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| Charms
by Dawn Lippincott |
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Description |
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This is a fun easy ,
fast way to make goodies for swaps or to give as gifts for the charm lover
or vintage lover in your life! You can either hang these on a charm
bracelet or use as a necklace pendant.
Either way you're sure
to give a gift of love that's handmade and so easy... you don’t have to
tell anyone how easy it was!
This class is good for a beginner with jewelry skills or an intermediate
crafter.
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ARTchix Studio Supplies |
General Supplies and Tools |
Lil’ pix collage sheet |
acrylic charms or shrink art plastic
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beads of your choice( 2 small and a spacer in between) |
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Diamond
Glaze (or Crystal Lacquer) |
head pins with a loop at one end |
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scissors |
Jewelry pliers or small needle nose |
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black permanent marker (fine point) |
jump
rings |
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metallic paint pen (they come in silver,gold and copper) |
non
stick parchment or wax paper (to protect your work surface and to
prevent the charms from sticking.) |
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Instructions |
To make these fun
and fashionable Little Charms is fun and easy peezy!
Get out your shrink art paper and cut to desired charm size, punch
hole and shrink before adding any images. Make sure to cut larger then
the size you want to end up with as it will shrink down quite a bit.
You can color the plastic before you shrink it, make sure you're using
permanent ink.
Find an image to fit your pre-shrunk charm base. I used the Mini
images. The charms I did here are half an inch by one inch long. But
you can use any size you wish or that will fit your charm base.
I used diamond glaze to adhere the mini image to the base and then
when dry I, again, used diamond glaze over the image. On the
underside, I wrote words like Dream, Inspire, etc. with a permanent
black marker. Or you could add a second image to the other side.
After you’ve glazed the whole charm with diamond glaze and it’s dry, I
took a metallic marker and went over the edges to give it a soldered
look.
Take a head pin with a loop on the end and add the beads of your
choice (I used fresh water pearls and swarzski crystals with a
sterling spacer bead in between).
After you’ve added your beads, make a wrapped loop with the end that
doesn’t have the loop, this is what you will use as a jump ring to
hang your charm from.
Add a jump ring to your image charm, make sure to close the ring .
Take your pliers and open the loop on the end (bottom) of your head
pin and add the jump ring with your image charm on it and close the
loop.
Your imagination is your only limitation! Remember have fun!!
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| Notes |
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Please feel free to print
these instructions for easy reference. (Use Landscape Layout when printing this page).
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Free Class: Shrink Plastic
Charms
by Dawn Lippincott
