Find Part 1 of the tutorial (braiding) here!
Find Part 1 of the tutorial (braiding) here!
Archive for the ‘Accessories’ Category
DIY Suede Ombre Turks Head Bracelet: Part 2
Monday, September 24th, 2012DIY Suede Ombre Turks Head Bracelet: Part 1
Friday, September 21st, 2012Wedding Stuff
Wednesday, July 11th, 2012I’m making the veil/accessories for Jenna’s wedding, and I want to show off what I started with so far. She’s going with a rustic/vintage-glamorous theme, so you can expect lots of rhinestones.
I’m stitching the beads onto a felt base. It will end up being pinned to her hair with a separate, detachable birdcage veil.
I’m SO excited, can you tell? It’s over a year away. I don’t even care.
Tutorial: Sparkly Raindrop Pendant from Antique Fishing Lure
Wednesday, May 2nd, 2012I’ve had these antique silver fishing lures in my stash for quite some time, and the other day it struck me that they’re quite familiarly shaped like raindrops. Paired with two of my favorite crafting products, glitter and Mod Podge Dimensional Magic, it makes for a lovely pendant.
 Full tutorial after the jump! (more…)
DIY D-SLR Hand Strap
Sunday, March 11th, 2012
I’ve been lusting after this camera strap from the Photojojo store for quite some time; more so after I got my new camera. I decided to try making one myself, and this project was born.
This “tutorial” is really more of a walkthrough. I’ll show you how it was constructed and what I used, but I think it’s pretty self-explanatory otherwise.
Lightning Bolt Headband
Thursday, July 7th, 2011
I love wearing things in my hair. And I love felt and sequins. Yeah! Enter the lightning headband!
Check out that ugly look on my face! But it’s dang hard to get a good pic of the side of your head!
Supplies needed:
- Scrap Paper
- Scissors
- Felt
- Needle and thread
- Sequin Trim
- Hot Glue
- 1/2″ Elastic
1. Sketch a lightning-like shape on paper, and use it to cut a piece of felt. I used stiff glitter felt.
2. Start stitching the sequins around the edge of your bolt. Use a running stitch (Down through first sequin hole, through the felt, up through the felt again, and through the next sequin hole. Does that make sense?).
Stitch all the way down one side of the lightning.  I chose to sew it rather than use hot glue because trying to hot glue small things always ends up in a stringy mess for me.
3. Leave a tail with five or six sequins at the end. Take the extra sequins off so the thread is loose. Fold the loose thread to the back and stitch it into place. It’ll be hidden later.
Stitch sequins to the other side of the bolt. The reason I did it in two parts is that it’s hard to get a sharp pivot with the sequins at the tip of the lightning bolt.
4. Make sure your loose sequin thread ends are tucked in, and lay out the whole lightning bolt on a new piece of felt. Hot glue it down, then trim around it. The messy side is now effectively covered with a fresh piece of felt.
5. Measure out a piece of elastic for your head and sew the ends together (zigzag over the raw edge), or use a store bought elastic headband. Make two short “tubes” around the headband using strips of felt and hot glue. The trick is that the tubes can still slide along the headband. Now hot glue .
6. Wear in your hair and be awesome!
