TUTORIAL - Mum Hair Clip

(heheheheh... if you have good eyes you can see it says 'of doom' under the title.. :P)

Alright, today I finally got a craft done! And the best thing was... it worked great the first time! Like... when does that happen?!?! :D

Here's my first try:

I honestly love it! It's not like most flower hair clips that stick off like 3 inches from your head... :D *BIG FAT PUFFY HEART*
Here's try #2 which I did the tutorial for: (sorry, this photo was flipped but blogger hates my guts so it won't let me upload it straight... and I'm too lazy to try to figure out why....)

(sorry again.. I'm just loving these:)

Alrighty: TUTORIAL TIME!!

I don't feel like typing up all of the supplies again (lazy.. I know) so just read the picture and if you have any Q's just ask. :D Oh, for the flower patterns.. I just drew my own.. I totally advise printing some pic of an EVEN 5 petaled flower to use as your pattern.

1. You will need 8 large flowers, 5 small flowers (I accidentally did 9 small flowers and you just get a bigger, fuller flower.You can do 9 if you want this.) Don't try to cut all 8 large in the same cut like me... I warned you. (cut by 4's) Fold your fabric (sortof) like so:

2. Trace your image (and if you're lazy like me use a color close to the fabric's color... again, TRUST ME!*clearly I didn't in this pic...* )

3. Cut out all 8 large flowers. (no pic)

4. Fold your flowers in half... (EXACTLY LIKE THIS!!!)

5.Flip the halved flower over and put a dot of hot glue right in the middle bottom of the flower and fold (repeat with all large flowers):

Get your circle of felt and 4 petals ready...

6. Glue them on so that the only glue is in the middle (don't cover the whole bottom of the 'petal' with glue.):

7. Get your other 4 petals and glue them over the cracks.

8. I forgot if I already told you to cut and glue 4 (8 if you want a full mum clip.) of your small flowers..? Do that exactly how you did your big ones.

9. Glue the little flowers on just like you did the big ones.. over the cracks. do 1 layer (4 flowers) for a not-so-thick mum clip or 2 layers (8 flowers) for a thicker mum clip.

10. Get your last,lonely flower and fold it in half:

And then roll it up like so:

11. Turn it around and snip the end off:

12. Put a glob of glue in the middle of your 'mum' and stick the end you just cut off in the glue and hold it upright until it dries.

13. Use little blobs of glue on each of the 4 surrounding petals to attach them to the middle rolled thing. Sorry I'm REALLY bad at wording things!!

14. (I guess this counts as a step) fluff it up.

You can use this mum on a headband, pin/brooch, hairclip or ANYTHING! Be creative! Glue a few on a canvas for 3d art! I made mine into a hairclip.. the picture is really self explanatory:

Then stick it on the felt and voila! You have a stinkin' cute hair clip!

Now, If you are really lazy (which I'm pretty sure we have established I AM.) you can do the same thing with circles of fabric (oh, and for fabric I used old tee shirt jersey/knit) and get a sort of cute flower thingy:

I personally love the mums though! Totally worth the work of cutting out the flowers... ('cause you know... it took like.. 10 minutes... dang.. that's like ....forever....)

And this pic again because I love it so:

Thank you for reading! I LOVE comments... they make me giddy! each one is like a present on Christmas!