My little girl is taking ballet classes this year. All of the ballerina girls are such darling little things; bubbly with excitement in their fluffy tutus! Their recital costumes are made of flowing and almost iridescent fabric and they have an embroidered cherry blossom pattern down the front. But with a month to go before the day of the big show… they still had not found a hair accessory to go with the ensemble!
I went to the drawing board and came up with this sweet little cherry blossom:
These are very easy to do, as are most projects that I keep in my repertoire!
Here is what you will need:
- A small piece of satin
- Embossing gun
- Scissors
- Elmers clear glue
- Hot glue gun
- A small circle of felt, approx 1.5-2″
- A little bit of face blush or you can use a bit of stamping ink on a sponge (optional)
- An embellishment for the center-I used fake pearls from a broken necklace
- 3/8″ ribbon and alligator clip (or whatever you would like to put this on!)
Directions:
- Cut out the petals in the shape shown below. For the cherry blossom, I used five petals.
- Using your embossing gun lightly blow warm heat at the edges of your petals causing them to wrinkle ever so slightly. Be careful of your fingers! You can see I eventually got smart and started using the handle of my scissors to keep the petal from blowing away.
- When you have all of your petals sufficiently curled, take the clear glue and run it very carefully along the edges to keep them from fraying. I found that this glue was cheaper than seam sealer and it did the job just fine!
- Brush the petal with the blush with an emphasis to the part that will be in the center of the flower.
- This is the most tricky part of the whole project: Fold the edges of the petal that will be in the center of the flower so they come to a point and glue onto the felt circle as shown.
- Continue gluing the petals on felt circle, spacing them evenly.
- If you would like to make a hair clip, you can line the alligator clip with a length of ribbon. I start at the underside of the top prong. Glue just a bit and work your way around.
- Glue the clip to the felt circle.
- Attach your embellishment of choice at the center of your flower.
- And you have a blossom topped clip fit for a ballerina princess!
My little girl was so happy to pass these out at the next ballet class. She loved hearing the squeals of delight from her fellow ballerinas.
This idea can translate into so many more: three little blue Forget-Me-Nots on a headband, you could go crazy and do a multi-layered Ranunculus, or you could get really fancy and pair a few with a satin rolled rose! What lovely floral creations would you love to bring to life?
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Love these!!
Wow! Those are gorgeous! I love how you give these step by step directions!
How cute are those! I wish I were so crafty.
They’re not hard! Get yourself a glue gun and go for it! 🙂
Very Cute!
The pictures are great but they are even cuter in person. I think the kid spins faster and leaps higher when wearing her cherry blossom hair clip.
I look at your finished results and am blown away and then you show me how and I totally get how simple it is to make these.
— Ron (Mr. Make It Pretty Natalie)
If I used purple for my daughter and her friends, should I use a different blush or something you think? I love these, thanks!!
Aw… my hubby is weighing in on the crafts too! He actually is a lot of help when I get myself in a time crunch.
Jen: What about using a chalk that is made for stamping? They are usually a lot more “permanent” than the typical art-chalk but yet you will probably be able to find a nice purple a few shades darker than your fabric! I would love to hear how it turns out for you!
I love these, they are so cute!!
Those are adorable. I wonder if a hair dryer would work if you don’t have an embossing gun? I will keep these in mind for when my daughter gets a little bigger and has more hair. Or…I could try putting one on a headband. I would have to make sure the center is on with a needle and thread or it could be a choking hazard. My four toddlers are 17-months old. I have fun with headbands for our daughter. thank you for sharing your tutorial.
: 0 ) Theresa
They are beautiful! Your post brought back some old good memories of my ballet classes. Thank you.
*eyes bug out seeing the clip* I may not have ever had a ballet class in my life, but I have been looking around for a hair clip with red sakura blossoms on it so it would match a Yukata I just recently bought but all the clips I find I have white or pink blossoms and it got me frustrated so I decide to try and make one searching around the web for options, and thanks to you, I may have just found the solution to my problem, because I was even considering making sakura blossoms out of origami for a hair clip, but I’m now thinking this would be much better! Thank you so much for sharing this!
Adorable!I can see why your daughter was delighted. Thanks for the tutorial.
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