Jewelry

Glass Tile Pendant Tutorial

Today, I am happy to share with you a glass tile pendant tutorial from Irina at Irina’s Cute Box.  These tutorials are abundant in the creative blog world.  Irina shares her version incorporating a bezel setting.  She uses the same jewelry component supplier as I do, Sun and Moon Kits on Etsy.  Wonderful prices and

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Aluminum Can Jewelry

The research put into my recent 60+ Recycled Can Craft Roundup left me collecting all the pretty cans I could find.  Here, I used the well known Arizona Tea can for the flower shape and a garage sale tin for the pink circle.  Making jewelry with Sizzix is so fun.  I am completely obsesses.  No

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50+ Paper Jewelry Projects

This week’s 50+ is all about paper jewelry. It is amazing what you can do with some paper and creativity. These projects are fantastic for Mother’s Day gifts, or any occasion where custom handmade jewelry is in order. Enjoy! Pin It

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Upcycled Can Pendant

Here is a cool Mother’s Day gift idea.  This gorgeous flower pendant is made from an aluminum can and a copper rivet joining the 3 layers.  It really couldn’t be simpler or less expensive.  Mom will love it’s uniqueness.  You can paint it to suit her tastes and she will have a heartfelt, handmade gift

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Needle felt pendant tutorial

Inspired by this week’s felt project round-up, I gave needle felt jewelry a go.  I played with this briefly to add dots to this felt mushroom a couple of years back, so am a novice to this technique.  It is very easy to pick up, and pretty quick for small jewelry projects like this. As

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Felt Tutorials

This was quite a surprising round-up to put together.  I guess I thought of felt as a winter craft supply, but not so.  Spring and summer projects everywhere are using the stuff.  With needle felting, you can easily “paint” in 3D with roving wool, creating anything you can think of.   Or grab some salvage wool

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Seed Bead Toggle Clasp

What is more beautiful than a multi-strand beaded necklace?  I would make these all of the time if my schedule allowed, but they are time consuming.  For this piece, I made my own toggle clasp using a technique I learned in , a book that I highly recommend if you are wanting to step up

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Upcycled Jewelry Tutorial

If you have been around here lately, you have seen the die cut jewelry phase I have been in since getting my Sizzix machine.  Last week, I shared this round-up of 60 recycled can projects, which is where I got the inspiration for this pendant.  There are several projects I found that use aluminum cans

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Wire Wrap Ring

As promised, here is the wire wrap ring I made to go with the orange paper bead bracelet I showed in yesterday’s post.  I was skeptical when I found the tutorial that promised this project would be doable by anyone, super easy.  It turned out to be just that!  I have never made a wire

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Upcycled Jewelry

Here are some new paper bead bracelets like I shared with you in this post.  If you are new to recycled paper jewelry, you will find a great video link there.  These simple woven bracelets are a big hit. Tune in tomorrow to see how I made a matching paper bead wire wrap ring! And

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