Gothic Batwing Cocktail Hat

This gothic batwing cocktail hat is one of my all-time favorites! I used a combo of black craft paint and clear acrylic spray paint on worbla to achieve a very bat-like texture on the wing.  Sadly, this is the best full photo I took before I shipped the hat to it’s new owner.

     

I started by sculpting my pieces in worbla.

 

Then I painted the underside black and covered the cap piece first with felt and then with a swiss dot tulle. This left an ugly edge inside which I later covered with black rickrack.

Once everything was painted and/or covered, I assembled all my pieces and some embellishments including rhinestones and beaded chains.

      

Using hot glue and tweezers I (painstakingly) applied every tiny rhinestone after attaching the wing to my cap. Tedious but worth it! ❤

     

I finished it up with a spray of swiss dot mesh behind the wing.  Seriously, I loved this cocktail so much it was difficult to send it away to its new owner!

Fancy Hunger Games Hats!!!

Because obviously.
Enjoy ❤

MATERIALS USED:

worbla – black felt – birdcage netting – black ribbon – wooden skewer – black ribbon – gold liquid leaf

alligator hair clips – craft paint: black, red, yellow, white, asst. blues

TOOLS USED:

heat gun – hot glue gun – needle and thread – scissors

     

Cut my shapes out of worbla. Used the heat gun to form the flat circles into rounded caps and curve the mockingjay emblems to the caps.

           

Painted my mockingjay emblems referencing each of the novel covers.

Covered caps in black felt. Also painted the inside with black craft paint.

     

Cut the corners off apprx. 18″ of netting. Used a running stitch clockwise from corner A to corner B and gathered to form a birdcage veil.

     

Used hot glue to assemble:  Attach the mockingjay emblems to the felt caps, then attached the birdcage veil underneath and used ribbon to cover the edges, then attached alligator clips to either side.

Note: You can get plain alligator clips- I just happened to have these ones,  which are meant for hair accessories that can also be worn as pins, left over from another project. 

Hunger Games Fascinator Cocktail Hat

Catching Fire Fascinator Cocktail Hat

Mockingjay Fascinator Cocktail Hat

          

     

Win a Custom Hat!

I would love to design and make a special custom hat themed to whatever your little nerd heart desires! 🙂

Go to facebook/jojossocreative, do me a solid and Like the page, holla at me in a comment/post.

That’s it. That’s all you gotta do. 🙂

Sadly I can’t afford international shipping so continental US only (unless you’re willing to cover shipping).

In the immortal words of Ru Paul: Good luck, and don’t fuck it up.

XOXO

It’s Been a Batty Week!

Since 2014 is Batman’s 75th anniversary, it seems like everyone has had bat on the brain. This week, I myself, have had a case of Bat-fever as I waited in anticipation for the Nerds Like Us midnight screening of Batman Returns.

I may be a Marvel girl, (Carol Corps For-evah!) but Batman was my first love. In fact, BR was one of the only movies I ever saw in the theater as a child.  AND Batman was the first superhero that introduced me to comics.

Initially, I started out wanting to make a Batman hat (that has obviously been on my list forever) to wear to the BR showing, then I decided to give Jack of All Nerds a hat to give away…and then it was just a downwards spiral of Batman- themed crafting from there.

Here’s some of the things I’ve been up to:

BAtman Hair Clips-painting time

Batman Hair Clips- adding sparkle

Batman Hair Clips- adding MORE sparkle

Rhinestone Batman Hair Clips

Sneak Peak of a Joker accessory in progress

Sneak Peek of Joker Hat- in progress