Feminine Hair Clips: Tutorial

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Happy Tuesday Readers!
Check out this great Etsy treasury made by Dirt Road Artists team member, AzJude (See my Eeps Bird Earrings?)




The past few days I have been admiring all the fun and feminine flower hair clips out there, and I wanted one of my own. However, as most college students can attest to, when textbooks must be purchased, money is ... essentially non-existent. So, I decided to make my own!





What's The Plan, Stan?
Catch a sneak peak at my process and make some beautiful flower clips of your own

Ingredients:
  • Silk or other fabric flowers
  • Metal hair clips or barretts
  • Embellishments:
    • Feathers
    • Sparkles
    • Glass Gems etc
  • Glue: I used E-6000, but I'm sure that a hot glue gun would do the trick
Tools Of The Trade:
  • Patience
Process:
  • First, select your flower. Silk/fabric flowers are made up of layers of petals held together with a plastic stamen (that would be the white plastic bit in the center of the flower below). Remove the stamen and take the layers apart.


  • Next, glue the layers back together, minus the stamen. You will want to create a flat base so you can easily glue the flower onto the barrett.


  • Next, glue on a button or other embellishment to cover the hole where the stamen was. In this pictures, I just used a cute white button



  • Now, glue the base of the flower onto the barrett- I strongly suggest using E-6000 or some other epoxy for this to make sure the flower is secure.



  • Voila!




Check out this barrette I made with flowers and feathers:


C'est Fin!

Funtastical Feather Earrings

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Today is Fantastical Friday - At Last!!!




I have wanted to play around with making feather earrings for AGES, but I haven't really had the time. No, correction, I haven't really MADE the time :) So yesterday afternoon, between pouring over the nifty Valentines Day beads at Artbeads.com, taking some more great pictures, listing these cute earrings


I dug out some feathers I had in my crafting stash, and following this great tutorial, I made some feather earrings of my own!






What's The Plan, Stan?
  • You really should check out this tutorial for detailed directions, but check out pictures from my process below!
Ingredients:
  • Feathers
    • I used feathers from a large bag of crafting feathers I bought well over a year ago. Check out your local craft store for more natural looking feathers. Many Etsy sellers also sell beautiful feathers for crafting with - check out
  • Headpins
  • Crimp Beads
  • Jumprings
  • Earwires
Tools Of The Trade:
  • Wire cutters
  • Round nose pliers
  • Chainose pliers
Process:

















C'est Fin!

Ooooo Also: Check out this great giveaway over at Wire Bliss Mei
She makes fun wire tutorials and she's giving one away to THREE readers! Good luck!
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