Faery things afoot : Tinkerbell Wand

Hello...... I hope you had a good weekend, thanks so much for all the lovely comments left on my last post.  Today I thought I'd share with you another project for the craft club exhibition, the theme was Peter Pan so being a fan of all thing faery I just had to make a Tinkerbell wand.

The first thing I did was cut out a star template, I then cut out two stars from green felt, in reality the green of the felt is little brighter, you know the Tinkerbell Green!!  but my camera and the January grey have wash it out a bit in the photo's

So once you have two matching felt stars you are ready for the fun bit, the decorating....

I stitched a green bead on to each point of the star and lovely wooden button into the centre. I then use some cute leaf sequins and stitched them in place, as they only had one stitching hole at the end I also used a little pva glue to hold them in place.

Then using a cream embroidery silk I stitched around the leaves to add a little more decoration.

Then I stitched the stars together using the cream embroidery thread, I decided to use a blanket stitch for this to add to the decoration, I left a gap at the bottom so I could stuff my star with toy stuffing.

Then  it was time to attach the star to the wand, using double sided tape around the top of a 4mm dowel I attached some cute ribbons, I used lots of different ribbons as you can never have to much ribbon !!! I then wrapped sticky tape around the top  to hold the ribbons in place and covered the tape with pva glue, which held the wand in place amongst the stuffing.  Once that was dry I stitched up the rest of the star, securing the dowel in place at the base of the star.

Oops I forgot to say just before I finished stitching the star up I added a little bit of fairy dust for good measure. So that's the magic added to the wand.

and Ta -Dah

one completed faery wand.

I really enjoyed making this wand which was quite a quick and easy make, ribbons, beads, buttons and faery dust whats not to love.

Here's a bit of a closer look at the wand.

Not long now to the exhibition which is on the 8th February, all I've got to do now is finish my seaside bunting this week, and I'll be ready with all four themes completed, phew at one point I didn't think I'd get it all finished in time

Joining in with Chrissie's Stitching Sundays' 
and Nicoles KCCO so why not go and check out the wonderful makes.

Happy Crafting

Clare x