A Ribbon Baby Blog Hop!

Welcome to the May Arts Ribbon Baby Blog Hop! Since our Queen of the Ribbonista's (Bethney) recently had a precious little bundle of joy, we have all been gushing over everything baby! What an exciting reason to hold a blog hop! 

I seem to always be in hairbow mode because making hairbows for little girls and babies is so much fun!!! I decided to make a cute headband along with some barefoot sandals. These are all the trend right now! I made up a little tutorial on how to make the barefoot sandals. They are so quick and easy to create, what an adorable and inexpensive baby gift! 

You will need: Ribbon flowers, elastic, and some little jewels for the centers. 

First, cut your elastic. For newborn size cut the elastic around 9". For 6-9 month size, cut the elastic at about 11". 

Make a figure 8 with the elastic as shown and hot glue.

Cut out your flower. To attach it, you will need a felt circle. This makes the backing soft on the baby's feet. Ialso use these on the backs of the headbands as well.

Glue in place like so. 

Add a little rhinestone center or leave plain, either way, these are adorable! 

I didn't have a little baby to model these cute little accessories, but if you google search "baby barefoot sandals" you will see several examples of how they are worn! 

Don't forget to visit all of the ribbonista's along the hop! Just by hopping and commenting along the way, you are entered to win 3 spools of May Arts Ribbon of your choice from the baby section here: https://www.mayarts.com/browse/industries/baby/

Thursday

Charlene Driggs Emily Lanham Gini Williams Cagle Jen Shears Jenifer Cowles Jennifer Davey Karen Baker

Friday

Karen Hanson Mallika Kejriwal Mary Brockway Rhea Weigand Tracy McLennon

Products Used:
May Arts Ribbon- 2.5" Sheer/Frayed Flowers in Pink & White, 5/8" Elastic in Light Pink
Other Supplies: Felt Circles, Rhinestones

May Arts New Release Week!

In case you've been living under a rock... I just wanted to do a quick little blog post letting you all know about the NEW release ribbons from May Arts! They are AMAZING! You can check them out HERE!

This week on the May Arts Blog, the Ribbonistas are featuring a variety of the new release ribbons to give some ideas on how you can use these ribbons in your projects. 

For my project, I created these adorable little headbands just in time for Valentine's Day! They are so simple to make! Stop by the May Arts Blog today to see the full tutorial and create some of these cuties for yourself! 

Ribbonista Blog Hop- Day 4!

Welcome to the May Arts Ribbonista Blog Hop! If you came here from Gini's blog today, you're on the right track! If not, make sure you hop back to the beginning today and start at Christina's blog! If you haven't been hopping with us all week long, be sure to stop by the May Arts blog for the full hop order for each day this week and a chance to win some ribbon for yourself! 

I admit, I was stumped when trying to think of a project for this hop. By now, as you could only imagine, I am about Christmas'd out! One of my friends called me last week and pretty much saved the day! She asked if I had any Christmas themed hair accessories made that she could buy from me to wear to work... well... no... but I could surely make one! PERFECT! This was a little out of the ordinary and not my typical paper craft project, so I was ready to give it a try! Little did she know, I was not going to charge her for it, this was the perfect little Christmas gift for her! 

Have a friend, child, family member that loves hair accessories? Why not make them one for Christmas! Especially if you bought them clothes (I know I always dreaded clothes for Christmas as a child but now I welcome them with open arms!)... you can make an accessory to match! 

First, pick out some rosette ribbon. I used the sheer frayed flowers from May Arts (393-3-01). I like to get my rosettes and some other ribbons in white so I can easily dye them with mists. A new favorite mist of mine is the Color Shine by Heidi Swapp. It's a pretty stand-out mist because it gives more of a subtle iridescent shimmer rather than lots of glitter. For this project I used Sweet Cherry and Chartreuse Color Shine. 

Next, you will need to cut some circles out of felt to re-enforce your flowers and embellishments. Mine aren't the most perfect circles, but they work! 

If you want a super-frilly hair bow, you can add lace and leaves. I chose the lace with pearl center (384-34-09). It's one of my new favorites. So dainty! I also chose to add gold leaves (XL30) to go along with the Christmas theme. I glued all of these onto the felt circles.

Then I  glued the flowers on top of the embellishments on the felt circles. 

You can lay out your flowers and position them how you want them before actually gluing them together. 

Once you glue them, add an extra felt circle to the back, this is where your clip will go. 

Glue an alligator clip to the back. I added a strip of felt to help re-enforce the clip. 

You can also embellish. I added some pearl heart stick pins and some petaloo flowers on top. 

Here's my little cutie trying on the hair piece. 

Needless to say, my friend LOVED it! I have a feeling this won't be the last hair accessory that I make! 

Thanks for stopping by! Now hop right along and see what Marie has to share today! 

Christina- http://www.thetwistedmuse.com/

Gini- www.ginicagle.blogspot.com

Emily- http://createserendipity.blogspot.com

Marie- EthansImprints.Blogspot.Com

Montina- www.encorecreations.blogspot.com