Make your own Christmas Tree Hair Clip

I have a super cute craft to show you today. Ever since my friends niece was born, I have been making her little hair bows. I even went as far as making her a hair bow/clip holder. With Christmas right around the corner I decided to make her a cute little Christmas tree hair clip, my inspiration was from pinterest.

 Here is the finished product, soooo darn cute! 

The supplies you will need are as follows:

• Green 3/8 inch grosgrain ribbon - I bought it at Michaels 
• Brown 3/8 inch grossgrain ribbon - I bought it at Michaels
• Alligator clip - I used a double pronged alligator clip, but you could use a one or two pronged one. I bought 20 clips on ebay for $4.97 with free shipping. 
• Pearls, rhinestones, sequins, or other things you would like to decorate it with. - I used stick on pearls that I bought at Dollarama for $1.00. 
• Something for a bow tree topper - I used a little bow charm I had left over from another project, but you can use a ribbon to create a bow.
• Scissors
• Glue gun and glue sticks

 

Take the brown grosgrain ribbon and hot glue it to the alligator clip. It will form the trunk of your Christmas tree so it isn't necessary to cover the whole clip. As you can see from the pictures I just glued the ribbon on the top and bottom of the top clip portion.  

 Cut two 4 cm, two 5.35 cm, and two 6 cm pieces of green grosgrain ribbon.

Then place a dot of hot glue on the edge of the ribbon and glue to edges together forming a loop (shown above). Do the same thing with all 6 pieces that you just cut. 

 Then glue the loop edges together to make triangles, this will form the branches of the tree.

 Now it is time to glue them onto the alligator clip starting with the biggest branches first. 

 Then glue on the second largest branches, making sure you overlap it slightly over the larger branches.

 Then glue on the smallest branches that will form the top of the tree; again make sure that you overlap it a little over the second largest branches.

 Now it is time for the tree topper. I hot glued a bow charm to the top of the tree, but you can also make a bow out of ribbon and glue it to the top of your tree. 

Lastly, it is time to decorate!! I used stick on pearls that I double secured with hot glue on the end of each branch. This is purely preference, you could decorate it with glitter, rhinestones, sequins, etc. 

Let everything dry and you are ready to place it in a little girls hair, or on a baby headband! It is a great accessory for any little girls Christmas outfit! 

Thank-you for reading!!

-Kristen

http://craftsandnails.blogspot.com

White Christmas Tulle Wreath

Many posts ago I showed you a tulle Christmas and Halloween wreath I made for my office door at work. In that same post I said I would eventually do a tutorial on how to make your very own Christmas tulle wreath, so here you go....YAY! The finished product is right below and then the tutorial starts afterwards.

Finished Christmas Tulle Wreath

 The supplies you will need to complete the wreath are:

1. A wreath - I purchased mine at Michaels for $8.99. The size of wreath is based on preference (hee hee), the one I purchased is 14".
2. Felt to make the flowers - 2 green, 2 red, and 2 white. The green felt was only $0.49 each, but the red and white were $1.69 each because they are the stiff felt with sparkles. 
3. Tulle - you can do any colour you want, I chose white. The tulle was $14.99, and was 50yd long and 8.5 inches high. I got it in the wedding decoration section at Michaels.
4. Little bows - I got them at Michaels for $5.00, but i'm pretty sure you can get them at the Dollarama too.
5. A decoration to hang on the wreath - I used a tree topper and just took off the bottom wire part.
6. Little Christmas coloured balls - not shown in the above pic. I got them on a Christmas pick and it cost me $1.00. You will see them as the tutorial progresses.
7. Glue gun and glue
8. Scissors
9. embroidery thread or fishing line

Step 1: Cut your Tulle
I cut the tulle into 21 inch strips and left the width the same as it came in the spool. I used all 50 yd for the wreath.

 

Step 2: Use a slip knot to attach the tulle to wreath
As you can see from the pictures above you take a piece of tulle fold it in half, then you wrap the tulle around the wreath, put the end of the tulle through the loop, and pull tight. Keep doing this over and over and over again until you have covered the wreath. Once you have completed all the slip knots, you can then tighten them one by one to make sure that they stay put.

Step 3: Make the Flowers

This is a tutorial in itself, so I'm going to do a step by step in a step by step.
 

 

First take a circular object and trace it on the felt, the larger the circle the larger the flower at the end. For the large flowers on the wreath I used a salad plate, for the little flowers I used a large cup. Once your have traced the circle cut it out. 

  

Then you want to cut the circle into a spiral starting from the outside and working your way inward. After you have finished that, cut little half moons all the way around the outside of the spiral. Don't worry about making it perfect, it will look more realistic if it isn't. 

 

Grab your glue gun and start rolling the felt into itself (like you are rolling up a little carpet), keep putting a line of hot glue and then roll. Continue doing this until you reach the middle portion of the spiral, you will have a little circle which you will glue to the bottom of rose. 

 

This is what it will look like when it is completed.

 

This portion is optional, but if you want to add some little leaves just cut them out of green felt and hot glue them to the back of your rose.

 There you go you have your very own handmade rose for your wreath. I made 3 large roses (red, green, and white) and 4 little roses (2 white and 2 red) for the wreath.

Step 4: Place and Glue the flowers
I then placed the flowers the way I wanted them on the bottom of the wreath and hot glued them to the tulle. Afterwards, I glued the little Christmas coloured balls around the flowers.

Step 5: Finish Decorating
I then used the little pipe cleaners holding the mini bows together to twist them onto the tulle. Lastly, I added the hanging snowflake with red embroidery thread.

Even though this wreath isn't for me, I kind of want to keep it! Don't you hate when that happens?! At least I know it is going to a good home.

Thank-you for reading!

-Kristen
http://craftsandnails.blogspot.com

Girly Tulle Christmas and Halloween Wreaths

UPDATE: I did a full tutorial on how to create tulle wreaths and felt roses check it out here.
I work for a warehouse and like anyone who works in the industry knows there is nothing pretty about a warehouse. I try my best to pretty up the environment by decorating my office with wreaths. Since it is getting close to Christmas, I created a Christmas wreath to hang on my door. Unfortunately I didn't take pictures along the way when I was creating it, but as my blog progresses I will create tutorials for how to make the tulle wreath and felt roses. In October I created a similar one for Halloween (pictures below) and I got the idea and instructions from this site http://www.ourbestbites.com/2011/10/how-to-make-a-tulle-wreath-halloween-edition/. Excuse my mismatched socks in the first picture, I grabbed the first two I could find in my huge basket of orphaned socks.

Christmas Tulle Wreath

Christmas Tulle Wreath

Halloween Black Tulle Wreath

Halloween Black Tulle Wreath

I am a frequent Michaels shopper and all my supplies for my Christmas and Halloween wreath was purchased there (except the big bow on the Christmas wreath that I got from Dollarama). The Tulle came from the wedding section, which shockingly has all sort of colours (even black!). The great thing about buying the tulle at Michaels is that it comes in spools, which cuts down having to cut the width of the tulle.