Some New Jewelry And a Recipe

Hey all.  I have been on a role making stuff for Christmas to sell.  Since i'm in love with resin these days I used it a lot in my new pieces.  That stuff is wonderful.  I've also been cooking up a storm using recipes I found on Pinterest.  You should check out my Pinterest recipe board.  I made one called Crockpot Cranberry Chicken.  Cranberries just make me think of the Christmas season so i tried it.  It is absolutely fabulous!!!

So between all the new recipe cooking i've been making jewelry up a storm.  I'm going to show some of them.  so here goes:

Below are some pendants I embellished using resin and cup chain.

 I loved the pendant below when I bought it but thought it needed "something".  So I added some clear rhinestones and now it just sparkles.  It's hanging from a simple silver chain.

 I bought the pendant below and it was attached to a military looking patch meant to be a brooch but I love the eagle with a touch of bling as a pendant.  I love this necklace!  Thinking that it is mine but we'll see.

 So, instead of crushing the crystal beads I decided to use them whole.  I embellished a nice bezel with rhinestones (yes, i'm addicted to rhinestones now too) and put the glass crystals inside using resin.

 And the necklace below is green and blue with an egg pendant.  The "egg" is hung from a real piece of a branch.  I dipped the wooden branch in resin, let it dry and put a hole in it.  This thing will last forever.

I'm hoping to have these in my Etsy store here by this evening.  Come on, go check it out!

Some New Resin Jewelry Designs

I have been making resin jewelry with Ice Resin.  It's almost fool proof once you get used to it.  What I like is making my own pendants and Earrings with it.  Found some creativity I didn't know I had.  So i'm going to post some of the things I have made.  If anyone cares to comment please do because that is how you learn so here goes:



Saw a technique online on making a fake druzy pendant.  Tried my had with the pendant below.  It's crushed glass crystals and glitter.  I'm in love with using rhinestones because i am a bling loving girl.  I paired it with a black box chain that is long.


The necklace below is made with a copper bezel and I put an acrylic flower with rhinestone and then rimmed the whole pendant with rhinestones.  Told ya i'm loving the rhinestone trend.  I hung the pendant from a leather cord.  The pic below the necklace shows the attachment.  I think the cord ends are really pretty.  I used all mixed metals.  Silver, antique gold, copper.

I made the necklace below when I was really wanting to be somewhere else.  I covered the pendants with resin to insure they will stay nice and bright.

The pendant below was made using a silver-toned bezel that I bought at Hobby Lobby.  I'm a sucker for anything that looks like a heart so that's what I used as an inclusion in the bezel along with rhinestones and resin paper as a background.  I hung it from a ball chain necklace.  Cute huh?

I went hog wild making the pendant below.  I was dreaming of being in Jamaica so I rimmed the bezel in rhinestones and put Jamaican sand, jamaican shells and a few more rhinestones.  I call it Jamaica Dreaming.

I'm going to list these in my Etsy shop here.  Please stop by and check out the new items.  They are all priced to sell!

Found a Technique I'm Obsessed With!

So i finally found a jewelry style I love.  It's Ice Resin!!! It'so versatile.  I use it to seal metal, as glue, to fill bezels and i'm sure more things than I know at this point.  So here's some stuff i've made:

For this pendant below I used a black bezel pendant from Michael'.  I took some glass crystals and hammered them leaving some big pieces and some little pieces.  I mixed my resin and mixed the crushed crystals in with the resin.  I filled the bezel up about half with  the resin and glass. I let it begin to harden because I wanted the next layer to have a base.  I then poured the rest of the resin/glass mixture and it sat right on top of the first layer and sort of domed itself.  The final step was to sprinkle blue glitter on top of the still wet resin/glass..  I let it dry overnight, sanded it down the next day and it has a sort of druzy effect.  I really like it.  I'm going to hang it from a black boxy chain that i got at Hobby Lobby. 

The silver necklace below is hung from chain from Hobby Lobby. I took a Susan Lenart Kazmer bezel and mixed resin with black glitter.  I poured the resin in, let it dry for about 20 minutes and then put a rhinestone it the middle of it.  I sprinkled a little more black glitter on top and let dry overnight.  From the bezel I hung another pendant in a dark silver color with the words "far, far away on it and a glass stone.  Really cute.

This last pendant is a copper shape that I got at Hobby Lobby along with the "d" and the rhinestone cup chain.  I simply took Mod Podge and glued the cup chain and the initial onto it.  I let it dry and then mixed up a little resin and painted it on with a disposable brush.  I hung it from a silver plated chain.  I hangs just below collarbone--a perfect length for me.  My initial is a d of course.  I'm now making some of these for my neices, sister and a friend.  My sister said that she wants hers hung from a silver chain but in a longer length.  I love bling whether real or fake so of course these are right up my alley.

If you are interested in trying resin check out the Ice Resin website here.  You can also buy Ice Resin at Michael's.  They also sell Some of Susan Lenart Kazmer's Industrial chic pendants etc.  

So long for now.