Jewelry
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DIY Mini Jar of Snowflakes Necklace
With the Christmas holiday approaching right around the corner, we are always looking for quick, easy, and inexpensive gift ideas. Often we will look back at past craft ideas to see what we created in the last few years or for items we made during another season that can be altered. Looking back we had made these Spider Silk Dust necklaces, I knew we still had several of the mini jars left. This DIY Mini Jar of Snowflakes Necklace project was inspired by our Halloween party favor from last year. To create your own Mini Jar of Snowflakes Necklace you will need: Mini jars, stopper, and eyelet hook kit ( I purchased in…
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DIY Snowmen Chipboard Earrings
With the holidays right around the corner, Avry and I have been planning and preparing for a girls only teen holiday party. Who doesn’t love a party with lots of prizes, gift baskets, and party favors? We have been trying to figure out fun items to add to gift baskets. I remembered a few years ago we had made these Valentine Chipboard earrings, I still had chipboard and jewelry supplies leftover to make earrings. I looked through some old holiday stamp sets and found this cute cold play stamp set from Stampin up, I knew it would be perfect to create snowmen chipboard earrings. I realize that many of you don’t own…
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Spider Silk Dust Mini Glass Halloween Necklace
A neighbor friend had some necklace chains that she was getting rid of. So, Krystal snatched them up not knowing what they could be used for. My mind got working overtime and I had an idea to make some sort of Halloween necklace as favors for my annual Halloween party. This is how the Spider Silk Dust necklaces came to life. I purchased some cute little spider web charms on Etsy you can find them here Then Krystal found some cute little mini glass bottles online. We inserted necklace links into the tops of the corks of the little jars then filled them with light white glitter. We added the little spider web charms…
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Stamped metal and leather cuffs made from old belts
This summer I was in charge of a youth camp for girls ages 12-18 years old. The girls always like making crafts for one of the activities during camp. As I thought about the kinds of crafts the girls like to make. I thought about how much effort goes into cutting wood and supplies for crafts that we have made in the past at youth camps. Often I have found that the girls only liked the items made at camp for a short period of time and then they are thrown away or donated to thrift stores. Wanting to make something that wasn’t too large or took a lot of…
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dIY Wooden disc earrings
Wooden disc earrings My inspiration for these earrings came from The 36th Avenue . She had made wood drink coasters. I loved the patterns and designs she used and thought those patterns would would make great earrings. I purchased a pack of wooden round disc’s from Michaels. I stained most of the disc’s and used contact paper to make the designs on the wood discs. I also cut templates on my silhouette machine, I found some great free svg file backgrounds at Birdscards. On 36th Avenue she had spray painted her coasters. But I felt spray paint was a bit much for these small earrings. So for a durable glittery paint I chose to use…
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Shamrock Glass Gem Jewelry
Shamrock Glass Gem Jewelry This really isn’t a new concept at all. I just tweaked another way to use these. Remember about 8-10 years ago, it was really popular to glue scrapbook paper on the back of these jems and add a magnet? Totally the same thing here! I just stepped it up a notch and made them into something wearable. If you looking for a fun St. Patrick’s Day craft to do with your kids or tweens. Add this to your list, It is really simple inexpensive and I’m sure they will be proud to wear their new creation on St. Patrick’s Day. Plus you may just use some…
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Valentine chip board earrings
Valentine chip board earrings This is a fun little valentines project. It is easy enough that Tweens or teens could help or make on there own. You will need chip board circles. Mine are from a pre-printed pack of chip board designs. The circles I used measure about 1 1/2 inches. I also used some old printed music and red glitter card stock. You will also need a circle punch or cutting machine to match the size of your chip board circle, a heart punch or pre-cut hearts, glossy affects or crystal accents glaze, earring hooks and jump rings, a small hole punch, and tacky glue. I know that sounds…
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Chunky Bead Wire Crochet Necklace
Chunky Bead Wire Crochet Necklace Over Labor day weekend we went up to our friends cabin and she taught us how to make these adorable Wire Crochet Necklaces. I knew fall was around the corner so I did mine in harvest colors of Oranges, browns, tans and golds. I have a cute tan and orange shirt to wear with it. I love big chunky jewelry so I picked out a lot of big beads. The supplies you will need are a medium gage wire (colored one’s are fun) a Crochet hook, metal cutters, an assortment of 45 beads. necklace loop & lobster clip. If you don’t know how to do…
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What can you do with a zipper?
I was up to my parents for Easter weekend and my mom said my aunt had a bunch of buttons we could go sort through so we headed down to my Aunt Tamera’s. While there she brought out bags and bags of zippers she had picked up somewhere for dirt cheap and said I could have some.. I wish I had grabbed more!! I have all sorts of ideas going through my head as to what I can do with these zippers. I have seen all over online necklaces made from them, rings, pins, wall hangings, pillows, on the tops of shoes oh I could go on and on. So…
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Craft Night at Krystals aka "Funky Craft Mama"
Join us this Friday night (April 15, 2011) at my friend Krystal’s to make these cute charms. Check out her blog If you are in the area and want to come let me know. She is charging only .50 cents for supplies 🙂 pictures courtesy of Krystal’s blog. Necklaces not included Next month Craft night will be at my house!! Mark your calendars as it will be Friday night May 13th. I will be posting what we will be making and the supplies you may need to bring!
