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Flower Headband—Scribble Challenge

I was recently involved in The Scribble Challenge with a group of other creative bloggers. We were sent a VERY RANDOM box of crafting supplies and were challenged to use them all to make something fun and creative.

When I first opened the box, I was stumped. I don’t normally craft with feathers or glitter, so I knew this was really going to take some creative thinking on my part. I was also given some fabric squares, wool roving, chalkboard paint, and some glittery brads.

When I looked at this picture above I realized that the chalkboard paint I had also received was missing…sorry about that. Here is a picture of what it looks like…

I debated doing a few different things but ultimately decided upon the one that I felt most reflected my own style of crafting…and since I have three girls…it couldn’t have been more fitting. I made a flowered headband.

I took 5 different pieces of the fabric squares (I have only 4 pictured below as I decided to add one more at the last minute) and cut two into flower shapes. One larger flower and one the same shape but just a bit smaller. Then I cut the third piece into a circle that was smaller still. I took a white feather and cut it at the top and the bottom so that it was about the same size as the circle. Then finally I cut a very small flower for the top of the barrette.

I layered the flowers, and the circles, on top of one another in the order shown in the above picture. (The extra largest flower I added to the bottom of the flower). I used the glittered brad to hold them all together by sticking the pointed end through all the layers. I used the glue gun and added some small drops of glue in the fabric of the flower to pucker it up and give it a 3-dimensional look.

Then I made a little ball out of the wool roving. To do that I simply gathered up a good amount of the wool and scrunched it up into a ball. Then I added a little bit of soap to my hands and rubbed the wool into a ball in between the palms of my hands. While standing at my sink I let the hot water run. Then I kept running the hot water over the wool while continuing to roll it between my hands.

When the wool is in the shape that you want it to be, turn the water to cold and rinse it a few times to tighten up the wool so that it will keep its shape.

Then I glued the felted ball onto the brad to make the center of the flower.

Glue a barrette or clip onto the back of your flower so that you can attach it to a headband (that I blinged up a bit with the glue and glitter) like I did below…

Or wear the flower without the headband!

And…to use the chalkboard paint, I thought you could make some of these same flowers and then clip them to a little chalkboard sign (which I made out of the box the supplies came in). Then you can have some fun little table place settings for your spring parties, birthdays or Easter Dinner! Then your guest can take home their new hair barrette as a party favor!

Ultimately, I was happy to have been able to create something that my daughter’s actually were fighting over. I think I will have to make some various versions of these for the other two girls. What do you think? What would you have made if you were given these supplies? I would love to know!

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March 23, 2012 · Filed under: Acessories, Crafts, Girls, Sponsors Tagged with DIY barrettes, flower barrettes, flower headbands, girls barrettes, hair accessories, hair clips, wool roving felted balls

Valentine Day Crafts—Candy Rings

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I have actually had these pictures taken for several days and totally forgot to share them with you…womp…womp! So I realize this may be too late for you to make some Valentine’s Day Candy rings this year unless you want to make a fun Valentine Craft with your kiddos and have the supplies on hand or have time to run out and get some quickly.

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They literally just take seconds to make but can be worn to provide a little extra festivity to your day. Or you can whip some up really quickly and give them to someone special. Of course we had some empty ring forms laying around which I found after cleaning up my craft room recently *ahem*!! We simply took some Sweet Tart Conversation Heart Candy and glued them right onto the ring forms with some hot glue. They held up really well and then when my little one wanted to eat her ring, we simply broke the candy off. Part of the candy broke off and left a perfectly good piece of candy for her to eat…sans glue. Now, I personally would not eat the candy after wearing it…but this particular child has no qualms about that sort of a thing… We also tried our hand at making some jelly candy rings. We just simply stuck the candy right onto a ring pop form like we used on these past Candy Rings. Such a simple idea that your kids can help you create. And would be a fun little gift idea or a party favor for a little ones birthday. Change up the candy and make them fit other holidays too for greater flexibility! Valentines-Day I hope all of you have a Great Valentine’s Day!! Pin It

February 13, 2012 · Filed under: Acessories, Activities, Crafts, Gifts, Girls, Valentine's Day Tagged with candy rings, DIY candy rings, make a candy ring, Valentine s Day Craft, valentines day, valentines day crafts, valentines day gift

block puzzle

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Hey guys…things are still crazy around here. We are finally starting to get things put back together in our home. Yeah! But we still have a LOT of work ahead of us. I hope to share an update later in the week if you are interested. But, in the meantime, I wanted to share with you a fun idea for making a fun Photo Block Puzzle.

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These have been around for a while but I was reminded of them when my mom made one of these with a group of her church friends. Hers was much larger and the blocks are about 3 inches (I think) each. I thought it would be fun to make one on a much smaller scale and make one of them for my kids or to give as a gift to someone.

So I found some 1 inch craft blocks at my local craft store. They came in a large package of several of them for just a couple of dollars.

Then I found a box that measured 2 inches x 3 inches. So that six 1 inch blocks fit almost perfectly into the box.

Then I found 6 pictures that I wanted to include on my block puzzle. One photo for each side of the block. So you have essentially 6 different photo puzzles. I loaded the photos into my photo program and cropped them so that they measured 2 x 3 inches each.

I tried to make sure that the lines I would be cutting on would not cut through any important details of the picture. This will help it so that the final picture will not be distorted. Then I glued the pieces on the puzzle with Matte finish Mod Podge.

Then I simply rotated the blocks all in the same direction and then added another photo. I continued that process and tried to make it so that the photos were on the same plane…if that makes sense. Either way it will work out.

When you are finished, every block will have one piece of each puzzle on it. And you literally have six fun photo puzzles to play with in a nice little box.

These would be a great activity for your little ones in church with faces of the people they love. Or a fun way to ask someone to a dance…do they still do that in high school? Or to give to someone as a small gift idea. There are so many fun ways these could be used.