Felt Flower Pendant Necklace

Hello, welcome to a new inspiration! It's Anna here.

Sizzix Bigz Dies are so versatile! These dies are designed to cut through fabric, chipboard, acetate, metallic foils and more. These dies are great for cutting felt by itself.

Today I wanted to share how you can create jewelry by simply using felt together with leather. I created a Pendant Necklace with my Big Shot Plus Machine and two dies.

The pendant is focal point in pendant necklace:

 

 

 

Read on for tutorial…

 

 

Firstly cut out a Rose - Sizzix Bigz Die - Love Birds 3-D Rose (660834) - from felt and two Leaves from leather. If you use the Big Shot Plus, you can position two Bigz (or Bigz L) dies, thus save time!

To make flower: starting at the outside of the Flower, wrap the end around a wood dowel like a wooden skewer. When you finish rolling the Rose, remove the stick. Finish the Rose by adding the hot glue to the inside of the circular flap. Close the flap against the bottom loops of the Rose.

Layer two leaves of leather and glue (glue for leather). Glue the felt rose above the leaves. Glue or sew the stems of the leaves to create the loop.

Attach pendant to a chain to form a necklace.

 

 

You can do this using colour combination of your choice. It’s also a perfect gift for Christmas!

 

Hope this felt flower pendant necklace would bring you other inspiration.

Thanks for stopping by.

 

Items used:

Sizzix Big Shot Plus Machine (660020)

Sizzix Bigz Die - Love Birds 3-D Rose (660834)

Sizzix Bigz Die - Leaves (657119)

Leather

Felt

Chain

Hot Glue Gun

Glue for leather

 

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Ciao, sono Anna, con una nuova ispirazione per voi.

Le fustelle Bigz sono molto versatili! Come saprete, queste fustelle sono state progettate per tagliare tantissimi materiali come tessuto, cartone pressato, balsa, acetato, lamierino e molto altro. Sicuramente saprete che sono perfette per tagliare il feltro in modo preciso e netto, cosa che non avviene con le forbici. E tagliano anche il cuoio e la pelle!

Così oggi vorrei condividere come creare semplici bijoux utilizzando appunto feltro e pelle.

Infatti, ho creato un ciondolo grazie alla mia Big Shot Plus e due sole fustelle. Le foglie sono un classico di Sizzix mentre la rosa è una vera novità, si tratta della fustella Bigz - Love Birds 3-D Rose (660834). Bellissima! E’ grande e può essere usata in tantissimi modi.

Continua a leggere per conoscere tutti I passaggi della collana...

In primo luogo tagliare una rosa dal feltro e due foglie dalla pelle. Se si utilizza la Big Shot Plus (in formato A4), è possibile posizionare ben due fustelle Bigz (o Bigz L), quindi si risparmia tempo!

Per fare il fiore: cominciando dall'esterno del Fiore, avvolgere l'estremità intorno a uno stecchino di legno. Dopo aver arrotolato tutta la Rosa, rimuovere lo stecchino. Incollare il retro del fiore con la colla a caldo, per fissare la rosa.

Sovrapporre le due foglie di pelle e incollare (usando colla per la pelle). Incollare quindi la rosa di feltro sopra le foglie. incollare o cucire i gambi delle foglie per creare l'asola.

Infilare il ciondolo in una catena per formare la collana. Finito!

Naturalmente potete usare una combinazione di colori a vostra scelta. Tenetelo presente come regalino veloce per Natale o altre occasioni!

 

Spero che questo ciondolo vi possa dare altre ispirazioni per i vostri gioielli handmade.

Grazie per la visita.

 

Materiali:

Sizzix Big Shot Plus Machine (660020)

Sizzix Bigz Die - Love Birds 3-D Rose (660834)

Sizzix Bigz Die - Leaves (657119)

Pelle o cuoio

Feltro spesso

Catenina

Colla a caldo

Colla per pelle

A rainbow necklace made with shrink plastic and a Bigz banner dies

A few weeks ago I shared a necklace I made using the Prima Love Gears in this blog. I was one of my favorite projects I have done and today I would like to share another necklace project but this time with a very different look.

I used Sizzix Bigz Pennats die 659739, a Big Shot, shrink plastic either in frosted or clear, Versamagic ink pads in different light colours, a 3/16" whole Punch, jump rings, heat gun, link chain and if possible jewelry tools.

I started by die cutting the banners.  One of the beauties of Bigz dies is that you can cut pretty much anything you can cut with scissors, so two layers of shrink plastic is no problem, so with one go I die cut 12 banners. A part from time saving, die cutting makes sure than all are exactly the same, which is very important when you want a handmade look not a homemade look. I placed them in a row to make sure that the right mix of shapes in the "right" order.

I made a template to place the wholes in all the banners. The holes are about 5mm from top and left/right edges. I used the template to punch out each hole in all banners. I place the ink pads in order so I would know which ones to use in which order.

 I colored each banner separately on a piece of scrap paper. This is important since if ink gets to the other side will show later. Then I placed it on a heat resistant surface and heat it up with a heat gun. If you font have one, you could always use the oven with very low heat, but follow the shrink plastic manufacturers instructions!

I love watching the shrink plastic get all curly and more curly. It looks that it is all going wrong, but you just need persevere to keep the heat on.

Once that it looks pretty even, still is very hot, so if you would like to flatten it use a acrylic block or any heat resistant flat object.

On the left you can see how they look colored and shrinked beside the original size. On the right, you can see all the coloured banners.

One of the things you need to consider with shrink plastic is that the colour intensifies, so some may not look as you thought they would, like the pink and purple. So I redid them with a different ink pad to get the right hue. Once I was completely happy, I started to link them with jump rings.

OK, this step I recommend to do before than I did this. To preserve the color layer it is best to apply some sort of glaze all over the back of the banners. I like to use a clear gloss spray glaze from DecoArt and let them dry completely.

Open each jump ring with the help of two flat nose pliers or similar. Then I thread the banners  through the jump ring: right hole from one - left hole of the next one.

Once I had them all linked, I used a link chain and joined the ends. Finally I added a lobster clap in the middle.

And here it is, a rainbow banner necklace!

I love how colorful it is and how shinny looks.  I hope you do too!

And give shrink plastic + Bigz dies a go!