...Make It With Me

Friday, May 24, 2013

Swing Bling Earrings

Last day of the STAEDTLER and Stampendous Sweet Summer giveaway Blog Hop.

Special Announcement!

We will be giving away one of the STAEDTLER Sweet Summer packages on Monday to a lucky reader who has joined in and commented on this weeks projects...

See the bottom of this post for details.

But there will also be three bonus giveaways!!!

I will be picking three names from the followers who have commented as a thank you to my peeps.

The prizes will be the finished jewelry sets you've seen posted this week.

The Crown Necklaces

The Blackbird Necklace

and

The Blue Glitter Necklace and Earrings

Good luck and thanks so very very much for reading!

To complete this project you will need:

STAEDTLER fimo effect clay
STAEDTLER fimo liquid gel

Stampendous charm collection perfectly clear stamp set

Stampendous glitters and embossing powders

Clear ink pad

jewelry findings, chain, jump rings, lobster claw,head pins, 22 gauge wire,

Tools you'll need to complete this project:

Home oven

Parchment paper

Water in a spray bottle

Rolling pin for clay use only

Craft knife

Medium grit nail file

Drill with fine drill bit

Three in one jewelry pliers, double round nose, flat and wire cutters.

Roll out your STAEDTLER fimo effect clay to a thickness of 1/8th of an inch and spritz with water. Stamp with the small cameo frame hard enough to make an impression in the clay.

Use a craft knife to cut away any un-stamped clay and a toothpick to make a hole in the top of each piece to later hang them. Bake the pieces in a preheated 230 degree oven for 20 minutes and allow them to cool. Load the small cameo frame stamp with clear ink and stamp the pieces again. I used Stampendous Detail Capri embossing powder on the clear inked pieces and re-baked them for ten minutes in the 230 degree oven. I allowed the pieces to cool again.

I coated the center cabochon of each piece with STAEDTLER fimo liquid gel and then sprinkled with a variety of Stampendous glitters and embossing powders. I re-baked the pieces again in the preheated 230 degree oven for ten minutes and let them cool.

They were interesting but I wanted even more bling.

I added a drift of STAEDTLER fimo liquid gel onto each middle section and sprinkled glass glitter onto the uncured liquid clay. I re-baked the piece a final time at the same temp for ten minutes and let them cool completely.

I used the jewelry findings and pliers to assemble the earrings. They're very swishy and will add a little pop of colour and glitz to my summer wardrobe. Seriously loving these products together. Hope you all get a chance to try them all out!

Don't forget to join this site by clicking the link at the very bottom of this page and leave a comment on this post for a chance to win this wonderful STAEDTLER Sweet Summer Giveaway collection at the end of the week.

~~Giveaway open to residents of Canada and the US only.~~

GIVEAWAY CLOSED!

The “Sweet Summer” Giveaway includes the following:

1 Set of 6 Triplus fineliners, pastel assortment

4 blocks of FIMO soft oven-bake clay in vanilla, peach, lilac and mint

1 Mars plastic eraser

1 Double hole metal pencil sharpener

1 Mars Lumograph sketch pencil

1 Pigment liner sketch pen

2 Creative idea brochures

~~Visit the other Blog Hop artists by following the links below for a chance to win a Stampendous gift too!~~

~~Visit and leave comments on this Friday's Blog hop posts for a chance to win even more:~~

April Derrick

Lisa Somerville

Stampendous Impressions

Cyndi Bundy

Lea Kimmel

Thursday, May 23, 2013

Fit for a Queen Two... The Dark Side.

The Sweet Summer Blog Hop

With

STAEDTLER and Stampendous

Continues!

I re-vamped Monday's project in a darker pallet.

I like the darker base clay with the embossing powders.

To complete this project you will need:

STAEDTLER fimo soft in #9 black

Stampendous Vintage Crowns Perfectly Clear Stamp Set

Stampendous Encrusted Teal Jewel kit embossing powders and glitters

Opaque blue ink pad

Clear ink pad

Rhinestones

Super glue

jewelry findings, chain, jump rings, lobster claw, head pins, 22 gauge wire, crystal faceted beads,

Tools you'll need to complete this project:

Home oven

Parchment paper

Rolling pin for clay use only

Craft knife

Medium grit nail file

Drill with fine drill bit

Three in one jewelry pliers, double round nose, flat and wire cutters.

Flatten your STAEDTLER fimo soft black clay to a 1/4 inch thick sheet and load your Stampendous crown stamp with opaque blue ink. Lightly stamp the clay without leaving an impression. Use the craft blade to cut around the inked image. Bake the piece in a preheated 230 degree oven for 20 minutes and allow the piece to cool

I re-stamped the piece with clear ink and dusted it with detail capri embossing powder. Re-baked the piece at 230 degrees for another ten minutes and let it cool. Then I drilled holes in either side of the crown to hang the piece and added the jewelry findings to make the necklace.

There.....

Now I want to try a pink one!!!

~~Giveaway open to residents of Canada and the US only.~~

GIVEAWAY CLOSED!

The “Sweet Summer” Giveaway includes the following:

1 Set of 6 Triplus fineliners, pastel assortment

4 blocks of FIMO soft oven-bake clay in vanilla, peach, lilac and mint

1 Mars plastic eraser

1 Double hole metal pencil sharpener

1 Mars Lumograph sketch pencil

1 Pigment liner sketch pen

2 Creative idea brochures

~~Visit the other Blog Hop artists by following the links below for a chance to win a Stampendous gift too!~~

~~Visit and leave comments on this Thursday's Blog hop posts for a chance to win even more:~~

Suzanne Czosek

Stampendous Impressions

Krissy Fossmeyer

Kristine Reynolds

Lea Kimmel

Rhea Weigand

Wednesday, May 22, 2013

Blue Glitter and Embossing Powder Meet Translucent Fimo

The Sweet Summer Blog Hop

With

STAEDTLER and Stampendous

Continues!

Products used to make this project:

STAEDTLER fimo effect clay translucent #014

STAEDTLER fimo varnish

STAMPENDOUS Glitters and embossing powders

Jewelry findings, headpins, lobster claw, chain, jump-rings, 20 gauge wire, earring wires.......

Tools you need to reproduce this project:

Polymer clay rolling pin

Small circle cutters (mine are a 3/4 inch and a 1 inch)

Three in one pliers or... double round nose, flat and wire cutter pliers

Clay cutting blade

Parchment paper

Round tooth picks

Block of styrofoam

Soft round paintbrush

Plastic sandwich bag

Roll out the STAEDTLER fimo effect translucent clay to 1/4 inch thick and sprinkle the glitter and embossing powders onto the flattened clay sheet.

These glitters and embossing powders are gorgeous! I want to try them all mixed with my favorite STAEDTLER translucent clay.

Fold and re-roll the glitter into the clay over and over until it's dispersed throughout the clay evenly.

Sprinkle some Stampendous glass glitter onto the mixed glitter clay and re-roll and fold the clay again until you're happy with the mix.

Use the sandwich bag plastic to cover the mixed clay sheet and push the round clay cutter into the clay to make smooth edged rounded discs.

Sandwich wire between two of the smoothed mixed clay discs and seal the edge seams by gently smudging with your fingertips. The wire will make a hole for stringing the bead.

I sprinkled some glittery embossing powder onto one edge of each bead. I couldn't resist.

I rolled the extra clay into little balls and skewered onto a piece of wire. I baked all the beads in a preheated 230 degree oven for 20 minutes and allowed them to cool off before handling.

I removed the beads from the baking wire and put each bead onto the end of a toothpick and dipped them into the STAEDTLER gloss varnish.

I poked the other end of each toothpick into a large piece of styrofoam to dry. I came back after a few minutes and dabbed off the extra varnish drips.

After the beads are dry, load each onto a decorative head pin and make an eye using the three in one pliers.

Follow this tutorial if you need it.

These beads turned out spectacularly!

I love the STAEDTLER fimo effect translucent clay as a base for these glitters.

I added some chain to a couple ear hooks and linked some round beads evenly to these chains with jump rings to make some sweet dangle earrings.

I really love these beads!!!

I added a bead and a lobster claw to each end of a 20 inch length of silver coloured chain to make a necklace.

I hung the beads from the chain at even intervals. I started in the middle of the chain with the largest bead.

~~Giveaway open to residents of Canada and the US only.~~

GIVEAWAY CLOSED!

The “Sweet Summer” Giveaway includes the following:

1 Set of 6 Triplus fineliners, pastel assortment

4 blocks of FIMO soft oven-bake clay in vanilla, peach, lilac and mint

1 Mars plastic eraser

1 Double hole metal pencil sharpener

1 Mars Lumograph sketch pencil

1 Pigment liner sketch pen

2 Creative idea brochures

Visit the other Blog Hop artists by following the links below for a chance to win a Stampendous gift too!

Visit and leave comments on this Wednesday's Blog hop posts for a chance to win even more:

Kim Stewart

April Derrick

Stampendous Impressions

Jamie Martin

Janelle Stollfus

Jennifer Dove

Tuesday, May 21, 2013

Black Bird Beads

Another project for the Sweet Summer Blog Hop with

STAEDTLER and Stampendous

I love how the dark STAEDTLER fimo shows off the Stampendous glitter in this piece.

Don't forget to join this blog and leave a comment on this post for your chance to win.

To complete this project you will need:

STAEDTLER fimo soft #9 black

STAEDTLER fimo gloss varnish

Stampendous Charm Set Perfectly Clear Stamp Set

Stampendous Encrusted Jewel kit bronze

Stampendous Encrusted Teal Jewel kit embossing powders and glitters

Opaque blue ink pad

Rhinestones

Super glue

Silver coloured jewelry findings, chain, jump rings, lobster claw, head pins, silver coloured 22 gauge wire.

Tools you'll need to complete this project:

Home oven

Parchment paper

Water in a spray bottle

Rolling pin for clay use only

Craft knife

1 inch round clay cutter

Pack of round toothpicks

Three in one jewelry pliers, double round nose, flat and wire cutters.

Roll out some STAEDTLER fimo soft black clay to about 1/4 inch thick and sprinkle with an assortment of Stampendous glitters and embossing powders.

Roll over the glittered clay with the clay roller.

Use the round clay cutter to cut out circles from the pressed and glittered clay.

Sandwich a piece of wire between two glittered circles pressing firmly to create a solid bead. Rub the edge seam with your fingertips to seal the join.

I dusted one side of each bead with more embossing powder.

I made small ball beads by rolling some black clay balls in the excess glitter and embossing powder. Then I poked a hole in each bead with the wire.

I made a 1 1/2 by 2 inch flat bead poking a hole through the top of the piece from side to side. I loaded one of the teeny bird stamps found on the Stampendous Charm Set Perfectly Clear Stamp Set with an opaque blue ink and pressed it into the clay bead to make an impression on the beads front.

I added some turquoise detail embossing powder to the stamped image and brushed away any surface powder.

I loaded one edge of the focal bead with some aged teal embossing powder and baked the beads on a 230 degree oven for 20 minutes on a parchment paper lined baking sheet. Allow the beads to cool completely before handling.

Put each bead onto the end of a toothpick and dip into the STAEDTLER fimo gloss varnish. Poke the other end of each toothpick into a large piece of styrofoam to let the beads dry. Check in a few minutes to dab away any varnish drips.