If you are on a wedding budget you can easily make this hairpiece for yourself.

Stunning couple aren’t they! My brother got married two weeks ago, it was a beautiful ceremony and a gorgeous Fall day outside. My husband and I and my son Charlie were in the wedding party. Whew, it was a lot of work to get our whole family looking spiffy for the wedding. I was lucky enough to be able to make the bride’s hairpiece for her big day. I loved the way it turned out and was so pleased with the way it looked in her hair when I saw it that morning!

How To | Bridal Fabric Rose Hair Clip

Supplies:

• 2- 2″x 30″  White Satin Fabric Strips
• Hot Glue or Needle and Thread
• Pearl Beads
• Leaf Sprig – Search for Millinery Leaf White
• White Feathers – Mine were from the Creatology line at Michaels
• White Craft Felt
• Craft Glue
• Scissors
• Hairclip

How To:

1. To create your fabric flowers visit this link for detailed instructions: How To | Fabric Flowers  I made one fabric flower slightly larger than the other for a variation in size.
2. Position your fabric flowers side by side and then glue or sew your leaf spring and feather on the back side of the fabric roses. (Pic. 1)
3. Cut a piece of white felt in the shape of the fabric flowers. Use craft glue to glue the felt to the back of the flowers. The felt will hold all the pieces together. Let dry.
4. Cut a small strip of felt and glue it over the bottom of the hair clip. Let dry. (Pic. 2)
5. To add an extra touch to the hairpiece buy a piece of veil netting. The netting is sold packaged at Michaels in the wedding aisle. You can attach the netting to your hair with bobby pins.

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This fabric flower headband is perfect for a Flower Girl. All it takes is some strips of fabric and hot glue or thread to put it together.

How To | Flower Girl Headband with Fabric Flowers and Tulle

Supplies:

• 2″ x 30″  Fabric Strips
• Hot Glue or Needle and Thread
• Pearl Beads
• Tulle
• Headband
• E6000
• Scissors
• Clothes Pin

How To:

1. Tie one end of the fabric strip into a loose knot. Use the knot as the flower’s center. (Pic. 1)
2. Wrap the fabric strip around the knot in a spiral shape. To create more depth to the fabric you can twist the fabric at the same time. (Pic. 2 and 3)
3. To hold the fabric in place you can either add dabs of hot glue as you wrap (I found this to be messy and to cause lots of glue strings) or tack the layers together with thread. As you build the outer layers of the spiral continue to tack together with thread or hot glue. (Pic. 4)
4. When you are finished creating the spiral flower shape,  tuck the end of the fabric strip into the back of the flower. It’s okay if the back of your flowers look messy. (Pic. 5)
5. Sew beads onto the center of your flowers. Add a piece of tulle by sewing it to the back of one of the flowers. (Pic. 6)
6. Add a generous amount of E6000 glue to the headband where you want the flower. (I covered up the metal flower on the headband by placing one of the fabric flowers directly on top of it.) Use a clothes pin or two to hold the flower in place while it dries. Repeat for the second flower. (Pic. 7)

p.s. you can click on the images below to see them larger!

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