DIY Craft Foam Crown Headband

 

I really meant to get in progress photos but it's harvest time up here and my family is doing a LOT of harvesting of wild plants and stuff. 

I've started selling some of my salves in partnership with a good friend. You can follow her page and see what are doing together at Da Love Bazaar on Facebook. 

So instead of in progress photos, you get the printable pattern and a written explanation. That said, I plan to do more styles of these and will get photos of them in progress and it's the same method. 

You will need: 

• The printable pattern! 
• Sheets of a flexible but firm material to cut them from- I used craft foam
• appropriate glue for your material- hot glue works well with craft foam
• sharp scissors
• a blank headband 
• stuff to decorate it with- I used rhinestone tape with this one 
  
• clips to hold it while glue is drying if necessary
• pen that will mark on your material
• bottle or narrow glass that the base of the crown will fit on. 
  
  Click the image below and print it out at 100% or fit to page. This is pieces to lay out two crowns to cut them.

Cut out the pieces, then lay them out on your foam and trace them. 

Cut out the foam. 

Glue the two disks together, if you're using a glitter or textured foam, it's better to have the smooth/wrong side against your hair. 

Curve the crown piece around, and use the small tab to connect the edges in a circle. 

Trim a SMALL amount off the disks so they fit tightly in the base of the crown piece and run a bead of glue inside the crown to attach it. 

Now is where you need the bottle that it fits over. I used a tall amber pill bottle. I put the crown upside on that, then used the larger tab to attach the headband. That protects the points from being crushed while you're attaching the headband. Align the headband on the crown base so the seam/connecting piece is in the back. That puts the center point in the front. 

After all the glue is set, it's time to decorate it!! 

It's really easy to make one of these. 

The rhinestone tape is really easy to use and it's fun. It cuts easily with scissors and I have a lot of it because I use it for props frequently. These are Amazon affiliate links. Using them will not affect your cost but will help support this site. 

Rhinestone Tape
Multi-colored Tape Set

I've been having a "Tiara Tuesday" on my FB page for a few month now and plan to have more crown and tiara projects this next year. 

2021 Knotwork Bat Coloring Page!

Time for the annual bat coloring page. Or near annual anyway. If you click on the tags you can find a lot more bats and Halloween themed original coloring pages. 

Click the images below for larger versions to print and color. I hope you enjoy it!!! 

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Bat knot 2019 coloring page

Happy Halloween! I have a lot of bats on this page, including more knotwork ones. Click the bat tag in the tag list to see them all.

I love drawing knots, and love bats. I do hope you like this coloring page as much as I do. Click the images below for full sized versions to print and color. Print on landscape setting.

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Swirly Skull Coloring Page

It's that most spooktacular time of the year! I'm sorry that I haven't done nearly as much Halloween posting as usual, but you can find a whole bunch of Halloween projects by clicking the link below.

HALLOWEEN


I hope you enjoy this coloring page. It needs to be printed on landscape settings.

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Batty Mandala to color

I started this mandala a week ago, planning on it being something quick to post. And I kept coming back to it thinking it needed one more dot, one more star. That maybe plain outlines didn't work and it needed solid black, then thinking that was too much and going back to outlines and not liking that.

So now I'm posting it. Because at this rate it's never going to be done. There is always going to be one more spot I want to add a star or dot too. I'm never going to be sure about outline weight or solid black. So I hope very much you enjoy this simple but more complicated than it needed to be batty mandala for Halloween.

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In other news! 

I got the printed version of my new coloring book!!

My daughter holding copies of my new coloring book.

You can get it from all the usual places. Dover, Amazon, etc. 

And my kids went to a local small convention at the beginning of the month and I have to show off their costumes. The Amazing Turnip Girl made both of them. 

Nearly Instant Halloween Accessories

I love this time of year. You can find all sorts of delightfully creepy things at the store, and shops open up just for Halloween.

I bought some very inexpensive spiders and bats to make accessories. The reason I got bright, colorful spiders is that they are less disturbing to the arachnophobe in my family.
To make the hair slides- the easy way is to use bobby pins that have a gluing pad. The thing is I don't actually like using those in my hair. So I did something a little different so I could use my preferred bobby pin type-

So for there easy spider hair pins, you will need:

• Bobby pins 
• Instant type glue (I used Krazy Glue)
• White craft glue (I used Elmer's Glue All)
• Craft felt
• Plastic spiders with a largish body
• scissors

Craft felt is made out of plastic, so are the spiders. Krazy Glue works great for bonding them together. Cut 4 strips per pair of spiders of craft felt that are about 1/4 inch wide and the length of the spider body. Glue one strip to the bottom of each spider. 

Slide the other strips into the bobby pins, and spread white craft glue on the craft felt on the spider, then press the strip in the bobby pin to the spider and hold for a couple minutes. Let the glue dry. 

Wow. See? Insanely easy. Now you could do a lot to the spiders before gluing them to the bobby pins. You could cover them in glitter, or use a plastic safe metallic spray paint on them. Make them as fancy as you'd like. 

Bat necklace!

Same thing, if you want, you can absolutely glitter or paint the bat. I went with plain black for mine. 

So for this one- you will need

• Plastic bats- they come in all sorts of colors. I have some that are neon green!
• chain
• 22 gauge wire- half hard if you have it.
• round nose pliers
• wire snips
• 1/8 inch hole punch

So this is just as easy as the project above, and if you're a jewelry crafter- you might have the supplies on hand. I used some copper chain that I had, and bronze 22 gauge wire. Bronze is fairly hard compared to copper- if you're using a soft wire, lightly hammer the hooks before attaching them to the chain to harden them slightly. 

Punch a hole in the top of both wings with the hole punch. Then cut 2 1.5 inch pieces of wire and coil the top into a loop, then curl the rest into a hook with a little bit curled over at the end. 

Put one wire on each end of the chain, and slide through the holes in the bat wings. 

Back in 2011, I posted a project for Eyeball hair sticks using the plastic eyeballs that available this time of the year. That project is also an instant costume. Moms always have eyes in the back of their head! 

2015 Witch box

The witch box for 2015!
Click the image below for a larger version, print this box on card stock, cut out, score fold lines, fold, glue to assemble this cute little Halloween gift box.

More Witchy Printables

More Halloween Printables and Projects

Biohazard Knot for zombie lovers (coloring page)

It's October- which means zombies, Halloween and Supernatural. Okay, Supernatural has absolutely nothing to do with this knotwork, but I'm really, really excited about it.

I hope you enjoy this knot to color as much as I enjoyed drawing it. It's a biohazard symbol, which are frequently used in pop culture zombie movies and merchandise.

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Looking for some great zombie themed gifts?

Skull damask printable boxes

I hope you enjoy these skull damask printable boxes for spooky treats! Click on the images for larger versions, print on card stock, cut out, score fold, fold and glue. Would you like these boxes with a purple or orange background as well?

And welcome to all the new readers!! Thank you all for helping get the total hits to Don't Eat the Paste to 5,000,000 a few weeks earlier than expected! If you look on the right hand side of the blog you'll see social buttons so you can follow me in other places. If you're really into geeky things,my daughter pins to a board on my Pinterest that's absolutely unsorted but updated regularly with all sorts of very geeky fandom things.

Stained glass effect pumpkin gift box

It's nippy outside! After taking an enforced break due to an injury (pinched a nerve in my shoulder and my arm was going to sleep every time it was in the wrong position e.g.: drawing) I'm back and hard at work on my next coloring book.

I hope you enjoy this pumpkin printable gift box!

In other news- I'm still really wanting a pair of knee high Gipsy Dharma boots. I keep winding up on her site and just drooling over the gorgeous boots. 

The Amazing Turnip Girl has Twitter now! Look for @TATG_Kairi if you'd like to follow her. She and I are planning a wand tutorial soon. 

Printable Bat Box

I hope you enjoy this printable gift box! Last night my daughter was asking me about hashtags and a running joke on FB and Twitter is that I occasionally use #rosemarysfault. Rosemary and I are close friends who talk about well, nearly everything. This box is #rosemarysfault, because she's very fond of stained glass effect boxes and of bats.

Click the image below for a larger version to print and assemble. Print on card stock, cut out, score folds, fold, glue!

Skullgyle Printable Box!

Well, I have a working computer. Then a windstorm took out my internet connection. So I'm sitting here at a local coffee shop posting this printable for you. I hope you enjoy it! Skullgyle printable box- 3x3x1 inch. Click on the image for a larger version to print on cardstock- print, cut out, score, fold, glue!

Skull Projects and Printables

While I'm waiting for the parts for my computer- I thought it would be fun to repost some round ups of previous projects.

Skull Knitting Chart- this chart is one that I used for a dice bag for my son. The large skulls on the ties are table decorations that I drilled to make beads.

Día de los Muertos Sugar Skull Boxes- these open topped boxes are easy to make and one of my favorite printable projects ever.


Skull Mandala to color


Skull and Crossbone Cupcake Toppers- I love this fan effect. No idea why I haven't done a lot more of these.

These are just a few of the skull projects available, because apparently, I really love skulls.
All things skully on Don't Eat the Paste

Witches coloring page

This isn't quite a true tessellation because it has overlap in the design. But it's very much like a tessellation.

This coloring page actually came from a design I was working on for my Spoonflower collection, and I posted the design to my FB page and asked if people would like to see it as a coloring page. Several people said they really would. So here it is, Halloween witches to color!

More Halloween projects, coloring pages and printables


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Cute Little Vampire Printable Box and Coloring Page

It started with this cute little witch box, then I had to do a little Bride of Frankenstein's Monster box, and now a little vampire. All using the same body and face, with different dresses and coloring. I'm not sure if this is the last box in this series or not.

Click on the image for a larger version, print on card stock, cut out, score, fold, glue.

And here's the matching coloring page. As usual, in both JPG and transparent PNG formats.

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The Bride printable box and coloring page

After drawing the basic body/face for the Cute Witch box recently, I decided that I liked it too much just to have it for the witch. So here's a Bride of the Frankenstein Monster matching box and coloring sheet. Hopefully in the next day or so, there will be a vampire and maybe a zombie as well.

Click on the box for a larger version. Print on card stock, cut out, score, fold, glue!

Coloring pages

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