Hi! I’m Jenn, from Endlessly Inspired. Endlessly Inspired is a fun, laid-back place where I share quick, easy, inexpensive, and fun tips, ideas and projects — including crafts, decorating, cooking, baking, and more — that women and their kids can do around the house. My blog is still pretty new, so I’m so grateful to Sarah for letting me do a guest post here! Today I’m going to share with you a super quick and easy way to turn a silk flower into a hair accessory or other embellishment.

I used to have a business called DCBaby Gifts & Accessories, where I made and sold hair accessories and other gifts. When I would scope out the competition at shows, it always amazed and horrified me when I saw someone selling hair flowers that still had the green plastic thing in the middle. No. Just not acceptable, people. Come on. So I’m here today to show you how easy it is to make beautiful hair flowers from craft-store (or even Dollar Store!) flowers. It pretty much could not be easier, and the possibilities are endless. Here’s what you need:

Silk flowers Glue (I use hot glue, but you could also use Fabric-Tac, Tacky Glue or something similar. Embellishment for middle (more on that later) Small felt circle Alligator clip or other back (I used a ribbon-covered alligator clip, but you could use a pin back, a plain alligator clip, headband or something similar — or you could just glue it right onto whatever you are embellishing!)   Here’s what you do:

Flip the flower over and remove the green plastic thingy (that’s a technical term) from the back. It should just slide right off.

This is what it will look like.

Remove the little tube thingy (another technical term) from the flower, which will leave you with a stack of petals.

Separate the petals out and take a look. Most flowers like this one will have both large and small petals. The smaller petals are placed between the larger ones to make the flower a bit fuller. You can see that some of my smaller petals are a bit wonky (i.e., that bad boy on the bottom in the middle). No worries, we’ll just stick the funky-looking ones in between the bigger ones and no one will ever know. Pick out the best looking small and large petal and put those aside so you can use those ones on the top.

Now just start stacking up and gluing your petals together! You probably want to start with the worst-looking ones on the bottom, because no one will see those.

You can see that this small petal was originally the one on top, because it has a bit of glue on it. That probably would have gotten covered up by the center embellishment we’ll put on in a minute, but just to be safe, I moved this petal farther down in the stack.

Your top layer will have two small petals stacked on top of each other.

Once all your petals are stacked up and glued together, glue your embellishment in the center. For this flower, I used a flower cabochon that I got on Etsy, but you can use whatever you want: buttons (just remove the shank from the back; I use this handy-dandy little doohickey), earrings (check out thrift shops and garage sales for some cool vintage ones), fabric-covered buttons, and rhinestones are just a few suggestions — you can see some examples at the end of this tutorial.

Finally, flip your flower over and glue a small felt circle to the back to cover up the hole. (This step is optional, but I’m fussy and I think it makes it look prettier and more finished.) Then glue your alligator clip on, and you’re done!

Here are a few other examples of flowers I’ve made in the past:

(If you want to get super fancy, you can add in some marabou or ostrich feathers too! Just glue these in on top of your bottom layer of petals.)

Now, because I have three boys, I don’t get a ton of use out of hair flowers, so I used mine on a wreath instead. I just wrapped a straw wreath form with burlap and slid the alligator clips right in. Easy, peasy!

Thanks again to Sarah for letting me guest post today, and come check out more at Endlessly Inspired!

So happy to have you Jenn, I love how your flower clips look in your burlap wreath!