Clay Flower Hairpins

Umm, hairclips v. hairpins - oops, but I don't want to re-edit the picture, so it'll just say hairclips, but I mean hairpins - oh well.  Anyways, remember awhile ago when I posted about Lacey and her tutorial on how to make mini clay flower hairpins??  You can see it here. These are some she made:

Well, I finally got around to making some myself - wahoo!  I used her tutorial for a couple, and then I made up my own technique for a couple more, and I'll show it to you.

 First roll a snake and cut off pieces - then roll the pieces into balls and smash them onto the table.  This is a great job for helpers (this is a good picture to showcase why hairpins are a current necessity in our house):

Next pick up a flat circle (not really sure this picture is necessary!):

And pinch the bottom of the circle together:

That makes one petal.  Set it aside and make a bunch more.  Then grab a ball that hasn't been smashed and press the seam of the petal onto the side of the ball - you might need to click on this picture to enlarge it to see what's going on.  For the big purple one, I went all the way around the ball with petals and then did a whole second round of petals attached to the inner circle of petals.

That's it!  Bake as the package says.  Once hardened and cooled, I hot glued the flowers onto bobby pins.  I also slipped a little piece of fabric inbetween the bobby pin and pushed it onto the hot glue for extra hold:

 Then, wear and enjoy!  (Bobby pins have become daily wear around here, ever since her and neighbor girl decided they wanted bangs and took matters into their own hands!)

 I love that polymer clay is so cheap - just over a dollar a package - and you could probably make a dozen of these little flowers out of one package - wahoo for fun, cute and cheap!

 Go try it - you can do this!!