Trace around the hair clip onto card stock

Cut about 1/4" around, larger than your tracing

Your template should look something like this

Using your template, cut out 2 pieces from your felt

Take 1 of the felt pieces and doodle embroider your design leaving about 1/4" edge all around

Put aside for a few

Next...

Place the hair clip on the remaining piece of felt

Approximate where you'll be inserting the narrow piece (the unsnapped hair clip's bottom piece) through the felt

Taking your scissors, snip a short slit like this...

With an unsnapped hair clip, insert the narrow piece through the slit you just snipped

Snap closed

Place the 2 felt pieces together, one on top of the other- your embroidered piece RS facing out, the underside should look like this

I used a running stitch all the way around

Like so

Turn it over

Tah-dah!