Hey Ya'll I Made a Cowboy Hat Out of Masking Tape | DIY | Free Pattern

[@coby9896]

Simple masking tape and paint is all Laura needs to create………anything👏 we are all so glad you turned the camera on and shared the process with us, thank you.

[@Lauras-tinyview]

@@coby9896 I LOVE that!! 😁 It even rhymes! This was very exciting for me, to finally share a pattern with everyone!

[@marshawargo7238]

Kinda like Mcgiver, but masking is cheaper than duct❤!!!

[@Lauras-tinyview]

@@marshawargo7238 I’m more of a frugal Mcgiver. 😂

[@releasingendorphins232]

Absolutely Masterful!!! My mind as easing just thinking of all the possibilities in how to use your beautiful hats. I instantly thought of John Wayne! You are a great Artist.🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤

[@Lauras-tinyview]

Thank you! I kept picturing John Wayne while I was making them. He was the best!!

[@jillcrapo7159]

Very clever! Well done! I love the multi colored spotted one!❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@Lauras-tinyview]

@@jillcrapo7159 Thank you! I worried it might look like giraffe.

[@nancy-katharynmcgraw2669]

So exciting! Loved watching you create, and the finished Cowboy Hats !!! 🤠 Your creative process is very interesting to me!!! Possibly add that dirt on the top of the hat, too??? As I have seen cowboys in movies grasp the top, turn it upside down, add water and offer it to the very thirsty horse!!! Are horses next? Or a lariat, a saddle, etc??? I'd just as soon see a gunless Cowboy, by the way... the "bad guys", did all of them wear black hats? What about the white hats?

[@Lauras-tinyview]

@@nancy-katharynmcgraw2669 Thank you! I just love your comment! You are so right, I’ve seen them grab their hats and give a horse a drink. I love when they do that. Probably should add more dirt. Talking about horses 🐴 at the moment I have no idea how to make one yet. 😆😆 Hopefully I’ll figure it out. I’ve heard of lariats but not sure what they are. Is that the rope they use to lasso? The “bad guys” did usually have black hats! 😆

[@mariab8668]

Such a brilliant project! Thank you for sharing the pattern and another wonderful tutorial! 😊

[@Lauras-tinyview]

@@mariab8668 Thanks! You’re very welcome! I was so excited to finally share a pattern! 😊

[@tracybowling1156]

I swear, some people are so talented and smart!

[@Lauras-tinyview]

@@tracybowling1156 ❤️

[@tracytrumbley5649]

Thank you so much for sharing! Your hat pattern is wonderful!!!

[@Lauras-tinyview]

@@tracytrumbley5649 You are welcome Tracy! Enjoy! 😊

[@roryren.2240]

I work at a paint store and will now make little cowboy hats when I am bored for customers kids!

[@Lauras-tinyview]

@@roryren.2240 I absolutely love that!! What a wonderful idea!

[@llcleary]

Your hats turned out so well. You really use your imagination and then you generously share your results with your viewers.

[@Lauras-tinyview]

@@llcleary Thank you! I appreciate that so much!

[@papabear2515]

Yeehaw! You’re so talented! Thanks much!❤ Kathleen

[@Lauras-tinyview]

@@papabear2515 😆 You are so welcome! I am so excited to finally share a pattern! 🤠💗

[@kayk8123]

Ohhh how stinking cuute!!! Love these! You are right, they each have their own lil personality. 🤠

[@Lauras-tinyview]

@@kayk8123 Thank you! I’m so glad you like them! 😊

[@gitza1470]

You are just adorable! Thanks again for sharing your work and amazing talent! 😊

[@Lauras-tinyview]

@@gitza1470 Aww you’re so kind! Thank you! 💗

[@jonihenry8124]

So cute and thanks for the pattern!

[@Lauras-tinyview]

@@jonihenry8124 You are so welcome! Thank you! ☺️

[@littlegretchensworkshop7665]

THIS WAS GREAT!!!! TAPE is the Perfect material , it's firm, flexible and already sticky, no glue needed!!! BRILLIANT!!!

[@Lauras-tinyview]

@@littlegretchensworkshop7665 Thanks Gretchen!! I just LOVE masking tape! I use it almost everyday. You are so right it is the Perfect material.

[@romonaelrod7870]

The hats are cute. I would like to make them in 1/6 scale,Barbie and Ken sized. Top hats would be cute and ladies hats too.

[@Lauras-tinyview]

@@romonaelrod7870 That’s a great idea! You’ll have to let me know how it turns out. While I was creating the hat, I kept thinking how fun it would be to make fancy ladies hats. So I might have to one day in the future make a hat shop. 👒

[@Lesliejcraftycreations]

Thank you so much for showing us how to create a cowboy hat! I'm so excited, I am working on a saloon display for my dining room. I am so excited. Thank you, I love your channel. Hugs❤❤

[@Lauras-tinyview]

@@Lesliejcraftycreations Aww, Thank you so much Leslie! I’m so happy to hear your enjoying my channel! That’s means a lot to me. 🤗🥰

[@maryjanew20]

You are so talented! This hats are amazing!

[@Lauras-tinyview]

@@maryjanew20 Thank you so much! ☺️ They were a lot of fun to make.

[@reginawilliams226]

Wow!!! I'm so excited for this video. You are so creative and I enjoy watching your talent and the process to get a marvelous result!!!❤

[@Lauras-tinyview]

@@reginawilliams226 I’m so happy to hear you enjoyed it! Thank you for your kind words! 🥰

[@southerncooker6475]

You did it again!!! They're perfect!!! Can't hardly wait until next week!! So glad you recorded this!! Thank you! Take care!

[@Lauras-tinyview]

@@southerncooker6475 Thank you! I’m happy you enjoyed it!! 🥰 See you next week!

[@LMKidney]

Omg 😲, this is on my list to make. You are so nice to share this 💗 I'm a senior citizen and these activities are fun, and you make all the difference 🎉

[@Lauras-tinyview]

@@LMKidney That makes me so happy to hear! Thank you for your kind words!! 💗💕💗

[@LMKidney]

@@Lauras-tinyview You are so very welcome, and I've got it on my to-do list for early this fall, right now I'm enjoying gardening and doing miniature weaving out on my patio. I live in the country where there are so many cowboys, so I plan to make many of these to use in my own miniatures and to gift some to my cowboy friends (I'm so excited to be making some of these). You've got a heart of gold for doing this, again, thank you so very much you are a gem of an individual, and we need more kind-hearted individuals like you in this world. 💯🤠

[@Lauras-tinyview]

@@LMKidney Oh my goodness!! You are so sweet!! Thank you it means so much to me. Sounds like you have a lot to keep busy with this winter. What a wonderful gift!That’s very thoughtful of you. They must Love that!!

[@mytinyminis]

OMG 😮 words lose me ...amazing idea. So talented...love them ..im such a western film fanatic...xxx❤❤❤❤❤ 🇬🇧

[@Lauras-tinyview]

@@mytinyminis I’m so happy you liked them! 🤠 I Love the Old West too! Wish I could time travel and see it in real life.

[@mytinyminis]

@@Lauras-tinyview me too..x

[@evermoreenchanted]

🌼🌼🌼🌼Love this! Great job!🌼🌼🌼🌼🌼

[@Lauras-tinyview]

@@evermoreenchanted Thank you so much! 😊

[@الوردالجوري-ه4ط]

Please don't stop watching KZbin, your work is very, very, very beautiful 💃💃💃💃💃💃💃💃💃💃💃🌺🌺

[@Lauras-tinyview]

@@الوردالجوري-ه4ط Aww 🥰 Thank you very much for your sweet compliment! 😊💗

[@gleniscross3864]

Awesome !

[@Lauras-tinyview]

@@gleniscross3864 Thank you!!

[@ImperialKneazle]

Brilliantly done. 🙂

[@Lauras-tinyview]

@@ImperialKneazle Thank you so much!🤠

[@jeanettewatson7614]

A brilliant little hat and I am definitely going to be making use of the pattern, but not for a cowboy hat. Mine will be a 1940's UK style man's trilby, there's no great changes, I just need the brim to be about half the size. It's going to be perfect so thank you bmvery much ❤. I hope I have sent you a coffee, but I'm not 109% sure it went through. I will look to see in my back over the next days and if it's not gone through I will try again as this wee hat is perfe t fir my WWII 1940's house x

[@Lauras-tinyview]

Thank you! You know what’s funny? I almost made one of those too! I didn’t know the name of it though. It’s a lot like a fedora too. I’m so glad you will be able to modify the pattern for the trilby hat.

[@i.m.dmented3245]

Thank you for the pattern! Your hats are perfect!

[@Lauras-tinyview]

@@i.m.dmented3245 Thanks! Your are welcome! They were a lot of fun to make!

[@JulieSkeltonUK]

Oh they are brilliant!

[@Lauras-tinyview]

Thank you!

[@sandrakorpela1850]

You are such a clever lady!

[@Lauras-tinyview]

@@sandrakorpela1850 Wow thank you so much!!

[@الوردالجوري-ه4ط]

جميل جميل جميل جدا رائع🙏🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺

[@Lauras-tinyview]

@@الوردالجوري-ه4ط Thank you so very much! 😊🥰

[@fancifuldevices]

Wow! It looks like perfectly scaled leather. Amazing

[@Lauras-tinyview]

@@fancifuldevices Thank you! I kind of thought so too. I was trying to think of a way to make it look like suede or felt.

[@rebeccafox4880]

These hats are brilliant! I was around 6 or 7 when I remember my grandmother used to make little dresses, for these dolls, that were about 1 to 2 inches tall. She loved working with miniatures. I’m 56 now and you remind me of her. Thanks for the reminder.

[@Lauras-tinyview]

@@rebeccafox4880 That is so very sweet!! 🥰 I’m so glad that I brought back fond memories of your Grandmother. That really touches my heart. ❤️ Grandmothers are so special! I miss mine tremendously!! My grandmother taught me how to sew, crochet and so many other things. She would always ask me why I wanted to work on such tiny things. 😊

[@jtreinking]

So amazing! Thank you for sharing your printable template ♥️ I’m so excited to try this out!!

[@Lauras-tinyview]

@@jtreinking Thank you! You’ll have a hard time stopping once you get started on making them. I know I did. 😆

[@vanessahuman7607]

Super cute

[@Lauras-tinyview]

Thank you!

[@craftsbyxander]

These are fantastic 👌😃

[@Lauras-tinyview]

Thank you! 🤠

[@renaerickson4190]

Wow! So, sweet! And, what paciennts inst amazing! What we put! Our selves through! To create things! Lol. You did a nice job! I made a cowboy hat for my son's woody doll! And I want to say it took a good two weeks! If not longer! 🥰

[@Lauras-tinyview]

@@renaerickson4190 Thank you so much! One morning I woke up and thought I’m making a cowboy hat today. 🤠 I almost didn’t film it. Glad I did. What type of material did you choose to use to make the woody hat with?

[@renaerickson4190]

@@Lauras-tinyview I used cardboard

[@palomamiyaya]

It looks pretty cool

[@Lauras-tinyview]

@@palomamiyaya Thank you!!

[@graceh8866]

This is so well done brillant💕💕💕💕

[@Lauras-tinyview]

@@graceh8866 So glad you like them! Thanks!! 🥰

[@savoy6100]

Thank you!

[@Lauras-tinyview]

@@savoy6100 You are very welcome!!

[@jenpink4298]

These hats are great! And thank you for including the pattern!

[@Lauras-tinyview]

@@jenpink4298 You are so welcome! 🤠

[@composing-chaos]

They look really cool. Great job.

[@Lauras-tinyview]

@@composing-chaos Thanks so much!

[@MiniatureMadnessofcherylg2696]

OMG! Those are so sweet! So glad you turned the camera on. I enjoyed listening to your thought process and they are just so cute the way they turned out!

[@Lauras-tinyview]

@@MiniatureMadnessofcherylg2696 Thank you so much Cheryl! I wish I could have posted everything I recorded, but it was nearly an hour long LOL.

[@MiniatureMadnessofcherylg2696]

@@Lauras-tinyview I find myself with that problem, a lot. Then you have to decide what you are going to keep and what you aren't.

[@marthatownsend7702]

YeeHaa...cute hats :)

[@Lauras-tinyview]

@@marthatownsend7702 Thank you! 🤠

[@TheParkAttendant]

Great creativity. FYI, my experience with masking tape, is that over time, the glue will dry out and the tape will flake off. I'm not trying to put you off. The hats were fantastic.

[@Lauras-tinyview]

@@TheParkAttendant You didn’t put me off. Thanks for the tip! I used to use masking tape to make plants years ago. Thank goodness I haven’t noticed any flaking off. Maybe painting them with the paint & mod podge helps keep them together. Thanks for watching!

[@renaerickson4190]

Now, you just need some good looking cowboys! To wear them! Lol.😂❤ you could put some feathers, bandanas on them! Beads, to look like turquoise! And foil! To look like silver! Lol.😂

[@Lauras-tinyview]

@@renaerickson4190 In the future I plan to hopefully make some mice 🐭 to live in my miniatures. I guess they’d be good looking if you were a mouse. 😆 I had thought about embellishing the hats more, but want to keep it like a blank slate for the viewer to get creative.

[@renaerickson4190]

@@Lauras-tinyview lol.

[@agneschrismer9946]

Thank you for the free pattern, it will go nice in a mini western town.

[@Lauras-tinyview]

You’re welcome 😊

[@gailcason3652]

Great hats!

[@Lauras-tinyview]

@@gailcason3652 Thank you!

[@gensha4770]

Wow that made me want to make one!!!❤ it’s so cute and very well crafted hun thank you for sharing!

[@Lauras-tinyview]

@@gensha4770 That’s fun to hear! Thanks so much!

[@tamielizabethallaway2413]

I've never made a cowboy hat in my life, so I'm no expert nor about to correct you in any way. But what I thought of are the faux leather journals I've made and wanted to share the idea with you. I was thinking, while listening to your thought process, that one of the aspects that bothered you was the tape strips showing, and so I think this would certainly help with that aspect absolutely, and help make your hats stronger and more leathery looking. If you were to make your lil hat form as a base shape, you could then cover with tiny torn pieces of thin paper. I would advise not to use actual tissue, as in what you blow your nose on, but something thicker than tissue paper. Scraps of leftover wrapping paper are excellent, newspaper or brown paper. You want proper paper, but nothing too strong. Tear up teeny tiny pieces, making sure every piece has torn edges not straight edges. Using a tiny paintbrush and thin glue, cover the entire hat inside and out with layers of the scraps, making sure they are all overlapping each other. Don't worry about wrinkles and don't try to smooth them all out ironed flat. Any rough parts of the base shape can be softened out by adding extra pieces of overlapping paper, and whilst wet can be almost moulded into a smooth edge, for example where the top of the hat adjoins the crown. When dry, paint as you did anyway, using a VERY light coat, almost dry brushing, and kind of punch the paint on rather than strokes. Let it dry and build up thin layers patiently, some parts will look missed but that's ok because subsequent layers will overlap those. The tiny torn edges begin to take on a leathery crease effect, rather than looking completely flat like the tape. This is why you shouldn't use a pulpy paper such as kitchen roll or tissue, because the layers disappear into each next layer and look like one thicker layer. Tissue is perfect for a plaster, stucco, concrete, pottery type of effect, because it blends in so easily, but for leather it needs to be actual paper. When I do leather effect in larger areas I use the Amazon brown packing paper, but that may be too thick for such teeny tiny hats. You did well to create a leather look with just paint so please don't take me sharing as any form of criticism. I know that masking tape CAN start peeling away from itself if paint get in between the sticky layers, and of course it looks more sharp round the edges. The paper overlapping would take your tape forms to the next level, especially in terms of keeping them in their shape and preventing tape peeling issues. By wrapping them inside and out, and smoothing extra pieces to soften lines, once dry they literally can not peel or separate even again. But like I said, I'm only speaking out loud as it were and not criticising AT ALL. You were far more patient with your initial design process than I'd have been that's for sure. I don't know if you can buy it over there, but do you have those liquid bottles of shoe polish with a sponge tip dauber on the top? They are generally less pigment saturated than traditional tins of real shoe polish. They are more of a clear waxy fluid with a hint of colour in. Well those in different shades are perfect for creating a leather look, although I wouldn't go out of my way to buy it for tiny hats necessarily. But if you already have some or can buy it in Dollar Tree or other bargain store, it can be handy as an alternative to paint for a larger leather surface effect. Whatever you choose to do, these are so cute anyway, and I was especially impressed with your patience and determination to figure out a realistic pattern without having any prior pattern experience to go by. I'm sure even when they make real ones the pattern could, in reality, be slightly "off" because they're working with leather not paper, so yours had to be exact. They can stretch leather and shave more of the backing off or whack it to get it to take on the shape they're looking for, not so easy with flat paper tape! So well done! 😘 xxxxx

[@Lauras-tinyview]

@@tamielizabethallaway2413 Wow thank you for taking the time to type up such a lengthy reply. Great advice on the faux leather! I will have to give it a try and experiment with it for sure. It sounds a lot like paper mache. I wonder if I’d still be able to shape the hat easily like I did mine to give it the curled edges. Probably would have to be done while still wet I’m guessing. I will try it both wet and dry. When I started making the hat I originally just wanted to make a hat shape. I wasn’t really trying to create a leather hat. I was going to use fabric to construct the hat. I was wanting it to have more of that traditional felt hat look and feel. So possibly by applying the paper mache I can get the structure. Then try to figure out how to give it that felt hat feel. Thanks so much for sharing your ideas. I will definitely have to play around with it some more. 🤠

[@diyfireking]

Woww these cowboy hat is beauitufl

[@Lauras-tinyview]

@@diyfireking Thank you so much!!

[@angiegarciaart]

These are amazing! I live in the mountains in MT in a little town. I’m going to try and do these out of epoxy and eletroform them. Thank you for your generosity. New sub here as well! 🤠

[@Lauras-tinyview]

@@angiegarciaart Thank you! I can just imagine how beautiful it must be in the MT mountains. You’ll have to let me know how your hats work out. Electroform? Not sure I know what that is. Thanks for subscribing!

[@angiegarciaart]

@@Lauras-tinyview I’m really exited.. just have to cave out the time. If/when I make this I will tag. Electroforming is a metal forming process that uses electrodeposition to form, or grow, metal parts onto a model, which is known as a “mandrel.” Electrodeposition involves the electrochemical transfer of metal ions through an electrolyte to a surface from an anode… basically it will be copper after the process is done! 🤎

[@Lauras-tinyview]

@@angiegarciaart That’s amazing!

[@sharonazamboni]

Thank you for the video, and especially for the template!

[@Lauras-tinyview]

@@sharonazamboni You’re very welcome!

[@MyMinimadness]

Im sold on masking and cardstock and paper... You have opened my eyes to so much more!

[@Lauras-tinyview]

❤️❤️❤️

[@kathyevans3251]

This is a great pattern

[@Lauras-tinyview]

@@kathyevans3251 Glad you liked it!

[@maggiehughes4283]

The cowboy hats are tremendous. Thanks for tutorial.

[@Lauras-tinyview]

@@maggiehughes4283 Thanks! Enjoy! ☺️

[@kerry1963qld]

Wow thankyou so much for sharing , your so clever :)

[@Lauras-tinyview]

@@kerry1963qld Thank you! 😊

[@karinberonius8799]

I have absolutely no use for tiny cowboy hats. But I'm sure I could think of one if I tried. This is brilliant! It also made me think that this faux leather technique would be perfect for when you're making miniature books. Thank you for the inspiration!

[@Lauras-tinyview]

@@karinberonius8799 Great idea!! I will have to make some books that way sometime. I have used it to make leather like strips for straps and belts before. Glad you found the video inspiring!

[@karinberonius8799]

@@Lauras-tinyview ☺️

[@RobynWright-f1g]

Hi Laura, I love, love the hats. You did an amazing job. Well done. It was like looking at the costume department of Bonanza. Thanks for the free pattern. Don’t know if I will ever make one. But they are just so darn cute I might have to. Cheers Robyn ❤😊

[@Lauras-tinyview]

Your welcome!The big cream colored one reminded me of one Hoss would wear.

[@RobynWright-f1g]

@@Lauras-tinyview Yes, yes, that was the first thing I thought of when I saw it. “That looks like Hoss’ hat”. As kids my sisters and I would play cowboys and we would each have one of Dads old hats and I always got left with Hoss’ hat, while my two older sisters got Little Joe and Pa Cartwright’s hat. I have the photo to prove it. And to this day we still have a laugh about it. Guess I’ve given away my age. Cheers Robyn ❤️😁

[@Lauras-tinyview]

@@RobynWright-f1g What an adorable sweet story!! 💗 It’s fun that you have the picture too! 🤠 Thank you Robyn for sharing that fun memory! Wish there was a way to see the picture.

[@RobynWright-f1g]

@@Lauras-tinyview I’d have to look for it but don’t know how to attach it. Cheers Robyn ❤️🥰

[@Lauras-tinyview]

@@RobynWright-f1g Unfortunately I don’t either? Do you have an Instagram account? If so I could see it that way.

[@StizelSwik]

W O W. You have so much patience!!! thank you for sharing this skill with us! I don't know if I will ever use it, but having in the playlist is a good thing. Thanks again.

[@Lauras-tinyview]

Thank you! Good idea you never know if you might need to make some boots. 😆

[@kellysweeney3842]

Those are adorable! So great! TYVM for the pattern!

[@Lauras-tinyview]

You are so welcome! Glad you like them!!

[@Lesliejcraftycreations]

You have to make a Gus hat from Lonesome Dove. ❤❤❤

[@Lauras-tinyview]

@@Lesliejcraftycreations I’ll have to look that up. Is it a movie?

[@Lesliejcraftycreations]

@@Lauras-tinyview yes. LONESOME DOVE. With Robert Duvall and Tommy Lee Jones, Ricky Schroder, Robert Urich, Diane Lane. Danny Glover and many other actors

[@Lauras-tinyview]

@@Lesliejcraftycreations I don’t know how I have never heard of this. I really like Tommy Lee Jones!

[@Lesliejcraftycreations]

@Lauras-tinyview it's a saga. I love it. Be prepared for many hours of Western movie entertainment. Have the popcorn 🍿 candy and drinks available. And a box of kleenex. Let me know what you think of the movie 🎬

[@Lauras-tinyview]

@@Lesliejcraftycreations I will! 🤠

[@Andrea-bdt]

❤❤❤❤❤

[@Lauras-tinyview]

@@Andrea-bdt Wow! Thanks!🥰

[@mezmarionybarra]

So So Cute!!! Thank You!!! Do know the actress Martha Kelly? When I hear your voice I think of her, You both have a lovely soothing sound😊

[@Lauras-tinyview]

@@mezmarionybarra I have not heard of her. I will definitely look her up! I have had others tell me they are relaxed by my voice too. Thanks for such a sweet compliment! 🥰🤗

[@laurabarber6697]

🎉❤🎉🎉🎉😂

[@Lauras-tinyview]

@@laurabarber6697 Thanks! 🤠