DIY: Glitter Peter Pan Collar

I've been meaning to do this DIY for a good few weeks now but I never got round to it. I'm really pleased how it turned out because I though it might be a bit of a flump!

You Will Need:

- A Paintbrush 

- A Pen 

- A Peter Pan Collared Top or a Template 

- Felt

- Glitter

- Nail Scissors

- Pins

- PVA Glue

- Ribbon 

- Scissors

- Tracing Paper/Greaseproof Paper

Firstly, find your template. I'm drawing around an existing PP collar but if you don't own one you could use this template or this one. Take your greaseproof paper or tracing paper and trace around one half of the collar. Then cut it out.

Fold your felt in half and pin on your template (it's important to fold it in half, so you'll get two identical shapes!). Place the centre of collar next to the the fold.
As you can see I also extended the collar a bit, just to make it look a little more shapely!

Go ahead and cut out the collar, except, when you reach the centre point, make sure you don't cut the fold. Instead, leave a little extra. (Hopefully the picture shows it better than I explain it!)

Remove the pins and the template and open up the felt, and you should be looking at something like this!

Start painting on a nice layer of PVA or fabric glue onto your collar.

And now for the fun part! Sprinkle on a good helping of glitter :) (It's best if you match your felt to your glitter colour but I didn't have enough black felt left!)

Leave it to dry overnight and in the morning shake off all the glitter. For extra hold, spray the glitter with some hair spray!

Now it's dry, hopefully yours will look like this! If it's looking a bit patchy, you might want to go over it again with another layer of glue and glitter. Then take your nail scissors and ribbon...

Pierce and make a hole at the top of the collar with the nail scissors and then thread the ribbon through each side. Tie knots in the end so they don't slip out.

Cut the ribbon to your desired length and you're pretty much done! Mine needs a but of touching up here and there but you get the idea!

Hope you enjoyed, let me know if you try it! :)

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DIY Galaxy Print Top

I don't think I've seen any galaxy things in the shops but it seems to be floating round the blog world after the amazing Christopher Kane collection! I've also always wanted to do something galaxy like ever since I saw Effie's nail tutorial.

I remembered when one of my tutors at college was giving us a 'safety talk' on how we used bleach in the studio, she mentioned how a past student had put bleach into a spray bottle and squirted the bleach out to make a starry background on some black paper.. I of course wanted to try it :P I've also been thinking recently about starting up a little DIY series because I'm fed up of Topshop's crazy prices when it can easily be done at next to nothing! I've also just had a big clear out of clothes so everything seemed perfect really!

You will need:

• A plain top. You can choose any colour but darker colours will work better as you'll be able to see the bleach more.
• Bleach. I'm using Tesco Thick Bleach in Pinewood - the bleach should be undiluted.
• A Spray Bottle. You can use any old bottle with a spray nozzle
• A Sponge or Stencil Brush.
• Fabric/Acrylic Paints. I'm using some pearlescent ones - colours are up to you!

• Lay your top out flat on a suitable work surface. You definitely don't want to be spraying bleach all over the carpet! I did it outside so I didn't stink the house out, I probably should have put it on newspaper too... If your top is of thin material place some card in-between the front and back. 
• Pour some bleach into your spray bottle, you don't need too much. Now randomly spray bleach all over your top. You can spray more in various areas for a more bleached effect or less if you just want a subtle galaxy.
• Wait for the bleach to dry and repeat on the back if you want.
• You could stop here if you wanted. Next I took my first coloured paint (blue) and used my stencil brush to dab it on I focused on making a sort of smokey, swirly shape. Be careful not to overload your sponge/brush with paint because you just want a faint colouring!

• I took my second colour (pink) and worked it into another area, you can also overlap the other colour too. Repeat this step for your third colour and wait for it to dry.

• Mine now looks like this :) I've decided that I'm going to cut the arms off later so I haven't added anything extra to them, I also haven't done the back yet either.  The paint is actually a lot more blended in real life, I was in direct sunlight!
• I took my glitter glue to add some stars into the galaxy - you could use sequins, beads, diamanté jewels for a different effect, the possibilities are endless! I created lots of little dots of glitter in the more prominent splodges 

•  And finally wait for those to dry and you're done! 

Hope you all enjoyed, stayed tuned for some more DIY! 

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