My Cap Dazzles

The moment us girls walked out with our caps and gowns back in March we were planning a cap decorating party.  It took us a couple weeks to set a date because of everyone's crazy schedules with exams and papers.  April 11 worked out for the majority, and we all got together at Bri's and Knz's and decorated!  Some awesome caps turned out...some in the mater of a few minutes, and a couple over the course of a few days with a solid 4 hours of work at the party.

 

Mack gets the title of "quickest start to finish cap decorating award."  This girl was NOT going to decorate her cap.  Then a couple girls came back in the house from spraying glitter on theirs, and Mack was hooked on decorating.  She walked home, got her cap, came back, and with the help of others had her Plant Science cap decorated in like 20 minutes flat.

I on the other hand, get the award for taking the longest to decorate.  Everyone kept saying they were amazed at my patients.  After all, I laid over two thirds of my 1,440 red jewels.  There were a few silver jewels, too.  I say thanks to my friends for being soooo patient with me for taking forever and making everyone wait until I was done to take pictures.  It sure is a good thing I started the overall cap decorating process Sunday afternoon!

Sunday I began by seeing how many jewels fit on to one inch, which is 2 rows of 8 for future reference.  I did this to be sure 1,440 red jewels would be enough to fill in all of the white on the WSU logo.

 

All of this stuff in some way or another made it on to my cap or was used to hold other stuff on.  Monday night I cut the WSU logo out and had the realization I needed to paint the white of the logo red to match the jewels better.  Thus, I began a Facebook search for red puffy paint.

 

The "goal" layout.

 

 

Beth came to the rescue with the paint.  I picked it up by 10 a.m. Tuesday morning and had it painted before bed that night.  Wednesday night I mod podged the logo to the top of my cap after taking some senior pictures (P.S. check them out on Facebook!)

 

 

On Thursday with the girlies, I began putting stones down.  This is the laying of the FINAL red stone.  I may be wrong, but this was around 3-3 1/2 hours of work.

 

 

Next, I put my name and 2013 on.  Notice my handy skewer and tweezers!  LOL  My technique and ideas for others caps had Bri calling me the "Chuck Norris of crafts."  LOL

 

 

The final product!  Whoop whoop!  A touch of glitter spray paint finished this off just perfectly!

 

Caps and cute bums!

 

 

Trying on our serious faces and rockin' our decorated caps!

 

Thanks for all the fun, food, and wine ladies!

 

Here is the link to the No Bakes I made.  Thanks for eating those up! 

 

GO COUGS! <3