Tag: Jewelry

Raid the Toy Box for this Recycled Jewelry Project

You’ll have to look closely to spot the upcycled components in this fun piece. I combined common jewelry components with a few non-traditional items, such as rubber washers, checkers, and nail polish for a clever spin on this recycled jewelry project. Materials Hole punch pliers, 2mm Checkers game pieces, 2 Acrylic paint (I used DecoArt®…

Boost Your Wardrobe with Recycled Jewelry

Mixed-media art and recycling, upcycling, and repurposing were made for each other. The Fall 2018 issue of Cloth Paper Scissors magazine features a fantastic recycled jewelry project from Debbie Blair that incorporates altered game pieces and rubber washers, plus tons of great jewelry techniques. Debbie’s piece inspired me to dig through my stash and channel…

Game On: Make a Found-Object Necklace

“As a jewelry designer, I see trends come and go. One trend that seems to have staying power is the long tassel necklace, which I absolutely love. With this particular project, I challenged myself to incorporate various found objects without them looking as such. I visited my local thrift store and poked around closets in…

Create Jewelry and More with Polymer Clay!

I love the versatility of polymer clay. If you blend the right colors in the right ways, clay can “be” wood, leather, gemstones, paper, pebbles, glass, fabric, and more. Clay can mimic supplies that aren’t always readily available or suitable for art and jewelry, like flowers, leaves, and wings. Polymer clay provides a lightweight substitute…

How to Make Inspirational Word Beads

Want to fashion a piece of jewelry out of metal? Kate Richbourg’s beginner-friendly tutorial for creating inspirational word beads is a great place to start. These beads are the perfect spot to stamp your Word of the Year or artful resolutions, and wearing the beads is bound to help you keep those intentions in mind…

A Beginner’s Guide to Quilling Jewelry

A revolution has been happening in paper quilling. Designs made from rolled paper strips are becoming more sophisticated, inspiring people to try this beautiful form of paper art. At the forefront of this movement is Ann Martin, author of The Art of Quilling Paper Jewelry: Techniques & Projects for Metallic Earrings & Pendants from Interweave. Ann…

The Jewelry Box

In The Jewelry Box column in the September/October issue of Cloth Paper Scissors, Julie Haymaker Thompson creates unique flower and leaf beads with shrink plastic. Using a Shrinkets dome mold that she designed and made herself, along with the shrink-plastic sheets, Julie fashioned a colorful chunky necklace that’s perfect for any occasion. Download her templates…

Studio Saturdays: Mixed media jewelry

Making mixed media jewelry is supremely satisfying on two levels: You can combine a number of your favorite techniques into one project, and you can wear what you’ve made. You can also design something perfectly suited to your and your wardrobe, and change it up at a moment’s notice. I used several of my favorite…