iLoveToCreate Retrofabulous Mini-Frame Pendant

iLoveToCreate Retrofabulous Mini-Frame Pendant 
Margot Potter 
"These are your grandmother's craftshttp://www.margotpotter.com/collections/yourgrandmotherscrafts, ya gotta problem with that?"

Making these miniature wearable paper artworks is easy peasy and a ton of fun.  Old book pages make great collage backgrounds and you can find images in Dover Books titles or do this with upcycled new magazine pages for a more modern look.  No matter how you do it, Aleene's Dry Adhesives and Jewelry Glue make this a breeze!

The Craftabration Continues!  Day two of Margot Potter: Live Handmade! I'm sharing a project I created for iLoveToCreate.  These are my collage jewelry frames.  I make them for myself, family and friends and they're just divine.  I can not claim to have invented this art form, but I can tell you it's a ton of fun making these mini-collages.  The images I use are from vintage pre-1940 magazines I found at a flea market in Paris...and soon...my little crafty chickadee...you will be able to buy them as PDFs from my new site!  YAY!  I'm still working on the logistics of that, so until then, here's a little project to whet your whistle with a free vintage image for you to use!  We've got lots of old book pages for your collage backgrounds at the new site...I'm just sayin'.

(This image is sized to fit in a 1.5x1.5" frame. For personal use only.) 

Materials
Miniature Frame (HHH Enterprises)
Tiny metal Tim Holtz idea-ology flower
4mm crystal AB SWAROVSKI ELEMENTS round
Old book page
Red construction paper
Artistic Wire mesh black
Aleene's Tacky Tape Runner
Aleene's Tacky Sticker Sheets
Aleene's Jewelry and Metal Glue
Chain
Clasp
Jump rings

Tools
Chain nose pliers
Small scissors
Pencil

Trace background paper to fit frame and cut with small paper scissors. 

 

Cut out and adhere tiny collage elements using Aleene's dry adhesives.

Use Aleene's Jewelry and Metal glue to attach flower and crystal.  (Be sparing, a little goes a long way!)

Cut a small section of mesh and tie a bow, pull mesh tubing on both sides to create bow shape.

Free Mixed Media Jewelry Project: Red Riding Hood Glass Pendants

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Free Mixed Media Jewelry Project
Red Riding Hood Glass Pendants
Copyright 2009 Margot Potter The Impatient Crafter
My friend Homer H. Hillis of HHH Enterprises has a never ending array of fabulous new toys for the mixed media crafter. He sent me some new Our Glass pieces recently that are totally awesome. They’re thick, they’re smooth and they are optically clear. That means whatever you put behind them is slightly magnified. He also sent a roll of 3/4” thick foil tape to help seal the images. Beadalon just came out with glue friendly pendant bails and BeadFix glue in sheets!

Can you say, “Match made in heaven?!”

I kept this simple and straightforward, so I can use them as striking focal elements in some new designs. The images are from a recycled vintage children’s book I purchased this past weekend. You can opt for permission free images or other images that suit your style. I love recycling fashion magazines. Don’t scan and manipulate images on the computer unless they’re permission free though, using the actual page is recycling, copying the page is copyright infringement.

Materials
Vintage Children’s Book Pages with Small Detailed ImagesHHH Enterprises Our Glass Wafers/Bubble Glass
Beadalon Glue-on Pendant Bails
Beadalon Bead Fix Adhesive Squares
Aleene's Fast Grab Tacky Glue
ToolsBone folder
tim holtz for Tonic non-stick ScissorsMarker


1. Place Our Glass wafer over selected image and trace with a marker.

2. Cut out with scissors.

3. Spread a thin, even film of adhesive on wafer and adhere to glass.


4. Use fingers to gently work out any bubbles under glass. Allow adhesive to cure.

5. Place tape over back of decoupaged glass, if rectangle or square shape, leave an overlapped edge that is flush with top edge of glass. (If round glass, leave a small 1/6” edge. Designer note: You may need to add a second layer of adhesive to get the tape to adhere and stay there.) Mark and cut with scissors. Use bone folder to burnish tape edges flush to glass.


6. Adhere tape. Repeat adhering tape strips moving from top to bottom of back of pendant until finished.



7. Place flat side of bail on back of glue square and use as a guide while you cut out glue to fit bail.


8. Adhere bail to center top at the back of the pendant.


9. Use your bone folder to smooth out any wrinkles in the tape.

10. If you'd like, you can add a layer of solder to seal everything inside or you can opt to leave it as is. If you're hard on your jewelry or plan to wear this often, I suggest the solder!
Until next time...craft on with your bad selves!
xoxo, Madge