Satin Hair Accessories

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Such a fun and vibrant accessory.

 Many color combos are at your fingertips.

 

And how can you resist all those layers of petals...  Nice and full and perfectly sweet.

Ready to make your own?

First, begin by cutting about 6 circles of satin material for each flower.  (I just found the cheapest satin I could.....only a few $'s a yard, and it worked great.  The satin just needs to be able to melt with fire, rather than burn.)  The blue flower is bigger and the largest circle is about 3 inches in diameter.  The largest green circle is about 2 1/2 inches in diameter.  

I made each circle gradually smaller, making sure they fit on top of the circle just larger than it, and didn't worry one bit about making it a perfect circle.  The uneven-ness of each circle will add to the beauty of the flower.  Promise.

Then I used a lighter and slightly melted the edges of each flower,   This also caused the edges to curl up a bit.

Then, one at a time, I hot glued each circle to the one below it, until I had my layered flower.

Then I placed a rather full blob of hot glue in the center of the flower.......

then dumped a pile of these little filler beads right on top.  (You know, the same ones I used for filling up the "I-spy" bags here.)  You could use real beads or skip the hot glue and sew on beads to the center.  But I just had these filler beads and thought they were the perfect shape. And I have had the pink flowered headband (shown above) for a while, which has been tossed and smashed and in the bottom of my purse........and the little beads are still holding strong.

And that was it.  The centers for the flowers are done.