How to make TINY HATS!

Not sure if you watch Saturday Night Live, but there was a skit I LOVED about tiny hats.  I got to thinking and decided it was time to attempt a tiny hat DIY.  I have finally found a reason to use all of the plastic lids I've been saving for the past 3 years.  Now If I can just find an occasion to wear them!

Victorian all the way!

 This is probably just a bit bigger than actual size on your computer!

Here's the HOW TO video!

 You'll need

Krylon Fusion in Black (it works well on plastics)

Netting (Tulle)

Scissors

Cereal cardboard 

Bobby pins

Plastic lids

Feathers

Small ribbon flowers

Ribbon

Hot glue gun

Cut out circles for the brim of your hat.  About 1/4" to 3/8" larger than the circumference of your lid. 

 Glue the lids to the center of the cardboard circles.

 Spray paint them black and let them dry.

 Hot glue ribbon around the base of the lids.

Scrunch up a small amount of netting (about a 3" by 4" piece) and hot glue it to the seam of the ribbon. 

Glue a ribbon flower on top of the tulle. 

Glue a bobby pin to the underside of the hat. 

You're done!

Crystal Cluster Jewelry with Dimensional Magic!

I discovered Mod Podge Dimensional Magic from Plaid a while ago and I have not stopped playing with it since. This stuff is MAGIC!  As a rule I work on wax paper surfaces because glue doesn't stick to it and I figured out that you could glob on Dimensional Magic on the wax paper and it would peel right off.  Well, after that, my mind was racing and this is what I came up with! I hope you enjoy working with it as much as I do!

Here's the how-to video!

You'll need:

Wax paper

Mod Podge Dimensional Magic

Bobby pins

Flat back gems

Jump rings

Earring wires

Chain

Needle nose pliers 

Prepare a flat surface with wax paper 

Place a bobby pin as shown 

Lay flat rhinestones on either side of it but not toward the loop at the top 

Drip the Dimensional Magic over the gems so that the glue is touching all of the pieces. 

Add more gems on top of the bobby pin and to cover up the bottom of the pin. 

Create a matching set for earrings, a large pendant for your necklace and two side pieces for your necklace with two bobby pins as shown 

 Let dry over night

Peel them off of the wax paper when they're dry 

Glue more stones to the back of your earring pieces 

 Add jump rings and earring wires to create the earrings

Put your necklace together with jump rings 

You're done!

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Bibs for adult ladies!

Make Big Huge Ginormous Pom Poms!

Check out Rob and Corinne's house and learn how to 

make some snazzy cocktail rings!

Corinne and I made this video for her other series called

Re-Create!  She's the bomb!

This is serious vintage!  2008 and they were already on the

Steampunk trend!

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Two NEW videos to check out!

Today I'm launching a special Make Your Mark! video to celebrate OZ The Great and Powerful.  I'm also running a contest in the video in which you can win tons of great craft supplies, Glitter Blast from Krylon and a Creative Options bead organizer!  

This video is all about sewing two coats together to create a long coat.  I've been making these for years, but finally got it on Youtube so you can make them, too!

Here's the finished version!

Check out how I made it here!

In case you missed it last week, I also made tiny hats from bottle caps!

I put them on bobby pins so that you can wear them in your hair.

Here's how to make them!

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