Flower and Butterfly Hairpins With 3D Printing and Mini Hama-beads

I have for some time tried to make some hairpins with hama beads, but the beads would not stick to them properly. I finally got the idea to 3D print a kind of "connector" that fits the hairpin and act like a base which the hama beads can then be glued on to.

Materials:

Hairpins

Mini Hama beads

Filament

Glue

Baking paper

Tools:

3D printer

Clothing Iron

Tinkercad

Slicing program

Round plate for Hama mini-beads

I have made two different bases depending on the hairpin design, but since hairpins have many different dimensions you might need to change them a bit.

First design

Second design

Now download your file and import it to the slicer of your choice. Since I am going to use a creality printer I am going to use the creality slicer.

Slice the figure, export the gcode and print.

They should be very fast to print. The first design taking about 7 minuts and the second about 18 minuts.

There is not much to say here. They are made to be fairly tight, but I still gave them a drop of glue to be sure that they stuck together.

Now use Hama-beads to make flower. You can see the design I use on the picture.

Then heat up your iron and put a piece of baking paper on top of your figure. Then carefully heat it up, so the beads melt together. Don't use to much heat and no steam iron!

When all the beads have melted together you can take the beads of the plate and turn them around. Put baking paper on the new side and apply heat to that side to.

After the flower have been heated on both sides you can reheat them a little with the iron and bend it a bit, to make it look more natural.

Now you just need to glue the flower onto the 3d-printed base and that is it. Your hairpins is finished.

That is it. You should now have finished flower hairpins.

You can also use other designs than flowers. Like the butterfly hairpin on the picture.