How cool is it to make a wearable piece of art from eggshells and domino game pieces?! I ran into an eggshell mosaic bracelet tutorial while stumbling in Stumble Upon and have been saving eggshells ever since (By that, I mean I commissioned my grandmother to save eggshells for me, since we just never eat the suckers. What would I do without her. She folds magazine pages into strips for me, for crying out loud…). Ok, I am back. This project is easy and quick. Come see my take on eggshell mosaic jewelry.
Supplies:
*Eggshells (soak them overnight and remove the membrane from the interior, then let dry before use)
*Glossy Accents or adhesive of your choice
*Substrate for the eggshell mosaic. I used domino
pieces. Any flat bead would work, like polymer clay or wood. Needs to be a light shade, and a surface that accepts alcohol inks for this method. In the tutorial that inspired this project, resin jewelry blanks were used.
*Alcohol inks
Instructions:
*Apply glossy accents or other clear drying adhesive to pendant blank (domino or other)
*Place small piece of eggshell on top of glue and press with fingertip to crack into pieces. Move Pieces around to your liking with tip of your fingernail or tweezers.
*Once eggshell is all in place, let dry completely. I used my heat tool to speed this along. In the bracelet tutorial, she recommended leaving to dry overnight. No way. Couldn’t do it. I dried with heat tool and 10 minutes later moved on to the next step…
*Break off any eggshell sticking out over the edge of your pendant surface and apply alcohol ink straight from dropper to surface top. More alcohol ink = more saturated finished project. Let the top dry and apply alcohol ink to sides with felt applicator. You can apply to back surface as well. I didn’t.
*I applied glossy accents to the top surface for glass like finish. You could also use Judkins diamond glaze, dimensional magic by Plaid, resin, or glaze.
*Let dry for several hours and glue on pendant back or drill hole for jump ring. I used E6000 to glue on pendant bail on one, and dremel to drill hole for jump ring on the other.
These look awesome. Who would ever think eggshells, of all things, would make something that looks this great?!
Eggscellent !
Unbelievable! I eat eggs every morning. I am soooo doing this!
wow what a beautiful textured look love it
That is so cool–and so do-able too.
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Adrianne
happyhourprojects.blogspot.com
This looks awesome! I can’t wait to try it! 🙂
I love it.. I wonder about using different colors on one pendant?
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