Sunday, March 4, 2012

A Memory Bracelet - The Excellent Homemade Jewellery Present

By Joe Wood


Generating people presents can occasionally be tough but is often the finest way, as it shows you truly care. By placing a lot of time, hard work and creativity into make some thing specific just for them. Why not make that specific an individual a memory bracelet. You can place images in every of the tiles, they can be of things you have done with the person, factors they like, spots they have been or a themed thought such as botanical.

The resources you will need to have 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, Pictures at thumbnail sizes - print several pictures, in case one particular 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-made bracelet chain, Jump rings, a single for every tile, Silver charms of choice.

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

two. Print out the thumbnail sized pictures and utilizing your jewellery resources lower them down with no a border. Meticulously peel of the back of the picture and apply to the clay. Rub more than gently to eliminate any bubbles there may be and trim the clay down to the dimension of the image. Cut down the eye pin to inch, press into the top rated centre of each tile. Then bake the tiles and eliminate the eye pins.

three. After allowing cooling time from baking, apply double-sided tape close to the edges of the tile and reduce a strip of pewter to inch. Get rid of the back of the tape and wrap the pewter close to the edges, begin at the hole at the top and leave only a slight bit of the pewter sticking over the front. Utilizing the wooden stylus instrument, push down the edges down more than the tile on both sides.

4. Apply double-sided tape to the back of the

, get rid of backing and spot the piece onto the pewter. Lower to flush and employing the wooden stylus to soften the edges.

five. Add a semi-thick layer of liquid polymer to give a clean, glass-like seem. Warmth the gel with a warmth gun to set it. Whilst using the gun, don't get to close to the piece, rotate so the entire piece gets dried.

six. Apply gloss varnish to all the pieces and change the eye pins and glue them in location and attach them with jump rings.

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

You can use as many or as tiny pictures and charm beads as you want. The photos do not have to be in colour, experiment with utilizing negative and sepia effects to add a vintage truly feel to the piece.

This will be a wonderful present for a person near. They will never want to take this exclusive, special piece off and they'll even think it was shop purchased, and the best thing is you made it oneself.




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