DIY Fashion Accessories Tutorial

DIY Fashion Accessories

          Hi friends...it feels like its been ages since I posted online though actually its been just a fortnight. Here is a fashion accessory tutorial brought to you by my little girl! Yes she made the gorgeous flowers on her head band!

The flowers you see are made from special " Sospeso Trasparente" printed plastic films.Click this link to read more about the beautiful Italian craft of Sospeso Trasparente

Sospeso Transparente 

After cutting out the flower designs, they are heated and embossed using wooden [wood because of its heat conduction properties]embossing tools on a special embossing pad.

Sospeso Trasparente technique

It is indeed magical to see such flat flowers transform into 3 dimensional beauties!

Sospeso Trasparente flowers

Layered 2 daisies atop with hot glue to create a fuller flower .

My little girl has been coaxing me to allow her to make a video tutorial ..and finally I relented! Here is my little girl showing you How to use Diamond dust to make Sparkling Flowers

You  can also jazz up Sospeso Trasparente flowers  with ice crystals ,inking or glitter!

Hairband tutorial 

Here is how to make any kinda hair band using not only Sospeso flowers but felt, foam, fabric or any other crafty thing you make and want on your head!

Hair Band tutorial 

Materials required 

• Hairbands : plastic, metal or felt  hair bands - the plain plastic ones are super cheap and ideal for your first experiment!
• Foam- thin craft foam is the best but if you only find the thicker one-- that's okay too
• Glue Gun

Hair Band tutorial  

Cut a thin rectangular piece of foam long enough to wrap around your hairband.Keep its width smaller than the size of your flower so that the foam base is hidden when you stick your flower

Hair Band tutorial 

Hot glue the foam strip around your hair band.

Sospeso Trasparente hair band

Apply your flower directly on to this foam strip or for a more secure attachment, stick a  circle/ square foam piece atop this foam strip with hot glue. You can use a glue dot also to stick foam to foam but the best adhesive for foam is hot glue!

Sospeso Trasparente hair band

And if you are wondering why I chose foam rather than felt or any other material to form the base for our Sospeso Trasparente  flower- its because when using the hot glue..the plastic and foam melt and fuse to each other giving a very firm adhesion which can survive the many antics a little girl's hair band is bound to be subjected to!

Sospeso Trasparente hair accessory

We made one more foam strip - disc to attach a 2nd diamond dusted Sospeso flower!

Sospeso Trasparente hair band

Every girl loves matching accessories! So we made a matching necklace using more Sospeso Trasparente flowers

Sospeso Trasparente Necklace

We made a Sospeso Trasparente flower with ice crystals following this tutorial : Sospeso Ice crystal effect and added them to a plastic base brooch

Sospeso Trasparente jewelry 

You can use the brooch as such and pin it to dresses , curtains, bags etc or add it to a chain and use it as a pendant!

Sospeso Trasparente jewelry

Making a Sospeso Trasparente brooch is super simple- hot glue a foam piece to a plastic brooch and stick your flower to the foam disc

Sospeso Trasparente Jewelry tutorial 

Here is another Sospeso Trasparente Neckalce design we played with!

Sospeso Trasparente jewelry

I hope you liked my little girl's fashion accessories and her little tutorial !
If you are interested in Sospeso Trasparente tutorials , see my Sospeso Trasparente Pinterest Board

A question I am always asked "Where  to buy Sospeso Trasparente material in India ?" : Crafters Corner