Easy Button Earrings

My sponsor Wholeport sent me these fabulous pearl like buttons.  I didn’t have a specific use for them yet…when I started thinking about making some earrings out of them.

There were two sizes of them I received, each from different orders (with Wholeport I get monthly orders of craft supplies that I choose and then I add a tutorial showing how I used their product to their website). 

I used jump rings to add a small and a large button to one ring and then put that ring of buttons on another jump ring with a button on either side.  I thought it wasn’t quite enough…So I added a few more buttons.

This is how I did it…

Loving them!

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What I have been doing lately…

Gardening…

Playing with this pooch!

Enjoying taking pics in the mornings!

Love how the light plays in my yard…

The first moonflower vine bloom of the summer…

Working on my new guest bedroom…

Making lots of new things…

Learning how to work with resin and making all sorts of pretties!

Love these pendants!

Creating so much that I’ve had no time for blogging!

Resin Flower Pendants

 

I have always wanted to try my hand at making resin flowers…so when I teamed up with WholePort, I knew it was my chance! 

I got this mold…very pretty and delicate.

I learned a lot about the resin process, mainly that there are a lot of variables when working with resin.  Seems that the heat, humidity and other unknown factors affect how (or if) the resin sets up. 

Here’s some of my first products…not great and not all of them hardened all the way, but some were useable.

But as I played with the resin more, things started turning out better!

I got 5 different molds from WholePort and used them all.

Another thing I did was when I had a dab of leftover resin I would just put it in a 30 ml medicine cup.  When the resin hardened, I cut the cup and pulled out the resin circle.  I got to thinking (ever had that happen?) about how that would make a good base for the flowers to make pendants.

So I got out my E6000 (also from WholePort) and glued contrasting flowers onto the resin circles!  And I loved the way it looked….

I glued bails to the backs of those circles and I had me some pendants.

I am just loving how they turned out. 

Very cute! 

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Another beautiful braided leather bracelet

You may remember this braided leather bracelet I made.  When I got the cording for that one I also received some narrower leather cording from the same company.  I love bracelets…you can never have too many!!

The cording is really easy to cut and glue the ends of the cording into the silver end caps. I added a few beads I already had to the grey strand. 

There is one strand turquoise, one grey, and one a metallic teal color.  The color combination is really wonderful!   There are so many colors available in this fine leather cording, you can’t even imagine!

I’m loving the arrow through the heart clasp!

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Filigree Earrings

New summery dangly earrings in my etsy shop…$2.25 each! 

Go check it out here! 

Nine colors to choose from…

Have a great week!!

Braided Leather Bracelet

Isn’t this bracelet pretty??

I found this great site online for all sorts of braided leather laces.  They have every single color I could imagine!  I used blue and turquoise to make this beautiful bracelet. 

I used 4mm cords for this bracelet and bought all my supplies from the same site.  The findings are sterling silver and the leather cord quality is superb!

I love the murano beads that slip onto the leather cording.  I love all shades of blues and turquoise so this was an easy decision. The beads are just beautiful!

Everything arrived ready to use in labeled bags, the end caps were easy to apply to the leather pieces and it just was so easy to make. I found this store online by a search for leather cording and finishing supplies and shipping was prompt.

I finished this bracelet today, tomorrow I am going to make another bracelet.  That one will be made from thinner 2.5 mm braided leather cords and the colors are grey and turquoise.

I can’t wait to wear it to work this week! 

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