Green Beads

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Using a paper from the Travel Light pad by We R Memory keepers I've been making paper beads. So far I have finished two bracelets. I have a few leftover beads and plenty more paper strips to make another couple. As they are green I wore them for St. Patrick's Day yesterday.

CYDI? Tutorial

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Just a quick post to let you know that the tutorial for my digi stamp necklace has been posted over on the Can You Digi It? blog.

CYDI? Challenge #28 - Green Is Here

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Oops...I'm a day behind on my post for the latest CYDI? challenge. This time the challenge is to use green, check it out here. For my project I wanted to make something other than my usual card. I used the City Stamps digi's by LilyPink Designs to make this necklace.

Paper bracelets

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When I first tried paper bead bracelets I promised my Mum I would make her one. I finally got around to making it. It uses a paper from Basic Grey's Oxford 6x6 pad. 

When I gave the bracelet to my Mum she asked if I would make one for a colleague of hers who is leaving. Her colleague likes purple so I used two purple papers. The paper on the left is from a Kate Knight 6x6 pad which was a freebie and the paper on the right is from the Celebrations 6x6 pad by Paper Cellar.

Polymer Clay Creations

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I have a few polymer clay items to share. The first is this (slightly out of focus) Elephant key ring. Because it has so many parts which will easily break off I don't think it will ever get used, but it was fun to make.

I finished the first of these apple earrings a while back. The second one has been waiting to be varnished, which I finally got around to doing.

This one was also made quite a while ago, but I wasn't sure how to paint it. The clay is actually green, but it has ended up being a purple patchwork cat-like creature.

Glitter bow

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IHaveACupcake who I watch on YouTube recently made a bow ring which she covered in glitter and then added rhinestones. I liked the ring better before she added the rhinestones, so decided to make my own glitter bow ring. I used a black glittery embossing powder instead of just glitter though to make it easier to varnish over.

Update on the Harry Potter rings

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A few posts back I mentioned that I was making a set of Harry Potter jewellery, and that I had finished the rings but didn't have a picture. Here are the pictures of the finished rings

To make them even more realistic I also did the back covers for them, so here is the back of the rings.

Black, White and Red All Over

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I've been making more paper beads. I cut two 8x8 pages into strips and I'm working my way through them. These three bracelets have been finished so far.

And this is what's left to do.

Paper beads

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I recently joined a new blog group and after having a look through their blogs I found this post on Dana's about paper beads, which includes a tutorial and cutting file. I have seen these a few times lately and have been wanting to try them, but hadn't got around to searching for a tutorial yet. Her's made it sound simple so I decided to give it a go. I made beads in three different sizes and then turned them into two bracelets.

Here they are individually.

I will definitely be making more of these. They're a lot easier to make than I had expected, they look great and of course they can be made to match any outfit.

Green Bow

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I made this black bow ring in January, and was planning to make some others. I've made this green one slightly smaller so that it's easier to wear daily.

Adipose

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This little guy is an Adipose. They were aliens which appeared in an episode of Doctor Who. I've been wanting the soft toy of this since I knew there was one, but I still haven't bought one yet so I've made one for myself to wear as a necklace instead.

Here's what they looked like in the episode.

Kermit and Converse

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The couple of charms I'm sharing now still need their wires wrapping. When that is done they will be attached to chains to become necklaces. Usually when I make polymer clay jewellery it is based on what I have seen made by others online, but recently I have been trying to come up with my own designs and these are two of them.

First of is Kermit the Frog. I wanted to make my favourite muppet Gonzo, but I wasn't sure how well his nose would work, so for now I'll stick with Kermit.

Second is a red converse. I own quite a few pairs of converse, but I have wanted red ones for so long and still not bought any. So I figured I would make myself one.

Bow ring

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This is my first polymer clay creation of the year. I've been wanting to make a bow ring for a while and I finally got round to it. I might make a few more of these soon in other colours, and do some with patterns on, but for now here is my plain black one.

New new

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So, it's been half a year since my last post. Oops! Since then I have started some new hobbies, mainly nail art and polymer clay jewellery, so there will be more than just papercrafts appearing on here from now on. Before I get back to normal blogging though here are a few samples of what I've been creating.

Nail art.

Polymer Clay Rings

Inspiration for most of my nail art and a few of my rings comes from RobinMoses, IHaveACupcake and 3Tanja3 on YouTube.