Butterfly Clip out of Recycled cardboard

I have been saving cardboard and plastic pieces from packaging. This butterfly's body and wings are made from recycled cardboard (embellished with some fun inks and beads). I started out making a pattern for one wing. My Wing has 3 layers.  #3 is the larger base piece of the wing, #2 is a lower layer of the wing, #1 has a top and a bottom top layer of the wing. 4 total pieces to each wing. 

Once you have the pattern trace it onto more recycled cardboard. I labeled my pieces so there would be no confusion.

Cut all pieces out and lay onto newspaper or some kind of scrap paper that can get messy. Make sure you flip all pieces on the left so they match the right side.

Spray all pieces with a base color. (both sides)

now add different colors in an abstract way on the top wing pieces.

I also outlined the top wing pieces with black ink.

Putting the butterfly together

• hot glue 5 beads together to form the body of the butterfly
• glue #3 pieces of the wing to the beads
• glue #2 Pieces to the lower half of the butterfly wings
• flue #1 pieces to the top and bottom of the wings (the bottom one should overlap #2 piece.
• bend some copper wire to use for antenna and glue to the top bead
• glue a hair clip to the back of the butterfly
• Last, I hot glued some copper beads onto the middle of body and edges of wings.

Supplies I used:

• Recycled cardboard from some craft packaging
• Hot Glue Gun & Glue
• Mister Huey's Color Mists - Dark Calico
• Luminarte - Radiant Rain - Solar Gold
• Luminarte - Radiant Rain - Apple Blossom
• Apple Barrel - White 
• Spronge Brush
• 5 beads
• copper wire
• Martha Stewart luster glass microbeads - Copper
• Hair Clip

Happy Crafting

Carrie

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Faux Leather Flower Hairclip Tutorial

The tutorial for today is a fantastic faux leather flower hair clip.

Supplies I used:

faux leather

Tim Holtz - Copper Mixatives alcohol ink

Mister Huey's - Dark Calico color mist

Beads in multi colors/shades

Sponge Brush

glue gun & glue

needle & thread

snap on & snap on clip

Start by drawing a single pedal (i roughed mine)

then I grabbed a piece of white faux leather that I recycled from the cover of an old address book.

trace 5 petals (with pencil) on the back (smooth side) and then cut them out.

To make a petal, pinch in the middle and then sides of the bottom of the petal. it will look like an accordion. Take thread and needle and stitch through the bottom a couple times and tie off.

Arrange the petals in the arrangement that looks best for you.

Now grab that needle and thread again and run through the bottom of each one until you have all of the petals attached on one string (top R. photo). pull the string tight and tie off. Too secure the petals from not moving. apply a dab of hot glue on the tip of the middle section, let dry. turn over and put another dab of glue to the middle of the back, let dry. Now it is ready to color and bling.

working on one petal at a time, I applied 2 drops of the copper alcohol ink and then using a sponge brush, spread all over the petal. It is ok if you can still see the white coming through. Finish all 5 petals, then move to the next step. Now spray a little of the color mist on a piece of plastic or paint palette. dip same sponge brush into the mixture and brush lightly around the edges of the petals adding a bit more darkness and depth.  Paint job done and now to finish the flower I grabbed 3 different shades and sizes of pearl beads and with the hot glue gun again i added beads until i was happy with the end result.

Flower finished. I decided to attach my flower to a snap on clip so that the flower could be used for more than a hairclip. I have snap on claws that it can snap on to also. this way I can attach it to an outfit or a bag. the possibilities are endless. 

Happy Creating!!

Carrie

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Flower & Feather Hair Clip Tutorial

It is one of my sisters birthdays today. 

So i decided to surprise her with a happy birthday balloon, 

a cupcake from Sweet Tooth Fairy and a homemade hair clip.

To Make my hair clip you need the top 4 layers of flowers.

Layer 1: Large Crocheted Mallorie Flower (one of my own designs)

Layer 2: Colored Vinyl (found at joann's in the area that has fabric on big rolls)

Layer 3: a smaller 5 petal flower

Layer 4: this flower was cut out from a piece of sheer material with tons of flowers on it.

Step 1: Stitch Layer 1 & 2 together.

Add some feathers, tuck underneath  

 Sew Layer 3 on.                            

Sew on Layer 4

Add a pearl in the middle of layer 4 and a clip to the back and your finished.

Happy Crafting!!

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Yarn Flower Tutorial

Crocheted Flowers Carrie Style

  I an totally addicted to making flowers lately but even though there are a lot

 of different kinds out there I still have a hard time finding ones that I want to make. 

So I sat down the other day and played  and played and played around with

 this flower until it came together. I tried two layers like the one below but ended

 up adding an extra row and liked it even more.

 You can add a gem, a button or leave the middle alone. 

 now what to do with it once it is finished. 

• add a clip, hairpin or headband to the back of it and use it to add color in your hair
• attach it to your purse as a  cute embellishment
• add it to your shirt or cute belt 
• the possibilities are endless. check out other flowers and see what people ended up doing with them.

Try these in all different colors. solids and color changing skeins.

Flower Tutorial

Happy Crocheting

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