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October 9, 2011 by: Melanie

Fall Project Week #7- Halloween Headband with Seven Alive

Welcome to Project 7 of Fall Project Week! Today’s Guest is Kadie from Seven Alive All Livin’ in a Double Wide.
Hi y’all.  My name is Kadie and I blog over at Seven Alive all Livin’ in a Double Wide. I am so excited to be here today!  Melanie has put together a great week of fall/Halloween crafts from some great ladies around blogland.  I am honored to bring up the rear.

I wanted to show you all how to make this super cute festive headband.

Lets get started.
First lets gather our supplies.

We have googlie eyes, hot glue gun, ribbon, wooden dowels, and a headband blank.  I got my blank at Micheal’s most crafting stores have them.  If you can’t find a blank you can use a skinny headband from any store.  As is customary of me and my scattered brain I forgot to add white felt, scissors, strait pins and a cookie pan. Sorry.

I am going to show you how to get your ribbon curly first.  Take your white ribbon, one skinny and one thicker, and wrap them around your dowels.  The smaller the dowel the tighter the curl will be.  Use a strait pin at each end to hold the ribbon in place.  Run the ribbon and dowel under water until very wet.  Place on the cookie sheet  and put in the oven at the lowest temp.

We are going to start wrapping our headband while the ribbon is drying in the oven.  Take your handy dandy (blues clues anyone?) glue gun and glue down the end of your ribbon to the end of the headband. I use 3/8 inch ribbon. You can use what ever color you like.  In the first photos I used the same white ribbon that I made the ghost out of.  Here I thought a purple would be nice.  I like to wrap over the raw end so it doesn’t fray.  Now just wrap around the entire headband.

I don’t glue anywhere but the ends.  If you want to use more glue go ahead.  Just make sure it doesn’t ooze from in between the ribbon.

When you get to the other end glue the ribbon down on the inside of the headband.  Then fold over the ribbon end and glue it to it’s self.

Then you are going to wrap that around and glue it to the inside of the headband.  Now you have a nice ribbon wrapped headband with no raw edges.

Now to make the ghost to go on it.  Take your white felt and cut a very simple ghost shape.  I just eyeball it because it is going to be covered any way.

By this time your ribbon should be dry.  It takes about 20-30 min. depending on how hot your oven is and how wet your ribbon was.

After it has cooled, take it off the dowel. Cut it into strips long enough to cover your ghost shape.

 

I put the thicker ribbon on first and then filled in with the thinner ribbon.

I trim down the felt at this point.  Leaving just enough space for the eyes and bow.

 

Use a little bit of hot glue to tack down the white felt to the headband.  Now you just need a cutie patootie to put it on.

 

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Comments

  1. Skylar Magazine says

    October 9, 2011 at 12:42 pm

    Wow, that is really cool. I love stuff like this. I just started following your blog from the Boo Hop. My name is Sarah, I would love for you to come follow back http://skylarinc.blogspot.com/. I am also following you on Pinterest and I liked your FB page. Anyway, hope you are having a great weekend. Thanks:)

  2. Terry says

    October 9, 2011 at 10:30 pm

    Cutie patootie is right!! This seems like a really easy craft and love that little ghost. Too cute.

  3. Coley says

    October 10, 2011 at 6:22 pm

    This is too adorable! Wonderful tutorial as well 🙂

    Coley @
    http://www.whatyoumakeit-coley.blogspot.com

   
   
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