Thursday, February 10, 2011

Flowers Pins

These wintery snow days can be pretty dreary, especially when the puny amount of snow doesn't warrant a snow day for Daddy or the kids. Flower pins to the rescue! I saw this tutorial first from here, but the original source was here. These sweet pins really are perfect for crafting through the slow days in winter.



The girls I mentioned above, who made these before me, made them from felt, and I did too, but I think you could be creative with what you have on hand. I think felt is such a great, wintry, warm choice. And guys, this is so easy! Just cut the templates (or make your own), trace, cut and glue together! I had some acrylic felt in the basement but while we were out the other day Dabney and I picked up a few 9x12" sheets of a few more colors for $0.29 each at JoAnns.


Dabney chose hot pink and baby blue. I think the baby blue ones sort of look like sweet little hydrangeas.


If you trace and cut carefully, you can make at least 3 flower pins per sheet of felt! Not counting the hot glue and the pin base (look for them in the jewelry making section) that's less than $0.10 per flower! Quick, cute and cheap~ my kind of craft.

2 comments:

Grandma Lloyd said...

So Cute! I bet they were fun to make, too. I love the colors you picked, Dabney. However, your Grandma Lloyd is so UN-crafty... the other day I went to super glue some sandals that had come apart, & ended up super gluing 3 fingers together!!!!! Need I say more.....
I'm glad your mom is much better at crafty things than I am!

Rachel said...

EEP. And again. EEP! Too cute. Will be trying these. Thank you, thank you... :)

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