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Thursday, April 5, 2012

Junque Jewelry Charms

I recently participated in a Junque jewelry swap over at ArtCharms. I completed 2 sets. One was using a green beaded necklace.

You can see the bundle of beads from the necklace after I had disassembled it here.

The other set was created with some 1996 Atlanta Olympic Pins that I was lucky enough to run across a stash of them at a local recycle store I shop at called Learning from Scratch.


Here is a short pictorial overview of how they were created. Here are the components I started with.


Some of the steps I took in coloring and assembling. First time I used Ranger Vintaj dye patina. It has some interesting effects. To get the full color you really need to let it sit over night. It does change from the initial look of first application. Overall I am happy with the coloring.


This swap has gotten me interested in what else I can create from unwanted pieces of jewelry. Has me looking at sales for more.

1 comment:

Dusty said...

These are so cool! Wanna teach this class in the fall/winter? Too fun.