 inces length as long as your fabric. Then cut little strips out of the width. Next thread your needle. I still have that neon green fabric so before I get any new fabric my flowers are all going gto be made out of that fabric :). Then collect the needle through the fabric pretty small. Just do plain stiching through the fabric. Do the same to all of the strips.






Once you run out check to see if it is as long as your forearm to the tip of your middle finger. Remember to make each fabric as tight as possible because then it makes it have a cute ruffle. Then you need to tie it off.






Next you need to wrap them around each other to create a circle and then glue each layer together. Next glue a circle to the bottom and an alligator clip. You can clip it to a headband or just straight on to your hair. Hope you like it!







Wednesday, August 17, 2011

Rose Headbands


Completely easy, once you get the hang of the first part.

You will need;
  • 4-6 different coordinating fabrics
  • Felt
  • Headband (or clip and white ribbon the same width as it)
  • Scissors
  • Hot Glue Gun
First, cut a strip of one of your fabrics about 1 and 1/2 inches wide, and about the same length as your foot (or from your wrist to your elbow), depending on how big you want your flower. The shorter, the smaller.

Fold one of the corners down, and start twisting the entire strip. Once you have twisted it, start rolling it into a spiral. When it is a spiral, hot glue it on to the felt. Repeat with your other fabrics. Try loose spirals and tight spirals. Be sure to vary your sizes!

Now you can add decorations; jewels, pearls, buttons... Hot glue them securely on flowers or beside them!

Cut out your bunch of flowers. Hot glue it onto a headband, then on the underside, hot glue a peice of felt so it doesn't irritate your head. Ta-da!



Tuesday, August 2, 2011

Folded flower headbands



The first head accessory is a headband clip. First you will need 2 pieces of fabric the same or two different types. I used a neon green fabric and a strip from a pair of my old jeans. Cut each strip about 2 and 1/2 in. by 9 or 10 inches depending on the flower on top or underneath (the bottom being bigger.) Next fold the fabric in half. Then sew both ends together using a needle and a thread. Then going through the middle of the circle loosely thread along the bottom. Once your done with that pull the string tight to make it sinched. Then tie off the thread. Repeat the same steps for the other strip.



Next glue along the inside of the bigger part with a hot glue gun and stick the smaller one inside until the rim sticks out and glues. Then I got one of those cheap plastic silver pearl necklaces and cut off 3 of the pearls to hot glue into the inside. Then I got an alligator clip openend it so that I didn't glue it shut and I glued the top to the flower. Next I cut a small square of navy blue tulle and glued it to the bottom. Then you can clip it onto the headband. I hope you enjoy this craft! :)

August 2nd

Yeah! Happy August 2nd! You are probably wondering what is so special about August 2nd is that it is the beginning of head accessories month. All this month we will be posting different head accessories perfect for the beginning of school and Fall. We hope you will like them!