Zipper Flower Headband

Hello!  A couple of weeks ago, as we were surfing the web, we found an awesome tutorial for a cute headband.. made from a zipper!  It came from one of our favorite blogs, Craftaholics Anonymous.

We loved it so much, we decided to make our own.

If you want to make your own, click here for the tutorial.

Here's Linda's:

And here's ours: We liked them so much, we made 2!

See ya!

Valentine's Day!

Hey guys! Happy early Valentine's Day! This year we got a little bit of a late start on the crafts, but have 2 mini tutorials to make it up to you! First, a cute softie - a heart with wings.

To make this softie, just cut out 2 heart shapes from pink felt,



Sew them together, leaving 2 one inch spaces on the sides,

Then turn it right side out and stuff! For the wings, cut 2 wing shapes from white felt, and hot glue them into the heart.

And that's it!

For our second tutorial, we have these super cute paint chip earrings!

First, you need a pink/red paint chip, either 3 different colors or the kind that already has 3 on them.

Cut them into strips by color and overlap them like in the picture.

Glue them together with a glue stick, then cut out 2 heart shapes.  Coat them with Mod Podge Dimensional Magic, let dry for 24 hours (or be impaitent and blow a fan on them for 1 hour :))

When they're dry, hot glue earring backs to the back! Tadaaaa!!



Enjoy your Valentine's Day!



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Ribbon Headband Tutorial

Hey crafters!  It's Jillian, and today I'll show you how to make that cute headband right down there.

Materials:

• 1 spool of ribbon in any color
• Hot glue gun
• Scissors
• A headband                      

1.  Take the end of the ribbon (still on the spool) and hold it between your thumb and palm, like the picture shows.

2.  Wrap the ribbon around your hand about 20 - 3- times then cut the end.  (And try not to cut off your circulation!)

3. Cut a piece of ribbon about 4 inches of the spool.

4.  Take the wrapped ribbon off your hand and hold it taut with your thumb and first finger.  Then tie the 4 inch piece of ribbon tightly around the ribbon.

5.  Take the ribbon of your fingers, and cut the ends open.

Now spread out the pieces until you have something that looks like this.

OK, for this next part, you might notice that the color of the ribbon has changed.  I changed it because after I made the first ribbon bow, I found out that I had no more red ribbon!  For the most part though, I would keep the colors the same.

Take the end of the ribbon and hot glue it to the end of the headband.

Now wrap the headband in ribbon, hot gluing every inch or so to keep it in place.

When you have wrapped the whole thing, glue the ribbon bow on to the headband, off to the side, and there you go!  This headband would look cute in alternating colors, in red or pink for Valentine's Day, or in school colors!

See ya!

Felt Flower

Dear Readers,
  Hey guys! So, today we will be sharing our tutorial for making a felt flower. All you need is:
- 2 colors of felt (we used pink and grey)
-a hot glue gun
-fabric scissors
- your imagination!

 The last one is the most important. Here's what you do:

1. Cut a strip of felt about 2 inches thick and 6 inches long out of each color of felt (sorry, no picture)

2. Cut triangles from the top of each piece of felt so that they look something like this:

3. Glue the 2 strips together

4. Start rolling up the strips, hot gluing on the way

5. Continue rolling until you run out of fabric. Then, hot glue the edge down.

6. Now you're finished and you should have something like this:

You can do many things with your beautiful felt flower. I did a couple of things. First, I glued a bunch of them on a box for decoration:

Or you could glue it on the top of a pencil (But that could make it hard to erase. You might want to use a pen instead)

Love,
Jillian and Claire

ps. Sorry about the bad pictures. There's only so much 2 crafters can do and make an awesome craft, and take good pictures at the same time is not one of them!

Our Model Houses

So we have these model houses that have been slaved over in construction for several months.  We finally finished them and we wanted to share.  Our houses are made out of all recycled material (and hot glue).  Watch the videos and tell us what you think by leaving a comment or emailing us at thosecraftychicks@yahoo.com.. Enjoy!