Thursday, 29 March 2012

MockingJay Necklace

I know, i'm awesome you don't have to tell me. What's that? I'm not awesome? Well i'm going to hunt you down and kick your ass prove you wrong. I recently started reading the hunger games (Don't mean to be a hipster, but i'd heard of it way before the movie came out. Although that does look amazing!) and i fell in love with the cover. And the book, but mainly the cover. I love the idea of the MockingJay so i decided to make my own brooch/necklace. I haven't decided which yet, but i think i might make it both! In the course of writing this DIY out, i decided to make it into both.

Ingredients:
- Shrinky Dink
- Hunger Games book or a template
- An X-Acto knife
- Paint/Nail Varnish
- 2 Pairs of pliers
- Chain (If you want a necklace)
- Brooch Back (If you want a brooch)
- Pencil
- Jump Ring (If you want a necklace)




Jumping on the bandwagon'

Interchangeable Necklaces

I love to match my jewelerry to my outfit. I thought this necklace was cute, so i then though, why not make more of them? Make them interchangeable! I made three different colours, pink, blue and green.

Ingredients:
- Chain
- Fimo (Three or more colours)
- Round object to draw around or cut with
- Two pairs of pliers
- Three jump rings (Or however many peices you've made)
- Push pin
- Lobster clasps (Optional)


Monday, 26 March 2012

Guitar St-Rings

My boyfriend plays guitar, so i asked him if he could keep his old guitar strings for me, so i can DIY myself some pretty things. Today he handed me a pile of rings that he'd made which were he cutest things in the world. So i decided that i needed to share it with someone. So here's todays tutorial:

Ingredients:
- Old guitar strings
- Wire cutters (Not your best ones because they really blunt them fast)
- Ring sizer or something that's the same size as your finger (I used a nail varnish bottle that's the same size as my rings)


Saturday, 24 March 2012

Be my best friend?

So today i thought i'd go for a cheesy 'BFF' style necklace for you. I made it in the kitchen so theres no picture of all of the stuff together. Lets get started.

Ingredients (I've given up with the real word now):
- Fimo of the colour that you want
- A heart template. Draw one or steal mine
- Craft knife
- Jump rings
- Chain/s
- 2 Pairs of pliers
- Cutting mat
- Oven
- Tin foil
- Push pin

Thursday, 22 March 2012

Blog Adorin'

I know that i shouldn't pick favourites but i have. So deal with it. I love Melissa. Chances are Melissa doesn't even know i exist, but what of it. So i thought i'd show some of my DIY's of her DIY's (If that makes sense)


Oo-er isn't that cute?

Boom, me here again (Well who else is it going to be?!)
Bringing you another tutorial. This time for a cute little cloud mobile.

Ingredients (Once again, i've forgotten the real word):
- A couple of sheets of nice paper, i chose three sheets of 12x12 scrapbooking papers
- Your trusty X-acto knife
- Cutting Mat
- Cloud Template from HERE
- Raindrop Template from HERE
- Clear thread (Or as i used, fishing line)
- Double sided sticky tape
- Some wire cutters or scissors


Tuesday, 20 March 2012

Impulsive

That title just completely describes my mood as i wake up this morning. I just impulsively (Eh? Post title and big word, right there) made a rugby ball/american football necklace. I woke up with the idea (And the realization that i'm in love with Rizzle Kicks), so here's my first real tutorial:

Ingredients (Or as some people would call it, Equipment):
- A cutting mat
- An X-Acto knife
- Some Fimo
- 2 Pairs of pliers
- Some tinfoil
- An oven device
- A pencil
- Some paper
- A push pin
- A jump ring
- Some Nail varnish (Or another painting device)