sâmbătă, 3 martie 2012

A Memory Bracelet - The Best Homemade Jewellery Gift

By Joe Wood


Producing men and women gifts can at times be challenging but is constantly the best way, as it exhibits you really care. By placing a lot of time, energy and creativity into make some thing unique just for them. Why not make that special an individual a memory bracelet. You can location pictures in each of the tiles, they can be of things you have accomplished with the man or woman, things they like, places they have been or a themed concept such as botanical.

The resources you will want 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 several images, in case a single gets ruined, Eye pins, 1 for every single tile, - inch double-sided tape, Pewter metal sheet, Wooden stylus, Liquid polymer gel, Embossing warmth gun, Epoxy glue, Gloss varnish, Pre-made bracelet chain, Jump rings, one for each and every tile, Silver charms of choice.

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

2. Print out the thumbnail sized photos and employing your jewellery equipment lower them down with no a border. Very carefully peel of the back of the picture and apply to the clay. Rub more than gently to get rid of any bubbles there could be and trim the clay down to the dimension of the picture. Lower down the eye pin to inch, press into the top rated centre of each and every tile. Then bake the tiles and eliminate the eye pins.

3. After allowing cooling time from baking, apply double-sided tape all around the edges of the tile and cut a strip of pewter to inch. Take away the back of the tape and wrap the pewter close to the edges, start at the hole at the top rated and leave only a slight bit of the pewter sticking over the front. Using the wooden stylus tool, push down the edges down above the tile on the two sides.

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

5. Add a semi-thick layer of liquid polymer to give a clean, glass-like appear. Heat the gel with a heat gun to set it. Whilst employing the gun, don't get to close to the piece, rotate so the entire piece gets dried.

6. Apply gloss varnish to all the pieces and substitute 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 numerous or as tiny photos and charm beads as you want. The images don't have to be in colour, experiment with using negative and sepia effects to add a vintage really feel to the piece.

This will be a amazing present for a person close. They will by no means want to take this distinctive, unique piece off and they'll even think it was keep bought, and the greatest factor is you created it oneself.




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