Spring Green Hair Clips - Just in time for St. Patrick's Day!!
Hair Clips are a hot fashion accessory for this coming spring and summer seasons. Design elements such as layered materials, papers and found objects are being used to create hair accessories that have a homespun look with a big price tag. In boutiques and department stores the prices of “homespun” hair clips can skyrocket through the roof with prices ranging from $8.00 to $24.00 depending on the size and brand name.
You can easily make them yourself for pennies on the dollar. The featured designs each cost under $3.00 to make and can be customized in any color palette. Finding materials to craft hair clips from is as easy as a trip to the craft store or your craft stash. At retail craft shops you can find barrette blanks, scrapbook papers and other decorative embellishments. If you have a scrap bin of ribbons, small rhinestones or loose buttons that is a good place to begin your hunt for items you can transform into hair clips. No scrap is too small as you will only need a small amount of goods to create a boutique style hair clip.
Spring is just around the corner, so it is time to get creative and create some fresh new accessories for yourself, your girlfriends or your kids.
Enjoy~ Cathie
Hair Clip Materials:Green decorative paper
Wood poker chip
Scissors
Mod Podge gloss
Large green button
Green rhinestone
Gem glue
E6000 glue
Green ribbon
Barrette clip
Bobby Pin Materials:Small wood disk
Foam paintbrush
Folkart paint – 644 Grass Green
FolkArt Extreme Glitter – peridot
Small flower embellishment
Green rhinestone
Gem glue
E6000 glue
Bobby Pin
To make the hair clip: 1. Trace the poker chip onto the paper, cut out circle. Apply Mod Podge to the backside of the paper. Position onto the chip. Topcoat with a layer of Mod Podge. Allow to dry.
2. Glue a button in the center of the papered poker chip. Use glue to attach a rhinestone in the center of the button.
3. Glue a strip of ribbon down the center or the barrette. Glue the poker chip in the center of the clip.
To make the bobby pin:1. Paint the wood disk with 1 coat of green grass. Once dry, apply two coats of extreme glitter. Once dry, attach a small flower embellishment and a rhinestone in the center
2. Glue a strip of ribbon across the base of the bobby pin using heavy-duty glue. Glue the wood disk in the center.
Using Hot Glue Gen Helper Tweezers, hot glue gems around the top of a pair of hairsticks!
Using my Tattered Rose Tutorial, make 2 large roses. Add tattered sheer fabric and a gem to the center. Attach with hot glue. Hot glue a few feathers to a hat. Hot glue the flowers in a layered fashion to the hat.
Using my Tattered Rose Tutorial, create 1 medium flower. Add a small gem to the center. Hot glue to a feathered headband.
Rhinestone Ribbon Headband
Making headbands on Creative Juice!
Using Fabri-Tac glue, add a dot of glue to one end of the headband on the backside. Add glue along the front of the headband. Attach the ribbon down the center of the headband, wrapping a small portion to the back edge.
Using jewel glue, attach small rhinestones down the center of the ribbon, guiding the rhinestones with a toothpick and allowing them to dry.
This little cutie can be whipped up in under an hour and is the perfect spring accessory. I used an Amy Butler paper and some of my stash flowers for this design. Of course you can tailor this design concept to any color palette or paper print. For best results, choose a flat wide headband. I have found inexpensive ones at the dollar store, target and at teen shops. Remember, even if the color is wrong on the one you purchase if won't matter because you are going to be covering it.
Spring Green Hair Clips - Just in time for St. Patrick's Day!!