Adding Wings to Beaded Dragonfly Pins

Video Transcript

"Now let's prepare our wings. We're going to first put some glue to glue the two wings together. Just put a little bit of glue there. I'm putting the smaller wing under the larger wing and then just kind of crunch it together, gather it together like that. We're going to put a little glue only on the top of the wings because you only want to glue it to the top section of the clothes pin. Open the mouth of your dragon fly and then close it down right on those wings so that the top of the wings together will be glued to the top of the clothes pin but not the bottom and then the mouth will open freely. Next, we're going to curl our wings a little, give them a nice look. We're going to curl those wings like that and separate them, open them up a little. You just take a pen or a pencil, anything round and the wire will curl around it and hold its shape. You can spread them out like that so they look nice and big. Do the same thing on the other side. Take your pen and roll the wings. You can bend, what's nice about the wire ribbon is you can bend it into any shape. We'll spread those out and roll it, give it a nice little fullness. Arrange your wings anyway you like. Then, we're going to finish off by just dabbing the wings with a little glue allover like that, anywhere you want the beads to stick. Then, just take the wings where the glue is and dip them in the beads. There is our bead encrusted cloths pin. They're great for decorations. You can place a magnet on the back, glue a magnet on the back and they make great refrigerator magnets and clips for memos."