Faux Cherry Blossom - PB Knock Off

I saw the Faux Cherry Blossom in PB Catalog and loved them and knew I needed to make me some.

So I gathered my twigs from my back yard and put them in a glass vase that I had on hand . . .

glued my blossoms to my twigs with my hot glue gun. I loved how it turned out and only cost me $6.00 to make - sure beats the $64.00 that PB wanted for them!

I love having a little bit of Spring in my house.

Linking to: Someday crafts

Cute flower bracelet

While I have been making these flowers I saw this awesome idea to add to my flowers fixation. A flower bracelet, I of course had to make mine interchangeable, since I've made soooo many flowers. I took a piece of white felt cut it 1" wide and 7" long. The length will depend on your wrist. So just measure and make sure it will fit and to have enough to overlap and fasten.

I took Velcro dots and hot glued them to my felt piece.

I glued one on both sides of the felt to fasten at each end.

I love being able to interchange, mix and match the different flowers and colors.

I am having WAY to much fun with these flowers. A little overboard I know, but so fun.

Flower Pin

I know, more flowers, enough with the flowers, but so many cute things to do with them. And I have a couple more cute ideas coming and then I will move on to something else. . . PROMISE! Today's idea is to make a cute broach, fun to add to any wardrobe.
I took a piece of felt and cut a circle. Used my glue gun to glue the Velcro dots on. Glued a broach pin on the back.

My flip-flop flowers already have the soft Velcro on the back.

Place the flowers on the Velcro dots and I have a fun accessory. And can change it out depending on what I am wearing.

Silk Flowers

While we were in Idaho over Spring Break, we started making these silk flowers. (When I say "we" It's my daughter and my nieces) I learned this fun idea from my neighbor Michelle. Thanks Michelle, we have had a ton of fun doing these. I went to Joann's in Logan and bought an 1/8 yard of silk material and I learned when the lady went to cut the fabric, that you want to buy 100% polyester. The polyester will melt, if it's not 100% polyester, then it will burn and give your edges a burned look. I also bought some glitter lacey fabric (so I'm not a seamstress so I don't know the names of fabric, but it's used for formal dresses) and used that with the solid silk material. I used a circle template and cut circles out of card stock for my pattern.

I then pinned my card stock circles to my fabric and cut circles. We did some all the same color, we did some alternating colors, you could do whatever.

Once the circles were cut we melted the edges with a candle. We held the material over the candle and would rotate it as it melted, some materials burned faster than others, so be careful.

Once I melted all of the circles for my flower, I used my hot glue gun and glued all of the layers together. I then added a gem in the middle of the flower. Put a clip on the back and now it will look beautiful in Kelsey's hair.

Here are some more that we did. We actually made three of each set. I will show you soon what we are going to do with the other two sets.

Flowers, Flowers and more Flowers

When my sister Cameo and I were talking about starting a blog to share our creations with each other and other bloggers, we were trying to find a great name for the blog and my family thought it was fun to come up with names for our blog. We had some funny ones. When we decided on "Craft Critters, My daughter asked if she could be a critter and we told her she couldn't and then we jokingly said that she could be a "junior critter". We all laughed and thought it was funny, but now that we actually sort of have this blog going she wanted to post as a "junior critter", so as our daughters create we will have them post as a junior critter, which I think will be a fun thing to have on our blog. Here is Kelsey with her first post:

Here is how to make a flower clips to put in your hair. I figured out what color of flower I wanted.

Then I took my flowers and pulled them apart.

I figured out what order I wanted my flowers to be in.

Then I took my brad and put it threw all of the flowers, then I put the brad threw the bottom of the clip and folded the prongs of the brad over the clip.

Then I took tape and put it over the brad and the bottom of clip so that when you wear it, the brad won't poke your head and the clip won't move back and forth off the flower.

This is what the flower looks like from the back, you can see that the tape is covering the brad and is holding down the clip to the flower.

Here is the flower when it is all finished.

Here is a red and black flower that I made.

Here is a black, yellow and white flower that I also made.

Here is an all white flower I made.

This is a white and purple flower I made.

Here is a pink and white flower I made. This was one of the first flowers I made.

Here are all the flowers I have made so far.

Here is a different variety of flowers that I also made.

Kelsey,
Junior Critter!