Hot Glue Jewelry
Craft your unique jewelry pieces by harnessing the magic of hot glue sticks! Embellish your very own necklace and ring to express your personal style.
Yield: 1 necklace and 1 ring
Cost: $5
Equipment
- Jewelry pliers
Materials
- Mod Podge Dimensional Magic
- Pendant bezel blank and a ring blank
- Metal charms
- Floral silicone molds
- Glue sticks
- Craft paint Citrus Green, Parisian Pink
- FolkArt Extreme Glitter Hologram
- Mod Podge Gloss
- Scrapbook paper
- Jewelry glue
- Jewelry findings necklace chain and one jump ring
- 2 small Rhinestones
- Tracing paper
Instructions
- Using a warmed up hot glue gun, spread the hot glue sticks into the silicone shapes of your choice (read the package if you need to). Fill the entire mold and let cool.
- Pop the embellishment out of the mold and trim with scissors.
- Paint the shapes using the FolkArt colors of your choice. Once they are dry, add Extreme Glitter to the top. Let dry.
- If desired, glue rhinestones in the center of both flowers with the jewel glue.
- To decorate your pendant, first trace your blank with tracing paper and a pencil. You can even use a piece of computer paper if you want, but the tracing paper is a little nicer because it's thinner.
- Use the tracing paper shape you created to cut the scrapbook paper to fit inside the pendant. If it doesn’t fit, trim until it does.
- Decoupage your scrapbook paper on the inside of the pendant. Let dry. Paint a top coat of Mod Podge onto the paper and let dry again.
- Add Dimensional Magic to your pendant. Place metal charms in the wet Dimensional Magic and let dry for 8 hours (or until completely clear and solid).
- Glue your smaller flower to the lower left hand corner of the pendant with jewelry glue – add a leaf on either side, too. Glue your larger flower to the ring blank.
- Use jewelry pliers to attach the pendant to the chain, using the jump ring.