I am participating in a "3 for 3"personal swap with a member of one of my groups,
Art Charms. The theme for this swap was Paper Beads. I decided to expand on the paper bead idea and came up with three different charms.
For these on the left, I cut silver foil card using the Tattered Flowers (TH SX) die being sure to flip my paper so I could glue them back to back!! I cut a middle layer out of regular cardstock and trimmed out a sliver so I could insert my double eye pin which I created using silver papers clips which you can see below. Once the glue was dry I applied alcohol inks to first one side than the other and also did the edges. I love the look!!!! I created danglies for them using head pins and E beads.
For these charms, I used chipboard circles which I sliced in half, trimmed out a little section for the head pin and glued them back together!! I coloured both sides and the edges using Sharpie markers and punched 3/4" circles from decorative paper then glued one to each side. I love the dynamic look of this alcohol ink paper !! Used the rest of it on one of
these cards. I added a black initial on each side and finished them off with matte sealer.
I glued a small piece of decorative paper to a rectangle of regular white paper and rolled these beads on thick wire so that the decorative paper would be on the outside. Does not require a very big piece to cover the outside of a bead and that is the only place it really shows. I trimmed them to size, coloured the ends with a Sharpie, inserted my eye pin and created a loop on the other end. I added little pieces of washi tape to decorate the outside and created coordinating danglies from head pins and E beads.
You can see here that I used pliers to straighten a paper clip, created loops on each end and then cut them in half. They were plenty long enough to create my art charms.
These were very fun to make!!!! I am stringing a metal penchant chain to the inside of a frame and will be showcasing my swapped art charms in it!!
Therese
