It's Christmas and like most people I have a lot of gifts to get but not a whole lot of money to spend. Being that it's Christmas... I would love to be able to give gifts to everyone however that could be very expensive. I decided that this year I would make some gifts to give away with a card. Normally I would bake some cookies but this year I wanted to do something a little different. I have a small group of pals that meets for Christmas Cocktails once a year. Since gift giving tends to be expensive we normally decide not to do a gift exchange... but it's CHRISTMAS.... and I normally take something!
Since my pals have nice hair... I decided to go with hair clips this year. Since it's Christmas... I decided to go with RED ones. I found most of my supplies at the 99 cent store when I was looking for my turquoise Christmas balls. I saw the red bows...which I believe are meant for decorating the tree... and the idea just came to me. I was also lucky enough to find the hair clips there as well. Everything else I had at home. Total cost for supplies.... $2.00
I got out my glue gun and scissors along with a few other things and got busy. The first thing I needed to do was trim the gold thread in the back of the bows. I needed the surface to be smooth.
Snip
SMOOTH!
The next thing I did was hot glued the silver hair clips to the back of the bows. You need to be careful when doing this and make sure you have then going in the proper direction of where you want the bow to be on your head.. otherwise they may get glued on backwards.
Glued Down
I let them sit for awhile and cool. The next step is to simply decorate the front. You can do this with a number of different things like vintage buttons or trinkets. You can simply add glitter to it or small faux flowers. Because my group of gals like more of a dark theme..I went with some skulls and bats.
I had a bunch of spooky trinkets left over from Halloween crafts. The skulls and bats
were plastic rings. All I did was snip off the RING part and then hot glued them to the center of my bow.
Just like this.
I actually took these a step further and glued rhinestones (I had from another
craft) into the skull eyes and bat wings just to make them a tad more fancy. I also decided to make my own cards this year so I found some vintage holiday images online and printed some pictures which I then glued to index cards. I wrote personal messages on the back for each girl and attached the clips to the card. To dress the card up more ... I punched two holes on the top and then tied a bow in the center with some leopard ribbon. Again I had the card stock and ribbon at home already so I didn't have to purchase anything but the bows and clips.
Christmas always brings out the crafter in me. These little bow clips were so simple and fun to make!
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