…compilation of tutorials
There are soo beautiful stamps, why not make a little piece of jewelry from them?
One way is the already presented lamination, another the beading of stamps.
And with a little more thought I will get other ideas as well ;-))
Links:
Beaded Stamp Pins (Bev’s Freeform Postage Stamp Pins)
Here at unikatissima:
Laminated Stamps Necklace
I presented already the beaded freeform wire crochet and the wire hairpin lace bracelet, but here at wire crochet you can find a lot of tips that you can use making the other items.
Just check it out :))
Links:
Wire crochet (C is for Crochet) – click on ‘W is for Wire Crochet’ in navigation bar
Here at unikatissima:
Beaded Freeform Wire Crochet
Wire Hairpin Lace Bracelet
I have the tutorial about using Organza on polymer clay on my list for a long time already – but not yet tried.
After having no time to work with polymer clay for quite a long time now, I don’t want to buy some liquid polymer clay.
Nevertheless…
Links:
Millifiori and Organza Pendant
When I saw the tutorial on how to make polymer clay Zentangles I thought: ‘Wow! What a great idea!’
Up until now I only sketched my Zentangles and made a lot of things with Fimo and I even thought about making the polymer clay letter cane ;-)
I still have some black and white polymer clay canes, perhaps I can make something with them.
Links:
Polymer Clay Zentangles (Let’s Zentangle !! Making a Zentangle with Polymer Clay) – with a slide show where the steps are very well described
Here at unikatissima:
Zentangles
Polymer Clay Letter Cane
Entries with the tag ‘fimo’
Entries containing the words ‘polymer’, ‘clay’ and ‘cane’
I presented already the necklace bust and the mini dress-form jewelry stand, now here another just as well idea: a plaster board with cast in doll arms.
It get’s more and more difficult to decide where to put your jewelry, doesn’t it? ;-))
Links:
Plaster and Doll Arms Jewelry Holder (Jewelry Holder)
Here at unikatissima:
Necklace Bust
Mini Dress-Form Jewelry Stand
When I saw the drinking straw pin I thought: ‘Oh yes, I want!’ ;-)
It is quite easy: I took two different coloured drinking straws, cut them (veeery carefully!) into spirals with an X-acto knife und knotted them (not too firm) together.
This way my little ball stays in form without glue, sewing or the like.
I wanted to cut them first with scissors but I got ugly edges, the cut must be made with a really sharp cutting tool.
I find it cute as well as jewelry as well as tree ornament ;-)
I liked the knitted rose best of all knitted flowers, that’s why I tried to knit it.
I thought that it must look cute with my white scarf.
And because it doesn’t need much thread it is great for stash use-up ;-)
That is my flower and I’m absolutely sure that I knitted it following the instructions.
Although I like it, I think that it looks more like a hyperbolic plane or a carnation flower than a rose.
I ask myself if this has to do with the fact that I have brown thumbs? ;-))
Links:
Knitted Flowers (knitting / flower patterns)
dort u.a. Knitted Rose (knitting / flower patterns 202)
Here at unikatissima:
Entries with the tag ‘stash’
TED Talk: Nature, Crochet and Geometry
Seed Starters
While surfing the internet I found this necklace and found it amazing.
I thought that it should be easy to made: you make the mdedaillons with flat round Peyote (see links below) just as for the bottom of the beaded bottle, but then you work the pattern back again.
This way you get a slightly thicker medaillon in place of a flat disk.
Unfortunately I’m not so good concerning colours and so I’m not really satisfied with my own medaillon (see photo).
Perhaps I should have printed and coloured in one of the graphs (see links below) to use this as template?!
One day I really will do this ;-)
Links:
Tutorials for flat round Peyote and graphs:
Flat Round Peyote Stitch Step by Step Tutorial (English) – tutorial
Flat Round Peyote Stitch – Beading Graph Paper (English) – graph
Hexagonal Flat Peyote Worked In Rounds (English) – tutorial and graph
Rundes Peyote mit variabler Perlenanzahl (German) – tutorial, click there on ‘Rund-Peyote’
Google search result for ‘flat round peyote’
Google image search result for ‘flat round peyote’
Here at unikatissima:
Beaded Bottle
Peyote Variations
Wrap a Rock
These fabric covered beads aren’t the same as the fabric beads or the knotted fabric beads, but fabric covered wooden beads.
I like them :)
Links:
how to of the day: fabric covered beads
Here at unikatissima:
Making Fabric Beads
Knotted Fabric Buttons and Beads
Some time ago I presented the Skinner blend beads necklace, the ‘skewer’ beads shown here are made in the same way.
I call them ‘skewer’ beads because I made them by rolling polymer clay sheets which I wrapped around wooden skewers. Then I cut the sheets in sections before baking.
For the beads on the photo I
Afterwards I threaded the beads on a simple leather string that matches wonderfully the colour of the beads.
The used polymer clay canes are mostly transparent just as for the egg and the flower canes of the polymer clay box.
I still enjoy this necklace.
I really wanted to play around a little with ‘jade’, especially because this is a wonderful way of using up rests of coloured, perhaps self-mixed polymer clay ;-)
As for the subject ‘jade’: Glassattic was a great help to me.
For the beads on the photo I
For this necklace I
But of course you can embellish the tubular beads that are made on skewers with other techniques and in other widths, also (as you can see at the Skinner blend beads necklace ;-)).
Here I varnished the black polymer clay sheet to be wrapped around the skewer (with I don’t remember what) in red, let it dry and pushed then the whole sheet through the pasta machine to let the varnish crack.
Additionally I made some black-only beads of the same width.
I still find this combination beautiful ;-)
Links:
On the topic of ‘faux jade’: Glassattic — Faux many => click there on ‘jade’
Here at unikatissima:
Skinner Blend Beads Necklace
Transparent Polymer Clay
Polymer Clay Flower Canes
Carving Polymer Clay
Entries containing the word ‘cane’