I realised over my crafting holiday that for some reason I’ve amassed a lot of coloured wire in my stash. No freaking clue how it got there but I figured if it’s there I might as well use it!

So the first thing I made was a little flower hair clip. It’s pretty crazy looking but I really like it.

I used:

  • Wire in various colours
  • Bobby pin
Originally I was planning to make this into a magnet but I went with hair clip instead. You could really put whatever backing on that you want though!

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I did the flower in two sections. The middle out of yellow and the outside out of red. For the inside I made loops of wire…VioletLeBeaux-wire-hair-flower-63_1276 copyThen twisted them leaving the end as a circle.

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I made a bunch of them like this…

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Done! Next the red section. I wrapped the red wire around my fingers…

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Then used some pliers to twist the ends together.

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It ended up like a tear drop shape.

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I flared the end loops out to form petals.

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After making a second one I placed them on top of each other with the twisted ends in the middle.

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To make the flower a bit fuller I wrapped the wire around my fingers again and twisted in the middle.

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I flared it out and then placed it on top of the first red parts. I tied them all together with more wire and then added the yellow part in the middle.

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Everything was held together with wire and then I inserted the bobbypin and wrapped it in with more wire.

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Done!

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You could make so many variations on this style.

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I could really picture a gigantic version of this perched on top of a big bun, pinup style!

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Now to think of what to make with the rest of the wire!

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