Carolyn J. Braden • 3 Minute Read
How to Make a Queen of Love Galentine’s Day Tiara
Looking for something fun to wear for your next Galentine’s Day or Valentine’s Day (or even Pal-entine’s Day)? Try this tiara craft! It’s fun, easy, can be made in an hour or less and it will make your Galentine’s swoon! You can make the exact same tiara or make it your own, using my idea as craft inspiration. Read on to learn how to make a Galentine’s Day (or any day) Queen of Love Tiara.
Why Tiaras Carolyn?
I’ve loved tiaras since I was a little girl. Between hats, hair combs, headbands and tiara’s, I love headwear. Headwear is a way to elevate any outfit, any time of year. When I was very little, I knew a family member that kept an old tiara in the top of a closet. Whenever I would visit, I’d run to that closet and put on the tiara and wear it the entire time of my visit. It really made me feel special and beautiful, even as a child.
The finished Galentine’s Day Tiara
Why Did You Wear a Tiara to Prom?
When I went to prom, I wore a tiara (no, I wasn’t Prom Queen as our high school did not do Prom King and Queen, so I took advantage of this on my own terms…I guess I crowned myself!). When I turned 21, I had two people give me tiaras to wear (I still have them!) and I collected a beautiful vintage tiara I found at a garage sale as an adult. I don’t know what draws me to them; I just love tiaras.
Why did you call it “The Queen of Love” Tiara?
I wrote a rhyming, short and sweet kid’s story called the Queen of Love many years ago. I drew a picture of her wearing a large heart adorned crown to go with the story. While this project is more of a tiara than a crown (a tiara is semicircular while a crown is a full circle that encircles the head), it reminded me of the story, so this is why I called it a “Queen of Love” tiara.
Hear me read the story on my YouTube channel @carolynjbraden here or below:
Tiara vs. Crown vs. Coronet
There’s also something called a coronet and you can read about the difference of a crown, a tiara and a coronet at Town and Country Magazine here. Yes, a queen can wear a tiara and yes, anyone can wear a tiara. There are a lot of rules for wearing tiaras and crowns according to the royalty of the world and you can read more about it here. I’m a rule follower mostly, but not so much when it comes to fashion, so you’ll see me wearing crowns and tiaras sometimes just walking down the street….it’s in my DNA I suppose.
I paired my crown with iridescent shoes to match
The Project Instructions + Discount
This project comes together very quickly and I ordered some of my supplies from Temu. If you shop Temu, use my code afe55197 or my link here to get 30% off your first order (for new app users). Other products came from Amazon or Walmart, and I included buying links below.
See my tiara come together in my 1-minute tutorial below or via my YouTube channel @carolynjbraden:
Wear this to your next Galentine’s Day event (it’s a day to celebrate with your gals, made popular by the show Parks and Recreation) or wear it any day! I wore them with my cute light up heart earrings from Walmart ($5).
I’m all Galentine’s Day ready!
Supplies:
½ inch headband (I got a set on Amazon and Walmart has them too)
Pink velvet ribbon (I got mine when it went on sale at Christmas at Walmart but Amazon has it too)
Resin candy hearts set (I got mine on Temu but Amazon has them too)
Iridescent Tinsel Garland (I got mine at Walmart, but you can get it on Amazon now too)
Wood hearts set (I got mine in a variety pack on Temu but Amazon has them too)
Iridescent Flatback rhinestone set (I got mine on Amazon for around $20 and it came with a wax pencil for easily picking up the rhinestones)
Scissors
The tiara supplies
How To:
Because I had the black headbands already, I decided to use them and cover them in pink velvet ribbon. You do not have to do this but I was able to see the black of the headband through the garland in my testing, and did not like it. To skip the velvet ribbon part (which will speed up the project), you can use a pink or white headband instead.
Starting to wrap the headband in ribbon
I heated my glue gun to a low temperature setting, put a bit of glue on one end of the headband and placed the ribbon onto the glue.
I glued and wrapped the headband slowly
I then wrapped and glued and wrapped and glued the ribbon diagonally all around the headband.
The headband is pretty on it’s own too!
I wrapped it slowly so it would lay flat and to make sure the velvet side of the ribbon faced outwards.
Finishing the tips of the headband
When I finished wrapping, I added some more around each end of the headband to cover the black of the headband completely.
I glued on two layers of the garland
Next I added some hot glue onto the ribbon wrapped headband and glued on the iridescent garland. Mine was not quite as full as I wanted, so I glued two strands back to back onto the headband.
The wood hearts are very lightweight
Then I added a tiny bit of hot glue to the garland and placed a wooden heart onto it, holding it in place as the glue cooled.
I glued on 5 wood hearts
I added 5 wooden hearts in dark pink, red and light pink in the same way, slightly layering them and gluing them together with a dot of hot glue. They are very lightweight, so they will stand on their own after gluing.
Gluing on the resin hearts
I added a dot of hot glue to the resin conversation hearts and glued one onto the center of each wooden heart.
Adding the rhinestones for sparkle
Lastly, I used a wax tip pencil to grab some flatback rhinestones and randomly glued them onto the wooden hearts to make them sparkle a bit like the garland.
My earrings from Walmart light up!
I let the glue dry overnight and then it is Galentine’s Day ready!
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Carolyn J. Braden is the owner of Carolyn’s Blooming Creations is a regular contributor and editor for CBC. She has been featured in numerous media publications such as InStyle Magazine, on HGTV, on Bustle.com, and more. She is the author of the books Georgia McMasters in Amethyst Lake Cemetery, How To Be Yourself: 3 Ways To Help You Being You, and the illustrator for the children’s book Bridging Connections. She is a former classroom teacher that now dedicates her life to educating others on how to live their most healthy, creative and happy life. Learn more about her visiting our About Us page.