I am really excited about this! It really was the result of a craft fail. I was trying to make a rosette from the tutorial on Craft eNVy. When I finished it didn’t look much like a rose. It was pointy like a cupcake top. Then, an idea was born. I had not seen a cupcake bow and who can’t use a little more cupcake in their lives?! Here’s a tutorial for personal use only please!
1. Start by making a little rosette in your frosting color. Then take your “wrapper” ribbon and make a ruffle on your needle. Stitch the ends of the ruffle to make a little circle.

2. Pull the end of your ribbon through the hole and then go around the bottom of the rose (inside the “wrapper”)with hot glue. Squish it all together, being sure to ripple the wrapper ribbon all around.
That’s velcro. Now it will stay in the finest of baby hair. I got the velcro idea from Dollar Store Crafts. Wouldn’t the ribbon cupcake be so cute on a headband?! You could put a dot of velcro on the headband and change out bows to match. Love it!
I have a thing for argyle. Yes, yes, I do. This is just a tiny button bow that is oh so fun for tiny heads and so very easy to make.
1. Get a small circle of ribbon. Squish the middle between your fingers and stitch. Then add your button on the front and your velcro on the back and stitch together.
2. I add a little circle of ribbon on the other side of the velcro so that is cute too. Singe the edges so it won’t fray.
I had to make a BYU bow. Her mommy is a Cougar! I just did a bunch of figure 8s and hot glued them together.
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Those are just darling! I love the ides of the vlecro dots and switching the bows out! GREAT IDEA! : )
Great job! I need to work on my bow making skills.
So cute, I love them. I love bows, I have an online store, I just can’t get enough of girly stuff, thanks for sharing.
These are really cute! I see things like this and think, “where could I buy that?” since making things – in general – is very intimidating and stressful for me. However, these looked simple enough that I could possibly handle it! 😉