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Thursday, August 11, 2011

Washer Jewelry

I have been inspired by my Pinterest.com collection yet again. (Feel free to follow me, if you would like. Jennifer Avila) It is just the coolest place ever! Definitely my guilty pleasure. I am never at a loss for awesome stuff to inspire me and lately I have been majorly inspired to do a bunch of new projects. Yesterday, I took a trip to Hobby Lobby and brought home all sorts of jewelry findings and a couple packages of beads that happened to be 50% off!! (My absolute favorite way to buy things is on sale. In fact, pretty much the ONLY way I buy stuff.) I also got some Mod Podge Dimensional Magic, which is the key to these sorts of things. I had to take another short trip to the hardware store around the corner and picked up 3 packages of various sizes of fender washers. They are about $1.25 a package. So, very cheap to create these treasures. I just LOVE that!! Then, I stayed up getting things together so that I could whip out my new projects. I found a pretty good tutorial here: Creations by Kara. My first one is cute, though not perfect. I am learning as I go. I discovered that the liquid spreads quickly so you have to be prepared with any embellishments that you are adding. I would also say that it is important to have a straight pin handy to coax the air bubbles off of the surface. To assist in the drying process, I used my little 6 inch fan and put the washers directly in front of that which helped speed things up a lot. I am still learning what will work for hanging/wearing the jewelry. Should it go on leather cording? Maybe ball chain? Hemp? Still working with those options. In any case, I am loving it and have several in the curing process right now. The next step for me is collaging. I am LOVING the collaged washer results so far. I will be posting those next.









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18 comments:

  1. I love the black and white one on the cord! It would make an adorable necklace! Where did you find the instructions?

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  2. I really love these! I bet my teenage daughter would too! TFS!

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  3. Thanks ladies! I found a tutorial through Pinterest. Here is the link: http://www.creationsbykara.com/2011/07/washer-necklace-tutorial.html

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  4. These are super cute! Thanks for sharing! Found you on Tatertots and Jello!

    Amanda

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  5. These are really cute! You did a great job! Thanks for the inspiration!

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  6. Those are so cute! I love the cute beads and the ribbon is adorable as well:)
    www.karismaheartsavannah.blogspot.com

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  7. Very cute! :) Would love to have you link this up to my {wow me} wednesday link up party going on right now over on my blog. :) (New follower, cute blog!) :)

    Ginger
    gingersnapcrafts.blogspot.com

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  8. I ordered a washer necklace online and love it! I wanted to find a tutorial to be able to make my daughters some. Thanks so much for sharing!

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  9. Thanks so much for sharing the link to my tutorial Jen! I love how your necklaces turned out! Such a cute idea to add the beads. I love the black and white one! :)

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  10. Fabulous project. I just made some of these!

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  11. I just pinned the pic of those adorable washer pieces. tfs!

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  12. Heads up! Joanne's sells a cord called "rat tail" in at least 12 colors. It's 79 cents a yard, perfect for washer necklaces!

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  13. I wish I had seen the comment about the cords sooner! I found some dinky ones at Walmart that will work fine, but I love the stronger sturdier cord!
    You can see the ones I just made at obsessivelypinning.blogspot.com Thanks for the inspiration!

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  14. Wow what a beautiful post.I am inspired from it.Can you more share with me.I will come back a soon.




    Thanks for more info........







    Beading supply

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  15. Love it! How did you cut the middle hole out? What tools to you use? Thanks!

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