DIY Woven Chain Collar Necklace. Earlier this month Lauren and I escaped city life with our dear friend Grace, of Stripes & Sequins, for a weekend chock-full of sun and DIY. With an abundant supply of rhinestone and brass curb chain, we decided to try weaving the components together to make our own collar necklaces. It was fun to see how wonderfully different the pieces turned out - each so fabulous in their own unique way! Honestly, isn’t that the best part about DIYing with friends? You’ll need: Start by laying two pieces of curb chain side by side. Thread the floss under the first link on the left side and through the top of the 2nd link on the right side.
Continue this weaving pattern. Tie a knot at the end. Using a different color flow, weave the floss around the first few links – again leaving about a foot of extra slack. Continue weaving and tie a knot at the end. Tie a knot onto the chain. Keep the necklace curved while attaching the rhinestone chain. Your necklace is now adjustable and finished!! Winged Golden Ball Bracelet | Wicked Clothes. Plastic Spoon Rose ∙ How To by EVEnl on Cut Out. 5 Ways to Turn Zippers into Awesome Arm Candy. UPDATE: By popular demand, Zipper Bracelet Kits ($15) and readymade Zipper Bracelets ($20) are now available in the Brit + Co. shop! You know we love turning unconventional materials into wearable accessories. Today, we’re tackling zippers! We figured out 5 simple, beautiful ways to create bracelets, cuffs, and bangles out of metal, plastic, and repurposed zippers.
Materials: - zippers - E-6000 quick hold contact adhesive - velcro or snap buttons - leather crimps + clasps - Tools: needle nose pliers, sharp scissors First thing to do is get your zippers! 1. These bangles are sweet, and have a definite friendship bracelet vibe. Use colored zippers for these, in whatever colors you like. Attach cord ends so that you can add a clasp and loop. 2. For this one, you’ll want a zipper with some contrast. We chose a black zipper with gold teeth. 3. This one is silly simple! Get a zipper with a more interesting material like denim. 4. 5. Last, the wrap bracelet! And that’s a wrap (hehe!). Bouncy Ball Necklace - Handmade Necklaces - Handmade Jewelry - MarthaStewart.com.
Make Right and Left Pieces - Wooden-Circle Bib Necklace - Step 2 - MarthaStewart.com. Anthro Necklace Week – Pretty-In-Pinking. This fun necklace is part of my first Anthro Necklace Week – A whole week of fun tutorial sharing Anthro Knockoffs! Disclaimer: I am not a jewelry-making expert by any means! I’ve tried to show you the way I do these – but believe me when I say that if I can do these – anyone can! :) We’re starting off the week with Anthro’s Pretty-In-Pinking necklace. So fun with the ribbon and gold beads – it would go great with just about anything. Here’s my version: And here’s their version: Ready to make your version?? Supplies: Pinking ShearsRound Nosed PliersWire CuttersNeedle Nose Pliers Materials: Ribbon (either a variegated ribbon like the one I bought at Michael’s, or multiple colors)Gold beads (10)Gold Chain (30″ piece & 4 1/4″ piece)Jump rings (4)Head Pins (13)Crystal Beads (2)Lobster Closure (1)Optional – 11 small pearls Start with putting your gold beads on the head pins.
If it doesn’t (like what I bought) you can add a small pearl or bead on first to prevent it from slipping through. See? Ooooh. Anthro Limitless Strands Necklace. How is your Holiday shopping going? Have you started? I will confess I have not. But I have been talking about starting. Does that count? I have been browsing online though - and of course I inevitably wandered over to Anthro.
At the risk of sounding like a broken record, I absolutely fell in love with this necklace. I thought I’d help us both out by creating a knockoff – you can never have too many options for Christmas ideas right? Here’s my version . . . Mine is a little less “strandy” than theirs but that was intentional. Here’s what you’ll need to create this cutie . . . 1 1/2″ Wide Ribbon – 3 1/4 yardsStringing CordSmall Glass BeadsLarge Round Beads – 5/8″ (any type)Crimp Beads – 20Jump Rings – 6Thread Start by stringing your beads.
Thread a crimp bead onto the cord and loop the end around a jump ring, then thread the cord back through the crimp bead. Thread beads onto the cording – it will help control the cording if you thread the loose end through a needle. Press the strips lightly. Anthro Trimmed Necklace Knockoff. Have you entered the Black Friday Giveaways?? You have a couple more days to enter! Click here for links to all 18 Giveaways! How are you doing on your handmade Christmas presents? Need any quick, easy, super cute, jewelry ideas?? I thought you might. ;) I was browsing around and found the perfect thing.
And here’s the original – with a $38 Price Tag: (photo credit: Anthropologie) I love the simplicity of this one. Ready to get crafting? 2 Colors of small beads (if you want to do the two color bow) I bought two tiny strands from Michael’s17″ of 26 gauge wire3 crimp beads18″ chain3 small/medium Jump rings1 large Jump ring1 lobster clasp1 Head Pin (optional)wire cutters, round and flat nosed pliers Begin by adding a crimp bead to one end of your wire piece. Add beads onto your wire until the row of beads measures 11 1/2″. If you are doing the two color bow, add the beads in these measurements. White: 1 1/2″…Pink: 1 5/8″…White: 1 3/4″…Pink: 1 5/8″…White: 1 3/4″…Pink: 1 5/8″…White: 1 1/2″ Comments.
Anthro Necklace Week – Set Ashore Necklace. Today we’re making the Set Ashore Necklace. The beauty of this design is that it is sooo adaptable. You can change out each element to your preference or supply availability! So fun and so many possibilities. Here’s Mine: And here’s the inspiration: Tough to get a background that shows up the blue and the white well. I used scarf fabric from the Paisley Rebirth Necklace and added some funky rings. Here’s what you’ll need for the Set Ashore Necklace! Materials: Wire CuttersNeedle Nose PliersRound Nose Pliers Supplies: Cotton Cording – Around12″Fabric for braiding – I used 3 pieces 36″ long (folded in half) x 1 1/2″ wideChain – 8″ (Cut into a 7 /2″ piece and a 1/2″ inch piece)Beads (Assortment – I used most of 3 bead strands)Headpins – (enough for one per bead)Large Rings – 2Jump Rings – 5Toggle ClosureRibbon Clamps or Large Cording endsSuper GlueNeedle & Thread Let’s get started!
Cut your fabric strips. Sew the three strips together at the fold with a few small stitches. Great! Whew. Anthro Necklace Week – Potentilla Bib. This fun necklace is part of my first Anthro Necklace Week – A whole week of fun tutorial sharing Anthro Knockoffs! Disclaimer: I am not a jewelry-making expert by any means! I’ve tried to show you the way I do these – but believe me when I say that if I can do these – anyone can!
:) Today we’re doing the Potentilla Bib Necklace – which I just love. I don’t get the price though. Here’s the Made in Carlsbad version: And here’s the French Anthro Version. This is really one of my favorites for the week. Materials: ScissorsNeedle & ThreadNeedle Nose PliersWire Cutters Supplies: 1 18″ Silver Chain Necklace (Or supplies to make your own)Knit fabric (just scraps)Seed BeadsCone or Small Ribbon Clamp3 Jump Rings (Silver)Felt scrap The first step is to make the flowers. Trace a small 4 leaf flower onto the fabric. Cut out four flowers this size. For your largest flower, layer the 4 large pieces on top of each other, rotating them just a bit so the different petals show through.
Sigh. Close your rings. Anthro Knockoff – Akela Necklace. Anthropologie is such a great source to steal ideas from for inspiration. One of my favorite things to do late at night is browse through the Anthro site with a cup of hot tea. Gets my brain going. Much to my delight Anthro just added a darling little fabric and bead necklace that I just had to knockoff! Here’s the Anthro version: I love the style of this necklace but the color, not so much. Second, according to the description, this little baby is 72″ long. Ok, that was weird. One of the other things I like about this necklace is that you don’t need any jewelry hardware or tools. Here’s what you’ll need: Fabric for necklace and ruffles – I used a sort of sheer fabric I had on handBeads – 3 sizes. Cut your fabric into long pieces – measuring total of around 90″ long by 2″.
Cut out your circles – 2 1/2″ diameter. Do any piecing of your long strip first. Get ready to turn your casing inside out. Or you can pin a safety pin in one end and feed that through the casing. Anthro Necklace Week – Paisley Rebirth Necklace. Anthro Necklace Week Day 4! In case you have not visited this week – it is officially Anthropologie Necklace Week! 5 Days of Tutorials ending in 5 Lovely Giveaways!!
If you need to catch up, here are Days 1, 2 a & 3. If you’re not a follower – maybe you should do that so you don’t forget to check in for Day 5. :) Pretty-In-Pinking Tutorial Pontentilla Bib Tutorial Narcissus Net Tutorial Today we are creating the Adorable Paisley Rebirth Necklace. Where on earth do they come up with the names for these?? Here is mine: And here is theirs: This one is a blast to do. I went with a little darker colors than they did because I just fell in love with the fabric in the scarf I found. Here’s your handy dandy tutorial!! Materials: Sewing Machine (you can hand sew it, it will just take longer) Supplies: Scarf or lightweight fabric (you need enough for a 33″ x 12″ piece)Silver chain – 4 yardsSmall pieces of different chains2 Large beaded pieces or pins (I bought these at Michaels)Needle and matching thread. Anthropologie Inspired Necklace from Wedding Dress. Last summer I told you how I was cutting up my wedding dress to make all kinds of fun (more useful) projects.
I called it "I DO, re-done". It was supposed to be this big event and even had a button. Well as it turns out I'm not a big event person and although I love making things from the endless supply of fabric that is my wedding dress, I wasn't strict enough to do a month of just that. So here and there I share projects made from (yes my ACTUAL) my wedding dress. It's my first official "inspired by anthro" project!
To be honest I didn't even know what Anthropologie was until I started blogging and saw it all over the blogs. And here is what I ended up with- The flower portion is made from my wedding dress skirt. You will also need a fashion pearl necklace (mine was thrifted) and some chain A hot glue gun Two jump rings Some felt Cut a TON of circles out of all three of your fabrics in roughly three sizes. Cut a felt base in a kidney bean shape that gets smaller at the bottom. Voila!