Flower Headband and Hair-clip Tutorial

Last week I shared this tutorial at It's FUN to Craft while doing a blog swap. I thought I would also share it here.
Start by gathering your supplies: Headband, fabric, hair clips, buttons, covered buttons, needle and thread, small scraps of felt, rotary cutter, and a hot glue gun.



Hair Clip Tutorial
1. Cut your fabric 2 3/4 inches by 22 inches.
2. Fold your fabric in half with right sides outward. Grab your needle and thread and start gather stitching your fabric together.

How to Make Paper Flowers

This tutorial on how to make paper flowers is so easy, you're sure to fall in love with making paper flowers. As you can see, paper flowers can be very elegant and dramatic.

For only a few cents, you could create arrangements for your bridal shower, dinner party, or even a wedding! Making paper flowers for these events rather than buying expensive arrangements is a great way to cut costs and your friends will be very impressed at your creativity!



How to Make Paper Flowers

How to make flowers from dry arecanut

If you are ready to blend your ideas with ample time, you can create exceptional craft works. Have you ever thought of making flowers from dry arecanut? Here is a simple step-by-step guide to make nature-friendly flowers from arecanut.

All you need for this floral arrangement is:

• Dry arecanut
• Scissors
• Green tape and thread

With a very few basic supplies, you can create elegant flowers. The resulting product is amazingly lovely, and may even  look like a real flower! First take a dry arecanut and try to open it up carefully from the top. Keep in mind that it is the neatness of your work that results in a stunning flower.

Move apart the dry fibers with care so that you get a flower like shape. Take the scissors and cut out the extra fibers in a floral fashion to achieve the right shape. Refer to the image shown below.

Creating cascading loops

Ok....it's official....I'm addicted to using this quilling comb!! I've been quilling these flowers non stop. I should stop and concentrate on finishing up my card orders! haha! I'm just super excited that's all......it's like having a new toy and I just can't stop playing with it. I just found out another technique from the internet that I can do using the quilling comb and that's how it looks. I love it!

Learn to make crochet

Learn to make crochet

how to make a crochet heart for beginners

T-Shirt Flower Ring

These are the supplies you will need:

Hot glue gun
Toothpicks
1 circle piece of felt
A bunch of circles cut from a t-shirt (about the same size as the felt)
A piece of the hem of the shirt






Fold a t-shirt circle over the toothpick and add a drop of glue

Press it down on the felt circle

Keep adding circles over and over again, making them very close together.

When you can't squeeze any more in, it won't look pretty.  So, now you will take the scissors and give it a "haircut" 

Much better!

Make a loop to the desired size with the hem section and hot glue it.

Glue on the flower and you are done!

Such a quick little project with cute results. You could also make earrings, necklaces, add one to a sweater...the possibilites are endless!

It would make a super frugal gift as well!

Just make sure you take it off before washing your hands. No one wants to wear a soggy ring!