INCHIE NECKLACE

Ever wonder what to do with an inchie, those little one inch square works of art that people are talking about? You could incorporate them into your cardmaking or scrapbooking but you all know how crazed I am about jewelry so it's only natural that I would turn an inchie into a necklace. For this project you will need:

1 18 inch silver chain with toggle clasp

1 1 x 1 memory frame with loops (Ranger Memory Frames)

2 1 x 1 pieces of memory glass (Ranger)

1 1 1/4 inch silver head pin

1 silver jump ring

2 small round silver beads

1 blue glass bead

round nose pliers

chain nose pliers

1 inchie (My inchie was made by Judi from Judi-Kins)

Remove the split rings from the memory frame.

Take your inchie and sandwich it between the two pieces of memory glass and insert into memory frame.

Attach the jump ring to the top loop of the frame and attach frame to the center of the chain.

Place a small silver bead, the blue glass bead and the other silver bead on the head pin. Make a loop and attach to the bottom loop of the memory frame.

Your necklace is finished.

Pot Luck Pendant

Most of the time when playing with my melting pot, the results are just dumb luck. Such as the case with this pendant. The look I was trying to achieve just wasn't happening. I kept throwing embossing powders in and the mess in the pot was just looking uglier and uglier. I poured a couple of pendants anyway and after awhile the ugly colors started to grow on me. I even managed to find some beads that would match and now I actually like the finished necklace. Moral of the story, no matter how crappy you think the stuff in your melting pot looks, you can always throw in a few more colors and still get something salvagable.

Hurrican Irene

Although my house came through Irene intact and not too wet, a lot a places in Cranford are now under water. Here's some of the flooding within walking distance of my house.

UTEE PENDANT

It's always fun trying to mix embossing powders to match beads. Even if everything looks good in the melting pot, you can't guarantee that it's going to pour out nice. I lucked out with this pendant. It was a perfect match for the beads.

QUICK CARD

Need to make a card in a hurry? Don't have time to color in a stamped image? Go with black and one color to make an elegant card. I used a purple base card. Using an embossing ink pad, I stamped a large floral background stamp on black card stock and embossed with purple embossing powder. Next I cut a scalloped circle out of purple card stock with a Spellbinder's die and stamped the Chinese design with black ink. Punched the base card and floral panel with a corner punch and adhered a purple ribbons across the center of the floral panel and then stuck everything together. Took all of 15 minutes, if that long.

BEACH STONE PENDANT

Happiness is a vacation in Maine. I love the sea air on the coast and the pine and cedar smell of the inland forests. Last week on a trip to Maine, I picked up some flat stones on the beach. I didn't go in the water though because 55 degrees is a little too chilly for me.

To make the pendant, I washed off one of the stones and let it dry. I stamped the image with gold pigment ink and embossed in gold. I added some color with Twinkling H2O's. Stuck on a few jewels and a necklace bail. Sealed the whole pendant with Diamond Glaze. Found some matching beads and strung the necklace.

UTEE SHELL PENDANT

Played with my melting pot yesterday and poured a lot of stuff in gold. One of my favorite molds is of a shell that I made using a real shell. After popping the shell out of the mold, I brushed it with gold Perfect Pearls, attached a self stick strip of pearls and rhinestones diagonally across the front and then sealed it with Diamond Glaze. Attached a large gold bail to the back. Ran three wires through the bail and then strung about three inces of white pearls, gold potato pearls and clear and silver lined clear size 6 seed bead on each wire. After the three inches I put all three wires through a gold metal bead and repeated those steps two more times. Ended the necklace by putting all three wires through 12 alternating gold metal beads and silver lined 6 seed beads. Pulled the wires tight before attaching the clasp and crimping.