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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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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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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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Bottlecap earrings

Did you know you can use you Sizzix machine to flatten bottlecaps?  Pretty cool, huh.  Here, I flattened orange bottlecaps, glued 2 back to back, punched a hole and added ear wire for each double sided earring.  This project is very simple and quick.  Think of all the possibilities with the wide variety of available

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Sizzix embossed clay pendants

Today, I thought I would share some more polymer clay + Sizzix creations.  For this piece, I baked a very thin (6 on my pasta machine)  sheet of polymer clay (white fimo) for 45 min at 275°.    I let it cool, then embossed with Sizzix using  a Tim Holtz clock embossing folder.  Then I

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Polymer Clay & Resin Bracelet Tutorial

Have you seen the polymer clay/Sizzix kick going on here at SBLC?  Well, I didn’t have a die to cut the exact circle I needed for these bracelet blanks, so I used a paper punch for a circle that fit perfectly. You can easily make this beautiful custom word bracelet at home.  Here is how…

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