How To Tuesday

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Design team member Savitri Wilder shares a fun tutorial with us today about creating props for photography using Pebbles products.  Here's what Savitri had to say ... "I love How To Tuesday at Pebbles.  I love it because I either learn something new or get reminded of something I already know.  Today it's my turn to share a bit of how to and I hope that my little tutorial will either teach or remind you of a little something or another.  I’ve been into photography more and the last few weeks I have been either buying props or figuring out how to make some of my own. While doing my research I came across this tutorial and I was inspired.  While the examples were quite adorable, I wanted to spruce mine up a bit more and there’s nothing better than Pebbles’ goodies for what I had in mind!"

First of all you need the template. I found the template quite nice. At first I thought it was a bit small but after perching the finished piece on my 7-yrs-old head, it looked really really cute. 
Using my good old printer I printed the template out and trimmed around it. After that was done I placed the template on top of the pattern paper. While I didn’t use anything but my left hand to hold the two pieces of paper together, I think it’d be better if the papers were adhered using non-permanent tape. So if you’re not steady with the other hand, do use a non-permanent tape.

You will most likely notice that my piece wasn’t like the template. Well, my friend borrowed my exacto knife and my sharp knives were all in the wash so I decided to do without the tab.

 

Then I grabbed some Pebbles ribbons and using a glue gun I adhered it. If you look at the photo I left a small piece hanging on the left. I did this on purpose so that I could adhere that piece to the back of the hat. It not only gave the edges a nice finished look, it also helps with fraying. Here’s a tip: Glue gun glues dry quickly. So don’t outline the whole bottom of the base with glue. Do it a bit of a time. So for the above I gave the base about 1.5” of glue and then adhere the ribbon. I kept going until the end. Also, you can decorate your hat however you want. I just decided on the above because I thought it’d look really cute. The method I used was glue, fold a bit, glue, fold a bit, etc.

NOTE: IF you want to hide the hole for where the string to hold the hat up will go hidden, you might want to create the holes before adhering the ribbon. I made the mistake of not doing this and I had to punch my holes above the ribbon. While it ended up looking great it wasn’t meant to be that way.

After the ribbon’s adhered, glue the end pieces behind the hat and glue the hat together. What I did for this part was lined one end of the hat with my glue gun and then stick. To cover the top hole I used a small pom-pom.

I could have been done but the hat just seemed so empty and so I went back to work. I remember a tutorial by Laura Vegas a few Tuesdays back and decided to use a similar method to create some flowers.

Instead of sewing, I pulled the stitching that goes through one part of the ribbon gently. Using the glue gun I adhere the edge and around and created this flower. It’s not perfect but that’s ok. I will use one of Pebbles brads to cover up all the imperfections.

I made three of the above and after adding the brads and gluing them to the hat, my hat now looks like this below:

As I mentioned above I forgot to punch holes on the sides of the hat for the strings so my holes are above the ribbon. With the long jute it looks great but it was a close one {::SMILES}.

If you are wondering how it looks like on one’s head, here is an example:

Pebbles supplies used:
Happy Go Lucky Glee (751082)
Happy Go Lucky Flower Brads (747075)
Raspberry Ribbon (744030)


Other supplies used:
Jute Twine
Pom Poms