Thursday, March 8, 2012

A Memory Bracelet - The Excellent Homemade Jewellery Gift

By Jo Smith


Creating people presents can sometimes be hard but is constantly the finest way, as it shows you really care. By placing a lot of time, energy and creativity into make a thing unique just for them. Why not make that unique someone a memory bracelet. You can place pictures in every single of the tiles, they can be of things you have completed with the particular person, factors they like, locations they have been or a themed thought this kind of as botanical.

The equipment you will require to carry out this creation are as follows:

Polymer art clay or Fimo - white or other light colour, Pasta machine, Dark T-Shirt transfer paper, Photographs at thumbnail sizes - print multiple pictures, in situation a single gets ruined, Eye pins, one for each tile, - inch double-sided tape, Pewter metal sheet, Wooden stylus, Liquid polymer gel, Embossing heat gun, Epoxy glue, Gloss varnish, Pre-produced bracelet chain, Jump rings, 1 for every single tile, Silver charms of choice.

1. To commence with, place your polymer clay (or Fimo) in the pasta machine on the thickest setting. Then to develop double thickness fold over the clay.

2. Print out the thumbnail sized images and using your jewellery tools cut them down with no a border. Cautiously peel of the back of the image and apply to the clay. Rub more than gently to get rid of any bubbles there may be and trim the clay down to the dimension of the picture. Cut down the eye pin to inch, press into the top rated centre of each tile. Then bake the tiles and get rid of the eye pins.

3. Immediately after allowing cooling time from baking, apply double-sided tape around the edges of the tile and cut a strip of pewter to inch. Get rid of the back of the tape and wrap the pewter around the edges, commence at the hole at the leading and leave only a slight bit of the pewter sticking above the front. Making use of the wooden stylus tool, push down the edges down above the tile on both sides.

4. Apply double-sided tape to the back of the, eliminate backing and spot the piece onto the pewter. Cut to flush and utilizing the wooden stylus to soften the edges.

5. Add a semi-thick layer of liquid polymer to give a clean, glass-like seem. Warmth the gel with a heat gun to set it. Whilst utilizing the gun, do not get to near to the piece, rotate so the total piece gets dried.

6. Apply gloss varnish to all the pieces and replace the eye pins and glue them in spot and attach them with jump rings.

7. If you want to have an extra appeal to the bracelet then you can add themed charm beads.

You can use as several or as small images and charm beads as you wish. The photos do not have to be in colour, experiment with utilizing negative and sepia effects to add a vintage feel to the piece.

This will be a wonderful present for someone near. They will in no way want to take this distinctive, unique piece off and they will even feel it was store bought, and the finest issue is you produced it yourself.




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