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Girls Camp Craft Idea: Ribbon Bracelets

June 14, 2010 By Michelle Barneck 12 Comments

My YW and I made these bracelets a few months ago to give at New Beginnings, but they would be a super easy craft for girls camp too!

We wanted the bracelets to have a message to tie in with this year’s mutual theme so the girls chose to have them say “find the courage within.”

Supplies needed:
Ribbon-YW value colors
Brad (optional)
Adhesive velcro
Label Maker with tape
Scissors
Lighter (to melt the ribbon ends)

This ribbon bracelet was adapted from a bracelet on I Never Grew Up. She has a tutorial.

I had a hard time finding ribbon with the YW colors. There was rainbow ribbon, but I spent a summer in San Francisco and did not the girls running around giving the wrong idea (the rainbow is the universal sign for gay). I took creative license and bought a ribbon that had most of the colors and then bought a brad that filled in the missing colors (Purple, Sparkles used for gold). I liked the extra bling the brad added.

Then, we just printed the saying on labels and stuck them on the inside of the ribbon bracelet. We had to trim them a little to get them to fit just right.

Easy peasy, economical, cute!

I got my ribbon in the Robert’s Craft gift wrap section. The brads were from Robert’s too.

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Feature Friday-Blog Swap with Happy Together

June 11, 2010 By Michelle Barneck 8 Comments

Hi everyone 🙂 My name is Jessica from Happy Together and I have the pleasure of blog swapping with Michelle today.

I am blessed to be able to live my dreams by staying home with my daughter and being able to use my creative talents. I share on my blog mostly crafty things with lots of tutorials and the occasional other things sprinkled in. I also have an Etsy shop where patterns I make are for sale as well as other things like headbands for your cutie pie. Today I wanted to share a simple tutorial to make a trimmings bracelet.

I thought of this when I was trying to come up with something to do with small pieces of trims/ribbons I would have left over from projects.

They are quick to make and require no jewelry making experience. Here we go……

Let’s Begin

Start by gathering what you need:
-Leftover trims, ribbons, etc. at least 8″ long
-Scissors
-Embroidery Thread
-Needle
-Clasp (I used toggle clasps)
-Glue and/or heat sealing instrument (candle, wood burning tool)

Cut the ribbons and trims to be about 8 inches. You can measure your wrist and change this if needed, but I made it so it had extra room on my wrist but not enough to fall off.

I always heat seal with a candle flame.

All Done! Enjoy them or share them with someone. Maybe even just decorate a cup.

I enjoyed having the opportunity to share with the all of the readers here at A Little Tipsy. Stop by and visit from time to time 🙂

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Isn’t she adorable?! How fun are these bracelets for summer! Thanks Jessica for swappin’ it up with me today!

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DIY Interchangeable Butterfly Headband

April 21, 2010 By Michelle Barneck 9 Comments

Do you want to join the headband craze, but not for $25 a pop?! Me too. I am loving all the adorable headbands you find everywhere and decided to try one out for myself. Enter the DIY Interchangeable Butterfly headband!

Isn’t she a doll?! I saw this adorable headband (below, sorry it’s hard to see, it’s the only pic I could find because cute Quinn is always behind the camera!)on my friend Quinn a few months ago and thought, I bet I could make one of those!

I went on my quest and found this dandy three pack of headbands at the Dollar Tree. I am good with 33 cents!!

Next, I headed over to Hobby Lobby and found these little beauties for $1.99! I did a little dance in the aisle. I love the colors and the little wings are made out of stiff feathers which gives them a cool texture.

You could easily glue the butterflies right to the headband, but I wanted to be able to switch out colors. The butterflies came with a wire sticking out of them, so I just secured the wire in the butterfly better with some glue and wired it right on to the headband.