Silk Flower Hair Clip DIY Perfect for Summer!

Silk Flower Hair Clip DIY Perfect for Summer! Make a gorgeous silk flower hair clip for the perfect Summertime hair accessory.  Enjoy a bright bloom in your hair for Summer outdoor fun!  Great for handmade gifts, party favors, family pictures, Summer camp crafts, Girls youth activities or just for fun! Let me show you how easy it is to turn a bouquet of silk flowers into the perfect silk flower hair clip for Summer.  These dahlia's are the perfect silk flowers, I just love them! I only had one of these flower clips...and my darling daughter got to wear it in this family photo shoot.  Doesn't she looks so cute with her little missing teeth!?   I have such happy memories of my kids at this age.  However, some how in the middle of the photo shoot, this is how my daughter ended up!  Flower clip gone--gone forever!  Ugh, we searched the park and checked the bathroom, but to no avail.   Such a shame.  I said goodbye to my f...

Rolled Paper Flower Spring Wreath--with Cricut Explore Air 2!

Rolled Paper Flower Spring Wreath--with Cricut Explore Air 2! Make a rolled flower wreath, perfect for Spring, using Cricut. It's easy to cut a variety of flowers in brightly colored papers for this wreath home decor. Brighten up the front door or entry way with a paper wreath made in minutes with Cricut!     I love my  Cricut Explore Air 2! I received all these fun goodies to review. Cricut knew I'd be hooked and swear my loyalty to them for the rest of my life. This machine is uhhhhhh-mazing! Read more about the set up and first projects on this post here. You don't need any cartridges, but if you have some, you can use them! There are so many different projects you can make with the Cricut too! The Cricut can cut so many different materials so the amount of projects you can do with it are endless.  I love doing 3D paper crafts and the Cricut is perfection for that. Home decor items are easy to make with paper and the Cricut. For this fun project, I used the ...

Kanzashi Flower Bow!

 Kanzashi Flower Bow! I love bows and I love ribbon! This flower is the perfect addition to any craft project. Great for a ribbon bouquet, wreath, headband... I used Offray satin ribbon sent to me in exchange for this post.  The sky is the limit with Kanzashi, but here is what you will need for this flower: Six 4" squares of white satin ribbon Six 2 1/4" squares of azalea satin ribbon Eight 2 1/4" squares of forest satin ribbon Eight 1 1/2" squares of lemon grass satin ribbon Rhinestone button or something fun for the center Hot glue and gun First, run a bead of hot glue along 2 of the edges like this. I'd recommend a low heat glue gun.  Fold in half like a triangle.  Add glue to one of the open edges  And fold in half again.  Repeat with all the pink ones, Then put it inside the white and fold it one more time.  Just like this.  Then repeat 6 times.  Now, use scissors to cut the tip off the back. ...