Welcome to the Sticky Sticks Blog Hop hosted by the Designer Craft Connection. If you are hopping through the projects you've probably seen some really inspiring ideas for Halloween or other special occasions using Sticky Sitcks! Thanks for allowing me to share my idea for Halloween Drink Stirrers that morph into brooches.
Materials and Tools for Halloween Drink Stirrers:
Fabric and black wool felt scraps
Buttons Galore and More Buttons (flat backed)
Laser Cut Wood Bird Shapes
Black acrylic paint
Pin backs
Inkjet fabric sheets
Beacon Adhesives Fabri-Tac
Tracing pencil (white), fabric marking pen, sewing machine and thread, hand sewing needle, paintbrushes, computer and printer, scalloped edged scissors
To create your own Halloween Drink Stirrers, use a circle and square template and the fabric marker to trace shapes measuring approximately 2 1/2" to the wrong side of the fabric. Cut out the shapes with scissors.
Trace 3" shapes onto the black wool felt with the white tracing pencil. Cut the circles and squares out with the smooth edged or scalloped edged scissors. You will need two of each shape for each Halloween Drink Stirrer you want to make.
Pin the shapes together. Use the sewing machine and thread to sew the shapes together.
Now comes the fun part! Embellishing your Halloween Drink Stirrers. I used inkjet fabric sheet to print out various Halloween sentiments.
Cut the sentiments out and fork the ends, then glue them under a button sewn or glued to the center of the shapes.
As an option, machine stitch the edges of your fabric sentiment. Embellish the shapes for the Halloween Drink Stirrers with painted black laser cut bird shapes and more buttons.
To create a Halloween Drink Stirrer that becomes a brooch, sew a bar pin to the backside of the embellished shape.
Now add the second un-embellished shape you cut from the black wool felt to the sticky stick.
Sticky Sticks are jumbo sized self adhesive craft sticks. This is a particularly great kids product because glue is not required. Just peel off the adhesive film to reveal the sticky part.
So I adhere my second wool felt shape to the stick and pin the embellished shape to that shape.
These Halloween Drink Stirrers that become brooches guests can take home as party favors will delight your guests!
Enjoy hopping along, just use the Designer Craft Connection gadget in the right sidebar of this blog to hop forward or back!
Happy Haunting,
Live Life Creatively,
Thank you Melony! These are so fun! I have never thought to use Sticky Sticks as drink stirrers before, so I really love this idea! I've got to let you know that Sticky Sticks are made in a food safe factory, and are actually OK to use this way! I really appreciate your work today on the Blog Hop. You are great! Thank you!! Stacey (Sticky Sticks, LLC)
Posted by: Stacey Floyd (Sticky Sticks) | October 15, 2013 at 10:56 PM
Those are super fun!
Posted by: Allie | October 15, 2013 at 01:00 PM