Gemstones Earrings DIY

Making own gemstones earrings are not impossible, you can even use different gemstone beads to build your own collection. I have now, numerous pairs of earring and design build from this one but they are not all for myself but for others... LOL

P.S. Sometimes it may take more than 1 attempt to achieve something, be patience! :)

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Cheers.

~Maggie~

Simple Earrings Making Projects

This project is pretty simple and easy enough for beginners to try out.

P.S. Do share with me your end result here.

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~Maggie~

Creating Your Signature Book Marks.

After being exposed to all kind of arts, I am so excited to try out different things all the time. I love doodling since school time, so I thought why not I just make my own doodle into some book marks too.

I hope this will inspire too.

Book Marks printed out from computer with my own doodle

1. After drawing this with color pencil on art block, I snap the photo with camera and upload it to computer.

2. Next, I use Live Window Photo Gallery to edit photo to make it clearer and to sharpen the color, click on the right hand tool bar and you can adjust brightness, saturation, colors and crop if you wish. 

3. Then, I insert the picture into power point, yes power point. As you can see I actually copy and paste a numbers of them. To get a different effect, first click on the image itself, then click 'Artistic Effect' and tada.. you will be able to make many of your doodle into different images. 

4. To change color, click on color.

5. To change brightness or saturation click correction. I prefer to do it on window live gallery first, somehow find it different from doing here. Well, you can experiment with both and see which options you prefer. :)

6. You can choose from assorted borders above too, click on the one you prefer.

7. To change border color, click picture border.

Okie, this is one of the easier way I thought of, share with me here if you have other easier way.

P.S. Remember to add your own signature too. :)

Cheers~~

~Maggie~

DIY Jewelry Display for Braelets

Do you always have to look through your jewelry box for that particular piece of necklace and bracelet that  you want to wear on the day? And find them all tangled up with each other in your jewelry box? I mean I had that experience before and it drive me nut... ok, I am not very organize here, I admit that. ><

Due to the Bazaar that I was attending a few days ago, it drives me to keep all jewelries organize and neat that I have to use all creativity I have to create a jewelry display which is within the  budget I have. 

It is pretty simple, let me share with you here how it was done. :)

You will need:

1. A wooden tray ( you can always replace with other material that are suitable)

2. Some cork board.

3. Head Pin 

4. Hot Glue/ Craft Glue

5. Ribbon 3mm with your choice of color

6. Double Sided Tape

7. Cutter

8. Ruler

Step 1: Get ready some cork board, doesn't matter about the size, it meant to be cut later.

Step 2: Measure and mark the width of 20mm

 Step 3: Draw the cutting lines.

Step 4: Cut it into 20mm width strips. 

Step 5: Prepare a wooden tray or any tray you can find at home as long as they have all surfaces that can be standing on any sides.

Step 6: Paste the 20 mm width strip along one side of the edge, you can decide here where you want to paste them, I am making it for my bracelets therefore I am pasting them side way that I do not need a long length for necklace for hanging.

Option 1: You can paste it with double sided tape too to avoid messy adhesive. (make sure you get a good double sided tape though, otherwise the display may fell apart)

Option 2: Use both tape and glue. Apply tape first then glue as cork board tends to absorb the moisture of glue and makes them less sticky. The layer of tape can prevent this from happening.

Step 6: Cut some 20mm X 20mm cubes from cork board to be use later.

Step 7: You should be completing it now as seen below, doesn't matter if you have a bigger or smaller piece of cork board, you can always cut extra to fill up the empty space just like what I did.

If you can find bigger ones, that be great!

Step 8: Mesure the width of your tray and cut similar length of ribbon to be use later. ( This is to add some decorative and artistic elements to the overall look really. :))

Step 9: I am using double sided tape here to paste the ribbon on the cork board which is in the tray.

Step 10: This is how they look like, I have paste 2 strips of ribbons along it.

Step 11: Prepare the cubes by applying double sided tape on them.

Step 12: Paste it on top of the first layer of cork board as shown.

Step 13: Arrange them the way you like it, the gaps between can be larger or smaller. Really, it is up to you. :)

Step 14: This is the final part, I bought this board head pin from 'Daiso', using the transparent one here.. well, this is my choice of color, you can choose yours color. :) I love options..

Step 15: Pin them through the 2 layers of cork board, this step actually help to secure the boards too.

There you go, it is completed! If you are using double sided tape, it can be use immediately. If you are using both glue and tape or just glue, allow few hours to dry before you use it.

View from the top.

This is how it looks like and they are stable enough to hold all bracelets throughout the Bazaar. If you are taking this to Bazaar too, please test it first before you go. You really don't want your jewelries fell apart.

Improvise upon this idea and share with me here what you have. Til then, see you soon.

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~Maggie~

How to Make a Large Jewelry Board from Recycling Boxes

A RECYCLE PROJECT

Have you ever been frustrated when setting a stone or  making a piece of jewelry with small findings and beads rolling here and there? And the jewelry board has always been seemingly too small to have everything on it?

If you are a beginner, this is certainly what you need to start with. 

Here is a way that we can make make our own large size jewelry board by using some recycle materials, lets save the earth!

Tools & Materials needed:

• Hard Board
• Scissor
• Velvet cloth (the type which normally use for jewelry boxes instead of apparel)
• Clear Tape or Hot Glue

1.  Cut out some hard boards from unwanted boxes, about 2 x 1 1/2 feet.

2. Cut velvet cloth into the size big enough to cover the paper board and make sure there are some extra bit that you can fold over. 

3. Turn the board around, the velvet cloth should be larger than the paper board. 

4.  Fold up one side of the velvet cloth and use tape to secure. (you may use hot glue here too)

5. Fold up the corner

6. Repeat same steps for all 4 sides.

7. Flip it over and it is done!

8. You may make as many as you wish in assorted colors at very affordable cost. Check out the textile store at your local area, the prices for velvet are not as pricey as we thought.

P.S. The one I made with clear tapes still stays in great shape after about a year. Try yours and share your ideas here with me. :)

~Maggie~