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About a month ago, I had seen this pin for an ADORABLE headband and knew I had to make one myself!

Unfortunately, I messed it up when I attached it to the elastic so the Block O isn't vertical, but I still love it!

raspberry fizz felt

I love PTI's felt. The best thing about their felt is using it for more than just card making! I die cut 6 flowers from the Flower Fusion #2 die. One I used as a base and stitched the other 5 into it. Each flower was folded in quarters (in half and then in half again) and the pointed corner was stitched down. Love how full these flowers look! I then attached them to a headband with my glue gun.

Rosettes

If you've seen some of my prior posts on my friends frames, you've seen my fun little rosettes I've been making. The best part about them is that they can be used for anything! Right now, I have one decorating my purse (or suitcase as my husband lovingly refers to it!).

I made the above one for a friend's birthday and she asked me to make some for her niece. Apparently, her niece LOVED the one I made for her, so I happily obliged.

Hot Pink, Purple, Black, Blue, Orange and White. And a little clip on the back so she can put it wherever she wants. She even got a skinny little headband so if she wants, she can put them on that in her hair!

Felt

I've been out of the card making for a bit. I've been finding it hard to make them lately for some reason. But, I've at least been doing some crafting with PTI supplies! In my last order, I got both Flower Fusion #2 and #3 and several new (to me) felt colors. I've been seeing several of the designers make hair things and lots of felt out in blogland and felt I needed to try my hand!

Sorry about the sizing of pics...I don't know what happened! Of course I deleted the raw images before realizing they're too small :( Anyway...the first clip is just on a barrette. It's one of those ones that are a triangle shape that snap back and forth. I cut out 2 Raspberry Fizz and 2 Hawaiian Shores Flower Fusion #3 flowers and sewed on a small button in the center then used my glue gun to adhere them on.

This one was a little more time consuming. Each "flower" took 5 of the Flower Fusion #2 die cuts. I folded each one in half, then in half again and hand sewed the points to a circle I cut out just a smidge larger than the original flower. I adhered to the headband with a glue gun and then put another circle on the other side to make a sandwich with the headband.

I also added a few leaves on the bottom flower...not sure if I like it or not, but I knew I didn't want all three to have leaves!

This one is harder to see...I may have to try and take another pic of it later. I found this awesome tutorial in my Women's Day magazine and had to try it. So super simple! I did it the way they suggest for the one below, but my center circle was too big to fit a button, so I made a third layer at 5" instead of 6". The top one, I wanted something different, so it's two layers and then two circles cut out with a True Black button in the middle and two leaves. The bottom one also has a pin and a clip on the back, so you can wear it however you want!

I'm pretty pleased with how they all turned out! I also made Lexi a pair of pj pants the other night, so I'll have to share those, too :)

Hair do-dads

Back in September, I made a fun little hair thing for myself (sorry, no pics). I wore it to work a few weeks ago and one of my co-workers wanted me to make one for her. I already had fabric in my stash, so I sat down one night and cut up a few different circles and then figured out which ones would go together. Here's what I came up with:

Not sure how well you can see it, but the back layer is a smokey shadow color with black leaves on it. I topped it with a True Black matte button.

This one is topped by a Raspberry Fizz button (which was very hard to match to my fabric, if I may say so!).

Here you can see the gray/black fabric better. I added 3 Raspberry Fizz rhinestones to the middle.

Here's how I do the back: it's just a small circle of felt that I adhere inside a bobby pin and then attach the fabric to the felt. These are all about 2 inches, so not huge. And, yes, I know that they are not all symmetrical, but that's what I love about them!