A fun tradition to start when kids are young is a birthday hat. (I wish I would have thought of this one when my kiddos were babies) Make a sturdy birthday hat that you can take a picture of your child wearing each year on their birthday! It would be so much fun to look at the succession of pictures..young to old. One of my very crafty friends Jennifer makes adorable hats..and I got the idea from her :) For this one I started by cutting a piece of 11X14 watercolor paper the size of the hat I wanted. I love watercolor paper because it's sturdy enough to hold up to a lot of crafting. I actually had a store bought birthday hat that I took apart and saved for a template. To start off with I cut out the name on my Silhouette and lightly adhered it to the hat.
I misted the hat with Maya Road misting spray. After it dried I peeled the name off.
I folded tissue paper several times and then using my little flower punch I punched out the flowers. I glued them to the hat along with a little pearl in the middle with Glossy Accents.
I trimmed the edges of red party cray paper to make it slightly fringe and glued white ric rac in the middle.
For the top I layed out a strip of white tissue paper and then cut fringes. I then rolled it up and make the "pom pom". I separated the layers by gently pulling on them.
The banner is made of double sided triangles joined at the top. I cut them this way so I can fold them over bakers twine. I wrote Happy Birthday and secured each end with a pin. (I taped the pointy end to the inside of the hat). This hat was fun to make, my friend requested "not too girly". Thank goodness she said something to me or I would have gone a little crazy and did the whole nine yards of princess, ribbon and tulle! Happy Creating,
Melissa
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