Fancy Flower Hair Clips

I've gotten a couple of requests

to post a tutorial about making these flower

hair clips all the little girls are wearing:

The technique is very simple,

but please excuse the fact that my photos

come from several different projects.

I have lots of photos.

Lots and Lots of Photos.

I weeded through them and pulled these

out for this tutorial:

You will need your adhesive of choice

(I have used hot glue and E6000 - they both work)

When I first started making these, I used

 the daisies on a long plastic stem found in the

floral department of my craft store.

Now they're selling just the daisy tops:

You will also need a large acrylic gemstone

for the center of the hair accessory,

and an alligator clip to attach the flower to.

Pull the flocked plastic center of the flower

off of the plastic stem and

separate the flower layers.

I like to buy two different colored daisies

and alternate the layers:

 You want to glue each layer

to the layer beneath it - securely -

with either the hot glue or the E6000.
Just glue the centers -
you want the petals to be loosey goosey.

Attach the acrylic gemstone to the center

of the flowers with either glue.

Glue to alligator clip to the back

center of the flower.

For a more finished look,

you can glue a strip of grosgrain

ribbon to the top part of the alligator clip

before attaching it to the flower.

 And there you go!

Quick and Easy!!

Now I need to make something

super fun and crafty

to hang all these beautiful hairbows from!

Peace and Fancy Flowers